The Osceola times., 1876-10-07
CURRENT OPINION.

THE charge that for three years Ruth. |
erford B. Hayes has sworn falsely with |
regard to his taxable property is specific |
and direct. 1t is fully confirmed by the
public records of Ohio.
A UNITED north is desideratum de-
voutly to be prayed for by New England
republicans, with the unit representing
Grantism but solid south, opposed to
this iniquity-"let it be anathema."
What's sauce for the goose Is not sauce
for the gander,-Mobite Register.
THE radical managers who could labor
to acquit Babcock, who could vote Bel.
knap mot guilty." who could order a
Jail delivery in Illinois for the benefit of
the party and for that alone, will not
hesitate at any form or any depth Of ras-
cality to carry the election in Indiana
They know well that the popular vote Of
that state would bury them in oblivion.
THE Springfield Republican quotes as
follows from an English philosopher to
account for the popularity of two of the
most prominent republicans in the coun-
| try: "There never was mean and alb
ject mind that did not admire an intrepid
and dexterous villain. In the bottom Of
their hearts they believe such hardy
miscreants to be the only men qualified
for great affairs"
We repeat that we do not think the
republicans will find it paying business
to agitate the southern question. They
have lost 80 much by it in Indiana that
the success of the democratic ticket is
now a foregone conclusion. Let them
try it in this state. and we may be
tempted to "talk back" in regard to re-
publican ascendency in the south.
SENATOR LOGAN, in a speech in south
ern Illinois, said Il challenge any dem
ocrat to point out purer administration
in the history of the country than that
of Gen. Grant" How much more ad-
mirable is this than poor Carl Schurzs
| declaration that ''the administration
of Grant has by the greatness OF its
corruption shown the necessity of a rad
/ ical reform, even to the most stupid
mind
NOTHING but the inveterate prejudices
excited against the south by the events
of four-years' war could blind our
northern brethren TO the real nature of
the republican party, and to the vile use
which that unprincipled party is making
of their preiudices and predictions
Too many of them are mere puppets in
the hands Of such reprobates a4 Morton
AMI Butler. Is it not time for these to
open their eyes?
NOTHING has been more clearly settled
than the right of the states TO regulate
their own elections; and ii can only be
through a very forced far.ietched, and
wrong construction intertered with.
The clause upon which the administra-
tion relies was not designed for any
such purpose As that which, by trick
and false reasoning, has been put in
force by bold'usurpation-by an uncon-
stitutional act.
SINCE the adoption of the fifteenth
amendment, nobody in this country but
republicans has proposed or taken a
single step looking to the dsfranchise-
ment of the negroes. The republicans in
congress became so disgusted with the
result of their experiment with negro
suffrage in the District of Columbia that
they abolished the district government
and deprived the entire population of the
right of self-government in order to dis
franchise the negro majority.
"REFoRM within the party" is being
beautifully exemplified in the nomina-
tion of Ben. Butler for congress in Mas
sachusetts, Chamberlain for governor Of
South Carolina, Warmoth for leader of
the Louisiana legislature, Packard for
the eovernorship of that state, with
brother-in-law Casey for the United
States senate-to say nothing of the
whisky ring pardons, the efforts of the
party to acquit Babcock. the whole>
sale assessments of Office holders
for party purposes, and the promised
pardons to all the non -pardoned whisky
thieves after election, when it "won't
hurt"
SOUTHERN domination is a bugbear.
II was the democratic party that re-
belled against southern domination in
1860, when republican leaders were on
their knees at Charleston, kissing the
knees of the slave power, when it was
proposed TO extend slavery into the ter
ritories. The northern democracy re-
belled against the dictation of the south
under the lead of : A. Douglass. The
men who then truckled to the powerful
south are not the men to send to congress
to trample on her now. She is poor.
There is no south. We are union.
The moment the institution of slavery
fell, the south, as known in politics, was
no more. The seat of empire has
moved its star is over the mighty val.
ley of the Mississippi.
THERE are many m illions of claims
put in" more than the Cincinnati Com
mercial with all its eagerness has set out
before its quaking subscribers. These
many millions have been PRESENTED regu-
larly at every session of congress for the
last eight years. They have not been
paid nor will they be paid, could they
be paid, if generation of "soli! souths"
should vote for them, without the con
sent of the senate, the president and the
court of claims. We trust that this
assurance will bring one nights rest at
least to the troubled mind of the Com
mercial man. Ii is distressing to have
so much moral sentiment wasted, as il
were. But, as matter of speculation,
suppose the claims were paid The
steal would be about $4,000, 900. That
isn't fly's wing compared with the
thefts of the credit nobilier fellows; the
Pacific mail fellows; the district ring
fellows; the customs ring, the whisky
ring-all of whom by the election of
Hayes are indorsed and encouraged 10
Continue in robbery.