The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-07-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

and the convention stuck up a stick
ST. Lous Times,
The platform is plainly the manifesto
Of a party which feels that il has few
votes to spare, -New York Tribune,
THE duke Of Devonshire's annual gold
medal for the encouragement of English
poetry has been awarded to A, w, w.
Dale, of Trinity college, Cambridge, for
his poem entitled "ThO Centennial Of
American independence"
]lNGERsoLL thought he was severe
when he told the Massachusetts, men to
let Fancuil hail be turned into a demo
cratic hall. We never knew that the re-
pubIicans owned it before Boston
GiObc,
DoNN PIArT says Hayes is painfully
dinidcnt and has been seen to blush like
a schoolgirl" The republican party
has long been in need of a first class
bIushcr for it; but have always thought
that the blushing ought to be done with
in the parity ourier-jownol.
THE republican platform declares
boldly for investigation, But it does
not suggest Babcock, Blaine, Shepherd,
Schcnck, BcIknap, Robson, CIapp, or
Grant himself. Oh no it says "lt
is the immediate duty Of congress to in
ycstigate the Mongolians p Boston
Post.
THE Rochester Chronicle declares that
the Cincinnati platform Shows that the
republican party now, as heretofore, is
the party Of progress" Yes, it is IN
qucstionabIy the party Of progress. In
every species Of rascality it has made
within the last fifteen years the progress
Of a century.
THE Brooklyn Argus, commenting on
the platform: Grant ought to have
been rcpudiatcd in set terms, the frank
confession made that power had been
confdcd to the wrong hands, and the
personal government that the president
has set up should have been distinctly
condemned."'
"TnE republican party has preserved
| these governments to the hundredth an
| niycrsary of the nations birth."- Re
publican platform, Pretty well done
for a party not much more than twenty
years old. Did it not have something to
do also with the discovery Of America
and the capture Of Jcrusalem.-- Wortd.
As proof of his inyincibility, it is
claimed by the republican press that
Hayes has never been beaten. This IL
not the case. He was defeated for m
grcSs by Gen. Banning, in the second
Ohio district at n time, too, when the
republicans were in the ascendcncy. In
fact, every success won by Hayes was
through discussions in the democratic
ranks.
THE Chinese plank Of the radical plat
form ought to convince the negro Of the
hoIlowncss of the philanthropic protes-
tations of the party which still seeks to
build on sectional hateand animosity. If
there were as many Chinese voters as
there are negro voters, present radical
influence to the brutal persecution of
the Chinaman would be turned into a
hue and cry for redress of his grievances.
The Philadelphia Telegraph doesn't
like the platform, and says: ave criti-
CHE these things because they place the
republican party in an absurd light; be-
cause they weaken, not strengthen, the
position of the party before the country.
The people are not fools; they recognize
sham and clap-trap as quickly as they
soc them, and, to give them untruth
when there is truth to give, is to commit
an act of stupidity without excuse"
THE Richmond Wing is thus enthusi-
astic over Vance: "The nomination of
this gallant and popular conservative for
of the old north state is an
omen Of good, and secures that noble
to the democratic column next No
vembcr, beyond the peradventurc of a
doubt. Well done, brave old North
Carolina! Yours is a sound centennial
position, indeed"
The disciples of the "bIOody shirt" in
their platform say that if the south votes
democratic ticket it will be an act of
5cctionalism and good cause for war, but
if they vote the radical ticket every
will be right. And yet they pre-
tend that this is a free country and a
of free ballot, and yet who
threaten the people that if they vote
their sentiments they may look for fire
and sword Pitsburgh Post.
The republican party goes into the
presidential contest upon a thoroughly
bloody-6hirt platform, in the contest for
the supremacy OF which its crimes are to
be sunk out of sight. This the demo
cratic party will not allow. 1t can not
escape its responsibility for the thcfts
and oppression, and its gross crimes
against the republic, because of thepurity
of Hayes and the ability of Wheeler.
The democracy will put it on the defcn-
siye on these and break it down.
The republicans declared in'their plat
form that they were as ever opposed to
subsidies to corporations. To show what
hey meant by this resolution, they have
nominated a nan for vice president who,
- chairman of the Pacific railroad com.
reported all manner of subsidy
obs, and was one of the most active
in forcing them all upon the at
CntiOn of congress. So to the end, re-
publican practice turns its back in con
cmpt on republican prOiessIons.-Pts-
Post.
TT is a very pretty platform, and must
taken General Hawlcy a long time
write out. 1t is full of correct senti-
nents and beautiful language. To be
sure, it does not explain where all the
money has gone to, but we can not ex-
'cct everything, even in a platform of
seventeen planks. AS the western ora-
or well said: although, gentlemen,
Is president of the Yellville national
'ank, our deceased friend did not nc ,
cunt satisfactorily for the funds of that
Institution, yet his remarks upon the
Of the same showed that his
lcart beat warmly for his native land"
-Ncw York World. :