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National Republican., 1878-09-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

The badge Of the South Carolina Democracy
is red shirt.
II Is believed in California that Kearney
docs not intend to return TO that State.
The Kansas Republicans think greenbacks
are better than the national bank notes.
HENRY l.. PIERCE declares that he will not
run for the Massachusetts, Governorship.
WADE HAMPTON Is now regarded as def
nitely candidate for the United States SEN
ate.
THE Tramp party" is what the New York
Tribune nicknames the National Groenback-
Labor party.
one thing Is settled among the Connecticut
Democrats-that the old State ticket will be
In the field again.
THE Greenbackers of the 6rst district of
Mississippi have nominated General Reuben
Davis for Congress.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is expected to speak
Oh political topics at Springfield, ILL.,. on We'd
nesday, September 4.
CARVER and BoHardus are short OF pigeons.
Would not those $1,000 stool pigeons OF But
ler's in Massachusetts be Of some servCeP
THE Cincinnati Inquirer, with shocking
levity, stigmatizes Abe Hewitt's Congress La
Dor Committee Us "Hewtts Fool Fishery"
The Genva illinois, Republican discovers
in the ALTERNATIVE combination of Hayes and
Hampton tho ticket that honest men, will
back in 1880,
GENERAL MATT HEAD Is the most formida'
National Republican., 1878-09-02
denomination.

THE Sunday Herald wants to know where
the Bloody-shirt can come in in Texas, in
view of the fact that JOHN HANCOCK, n
steadfast Union man, has been nominated
for Congress. JONI HANCOCK, q native of
Alabama and citizen of Texas since lsii,
was one among the very, very few men in
the South who refused to bow the knee to
the Confederate Baal, but remained true to
his country and the flag. The nomination
of men like him is so rare an occurrence in
the South that Democratic papers call at
tenton to it Immediately. But the people
of the North should he reminded of the ex-
ccptional character of this case, and also of
the fact that in 1870 JONI HANCOCK,
Southern born, was cast aside and a rene
gade Pennsylvania named GIDDINGs, who
had served in the Confederate army, was
sent to Congress in his place.
National Republican., 1878-09-02
DEMOCRATIC PARsIMONY.

A hard, cold winter is coming on and still
the guillotinc is at work in the several De-
partments decapitatng official heads, thus
cutting of the resources of living, and open
ing upon hundreds the dreary prospect Of
winter Of idlencss, destitution and want, If
not of absolute suffering The dismissals at
this time in the year are attended with
severe hardships, and gif it were possible,
should be avoided, for the sake of humanity.
1t is terrible ailliction now to turn an in-
dustrious faithful and upright CLERK from
position who has family dependent upon
his daily earnings for the comforts and, per-
chance, the nccessarics of like, and who sees
before him, or her, as the case may be, no
better prospect for dreary winter than alb
solute privation. This is terrible aftlic-
ton, for which somebody is responsible.
Unless derelict in duty, it is not the fault Of
the clerk who gets a "ticket-Ot-leaye that
this prospect is opened.
AS we have remarked, there is q fearful
responsibility for such an act of cruelty, so
to speak, somewhere. The immediate act
is justified by the plea that, while there is
plenty of work in the Departments where
these dismissals occur, there are no funds
with which to reward the service. If this
plea is based in truth then there is not
much difficulty in establishing the RESPONSE
bility where it properly belongs, and that
responsibility becomes all the more glar ing
and grievous when we consider that the
Government is just entering upon the third
month of the fiscal year. Under such cir
cumstances, if the Department plea of no
funds will hold water, then Democratic
House which originates, shapes, and In agreat
measure controls all appropriations for Gov
ernment purposes, has been criminally OF
paIsimoniously negligent OF the public me-
cessities and cannot escape the response
bilty of the suffering that their mean.
ness inhicts upon the Government
and the people. The Departments
made their estimates for their need
for the present fiscal year. Those
estimates were submitted to Congress- and
referred to the Committee on Appropriations
for examination, adjustment, and provis
ion by law OF the amounts with which the
Government In its several Departments was
to be operated, The cheese-paring policy
of blind and bigotcd spirit of economy il
applied to appropriations until the Govern
mcnt is crippled In its functions and Its en-
pl6yees are prosecuted even to penury and
want, that the demagogue may be able tC
say TO the people in spirit of exultation
"See how economical we Democrats are
National Republican., 1878-09-02

