Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-07-18
Political Notes.

Of witnesses. but out OF spirits, and is
much cast down generally.
The Greenbackers of Virginia
threaten to sweep the sand from I'M
der the feet of the Democrats OF the
"Old Dominion"
Jefferson Davis and Joseph E.
Johnston, are coming to the front as
probable Democratic candidates for
the Presidency in 1880.
The Wisconsin State Journal says:
"The Greenbackers seem to be will
ling to furnish all the cardinates that
the Democrats need to fill every Of
fee"
General Sherman wishes it to be
understood that he did not call Ban
ming fool. He merely supplied the
necessary data to enable the public to
apply the epithet.-Ne,o York Trib-
1tfle.
How would Ben. Butler and Sam.
Cary do as pair to run for the pres
idency and ce-presidency, or
platform that money worth nothing
makes a country Cincinnati
Commercial.
Hendricks and Randall would make
a popular straddle-bug ticket for
1880. Randall straddles the tariff is
sue with the grace and compass OF
the Colossus of Rhodes, and Hen
bricks straddles the currency, and
everything else, as II his legs be-
longed to forty-ton dsrrick.-Chic-
ago Tribune.
By the way, did anyone ever OBJ
serve that the most ardent of the
"workingmen" never do any work,
except with their jaws? The men
who do most Of the talking about the
hardships and oppression Of the Ia
borer don't seem to ever hurt them
selves by over-exertion. 1t is singu-
lar, but 1t is true.-Clay County En-
terprise.
A correspondent informs the Sun
that while he would prefer Repub-
lican for President to Judge Thur
man, he would 60 his whole length for
General Joseph E. Johnston, of Vir-
ginia. This must have been the boy
who told his mother that he thought he
could worry through the winter with
out boots, but that he must have q
breastpin. Washing tom Post.
Dan. Voorhees,, who is trying to adyer.
tise himself as a greenback man, op-
posed the original greenback bill at
every stage, and voted against ii
on its final passage. For him to sci
himself up now as greeDback man
is about as cheeky" as II he should
claim to have been loyal during the
war-Indianap0lis Journal.
Secretary Sherman has put the
Potter committee very much in the
position OF that celebrated soldier
who reported to his comrades that he
had captured a Tartar. "Bring hin
alang." But he won't come
"Leave him behind then" "But he
won't let me-" Philadelphia Bulletin
We have some good men in con.
gress already, and what is the first
thing to be done is to gain more, un.
til there be secured an adequate rep
resentation in congress OF the people
OF this nation, and not OF its filth aud
off scourings-of wise men and no
of its Office seekers.-Congrcgation
dlist,
South Carolina Democratic country
clubs, acting doubtless, on sugges
tons from higher management, hav,
resolved that they will permit nj
strangers" to come into their mids
during the coming campaign for tn,
purpose Of misleading the negroes
This is gentle intimation that free
speech and Republican orators from
other States are to be strangled to
gether.-The Nesc Republic.
The different home missionary 30.
cieties OF the United States shoult
concentrate their forces upon Louis
lana. For solid lying to the squar'
inch Louisiana can beat the devil sc
bad as to make him ashamed. HI
may be "the Father of LIARS" but /
so, he has got some mighty smar
children i'm Louisiana.-Ester- Ocean