The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-05-06
NOTES AND EXTRACTS.

The st. Louis Republican suggests tina
jeff Davis sells his Forthcoming "History
of the War" to the Republicans for /
campaign document.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, whose devo
ton to Democracy no one questions, ad
vises the Democratic House, "it they
expect to do thorough business in the
reform line to lick their own platter
first" That's sensible.
Judge Hoar is candid. The Worces
ter Spy quotes him as having said, within
a day or two, that he would jump out OF
a three story window to make Bristow
President, or out of a two story window
to make Blaine President.
Franklin Landers has finally written
a letter declining to run upon the Green
back ticket for Governor of Indiana
though endorsing its principles, and
splitting upon the Democratic platform
which, he says, he "cannot indorse."
Democrats who have any claim to
craftsmanship ought to know that it is
bad policy for them to undertake to
investigate the conduct of the war. The
loyal people who participated in it are
not all dead yet.-Chicago Post and Nail.
The Sennte has passed this bill, we
suspect because it bankers for low com.
pany. The House had better defeat It,
and save the Senate from itself. New
Mexico no more needs State Govern.
ment than q cat needs two tails.-Ne,r
York Tribune.
The National Republican remarks incl
dentally that nearly all the Democrats
in Congress to-day who make themselves
noisy in abuse of the Republican party
forfeited their lives by treason to the
government, and ought, at least to have
been banished from the country"
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times declares there is
among Democrats an objection to an
Overshadowing New York influence, and
predicts that Mr.. Tilden will not receive
at any stage of the st. Louis convention
over third of the votes of that body.
Mr.. Tilden's agents are now in Wash
ington loaning money to Southern men,
bers of Congress, and explaining the
peculiar process by which New York,
New Jersey, and Connecticut, united
with the South will elect Mr.. Tilden
President, and place the South upon its
feet Cincinnati Enquirer Dena
The New York Mail thinks it would
be far better for the national reputation
of Governor Tilden, as Reform" can.
didate, if, in the background of the pic
ture in which the Democracy Of New
York are seen presenting him to the
nation as their favorite, the two most
figures we're not those of
John Kelley and John Morrissey.
The third party does not grow. The
trouble with these saints in politics is that
they support administrations until the
is all given out and if they are
not in the Cabinet they begin screaming
Reform" Look how it happened in
the last canvass. The reformers went
over in swarm to Grant after Greeley
was nominsted.- YORK. Herald.
II will be Blaine or Bristow. The one
must be taken who, on a survey of the
whole field, will be most likely to carry
The country. The masses will determine
this question, and retired Office holders
rho organize clubs purely to reform and
declare their candidate is doing nothing
5or himself will find themselves power
ess to resist the popular tide-FtcAburg
Sentinel.
"The action Of the Massachusetts, Re-
publican Convention in placing Richard
i. Dana at the head of the delegation to
he National Convention is significant.
t is an emphatic and dignified rebuke
y the Republicans of Massachusetts, of
he Butterflies in the United States Sem
te, and q distinct notice to Morton and
is crowd that they are not the kind Of
nen who can have the support of Massa-
husetts for the Presidency."-S. Paul
IH;nn. Pioneer Press