National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-29

The Stars and Stripes are having very I'M
pleasant time of it in the sunny land of Lamar
and Blackburn. Some time ago they were
torn down from staff in Eufaula, Alabama,
and after being stript to shreds were scattered
here and there through the streets of the vii
lage, much to the enjoyment OF its inhabitants.
Shortly after this little pleasantly the Stars
and Stripes were torn down in Bowling Green,
Mo-, and an old rebel flag, with the names of
Tilden and Hendricks emblazoned on its ample
folds, was unfurled from the same place which
1t occupied, and this amidst the most vocifer-
Gus cheering from the eX-Confederate multi
tude. Later the nations flag, bearing the
names of Hayes and Wheeler, was furled by
a mob in New Orleans, and within the past
week we have received intelligence that the
flag had been pulled down in Lynchburg, Va,
and trailed in the dust. The flag does not
seem to jibe we'll with the present sentiment in
certain localities south of the old slave line.
They have had ten years now since the war to
fall in love with 1t, but no affection whatever
has yet been exhibited. 1t certainly cannot be
because they dislike the looks of the flag, for
prettier one does not deck the battlements
VI OiuCi botlOh III buC WOil0s 1hCh uAas
is the cause Of this deep-crusted hatred to
those stars and the bright stripesi 1t cannot
be anything else than that it was carried in
triumph over their Gibraltars and embattled
citsdels by the force and direction of the great
Republican party, which was and is the en-
bodiment of freedom and equality of all.
The Republicans are charged by their ad-
versaries with Financial imbecility." Let US
test this statement by what they have actu-
ally achieved. We take the facts and figures
from the official records, and they speak for
themselves. Since 1866 the Republicans have
decreased the public debt s57O, POI ,02O. r.
that is, they have wiped out nearly a quarter
of the entire debt. They have reduced the
annual interest account from S143, 7Sl sol to
s1O3, 093, 5H, thus effecting an annual saving
of $40, 6SS ,047. They have accomplished a re-
duction of s2O3, AIS, SIS. 81 year in internal
revenue taxes, and of SIS, 564, 1854 in tariff
taxes, thus making total reduction in taxa
ton of more than two hundred and sixty mil
lions. They have made a reduction in ex-
pendtures since 1873 of S26, O00, 900, the aggre-
gate expenditures for the past fiscal year,
with which the Democratic House had nothing
to do, being so much less in 1878. They have
cut down the actual ordinary running ex-
penses of the Government until they are less
than the tax levied for those expenditures
which are due to the Democratic rebellion.
They have, by wise and faithful management,
improved the public credit, so that the Gov
eminent can now borrow at per cent, and
thus save interest, whereas under Democratic
administration the credit of the country was so
impaired that the Government could not bor-
row at IL per cent. Is this record of 'f-
nancial imbecility:" These are the facts from
the official reports. These are the things
which have been accomplished in the face of
Democratic opposition. Do they point to the
policy of trying democratic reformp
Our Turco-Seryian news is a strange admix-
ture of details. 1t is one of those things
about which no intelligent fellow can find out
anything satisfactory. One day we have
Russia on the eve Of reaching over her borders
and quietly embracing Montenegro. This ap-
pears to be for the purpose of shielding Mon
tenegro from the invasion of the relentless
Turk. The next day the Montenegrins are
Empire, busily engaged in taking the turban
starch out of General Fetchemquick, Pasha
Goangit, or some other leader with an intol-
cradle name. Then q dispatch comes detail
ing the hasty fight of 1.-The servians all
along the line. Immediately following this
we receive the startling intelligence that the
Turks have been routed at Dontgohometill-
morning. Sometimes the Servians will be com
manded by rivers and the Turks by mountains,
while they do their fighting in the Businesses
of Takemoff, which name, if the cablegram
had been correct, would have been some
obscure general, instead of q mountain. At
times England seems about to plunge knee
deepinto the gore of the great Powers in de-
tense of Turkey. Then she will be cold and
Indifferent, and tell the "sick man" that he
must heal himself then Austria will loom up
as mediator: at the same time the dispatch
will tell us that she is making arrangements to
mobilize an army and fortify her frontier, with
the intention of striking a blow for Servia.
With this state of the news, the reader, after
perusipg two or three columns of matter con-