Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-01
Political Notes.

iAeo Jell DdVlSS late effort as an
"outspoken, hat-footed, unmistakable,
unnecessary and unwise secession
speech"
Alexander FL. Stevens disrespect-
fully alludes to Tilden as the "Whis-
pering Mummy" and charges him
with responsibility for the Potter in
vestigation.
The Burlington HdUkeye says that
people who advocate fiat money"
ought to be fed on fiat bread until by
an abstemious diet they work the nom
sense out Of their systems.
The Philadelphia Times says; EEK
Governor Tilden's friends are said TO
feel confident that he will control
New York in the next National con-
vention, and are hopeful that he will
get the nomination"
After the Greenbackers get the
law passed making five hours days
work. their next idea will probably
be to supplement /. with a law not
allowing any man to work more than
five hours a day.
The Chicago Tribune says that
Sam. Cary and "Brick" Pomeroy
have done more to change the green.
back organization into a fiat and re-
pudiation party than all the other
leaders banged together.
William Heilman, who was nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republi-
cans OF the First Indiana District, is
afirst-class Republican. and although
the District is Democratic, there are
fine prospects that he will be elected.
The Democrats, Nationals and
Greenbackers propose, IL possible, to
elect an anti-resumption Congress to
come into power on the 4th of next
March-sixty- three days after re-
sumption will have become an &C.
complished fact.
When a greenback dollar Is quite
as good as q gold dollar wouldn't IL
be just the least bit of lunacy to
adopt such policy as would make
them but slightly more valuable
than the Confederate Currency?-
Albany Euening Journal.
A few colored Republicans OF Edge
field, s. c., attempted to form a Re-
publican club. For this great crime
against the Hampton government,
the Edgefield Advertiser demands
that the ringleaders be hung. A
club of colored Republicans cannot
be tolerated in Edgefield.
A Greenback orator down in West
Virginia, the other day, proposed
that the General Government should
issue greenbacks which should be
loaned to the State az / per cent; tn G
State to loan the money to the coun-
ties at 2 per cent, and the counties
in return, to loan to the people at {
per cent.
The Southern negroes, it is now
said, shave been persuaded to vote
the Democratic ticket" This reminds
us of Mark Twain and his friends
who, while on a hunting excursion
unfortunately shot mule. Mark In.
forms us that "the owner Of the ami.
NAL came out to the fence with 6
shotgun and persuaded US to buy
that mule. Inter Ocean.
While the "labor" agitators are Ia
boring with their jaws in State con.
vention, Michigan farmers are unable
to procure enough harvest hands al
50 day to secure their crops. Per-
haps, with few hundred millions o.
fiat" money. times would b so gooc
it would not be necessary to GU
wheat or toll in the fields at ALL
Cincinnati Gazette.
The attempt to rebuild industrial
prosperity upon this fiat make-shif
must end in failure. The attempt Il
construct a political party upon G
false principle will only bring its
authors into ridicule. How contemp
tible than Is the man who in hi:
heart dispises this popular infatua-
ton and yet spreads his sails to
catch thar vagrunt wind that drags
The ~hiP IF state away from its safe
anchorage Philadelphia Eecord.
TIE Democrats engaged Potter's
field to bury Republicans, but they
have no. thus far been able to knock
the wind out Of anybody but Demo-
Gratis. Potter ought To catch few
Republicans just 10 make his grave
look respectable. If it is wholly occu
pied by Democrats, Gabriel viii
never hunt for it, a horn" would
undoubtedly wake every last one o.
them, but it would scarcely be wortf
while TO blow.
The Republicans have the men, the
pluck, and the will to carry theil
point; and neither the sneers o.
their opponents, nor the old majority
behind which they shelter them
selves, with so much show OF security
will save them from a big scare. OF
an utter defeat. The Republicans
understand themselves, are thor
oughly united, and have buckled on
the armor Of the contest, and will &c
into the fight with determination to
carry the State, and make such
points in Allen that will be thorough.
ly satisfactory TO themselves, IL not
to the unterrified.-Ft. Wayne Ga.