National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-24


like just that kind of grinding down. They
vote our ticket almost to a man.
The Graphic is now yearning for picture
of Tilden and his family.-Er.
The man who dare father that remark will
never lie even doorkeeper in the House of the
Bourbons.
tits said that the South will be united for the
Democracy in the coming election. If this be
so, then, of course, the South will have con-
trolling influence in the administration if Til
den is elected.
How can those Senators who voted against
the Senate's jurisdiction in the Belknap case
now record themselves in favor of his convic-
ton? "Can't" may not be in the dictionary,
hut it comes in very appropriately right here.
The Confederate flag was displayed at Bowl
ing Green the other day with the names of
Tilden and Hendricks on it. That, of course,
is proper, for it would be bit of sarcasm to
put the St. Louis ticket on the flag of the
Union.
It is said that whenever Blue Jean Will
liams comes out Of the cloak-room of the
Senate his breath smells so strong of iced tea
and lemonade that the flies swarm on the end
of his nose and revel in his sweet-scented nos
trils.
Old Spotted Tails daughter died eight years
ago of broken heart from q love unrequited
which she had for a young officer at Fort
Laramie. Old Spotted Tail loved his daugh-
ter well, and he calls her spirit his guardian
angel.
Mary Ryan, notorious woman, was sent to
prison some time ago, and when the iron door
was closed upon her she gave lusty hurrah
for Tiden, and said that he would pardon her
to "git the votes of her seven boys" The
other day she was pardoned, and the boys will
vote as the old lady said.
The only expression of regret that we have
been able, to find in Democratic journals for
the Hamburg massacre is that the affair will
injure the party politically. Not one word of
condemnation for the brutal assassins, and not
one line urging the punishment Of the same
do we find in any Bourbon sheet.
When we read the characteristic and racy
column of Gossip by Roberts," which we do
as regularly as it appears in the Capital, we
can not but notice how faithful (s)he is to
Chronicle the fact that the REPUBLICAN is the
only morning paper in the city. That gentle
WOMAN does not breathe the air of this free
land, in whose judgment and taste we have
more implicit confidence than we have in
Roberts.
Tilden sits up O. nights, and, scratching his
left car with a gold penholder, says: 81 wish
the party rendering me the Presidency would
deliver the goods at the time OF acceptance"
This shows how avaricious men can be, and
how inconsistent, when he knows that the
goods will not be delivered until the third or
fourth generation of those that made the
nomination.
The eX-Confederates in the House, by lock-
ing up the rebel archives, have given their
constituency an opportunity of securing bogus
claims which may cost the Government many
millions of dollars. This is reform measure
characteristic of the present House. Ten
years ago the cry was Anything to get
clutch on the throat of the Union" Now it
is Anything to get clutch on the purse
strings of the naticn."
The promotion of Lieutenant Fred Grant to
a first lieutenancy, after having served more
than five years in an inferior grade, has terri
bly, exercised the Democratic press because
there were older lieutenants than he in the
army. Their attention is now called to the
fact that on the 18th of last month Cadet Ernst
A. Darlington was appointed second lieuten-
ant in the 9TH cavalry, and on the 18th of this
month he was promoted to be first lieutenant
in the same regiment. He secured in less than
q month the rank Fred Grant waited five years
to get.
Clusters brave soul has gone up to its reward
from the cactus-covered banks of the fated
Mont ana river. Three hundred of as brave men
as ever met the grim ranks ofthe savage foe have
passed away 10 the great bosom of Eternity,
and for them and theirs a nation is shrouded
in profound sorrow. And yet, while even the
wounds have scarce ceased to bleed, men are
found upon earth ready with tongue and pen
to smirch the regulations Of those who fell in
the great fight. When Colonel Sturgis published
his first embittered philippe against the dead
Custer mourning nation was silent, because
the Colonel had lost a brave boy in the strug
gle; but now that be has once more attempted
to smirch his good name, the American people
turn impulsively away from the new-made
graves in the valley and ask: "Why were you
not at the head of your regiment, Colonel Stur-
gis, and not in the quiet seclusion of peaceful
city?"
Mrs. K. G. D. Havsns, writing from this city
to the Waterbury american, says: "Tilden's
acceptance is now eagerly awaited by both
parties. In order to meet the reform cry, ne
must take the ground already occupied BY
Hayes, and, if so, what will he do with it?
If, with Hayes, he pledges himself to civil ser
vice reform, abandoning the sentiment, TO
the victols belong the spoils,' then where is the
patronage to be distributed among the Tweeds
and Morrisseys and Kelleys, who constitute
his eXpectant allies! If he takes the same
broad ground as Hayes OF unset irian Schools
and advocates the amendment TO the ConStitu-
ton " hich would forever separate Church and
State in this nation, then what becomes of the
Catholic vote, on which he largely depends for
any measure of success What ground can he
possibly take on the currency question, when
the head of the ticket is resumption and the
tail is repudidtiCn-a financial mermaid? Al
together the case Of the Democratic party is
hard case. The fact that Governor Tilden has
had a severe attack of paralysis-that sure
forerunner Of sudden death-proiu dIces the
chances of the ticket, and diyerts the hard
money Democrats, for if Tilden, having been
elected, dies, he Adm inistraton is in the hands
Of an infationist of tie EXTREMIST order. 1t
really seems asff despair was written upon
their foreheads, and they are already autici-
patipg coming home 'on their Shields
Hayes VS. Tilden.
From the Albany Evening Journal
Says General Kirkpatrick: "Hayes enlisted
as a private, was elected major, turned his
back upon his wife and children, and marched