The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-05-17
PUBLIC OPINION.

The original Declaration OF tndepen-
dence was removed on Saturday from
The Interior Department at Washington
to Philadelphia for exhibition. This
hoary document is one OF the few things
that have not been stolen by the Radicals.
louisville Courier-Journal DEM
Both political parties in South Caro-
lima seem 10 feel the disgrace which has
been cast upon the State by her recent
history. and to be waking to deter
mination to throw Oft the stigma Bos-
ton Advertiser Hepl
The Administration is beginning to
discover that there is limit beyond
which it cannot go with impunity and
that limit was reached when the out
rage. against Custer was committed.
This affair with Miss Sweet is another
Ease OF President Grants happy luck
with his near friends. Yet there are
those who say that the demand for ire
form within the party" OF any elevation
of the tone Of the Administration, is so
unnecessary that any man who repre-
sents this sentiment should be disquali-
fled for the Presidential nomination
cincinnati Gazette Qtep.)
Congress cannot adjourn early this
season without an objectionable con
tempt Of the demands OF public senti-
a
early would DO simply to choke Oft the
only healthy inquiry that has been even
fairly initiated for fifteen years. IT.
would amount to more than failure to
expose rings. Il would weigh not a jot
less than the crime Of whitewashing in
directly every crime in America. ~ Mil
waukee News DEM
Whether the leader be Bayard, Thur
man. Tilden, Hendricks. or any other
good Democrat, all honest and earnest
men in the party will cheerfully do the
work assigned them t Montgomery Ad-
yertiser Dem,l
Grant pleaded that in the matter Of
absence from the capital he has done as
other Presidents have. II he had imi-
generally he would have done better.
tSt Louis Times Dem.l
We do not stand and fall backward
into Tilden's arms. but deliberately
place ourselves there with less pleas
ure, however, than we would into the
embraces of Hancock If the Northern
Democratic States would Indicate the
same preference for him. Richmond
Wing DEM
It must be acknowledged by all intel
ligent and candid men that. as far as
candidates are concerned. the Demo
Gratis have the best array in point Of
talent and numbers. General
Hancock. whose heroic deeds in time Of
war are not more conspicuous than his
eutire devotion to the principle Of civil
liberty IN times Of peace. with talents
which make him the peer Of any Of our
statesmen, has u national popularity
which would draw largely from the
Republican party. 4 Franklin Mass
Register Und.l
A distinguished member Of the present
Senate, when a little boy, once com
planned that his mother was getting too
ordering In the family" This seems to
be the real grievance of these disaffected
New York politicians and journalists
against Mr.. Tilden. springfield Re
publican Ind
We believe the mass Of the Republicans
are opposed to the impraetieable and
dangerous resumption act. and as this
is our own conviction, we shall continue
to express il and to try to combine
Republican opinion for its repeal, no
matter what may be the committals Of
our candidates. Toledo Commercial
(Rep)
One of the difficulties in this reform
business Is that tho politicians OF each
party want the other fellows to be the
reformers, SO To speak. having no ahjec-
ton to swallowing the medicine them
selves. If the present Republican
Office holders and their patrons were
quite sure in their minds that the Demo
Gratis are to win in November, ninety.
nine in every hundred Of them would
develop zeal for civil service reform
that would be edifying to behold. -
ESpripgfeld Republican (Ind.)
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