The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-18
CURRENT OPINION.

suppression of it by their own par
ty in Congress for SO many years.
II Boston Post.
What an enormous fraud Morton
is! The recent microscopic inspec-
ton to which that shirt he
waves was submitted by one of the
first chemists of the West, shows
that instead of having been dyed in
blood, it was merely stained with
poke e-berry juice - Courisr-Jourzal-
Custar is removed to deter other
officers from telling what they know.
There has never been a president
of the United States before who
was capable of braving the decent
opinion of the country so openly
and shamefully as this, for the sake
Of wreaking such miserable ven
geance.-[ World.
The day for compromises with
corruption or political heresies has
gone by. On the finances, on the
tariff. and most of all, on the ques-
ton of administrative reform, the
St. Louis convention must give
forth no uncommon sound. The
candidate must be taken from the
thick of the fight-not from the
fence Utica Observer.
The Knoxville Daily Chronicle
says: 'eThere is an old German
proverb to the effect that a great
war leaves a country with three ar
mies-an army of cripples, an army
of mourners and an army of thieves.
The ancient Teuton who invented
that saying understood the present
condition of this country as well as
if he had been one of Grants pri-
vate secretaries.
This current talk about the ma
levolence of American journalism,
its ''tomahawk and scalping knife
proclivities, is very sad rubbish.
Malice, so far from being the rule,
is the rare, very rare exception
Where there is one instance of ma
licious publication proper, there are
a hundred of misinformation or
carelessness.-[ Springfield Repub.
The two men who have lately
made positive gains are Governor
Tilden and Judge Davis. Amehg
those who were lately much talked
of, but who have developed no real
strength, is Senator Bayard, of Del
eware. No State has instructed
for him; none has formally eulo-
gized him as fit. He is unlikely to
receive any votes on the first ballot
III Boston Advertiser.
| The Rochester Chronicle declares
that "five members of the Assembly
have made themselves amenable to
criticism;" and yet, all that those
five members did was to sell theil
votes on the Ogden charter of Brook
lyn for $500 each! Things have GER
tainly come to a pretty pass if {
Radical legislator can't sell his vote
without being thereby 'made amen
able to criticism" p Courier Journal
Ifthere had been in power wher
the war closed an Administration o
statesmen, the South would to-day
have been the most prosperous
community in the world, and th'
Northern States, instead of being
overrun by paupers and tramps, anC
in a condition of constant app-e
hension of panics and failures
would have been enjoying our pros
perity.- Richmond Dispatch.
The Minnesota people are yer,
: much interested in a project for til
? extension of the Erie canal to tn
t Mississippi river, which they believ
J. will assist them greatly in thei
a grain trade. They want Congress
to appropriate 100000 to cut tn
: proposed ditch, and a large numbe
It of people who will not hear of any
i thing being done for the. repair {
e the Lower Mississippi levees al
5, loud in their advocacy of the meas
IS ure.- Courier JournaI.
J The Buffalo Express toots tn
4 warning to its party: "We Repul
; licans have got to recognize IL
y facts and can not afford to Vi
derestimate Mr.. Tilden's strengl
a single jot. The man who be-
Gov. Dix, after a successful admi
le istration, by fifty thousand majori
is not one who can be safely viii
tied down the wind as a mere sha
~ and a charlatan. In short the Ci
n cinnati convention must act with 6
I'd most conviction that the Democra
" will put up their strongest man WI
y is unquestionably Gov. Tilden."
is If the Republicans had done t
ut work thai is now being done
ee their opponents, they would be IN
1o better condition to go into the pre-
lis idential campaign with a certainty
Mt winning the fight than they are
by present; and if the inyestigaUio
ar ar damage the party, it is the ta'
- of the party and not Of the Demc
u racy. The Investigations, howev
lot viii not hurt the Republican pan
lie in the least unless the party lead'
- - and the party newspapers unite
,ea a policy of obstruction and dent
mt citation, and the surest way for
Republicans to regain any pull
os confidence they have lost thrcu