Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-11
rsLarncAL PARAGRAPHS.


RoLHrxCAL PARAGnAPHs.
The Cleveland Herald says: One
xoooon for the gloom which over
oproads the country is the fact that
Hon. Benjamin r. Butler has
evory prospect of living to ripe
~ age.
AdAlrs down South are becom-
Ing stupidity dull, remarks the New
York Herald. Here are Virginia
end South Carolina in the whirl Of
: political campaign, with neither
An outrage nor q call for troops.
The Chicago Times says: Grant,
ttuo to his tactics when dead men
Are concerned, disparages Lee as q
General, but he writes personal
letters to Mosby, the guerrilla.
And Mosby, the guerrilla, has no
doubt of his nomination by accla.
nation.
John Russell Young writes the
Grant letters, the Terra Haute
Ezpress alleges. They are submit
~ to Grant for his approval be-
fbEe they are sent to this country.
Grant assumes the responsibility OF
I'll the brilliant things In them.
Danks Is said TO be buried for re-
lenlnation to Congress in his dis
o1iok This man of voice and pre-
4 41conlon, the Atlanta Constitution
9inks, ought to have been buried
IAN ago. No greater humbug
a44an n. p Banks ever attained
Aigh public position, Schuyler Col
lhx alone excepted.
The Chicago Times says: An un-
Important of1iceholders' sheet in
this city, the proper initials Of
whose name are I. o. u, alleges
that the Times Is hostile to per-
s0nal cleanliness. To the author
Of that impudent allegation the
Times has only to make the per-
senal remark: "You lie, you dirty
dog, and you know it,"
The Omaha Herald says: There
u beginning to be loud talk
against Grant from the old Liber.
als. With Grant and Tilden in
the field in New York, it would be
: hard tussle, in which Tilden
would lose many Democrats, and
Grant would lose many Liberals.
But Tilden would beat Grant in
New York with the same certainty
that he beat Hayes.
The Baltimore Gazette says: We
are beginning to fear that the Chi
cago Tines story about the Illinois
tonsorial professor, who blew off
his head with a pistol at the close
81 lecture, was only a parable
designed to illustrate Stanley Mat
thews's disappearance from poll
tics. You will remember that the
victim was said to be an Ohio man
The sweet simple faith of the
Springfield Republican in the puis
sAnt virtue OF the administra tion,
the Cleveland Herald thinks, is re.
freshing during these mid-su mmeI
days. Having witnessed within a
I. few days past the farcical upturn.
tnes In the New York Custom
House, the removal Of Postmaster
Parker and the appointment OF
Kellog as Surveyor General of the
Louisiana patronage, the Republi.
can still opiIes that Mr.. Hayes
will continue his work in favor OF
civil ksrvice reform.
Tho Louisville Jonrnal
paragraphs thus: Let Banks answer
KeArney. Gen. Grant seems to
prefer the society of young men.
with every mail from Europe
now, the American people look for
some new expression from John
Russell Grant. pant
legs and coat.sleeves are too short,
and bis vest doesn't connect with
his waistband. Otherwise he looks
Innocent enough. question
now is, "Who made Mr.. Kearney,
Of California;" As he has relieved
the newspapers of this awful re-
sponsibility, the search for the real
offsnder should be prosecuted with
rsdonbled zeal.
Che Philadelphia North Ameri-
h says: There has been no popu-
demonstration In favor of Gen.
eral Grant as candidate. 1t lis
not the people who are talking
now. It Is, in good part, only the
Influence which Cesarism, a few
years ago, and which always af-
feet. to interpret the will of the
people. But single thing has
happened. Managing men are dis
cussIng The movement" and some
who two years ago were rather
hostile than otherwise, are giving
Z l.
warrants. General Grant could
scarcely mako greater mistake
than to even take the matter into
oonsideration. He can never re-
Tire with greater prestige than he
enjoys to-day. Should he ever be
~ wsnted at the helm, the people
will place him there without so
much as asking his consent, and