The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-20
POLITICAL POINTS.

49, 80 mum FlNFhN hlll'Al1 VI Wv
confederate soldiers, and the veterans
clecrcd the sentiment. Every time II
thing ofthis kind occurs, IL ruinsa whole
speech Tor Mr.. Morton,
PRESIDENT STONE, of the Mississippi
senate, who has been made governor by
the resignation Of Amcs, IL described as
a conservative gentleman. Six years Il
senator and n heightened gentleman, he
would sCOrn to pardon a negro rapcr for
$4,000, but then he isn't n son'in.law of
Ben Butler.
CHICAGO TIMES; Bclknap's 100000
looks sickIy by the side Of the little pre-
.cnl Of 81, hOO,OOO chat Robson made to
| Jay Cooke Il Co, QUITO thcpublic treas
ury, TO compare the two together
would bc like comparing a sncak'lhicito
A successful sarc-blowcr. And yet, NJ il
generally the case, the sncak-thici in this
instance is getting all the punishment
The white RAIDS, having none but them
selves with few cXccptiOns) in the con
y]cntion, carried of all the demonstrating
thirty.onc out OG the forty places OF
honor and trust, such rs they were, IN
the organization Of the republican party,
though when it has comc to voting here
] tOfOrc, the relative strength Of the two
element. in the party has been about rs
follows White, one; cOIOrcd, five hun
drcd.,
afr is not, of course, justiiablc,' aays
Geo. VIM. Curtis, " that the late rebels
should undertake to lecture loyal men
upon misgOvcrnmCnt." So be- il; then,
Of course, Il late rebel who passed along
Mr., Curtis front yard, and saw n bur
| gIar breaking into Mr.. Curtis windows,
would not be- "justiiiablc" in sounding
the alarm, and e preventing the pillagc
of Mr., Curtis property PctcrsJmg
Mdcr.
GEN. CUSTER, in his examination be
fore the Clymcr committee, very plainly
showed why it was that army officers,
CogniIant Of abuscSOn the frontier, sealed
their mouths. Their communications,
~ Custer suggests, would have been pi-
gcon-hoIcd and the officers deprived OF
their commissions, The stealing in the
war department appears to have been AZ
systematically planned and as skiIlfully
executed as that ofthc whisky ring.
THERE il a remarkable decline in our
trade with Sheffield, the imports from
| that city have been only five hundred
and cighty-hyc thousand dollars in the
first quarter Of this year, against two
million two hundred and scvcnty-Gye
| thousand dollars in that Of 1873. 1t is
natural, says the New York Tribune, in
view Of this startling change that a great
| Sheffield concern could contemplate
transferring its machinery and business
TO this country.
THE negroes in attendance at the
| Nashville ColOrcd convention complain
that they have been and are ignored by
their white lcIIow-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 liads.m...", 7 Colorcdr........... |
DELEGATES tt CINCINNArI.
White Iads".....l2 Colorcd 1
rXECuTIvE COMMITTEE.
White RAIDS. ..".n..l2 COlorcd ..."n....... 4
Total white RAIDS. ....... 81
Total colorcd RAIDS .
The IIoN. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, hay
ing been nominated for vice president Of
the United States by the friends of la
bor, in New York, has written u letter
declining the honor, and assuring the
friends that the very issue they seek to
make in the presidential canvass is one
sought to be made by the great body of
the democratic party, and that if they
will rally with them il will be easy to
bring back the government to its Consti.
tutional mOorings, reform its admins
t@ration, reduce taxation and expendi-
turc, state, national and municipal, I'M
lcttcr industry, and cut loose from
the parasitical classes who now cling to
the government and make Use of it to
prey upon the industries Of the people.
DURING the past eight or ten years no
intelligent man has had good reason to
doubt the source Of republican victories.
Unfortunately n 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 to pay it.
Just now the newspapers abound in re-
liable testimony us to the manner in
which this money has been procured.
Directly or indirectly it came from the
federal trcasury-dircctly or indirectly
from the pockets of the people. The
people, in fact, have been levied upon
to pay for their own dcbauchery. This
conclusion is no longer a mere theory,
but n proven fact and il is not Il fact
depending on democratic testimony, but
ON republican testimony MwaWkec
McwS.
CARL SCHURH, in the st. Louis West
licIc Post, in II criticism on recent inves
legations, and Il review of Grants adj
ministration, says: "Thc band il well
arranged. Wherever three or four
scoundrcls were gathered together in
Grants name, there he was in the midst
of them, in the person Of Il brother,
brOthcr-in-law, cousin, or friend. No
custOmhousc OF whisky ringcould divide
its plurdcr without the devil being pre-
sent to cry halves! The ubiquitous As
mOdcus, as Murphy in New York or AZ
Casey in New Orleans, filled his fathom-
less pockets, and wherever the white
house cast its shadow n brother Orvil or
Il brother-in-law Dent came forth out ef
it with extended palms. If Shepherd
and Babcock could make their hundreds
of thousands out of the district ring, and
Bclknap scarcely less out of a single de
partmcnt, how shall we estimate the prob
able total sun ground out of the tOiling
citizens and Taxpayers of the country
during eight long years, by the well-or-
gained band created by hat ncpotism of
the white house which has thrown the
chief patronage of the administration
into their dirty hands"