The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-08-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

Many republicans admit that re-
form is necessary, and, were it not for
old associations, they would vote for
Gov. Tilden and thus secure it. These
men should not delay in their choice nor
in carrying out their convictions. Re-
form with Tilden Is a certainty Omaha
Herald.
He (Tilden) has always had the
reputation of high personal character,
and his opposition to the Tweed gang of
thieves has even placed him in some de-
gree among political reformers. Mr..
Tilden is man of great wealth, and is
generally recognized, We should say, as a
Thoroughly safe, conservative person. -
Troy IN ~ Wig, Rep.
May not the carefully written re-
ports of Grants insanity, or madness, or
brain softening, be only device of the
republicans to escape responsibility for
the infamous acts of his administration
But, then, how about Babcock, Belknap,
Williams, Boss Shepherd, and the para
sites who surrounded him, and were in
dorsed and sustained by "the party ?"
Were they all mad, too ?-PeOria Demo.
We take no stock in the reports that
president Grant is either crazy or drunk.
He is the head of his party, and repub-
licans ought not to abuse him so meanlv.
He IS no worse in these respects than he
has 'been for years. AreE his advisers
and managers crazy or drunk? Are
Chandler, Cameron, Conkling, Logan,
Sargent, and the rest of the leading re-
publicans crazy or drunk? They en-
courage and indorse president Grant in
all he does.-S. Louis Times.
Mr.. Wheeler refers, in his cheerfulIlet-
ter of acceptance, to "the fulfilled declara-
ton that all men are created free and
quail" In looking over the Cincinnati
esclutions, we are not aware of any de-
ration, fulfilled or otherwise. so thor
oughly wide of the mark as this bunr-
ling rhetoric, and worse logic, of the
New York statesman of the "true blue F."
radical type. How much Mr.. Wheeler
has had to do with fulfilling the creation
of man, we have at present no means of
knowing; but the Monaghan doesn't
come into his calculations, and all this
twaddle, we suppose, relates to the
African negro ; not to the noble red man.
or the peanut-eyed races of the east.
The field of buneombe and the field of
sham are the Elysian ones into which
the radical statesman most delights to
enter.-Neao Hauen Register.
Gov. Chamberlain, of South Caro-
lima, wants troops. He wants them, OF
course, to protect the colored people.
The government of that state is entirely
In the hands of the colored people. They
control its entire machinery-the laws.
the courts, the arms, the militia, the DO
lice. They have majority which the
white men do not pretend to be able to
overcome. But it is proclaimed that
theyIcan not protect themselves. Aaginst
what1 Against the consequences of
their lawless acts. The worst elements
Vi the colored population combine to
commit outrages, and the best elements
OF the whites assist the officer of the law
TO arrest and punish them. Therefore.
Gov. Chamberlain calls for troops that
they may be encouraged and protected
IN lawlesssness. This is the old story
and the old game.-Atlantic constit;o,,
The terms of the seventeen renubl;-
can members of the senate expire next
March. Five of them represent states
In this part of the country. viz: Maine
New Hampshire, Massachusetts Rhode
Island, and New Jersey. The senators
from New Hampshire and Rhode Island
have been already elected for the COMING
six years; but legislatures are to be
chosen this fall which are to elect sena-
tors IN the room of Blaine, Boutwell,. and
frelinghuysen. New Jersey can GER
tainly be carried by the democrats. and
Freiinghuysen be got rid of, provided the
campaign is properly conducted. There