Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-08
roLlrIcAL PARAGRAPHS.

tu0 0enocfats snOuiu reIoiHiuate
their ticket.
The ATLANTA Constitution says:
The Democrats may view with the
Nv elIest satisfaction the develop
% ent OF the plot to renominate the
great ripg-master Of Republican
Ism.
The Memphis appeal declares
that 1t is political cowardice not to
vote. 1t is crime against the
state and against the country.
When good men refuse to vote, bad
n en- become their masters.
The Buffalo Courier says: 1t will
soon be impossible to carry North
eFn States on sectional issues, and
Che policy which has destroyed the
Republican organization at the
South will be powerless to help 1t
at the North.
The Little Rock Gazette thinks
it likely that Grant will be the
candidate Of the Republican party
Ia 1850; but, II so, he will certainly
owe his nomination mainly to the
solid support of the Southern dele
gates.
The Chicago Times says: In or
der to get chance for Themselves
and 10 retaliate on the Republican
party of the United States, the
blacks of Liberia have passed q
law making a white man ineligi-
Bile for any Office.
John {. DAILY, of Utica, The Per
naneut Chairman of the Green
back State Convention, once oceu.
Piled a position in the New York
Custom House, through the kind
{ ness OF Senator Conkling. and i:
Believed to be yet on exceedingly
friendly terms with "Oneida's ia
yorIts son."
Suppose-of course it Is all non
s0nse to suggest such thing, and
we hardly know how it came into
our head but suppose, suggests
the Cincinnati Saturday Night
Grant should take notion tc
change his politics and go over to
the Democrats, would the Repub
licxns have anybody left to run FOL
President in 1880:
The Bnslnn Herald says: The
story Is now going round that Mr..
B!aine's great grandfather, who
WAS = commissary or something OF
that kind during the Revolutionary
war, ''saved Washing toms troops
from starvation at Valley Forge" !"
Il can't be true, or Mr.. Blaine
would have put big claim through
Congress before this time.
The Philadelphia Times says:
There are chords in the human
breast which cannot be lightly
!. played upon. In Sherman's case
these chords run in and about the
names Of Lavisse, Marks, jerks
and Pitkib. When these chords are
touched he throws himself upon
his privilege as member Of
Mr.. Hayes Cabinet. And blessed
privilege It is.
Here, remarke the indianapolis
Nct0s, IL the wealthy, cultured stu
dent, Hamilton Fish, virtusIly de-
olaring. that the Presidency is for
the qualification Of personal ambi-
tiop, and to come to pract.c .cal ex-
ample, Gen. Grant is very young
and has not yet reached the age
when mems ambition is satisfied.
This is the most "solid" confession
We have seen Of what Is involved
In the Grant movement.
The Cincinnati Inquirer says:
Senator Davis, of Illinois, ex-Gov-
ernor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and
Gen. Tom Ewing, are among the
number mentioned us possible can
didates of the Nationals for the
Presidency. Davis woald carry
the biggest part OF Illinois, If he
should vote for himself, and the
other two gentlemen are popular
in their respective States.
The opinion of the New York
Tribune Is that Messrs. Robson,
Taft, Fish and Williams have un
bosomed to to the persuasive inter-
viewer with such fluent unanimity
IS TO warrant the general statement
that the controlling political
"Ylews" OF members OF the late
Cabinet can be embraced in two
simpls propositions, to-wit: "The
psopls want more OF Grant, and We
are the people,"
We knew, remarks the Spring
0sId Republican, If editor Cowles
of The Cleveland Leader, went off
10 Europe and left the country to
~ fate, some hellish Jesuitical
eehsms would be set on fost. Our
Worst fears are realized. The Presi-
dsnt and his wife have actually
eoken breakfast with o Roman
Catholic priest at Bsnwood, West
Yirginia. Worse still, we read that
s'they seemed TO enjoy them
seives."
The Detroit Free Press says: The
amount Of demsgogism and ignor-
ence represented In the so-called