National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-01-02
POLITICAL NOTES,

Ben Hill puts in Southern claim to be Meth
odist.
We are afraid Mrs. Tilden is never going to be
inaugurated.
In cold weather Cronin is obliged to cover his
nose with q horse blanket.
Every Democratic paper will have fighting
editor until war is declared.
Mr.. Hendricks Is informed that there is very
broad Democratic proposition to throw him out.
Sentiment Of every man in this country-"If
there's any fighting to be DONE go and do it your
Political shrimps think they are whales because
Blow Sie'''0n' 'H'' ''' ''0"H ''n 'A' 'afA'' W
It Is Of no consequence whether Tllden was born
in this country; he was defeated in 1t, and that's
enough.
Politicians of the Democratic persuasion are
willing to make fuss If "the people" will do the
fighting.
The aSword of Bunker Hill" should not be con-
founded with the sabre of Ben Hill, feared by the
fiery Fernando.
John Morrissey is the proper successor Of John
Kelly as the Boss of Tammany Hall Shall he
have his rights?
TIlden was convinced at his recent Christmas
dinner that Democracy was "a huge appetite, all
teeth and stomach"
Abe Hewitt would have received something in
his stocking, but 1t is believed that certain post
office clerks tempered with it.
Governor "Blue Jeans" Williams will give q
grand Inauguration ball in indianapolis January
s, but does not intend to dance himself
selves. Are We wrong In the proposition that
that's the kind of war the country needse
his s01 baa he teT
reached him. Tilden should buy another mule
Wade ::Hampton's letter to Governor Hayes is
calculated, we think, to raise huobub In the
Democratic ranks, even though the writer did
send Sammy copy.
The smallness of the negro vote in the Southern
States Is doubtless owing to the large number Of
original Georgia minstrels and Tennessee jubilee
nUnr n a IA
st rise to announce" said speaker the other
day at a Democratic war meeting. yes" inter-
rupted disagreeable person In the audience,
ian ounce is about your fighting weight"
can open my mouth for q nice beefsteak in the
morning; but my enemies ha We not the power to
open my mouth with crow-bar to compel me to
Tseed. e '''' N' ''' WV - ''AN'' D'''
'was that thunder" said Fernando Wood.
sob, no." said Sam Cox with cheerful confidence,
ss
heard from"
If telegraph companies can protect their Gus
toners in no other way, they will probably de-
wires as soon as they leave the hands Of the ope-
rators. There is no law against such a course.
1t comes out at last why the Democrats who
lieve the story Of Eliza Plnkston. Their over
whelming modesty prevented them. Mr.. George
W. Julian thus explains the case to Herald cor
respondent: "She is a terrible liar, and no one
who listened to her story from beginning to end
put any faith in its reliability. No doubt was
entertained about an outrage having been perpe-
trated upon her husband, but by whom or from
what cause was not by any means clearly shown.
This woman declared that she herself was terri
bly, gashed and mutilated, but H. was singular
that all her gaping wounds were in places on her
person beyond the inspection of modest commit
mittee OF investigation. She frequently contra
dicted her own story, and her statement would
fall stillborn before any intelligent jury author
lied to hear and weigh testimony"
Let Gen. Wade Hampton take courage. An
old hen is on his side. A gentleman living near
Bonneaus station, S: 9, has a hen which less
white feather. When the last political cam
paign opened she began to shed her feathers, and
her new plumage was as white as snow. Before
election day she lost her last black feather, and
was perfectly white, with the exception Of Q sim
gle yellow feather. To all these facts dozen
spectacle gentlemen are willing to make oath.
The suguries and omens which inspired the
founding of Rome were Insignificant in compari-
son with the portentous bleaching this old hen.
She shows beyond peradventure how the State
went. The supremacy Of the whites and the po-
litical conversion Of the blacks may now be &C.
cepted as facts. If Romulus and Remus thought
it worth while to count the vultures, and II Rome
was saved by the cackle Of goose, why not pay
heed to this old hen? She was black-she is now
white; that ought to be enough.