present we forbear, to make some further
preparation, in the way of proofs, to sustain
what we may say, and 10 watch the devel-
opment Of future events in the canvass.
One word more, however, we desire to say
to the Republicans of the second district.
You have 1t in your power to defeat GooDE,
and you should do IL at oil hazards. He
cannot hold the full strength of his own
party, and cannot get Republican votes
enough to make good his losses, and hence,
with your acknowledged large majority, If
you will, you can defeat him.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE New York World is quite merry
over the fact that many Republicans in
localities where. the Democrats are
more or less in the majority have expressed
themselves for GRANT in 1850. The World
should remember that in making the NOM
ination for that year these friends Of Cen
eral GRANT will have as much strength as
the Iowa Democrats will in the next Deh,
ocratic convention. Added TO the Repubb,
cans of other sections where the party is m
undisputed majority, and where he is the
unequaled favorite, their strength will
finally amount to something serious in the
estimation of the World and the Democracy
gcnerally-for, If there is anything the
Democrats would dislike, IT would be his
denomination.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

see how we save the peoples money!
carefully concealing from the public mind
the dire fact that this policy embarrascs
and cripples the wheels Of Government and
spreads destitution, want and extreme suf-
fering among the people.
Ifproper appropriations had been made
for the Bureau of the Land Office in the In
terror Department, there would have been
no necessity for large dismissal on Satur-
day last, at the close Of the second month Of
the fiscal year for the want Of funds to pay,
when IL is admitted that there is plenty Of
work to afford employment. Under such
circumstances is there any doubt where the
responsibility of this consequent suffering
belongsr We think not It plainly lays
at the door of Democratic House, and,
what is more, relief from such disaster
will never come until the people rise up in
their might and purify the popular branch
Of Congress Of the humbugs quacks, thinkers,
and knaves, who, under the cloak of dema-
gogical Democracy, are prosecuting the
Government and starving the people through
~ '"'Sc huu hypocri'icai cy VI eeohVhy
for party advantage. 1t is time the people
became possessed of the real facts relating
to the causes of popular suffering, which are
laying waste the future hopes and prospects
of large class of the governed.
As the Democrats have applied their rigid
and parsimonious hand to appropriations,
they have been guilty of n crime scarcely
less in enormity than for them to have
robbed the Government of the amount Of
money they have withheld from 1t. absolute
necessities for administration purposes The
Government is crippled and embarrassed
and portion of the people are oppressed
even to great suffering by tie blind policy
Of the Democratic party, and the great re-
sponsibility, therefore, must be pressed to
its legitimate premises and held there with
strong hand. Democratic parsimony
starves the people. That is the effect.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

Bile Of the competitors Of Hon. Charles II. Bell
for the New Hampshire Republican nomina.
tion for Governor.
A NEWTON school ma'am told one Of her
pupils that he would never be President II ho
didn't study harder. Never expect to be
President, said the boy, doggedly, aim q
Democrat" "
Ha,per's Weekly credits Mr.. Evarts with the
remark that our Presidential races are very
apt TO be choice between one horse lame In
two legs and another lame in three. How's
that, Mr.. Hayesp
DILL, Democratic candidate Governor Of
Pennsylvania, was In Democratic conver-
tion In 1861 that resolved that the South could
not and should not be constrained to keep In
the Union by force of arms.
THE Portsmouth Chronicle predicts that the
New Hampshire Democrats will nominate
Congressman Frank Jones for Governor, aud
that, In spite Of his wealth, he will be defeated
by the Republican candidate.
Arkansas papers print advertisements an
nouncing that II. NJ Rector Robert W. John
son, and Elisha Baxter will be candidates for
United States Senator before tho Legislature
to be chosen at the next election.
GENERAL JoHNsroN's speech of acceptance
was very graceful one but IL he expects to
run over the course without defining his posi-.
tion on the leading questions Of the day, he
will still have rough road to travel before the
canvass Is ended.-Ietersdurg Post.
A gUMoR is circulating in Baltimore that
Congressman Swami finds State Senator Nc
Lane growing in popularity with the leading
Democratic politicians Of the fourth district
of Maryland, and that he will, consequen tly,
abandon the struggle for denomination.
GENERAL GARFIELD will speak at Bidde.
ford, Me-, tomorrow, and. will remain In the
state for about ton days There Is a report
that he will deliver one speech In Fanuei Hall
on his way back TO Ohio. Good results arc
certain to follow him wherever he Is heard.
THE Nationals of Luzerne County, Pa, are
troubling Hendrick b. Wright, who wants the
support Of both Democrats and Nationals for
Congress, with some knotty conundrums. One
of them Is whether he will vote for Dill or
Mason. The old man finds It difficult to play
the dcmagogue under such circumstances.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

