The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-08

cnt's account OF the houses that nothing
else can open, 1t might strike many more 10
advantage.
The blackguards. bruiscrs, and blackmail
crs seem 10 have their way in the Committee on
Organ cation Of the Grcenback party OF this
city. Their meeting OF Saturday nigh, was n
disgusting exhibition. Blasphcmy. profanity.
and every kind OF foul language rcsounded
through the hall They made threats
against each other. insulted each other
and one Of them made an assault upon
another. At previous meeting. one
Of them was arrested and taken to tho station
house. and half n dozen Of them ought to have
been arrested nj the meeting Of Saturday night.
These mon use the name Of the venerable PETER
COOPER. and he strangely allows them to use it.
though some Of them cheated him most ioully.
and stole his money when no wns u candidate
for President in 1876. They grow very en-
thusiastic ut n recent meeting when it
was announced that he would send
them some money. and they want him
to run for Mayor. in order that they may handle
his disbursements Our distinguished fellow
citizen must drive of these Jackals. who bring
discredit to his good name. They tnlk Of get
ting up n meeting to be addressed by Gen.
BUTLER and the Hon S. s. Cox; but we arc sure
countrnancc to the committee which rioted In
profanity on Saturday night. II there is n man
Of decency or self-respcct on the committee. he
ought at once to cut his connection with it,
JoHN SHERMAN says that the PorrER in
vestigaton ia n inrcc. INDEX NoYEs calls it a
tragcal farce. HAYES tells n Wilkcsharrc re-
porter that it is Il farrc " much cry and little
wool" With equal impudencc. JoHN SHlH.
MANS brother tho high-prccd General OF the
Army. describes an act Of Congress rs a picrc
Of idiocy. Thus tho prople are daily insutcd
in tho persons OF their constitutional repre-
scntativcs.
In his latest politico-thcological haranguc
the Rev. DE GoLYrR GARFIELD cxpounds and
eniorccs the doctrine that government Is not a
human invention. True" he says. I'VE havo
the right to determine the forms but after it Is
established it is divine and the voice Of The
magistrate is. for all lawful purposes the voice
Of Con" But suppose the magistrate Ia not.
properly speaking magistrate at all. but
merely n fraudulent intruder whose sham title
rests upon forgery and perjury; what is the
voice thenp
Tho people of gainesville, Ohio, gave DE
GoLYER GARFIELD the opportunity t. dcsccrntc
From the newspaper reports. W. gather that De
GoLYER is much concerned about the walls Of
Jerusalem. and the spread OF Communism
and atheism. The latter. he saws. is try
ing TO cxpc Cop from our government" But
DE GoLYEE has faith to believe that the attempt
will be unsuccessful and that the coming years
will Slope forward into grandeur" We do
not find anywhere in De GoLYFR GARFIELD IS
discourse n discussion II the probable future
fate Of ex-clcrgymen who tnkc $4,000 hrlbes
from patent pavement contractors. and encour-
age poor negroes to commit perjury.
Tho threat OF Prosecutor JENKINS, In the
HUNTER trial. that GRAHAM would certainly be
hanged, cannot be kept from the knowledge of
that witness. If, therefore, HUNTER should
succeed in Obtaining Il new trial, it might be
difficult to induce GRAHAM to 80 on the witness
stand again. knowing rs he would, that every
word uttered by him in regard to the murder
would be nail in tho gallows to be erected for
himself. Tho State ought to keep luith. even
with hired assassin.
AKUBo, the murdered prcnicr of Japan,
died poor his whole available funds amount
ing to only $40 AKUBo WAS n very different
kind of man from john SHERMAN.
Inc NJ. INul IiOHfff IFfHS DemOanS the
fate Of number Of army officers there. who
have boon turned out Of doors to live in tents -
in palmer words. compelled to abandon THEN
accommodations In st. Paul for quarters ai
Fort Smelling. There are many we-to-do poo
| pie in this country who would enjoy nothing
| better at this season Of the year than TO cam
out in tents with orderies and cooks To obey
| thoir every command and supply choice things
| for the table. But our military urstocracy hav.
become so accustomed 10 high life in large
! cities, that they regard m enforced return 10 q
soldiery routine as, in thewords of the ncwspa-
per quoted, cruel, oppressive and tyrnnnical.'
From California comes ncw5 interesting
10 thousands. Vast tracts Of fertile land in that
Stnte are held by capitalists who do not care tc
cultivate ii themselves, and have been unwilling
to sell to those who would. This condition Of
affairs has caused much discomfort and bitter.
ness, and to remedy 1t was one of the avowed
objects OF the kEARNEY party. Although that
party has not carried the State. its partial sue.
cess appears to have prompted one great land.
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