National Republican., 1876-08-18

IHE W EEhL1 NATIONAL hEPUBLlCAN is
now ready for the mails. 1t is the largest
paper in the country, comprising sixty-fou
long columns of reading matter. The current
number contains the closing proceedings of
Congress and the list of acts which have been
passed at the first session of the Forty-fourth
Congress, besides all the current general and
political news of the week. 1t is the cheapest
paper in the world.
The nomination of George I. Anthony for
Governor of Kansas, by the Republicans, was
a wise thing, and insures an overwhelming
victory in that State.
The rebels always yell when they are hit.
This accounts for the howls the eXConfed-
crates and their sympathizers are making over
the last order from Secretary Cameron.
The White Leaguers have commenced their
work Of negro slaughter in Texas. Near Eagle
Lake, short distance from Houston, they re-
Gently massacred several negroes and are still
cutting down the Republican vote.
They have new way of making Democrats
in the West. They take Conservative, and
after having him bitten by a rattlesnake they
fill him to the eyes with whisky. 1t cures the
bite, but it makes them Democrats every time
Sam Mcbride, a Tilden delegate to St.
Louis, has stolen all the public funds at
Pueblo, Colorado, and left for parts unknown.
1t must be gratifying to the Democracy to see
their spirit of reform breaking out like this in
the far West.
When the news from Alabama was known,
the Confederate press grew wild with joy, and
shouted: "Hurrah for the first gun for TiIden!'
That is not history, though. The truth of his
tory is that the first gun fired for Tiden was
at Fort Sumter, in 1861. The last one is the
negro massacre in Texas yesterday.
Old John Singer lives in West End, and he
hates negro. This embittered feeling is in
nate with the old man. Yesterday he met a
little colored boy on the street and made a
slash at him with his gold cane. He
missed his aim, and slipping, fell suddenly to
the pavement. 1t will be a week before he
gets through feeling like stone -bruise.
The attack made by Engineer George c.
Ellison upon Professor Gardiner in the Capitol
was more characteristic of the brute than of
humanity. His record is unclesn enough,
without adding any other mean act to it. 1t is
TO he hoped that in the court of justice con-
dign punishment will be meted out to him as
his deed deserves.
In %l,ot al
acter in American politics, S. Jones Tilden,
said: "Steady steps towards specie payments;
no steps backward" In 1876 he denounces
the resumption clause of 1875 and demands
its repeal. This is an exceedingly long step
backwards for man to take whose legs are
as "short as any DREAM" but when the rag
baby lunstics got after him he was raised COM
pletely of his feet and caved in to the demands
of Hendricks.
1.-THE last resource" says Governor Tilden,
'is reduction ofthe expenses of the Govern
ment below its income, for that imposes no
new change upon the people" That is sound
doctrine, and it has been practiced by the Re-
publican party ever since the war. 1t has
kept the expenses of the Government far
enough below its income to be able to paw off
nearly one third of the war debt which TiIden
and his friends created. The Governor has
actually borrowed his theory from Republ can
practice.
I'D. J. A." reviewing in the Ithaca Journal
the attacks of the New York Times on the
Hon. A. B. Cornell, writes this pungent and
forcible paragraph "These unwarranted at
tacks of the powerful newspapers upon public
men ought to be a sufficient answer to the
question so often raised Why do not our best
citizens take more active interest in politics |!
Here is a man of conceded ability and in
tegrity; he has been for years one of the recog-
nized leaders of his party in the State, yet his
political enemies have left him, almost alone
of our public men, unassailed. No sooner,
however, is his name mentioned as suitable
candidate for Governor than these newspapers
turn upon him. And what is his offense Is
he corrupt or incompetent! No; he is one of
the managers of the machine I' which, in
terpreted, simply means that he has taken an
active interest iu politics'-he has given his