Hon. JOE BLACKBURN, who runs the
Democratic machine at the Capitol, in
rooms belonging TO the citizens Of the
United States, without payment Of rent,
made n speech at the convention in the
eighth Virginia district on Thursday, and
claimed the attention and sympathy of his
hearers by the announcement that he went
to the aid Of Virginia in her hour of peril.
That is, he helped Virginia in her struggle
to dismember the Union and strike down
the Stars and Stripes. Union men, as q
rule, regarded those who made war on the
Nearly all the ex-rebcls excuse their con-
duct on the plea of States Rights and
State authority. Even SINGLETON, Of Mis-
sissipp, who is the most pronounced repre-
sentative of the unconstructed element that
has again taken an oath to support the
Constitution, finds no higher warrant for
his rebellion than "the command of his
State" to which he says his highest allie
glance is due. JOE BLACKBURN cannot in
terpose "t the command of my State " as n
shield for his rebellion. lie was Ken
tuckian, and Kentucky never seeded.
Hence, when he drew his sword he drew II
against his own State, as well as against
the United States. If fighting under the
Stars and Bars " was treason he was q
traitor to his own State, as well as to the
Union. Aud this is the man selected by
Democratic leaders North and South to in-
vite interviews and issue manifestoes mis-.
representing the Republican party, and as
| summing TO teach Americans their duty.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

Mr.. HENRI WATTERsoN has been truly
conciliated "in regeyard' of champagne
corks He has discovered that there is
nothing sectional in their detonating sound
as they escape from the bottle " in Ohio, in
Kentucky, in Pennsylvania, and in West
" Virginia" Mr.. WATTERsoS ought to
know; he has been great traveller, and has
carried his Kentucky habits with him
abroad and at home But some irrever-
ent disciple of the Bloody-shirt will GER
tainly embrace the opportunity of this de-
clarS,tion to remark that the final use Of
such corks in the North is more peaceful
than in the South. Burnt cork perform
ances in the former section are confined to
negro minstrelsy and that delectable game
of cards euphoniously known as smut"
The people thereof don't blacken their faces
" Just for a little Ku-Klux frolic, and to
scare few niggcrs, you know"
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE Democratic Campaign Committee
not only steals its rent for offices by occupy.
ing five rooms in the Capitol building but
robs the people By using Government en-
velopes, paste, brushes, &c. Hundreds of
thousands of envelopes have been used by
1t printed with the necessary frauking
blank at the Government Printing Office,
and drawn therefrom on requisition Of the
Democratic Clerk of the House.
National Republican., 1878-09-02
ELACKBuRN AND SKIM MILK.

