Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-06-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Cincinnati Commercial says:
The attack by the Democrats, upon the
war record of Morton, shows the dis
erection of the bull that challenged the
locomotive to single combat, or of the
able old ram that precipitated himself
against a harTow-tOOth upon which a
hat had been placed for his prOvoca
ton.
The Cincinnati Enquirer expresses
the opinion that ''if Cover nor Hen
bricks has been managing the political
affairs of Indiana, the result of the late
elections is not creditable to his polit-
zeal sagacity. His name and his man
agement together seem not to have per-
ceptibly built up the party in his State
/ this week.
/ The Portsmouth, IN. H. Chronicle
makes bold to say that it considers it a
refreshingly cool piece of cheek when
an eX-rebel rigadier-general, with an
Andersonville war record, headed a
Congressional investigation, with clio
sed and guarded dOors) at the navy
yard, there to inquire into the cost of
the sloOp-or-war Kearsarge.
New York Herald, (Ind.): The eX-
ploits of the House Committee III Sin
vestigating" Mr.. Davenport remind us
of the adventurous sportsman who went
out with his dog to hunt wolf. He
lost sight of the chase, and made in
quiry of a pasSer by. He was informed
that the dog and the wolf when last
seen were close together, with the dog
little ahead.
Cincinnati Commercial: There is a
groan from the Democracy, produced
by MOrtOn's horrid personal explain
alton of the way he checked, in Ind
lana, the conspiracy in aid of the Con
federates. The Confederate brigadiers
all remember with sigh the little an
ecdote related in the House by Sam Cox
about the negro boy who tickled the
hind legs of mule, and was not Sc
handsome afterward. but knew a great
deal more
The New York Times comments on
Governor SeymOur's speech at Utica
A convention whose chief business was
to determine whether Mr.. Kelly or Mr.
MOrrissey shall be the recognized head
of the party in the city of New York
and in the end surrendered itself, body
and soul, to the sway of tammany, is q
sorry commentary on Mr.. Seymour:
~, nd loft MT 4 ~, nf Il
sOphisms in regard to Democratic re
form.
New York Times: The Democrat:
have never furnished, in office or out OF
it, one prominent advocate of system
attic civil service reform. The feeling
of the party toward such reform ha:
been one of derisive incredulity. 1t i:
foolishness to connect the party Will
reform remotely or directly, and this i:
what makes their warfare on political
abuses so Ineffective. The public inev
itably look on it as a Chinese warfare
There is plenty of sounding of gong:
of pyrotechnics, but there is no seriou:
intention to kill the enemy.
A Washington special to the Chica
go Tribune, speaking of Senator Nor
tons refutation of the Springer charge
says: There was general and hearty
indignation over the fact that man
who had contributed SO much to sup
press the rebellion, and did it honestly
as everybody knows, should be thus ar
raigned by men who, though desperate
ly disloyal, had not the courage to fight
for their belief. Few men in Washing
ton have ever been so cordially con.
graduated over the manner in which
they have met attacks of this sort as
has Governor Morton.