The Osceola times., 1876-07-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

| ana tne convention STUCK up stick.-
50. Louis Times.
THE platform is plainly the manifesto
Of party which feels that it has few
votes to spare.-Nec York Tribune.
THE duke of Devonshire's annual gold
medal for the encouragement of English
poetry has been awarded to A. w. w.
Dale, of Trinity college, Cambridge, for
his poem entitled "The Centennial Of
American Independence"
INGERsoLL thought he was severe
when he told the Massachusetts, men to
let Faneuil hail be turned into demo-
cratic hall. We never knew that the re-
publicans owned it before.-Boston
Globe.
DoNN PIATr says Hayes is painfully
difiident and has been seen to blush like
a schoolgirl" The republican party
has long been in need of first class
blusher for il but have always thought
that the blushing ought to be done with
in the party.-Courier-.Journal.
THE republican platform declares
boldly for investigation. But it does
not suggest Babcock, Blaine, Shepherd,
Schenck, Belknap, Robeson, Clapp, or
Grant himself. Oh no; it says " 1T
is the immediate duty Of congress TO in
vestigate the Mongolians !" - Boston
Post.
The Rochester Chronicle declares that
the Cincinnati platform "shows that the
republican party now, as heretofore, is
the party of progress" Yes, it is un-
questionably the party of progress. In
every species of rascality it has made
within the last fifteen years the progress
of a century.
THE Brooklyn Argus, commenting on
the platform: Grant ought to have
been repudiated in set terms, the frank
confession made that power had been
coniided to the wrong hands, and the
personal government that the president
has set up should have been distinctly
condemned"
The republican party has preserved
.thcse governments to the hundredth an
niversary Of the nations birth. ~ Re-
publican platform. Pretty well done
for a party not much more than twenty
years old. Did it not have something to
do also with the discovery of America
and the capture of jerusalem World.
As proof of his invincibility, it is
claimed by the republican press that
Hayes has never been beaten. This is
not the case He was defeated for CEN
, gress by Gen. Banning, in the second
Ohio district; at a time, too, when the
republicans were in the ascendency. In
fact, every success won by Hayes was
through dissensions in the democratic
ranks.
The Chinese plank of the radical plat
form ought to convince the negro Of the
hollowness of the pbilanthropic protes-
tations of the party which still seeks to
build on sectional hate and anmosity. If
there were as many Chinese voters as
there are negro voters, present radical
influence to the brutal persecution of
the Chinaman would be turned into a
hue and cry for redress of his grievances.
THE Philadelphia Telegraph doesn't
like the platform, and says: 1--WE criti-
cize these things because they place the
republican party in an absurd light; be-
cause they weaken, not strengthen, the
position of the party before the country.
The people are not fools; they recognize
sham and clap-trap rs quickly as they
see them, and, to give them untruth
when there is truth to give, is to commit
an act of stupidity without excuse"
The Richmond Whig is thus enthusi-
astic over Vance: "The nomination of
this gallant and popular conservative for
governor of the old north state is an
omen of good, and secures that noble
state to the democratic column next No
ven.ber, beyond the peradventure of
doubt. Well done, brave old North
Carolina! Yours is a sound centennial
position, indeed"
THE disciples of the "blocdy shirt in
their platform say that if the south votes
the democratic ticket it will be an act of
sectionalism and good cause for war, but
if they vote the radical ticket every
thing will be right. And yet they pre-
tend that this is n free country and
country of free ballot, and yet who
threaten the people that if they vote
their sentiments they may look for fire
and sword.-Patsburgh Post
The republican party goes into the
presidential contest upon thoroughly
bloody-shirt platform, in the contest for
the supremacy of which its crimes are to
be sunk out of sight. This the demo-
cratic party will not allow. 1t can not
escape its responsibility for the theft.
and oppression, and its gross crimes
against the republic, because of the purity
of Hayes and the ability of Wheeler.
The democracy will put it on the defen-
sive on these and break it down.
THE republicans declared in..their plat
form that they were as ever opposed to
subsidies TO corporations. To show what
they meant by this resolution, they have
nominated man for vice president who,
as chairman of the Pacific railroad com
mittee, reported all manner of subsidy
Jobs, and was one OF the most active
leaders in forcing them all upon the at
tention of congress. So to the end, re-
publican practice turns its back in con-
tempt on republican Professionalism
burgh Poa.
IT is a very pretty platform, and must
have taken General Hawley long time
to write out 1t is full of correct sent-
ments and beautiful language. To be
sure, it does not explain where all the
money has gone to, but We can not ex-
pect everything, even in a platform of
seventeen planks. As the western ora
tor well said Although, gentlemen,
as president of the Yellville national
bank, our deceased friend did not ac-
count satisfactorily for the funds of that
institution, yet his remarks upon the
busting of the same showed that his
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