If Mr.. BLACKBURN does not-he ought
to do so-as several other distinguished
gentlemen have done, 10 save their own
reputation for truth-promptly and ex-
plicitly deny that he has been interviewed
ON the subject of Democratic economy"
or the "WISDoM interview" or any other
subject as represented by the Democratic
organ. The tumble of statements and ig-
urcs put into his mouth in the form Of an
facts, would justify Trd Iunatico to lock
him up for treatment An intelligent re-
view of the pack of absurdities that are
imputed to him, and of which he probably
knew nothing until, perchance, he saw
them paraded in his organ, will no doubt
lead Mr.. BLACKBURN to disavow the mat
ter entirely. If he has any regard for his
own reputation for truthfulness, or even
fairness, he will not stand responsible for
any such admixture Of sophistry, misrepre-
sentation OF facts, and brazen efl'rontery n S
is imputed to him in his putative effort to
demolish the truthful and well-founded
statements published by authority of Sen
ator WINDOW.
II, however, Mr. BLACKBURN assumes the
responsibility of the statements made in his
name regarding Democratic economy, he so
far becomes responsible for the crippled con-
dition of the country under Democratic
parsimony-not economy-and the suffering
that policy entailed upon the people, who
are thereby thrown ont of employment and
the means OF subsistence. The distinguished
Kentuckian in this contest fights with too
short gun TO reach Senator WISDoM or his
array of stern facts. lie might as well at
tempt to reduce the Rock of Gibraltar with
a pop-gun. 1t is labor lost to fight behind
a tissue Of lies such as has been erected for
his entertainments by his organ, in the hope
of accomplishing anything or creating any
advantageous impression upon the public
mind with such inaccuracies and absurdi-
ties. 1t is no 90.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

greatly discouraged. The act was unwise,
unjust, and cruel TO the Republican party,
and the policy that led to it was indefensi-
BILE. But so II is; and we are gratiiicd to
know that the Republicans in Georgia-the
Stalwart men-who could not be trans
ferred, like chattels, over to the Democracy,
regard themselves rs still living and deter
mined to live, until the State is redeemed,
as II will be, in 1880, II not before.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

Mr.. IIEwITT's General Salvation Commit
tee has done some good in substituting
practical students of our social life for the
cloud of Luuatics who had previously ab-
sorbod It's attention. When Mr.. II. started
out lie found himself in hot water" but be-
ing man of resources, he permitted the
frigid CiIARLEs FRANCIS ADAMS to appear
before him for n few brief remarks. This
had thC.cilect TO restore the equilibrium of
things, and since then the committee has
been able to 20 OH with its labors without
difficulty.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE Eastern Democrats claim that they
gave the "Ohio Idee" fair chance in 1868.
WASH MCLEAN and GEORGE II. PENpLE-
Coz did make an attempt to impress the
ldee but they were not then backed up by
ALLESGEE and his red bandana. The
Eastern hard-moneyites of the Democracy
may as well make UP their minds now rs
later that the Idee is to be paramount in the
eounsels of their party in 1880
National Republican., 1878-09-02

KEARNEY started from san Francisco on
his present Eastern tour with $4,000 in his
pocket, raised by subscription among his
deluded followers to pay the expenses of his
evangalizing pilgrimage to the shrine of the
Widow of Essex. He cannot have spent
this sum in n proper manner since then, but
he has nevertheless begged aims like any
other tramp since his late departure from
Boston, and his begging has not been in
vain. Possibly he finds this demagogue-
agitation business to be more profitable than
that Of boss dr,yman.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE Chicago 7ribm" think, that Senator
CoNKLING should shriyel himself up and
get himself out Of the way, for the sake of
Republican harmony. In the first place,
our Chicago cotemporary is not bright
examplar Of political good faith and con-
BiStency, hence its suggestions are not of
the highest type. And, in the second place,
a man like Senator CoEELING, with tran
sccndnnt abilities cannot smivel himself
up. Public estimation shrivcls men, and
that Is the very reason why Senator CoNK-
LING cannot perform the required service.
The people are agn it.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

mongrel crew Of soft-moncy heretics, Of
which WASH MCLEAN is the boss. WASH
pricks the slow team before him with the
sharp goad of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
the dual beast plods along wearily with a
hope of glimpse of the White House in
1880.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

