The Osceola times., 1876-04-15
POLITICAL POINTS.

veteran boys in blue, spoke kindly ofthe
confederate soldiers, and the veterans
cheered the sentiment. Every time
thing of this kind occurs, it ruins a whole
speech for Mr.. Morton.
PRESIDENT STONE, of The Mississippi
senate, who has been made governor by
the resignation of Ames, is described as
conservative gentleman. Six years
senator and a high toned gentleman, he
would scorn TO pardon a negro rapcr for
| $1,000, but then he isn't son-in.law of
Ben Butler
CHICAGO TINES: Belknap's $4,000
looks sickly by the side Of the little pre-
sent of ~ 100000 that Robeson made to
Jay Cooke & Co. out Of the public treas
ury. To compare the two together
would he like comparing a sneak-thiefto
a successful safe blower. And yet, as is
generally the case, the sneak-thiet in this
instance is getting all the punishment
The white RAIDS, having none hut them
selves with few exceptions) in the con-
vention, carriedoff all the demonstrating
thirty-one out of the forty places Of
honor and trust, such AZ they were, in
the organization of the republican party,
though when. ii hss come TO voting here
tofore the relative strength OF the two
elements in the party has been about IA
follows: White, one; colored, five hun
dred.i
"IT isnot, of course, justifiable," says
Geo. VIM. Curtis, that the late rebels
should undertake to lecture loyal men
upon misgovernment." So he il then,
of course, a late rebel who passed along
Mr.. Curtis front yard, and saw a bur
glar breaking into Mr.. Curtis windows,
would not be "justifiable in sounding
the alarm, and 80 preventing the pillage
of Mr.. Curtis property.-PetersJtvg
Indcr.
GEN. CUSTER, in his examination be-
fore the Clymer committee, very plainly
showed why II was that army officers,
cognizant Of abuses on the frontier, sealed
their mouths. Their communications,
as Custer suggests, would have been pi.
geOn-holed and the officers deprived OF
their commissions. The stealing in the
war department appears to have been as
systematically planned and as skillfully
executed as that of the whisky ring.
THERE is remarkable decline in Oul
trade with Sheffield, the imports from
that city have been only five hundred
and eighty-fivc thousand dollars In the
first quarter of this year, against two
million two hundred and seventy-fve
thousand dollars in that OF 1873. II il
natural, says the New York Tribune, in
view of this startling change that gpcat
Sheffield concern could contemplate
transferring its machinery and business
TO this country.
The negroes in attendance at the
Nashville colored convention complain
that they have been and are ignored by
their white fellow-radicals, and we think
Justly. The Jackson Clarion, for in
stance, announces that in the assignment
of honors by the republican convention
of Mississippi the roll stands thus:
ELECTORAL TICKET.
White Rads......... Colored.,.............
DELEGATES TO CINCINNATI.
White Rads..........12 Colored....... .........
| EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
White RAIDS. s.........12 Colored.
Total white RAIDS.
Total colored RAIDS. ds.................,.,.........
THE Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, hav
ING been nominated for vice president o
the United States by the friends of Ia
Dor, in New York, has written lettel
declining the honor, and assuring tn,
friends that the very issue they seek Il
make in the presidential canvass is one
sought to be made by the great body o
the democratic party, and that if they
will rally with them it will be easy Il
bring back the government to its consti
tutional moorings, reform its admins
tration, reduce taxation and expendi
ture, state, national and municipal, un
fetter industry, and cut loose from
the parasticai classes who now cling tc
the government and make use of il tC
prey upon the industries of the people.
DURING the past eight or ten years nc
intelligent man has had good reason tc
doubt the source of republican victories
Unfortunately liberal use of money in
elections will determine tho result of any
doubtful contest in favor of the candi-
dates or the party which has the money
to pay and the disposition 10 pay it.
Just now the newspapers abound in re-
liable testimony as to the manner in
which this money has been procured.
Directly or indirectly it came from the
federal treasury-directly or indirectly
from the pockets of the people. The
people, in fact, have been levied upon
to pay for their own debauchery. This
conclusion is no longer a mere theory,
but proven fact; and it is not fact
| depending on democratic testimony, but
ON republican testimony.-Mil,caukee
Nacs.
CARL SCHuRz, in the st. Louis West
liche Post, in criticism ON recent inves
| legations, and review of Grants ad-
ministration, says: "Thc band is we'll
arranged. Wherever three or four
scoundrels were gathered together in
Grants name, there he was in the midst
of them, in the person of brother,
brother.in-law, cousin, or friend. No
customhouse on whisky ringcould divide
its plurder without the devil being pre-
sent TO cry halves! The ubiquitous As
modeus, as Murphy in New York or as
Casey in New Orleans, filed his fathom-
less pockets, and wherever the white
house cast its shadow brother Orvil or
a brother-in-law Dent came forth out Of
it with extended palms. II Shepherd
and Babcock could make their hundreds
Of thousands out of the district ring, and
Belknap scarcely less out Of a single de-
partment, how shall we estimate the prob
able total sum ground out of the toiling
citizens and Taxpayers of the country
during eight long years, by the well-or-
ganized band created by that nepotism of
the white house which has thrown the