The Osceola times., 1876-08-05
THE CAMPAIGN.
CURRENT OPINION.

the control of its own people, and there
is peac' and prosperity; South Carolina
has been in carpet-bag hands for eleven
years. aud scenes like that at Hamburg
are still possible.-Bosfon Post.
SILLY people in the United stair
who speak so contemptuously oi reo'n''
and OF these who are honestly sttemPt-
ing TO reform the governme", oy re"uc-
ing taxation and increasing honesty IN
b;eb nlsces, know butHttle of the feeling
deem down in the hearts of the people,
~ Y. Express
THE repablican party has existed by
arrayise class against class and exciting
.ecsfon prejudice. 1t is going into the
present campaign with the same purpose
in view. When it fails to excite hatred
and prejudice in the minds of its votaries,
the republican party will fail to exist.
II has no other ailment but violence and
social disorganization. II is the party
Of violence, and it must he crushed, or
the republic will be crushed.
BRIsrow's reply to Grant is a stun
ming rebuke to the swagger OF the .Presl-
dent about waving all privilege in re-
gard to the testimony the ex-secretary
should give before the congressional
committee. He places the matter on
high ground, and slams the idea into the
face OF the president that principle is
much higher than person of the size OF
Mr.. Grant Omaha Herald.
CAN anybody tell us, il Hayes is
elected. why we are not to have con-
tinuance of Grantism under him? We
see one difference and that is all: We
shall have republican Officers, such as
Grant has given us, holding Office by a
mere fixed tenure. That is what Hayes
proposes. We confess that the only
change promised does not seem to us
to be any improvement. - New York
Sun, Ind.
ASSAULTS upon the private character
Of Samuel J. Tilden roll away from him
like water from the back Of duck.
Every charge is met with prompt and
overwhelming refutation. His public
record is equally invulnerabie. No man
was ever nominated for high position
in this country, not even in Silas Wright
or Andrew jackson himself, who is not
more absolutely free from reproach.-'
Omaha Herald.
AT this great period in the history OF
the republic we do not wish TO put into
the White House a man of straw, plant
tool of Grantism, like the amiablc Hayes
We require a statesman, fashioned after
the plan of the founders of the republic
aman of ideas, and one who holds in hi,
hand the broom of "reform" and is de-
termined 10 use il TO clean out the dusty
and dirty places of our government
Henderson News.
The Graphic speaks of Grants "manly
and straightforward letter 10 ex-secre-
tary Bristow. In the light of Mr.. Bris-
tow's response its manliness and straight
forwardness are not 10 conspicuous. On
the contrary it now appears before the
country thin and paltry trick, a hypo-
critical and crooked thing, of which we
had hardly believed the president so de-
moralized rs TO be deliberately guilty
81. Louis Times.
THE insane rage of the republican sen
ators over the reduction in the appro.
priation bills by the house Is due entirely
TO the fact that the money appropriated
is not sufficient to support all the ninety
four thousand one hundred and nineteen
office-hOlders who usually do the cam
paign work Of the radical party. They
call these very proper reductions Grip
pling the government" meaning Grip
pling the radical parasites.
WHAT do American taxpayers think
Of reform within party" which, after
declaring the negro Pinchbacks election
null and void, voted him nearly thirty
thousand dollars in pay and mileage,
when he was coniessedly y not entitled to
the first red cent of II. But Hayes
friends thought it would prevent
grand negro "break down Tin: Louisiana,
and possibly save that state to "rcform
in horn."-New Haren Register.
SINCE Mr.. Pierrepont prepared that
letter which Babcock made public, he
has not been accused of preternatural
good sense on this side of the water. His
fnt speech in England closely resembles
the Babcock letter-it was very good
thing not to make public, Mr. Pierre
points last public appearance rs a dinner
orator here ought to have taught him
prudence. Some friend now sbeuld
take him by the ear, and say TO him
sternly, "The first duty of diplo-
matist, sir, is to know how to hold his
tongue. e."--New York Tribune,
NOTHING is adequate proof that an
administration of Mr.. Hayes would not
be . mere continuation of that of Grant
but an explicit, distinct and immediate
reputation OF Grants act in removing
postmaster general Jewell, to make room
Tor Tyner, through whom Morton is to
work the postmasters-over six thousand
OF them-like galley slaves for Hayes.
This arrangement is no distinctly in
Hayes interest that it is the same as il
he had publicly requested it, and il he is
not to rest in that posture, he must get
out OF II in the only way, that is, de-
nounce it.-Mtwaukee Ners.
The question of protecting the negro
from murderous assault is not an issue in
this canvass. Gov. Tilden's election
will contribute rs greatly toward il as
the election of Gov. Hayes; while il
South Carolina had democratic govern
or, the lives Of the negroes would he ~
secure As they are in the democratic
Georgia, democratic Kentucky, demo-
cratic Maryland, democratic Alabama.
1t is only in republican states where
they are insecure. And il republican
governors can not preserve order, presi-
dent Tilden will help them in the con-
stitutional and lawful way. SO there is
no issue about the matter - Albany
Argus.
MY preferences are most decidedly for
Tilden. / have known him all my life,