The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-14

they are shouting vigorously for Haye
and Wheeler, who may be presumed, 0
course, to represent that kind of republi
canism.
WILL the whisky ring resume the gov
ernment of the nation? The power o
that corruption has not been destroyed
We shall not be surprised to see it in full
| possession of its old sovereignty before
the end of the year. 1t is not pleasant
prospect; but honest citizens will dc
well to watch at this point.-The Aetho
dist.
TODAY the government will distribute
| twenty-five million dollars in gold
which is the interest money it owes or
| its public debt Twenty-Five million dol
lars,and yet there are people who think the
house eOfrepresentatives is wrong in insist
ing upon a reduction of expenses in the
running of the government machinery.
Brooklyn Eagle.
BY AN OHIO POSTMASTER.
Hold the swag, for Hayes is coming
Crooked whisky still y
Hear the shout from Washington
Ulysses says, owe WILL"
Hold the swag;
Hold the swag;
Whisky won't be still
Hold the swag;
Hold the swag:
Babcock says, "We will"
-COuTier-JOuru0l.
ONE of the hopeful signs is the grow
ing Outspokenness of the pulpit. DR..
Samuel Graves, of Michigan, has been
preaching sermon that might be bound
up with the fast day discourse of our own
DR.. Seelye, of Easthampton. His text
was " For they commit falsehoOd, and
the thief cometh in, and the troop of
robbers spOileth without" His first sem
tence was, "These words describe but
too truly the condition of our coun-
try to-day."-Springfeld Republican.
"Do you mean to imply that you have
any evidence of the slightest character
that 1 have had, directly or indirectly,
any communication with Josiah Cald-
well" shrieked Blaine, as he swelled
himselfup to double his natural size, and
addressed Proctor Knott before the sub
judiciary committee a week or two ago.
To-day there is abundant evidence of
such communication, and Mr.. Blaine's
sincerity and honesty are at d discount
and under suspicion.
THE World says of the republican OPP
position economy: They want to make
it appear to the country that the ener-
NOUS amounts which they have been
squandering for years were the least pos
sible allowance on which the govern
ment could be run, and dare not consent
to try the experiment of cheaper ad-
ministration. Perhaps, too, they wish
to secure their old supplies as necessary
for campaign fund this summer. They
are willing to risk everything to get a
well-filled camp-chest."
GRANT is pleased with the Cincinnati
ticket. So is Conkling. So is Blaine.
So is Morton. SO is Belknap. So is
Robeson. So is Chandler. So is Cam
eron. So is Babcock. So is Shepherd.
SO is Schenck So are all the POst-trad-
ers. So are all the moiety thieves and
public plunderers, the land and salary
grabbers, the railroad jObbers, the subsidy
schemers, and every other rotten interest
and despOtic cOmbinatiOn.-COurier-
journal.
Gov. TILDEN, by his masterly man.
aeement of the finances of this great
state, has reduced its expenditures by
millions. Grant and his senate are using
their best efforts to defeat the attempt to
save forty millions at Washington. They
will even imperil the credit of the gov
ernmept to accomplish their purpose,
and threaten unless they get all
they wish to stop the whole ma
chinery of the federal government.
These arc facts for honest voters to keep
in mind until next NOvember.-N T.
San.
THE New York Evening Post sug-
pests. in respect to the Caldwell dispatch
Investigation, which it thinks "drags
wearily," that the public, while re-
gretting Mr. Blaine's illness, will envy
him his ability to get away from the sub
iect-as he proposes to do by retiring to
his home in Maine. After the demo-
Gratis have finished their st. Louis work,
perhaps a vigorous vitality will be re-
stored to the investigating committee,
which their proceedings just now lack"
Democratic investigations have had al
together too much vitality for repubi-
cans. and they have been of immense
service to the country in exposing the
rascality and rottenncss which have pre-
vailed.
RUTHERFORD b. HAYES is an amia-
BILE gentleman, of a kind and yielding
disposition, and creditably solicitous to
make everybody happy around him. He
would, if elected, be sort of lay presi-
dent worked by the CamerOns and
Blaines for their own purposes. Under
such a man corruption could thrive. But
Samuel J. Tilden is built of different
moral and intellectual timber. He would
not be pliable in the hands of jObbers,
nor allow the practitioners of corruption
to pull the wool over his keen eyes. The
one man is a negative, and the other a
positive quantity.-N 7. Sun.
THERE is shortly to be an Overhauling
of federal office-holders in the south with
a view to strengthening the lines or the
fall elections. The policy of the admin
istration will be, as usual, to throw some
of the southern states into disorder, and
carry them at the point of the Ddyonet,
as has been done III so many campaigns
before. 1t is understood that this is the
ONLY hone the administration has OF
throwing the election to the republicans,
and the situation is desperate. The
states singled out for this work are Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas, but the work will hardly
succeed, for the people are in no temper
for trifing.-iSt. Louis Times.
HAYES was not nominated by an acci-
dent, but for deliberate purpose. I'm
der this know-nothing cover slumbers
cool design. Hayes means simply the
men and the system that made him
candidate. The republicans who do not
vet sse the point are exchanging con-
gratulations over the fact that a man has
been given them by their leaders who
unite the conflicting elements OF the par
ty on himself; who draws together Rus
sci Lowell and carpet-bag Spencer,
George William Curtis and Conkling,
Dana and Boss Shepherd, the BristOw
press and Butler. Where is reform in
such nameless hOdge-podge of political
elements as that ?-BostOn Post.