Is order to help Mr.. b. B, LEWIS in his
race for Congress in Alabama, Democratic
" was through his efforts that the BELKNAP
iniamy was unearthed' This is news IN
deed. What had LEWIS to do with ii ? lie
was not on the Committee on War Depart
ment Expenditures, The laurels of that un-
earthing, if any there be, must rest on the
brows of the lachrymosc CLYMER, Xxx Rob
BINS, and JOE BLACKBURX. Lord knows
that this trio have not so many garlands
that they can dispense with the one woven
In the BELKNAP case.
National Republican., 1878-09-02
Let's See Who is Who.
WAsHISGToS, d. c., Aug. 81, l

WAsHlNGTON, D. G.. Aug, IT, ls1s.
To the Editor Of The National ReDUblicda:
SIR: have read with care the letter by III" In
to.day's issue headed Political Contributions"
every word of which is true, and only regret we
have some 'pulbacks' in the different Depart
ments anxious to take the benefit of any sub
terfige rather than plnntk n dollar TO help the
cessfnlly carried them over the branch. | now
suggest that the Congressional committee publish
a list of donors and the amount. Let's see who Is
who before 1850. W.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

EVERY Democratic newspaper in the
country printed the statement that General
BUTLER had the original of the mythical
BHERsIAN-ASDERsoS letter in his posses
sion. Not one-third OF them have had the
decency to print BrTLER's denial of the
statement. This is fair illustration Of
Democratic justice in the treatment of q po-
litical opponent
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE hard-money THURMAN of few
years ago, and the rag-money THURMAN of
to-day, are as ill-mated as pair Of oxen
who hang or crowd away from each other in
their yoke but continue to drag their cart
load along behind them. The THURMAN
oH.cOrt is just now heavily laden with
National Republican., 1878-09-02

GENERAL SHERMAN is very near the Rio
Grande now, whittier The NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN sent him as long ago as August
-, ultimo, to take charge of its war with
Mexico. VIII the New York Tribune and
Chicago Inter Ocean make silent note of
this fact? They took the trouble last
month to deny that he was going to that
belligerent neighborhood.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE Democratic reverence for the opin-
ions of the Democratic portion of our Su-
preme Bench is waning. Every Democratic
justice in that court has pronounced the
greenback issue unconstitutional.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

the New York Express is dipping its
spoon into the Republican plate of soup
with little ceremony by jcering at Senator
CoSKLING's manly attitude relating to u
State convention, and saying: But CURTIS,
-CowDIN & Co are too old doves to be
"caught with that sort of chaif" Speaking
Of doves, "COwDIS X Co" may be all right,
but the CrRTIss dove is badly soiled polit-
ically, and is being stunned in its fallen
state
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE few people in the country who are
bothering themselves. about the legal-tender
question, after resumption shall have been
accomplished, will do well to remember
that the Democratic House is responsible
for having robbed the trade dollar of its
lepal-tender qualification.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

IT is to be feared that the austere "VASn
of the Springfield Republican, since he has
become attached to the Chinese Embassy,
has assumed some responsibility not laid
down in the strict line of his duties as an
interpreter. He has put into the mouths of
our Oriental visitors the word bull-doze. He
says they don't propose to bull-doze public
" sentiment" in this country, When ID. W
"B." translates that phrase back into Chi
nese they will probably understand that he
ha- conveyed an idea that they are not
somnolently inclined after the manner of a
Southern American masculine bovine. He
may relieve himself however, by the apt
illustration of the cavorting of bull in a
china-shop. The intricate and delicate u
ties of his new diplomatic position must, in
view of these facts, be appalling Nothing
less than obligatory punctuality on salary
day can possibly compensate him for it.
National Republican., 1878-09-02
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER /, 1873,

Persons leaving the city during the sum
mcr months can have THE NATIONAL RE
PUBLICAN mailed to their address by or
dering 1t ut the counting-room Of this Of
fee, either In person or by letter. Terms
my cents per month, including postage.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE Georgia RcpuJiicdH refers to the de-
laration often made by the Democrats that
there is no Republican party in Georgia,
and says cmphatically
The Republican party of Georgia is not
dead, and the deserters from its ranks cannot
kill it. They will only succeed IN killing
themselves. Since the days of JUDAS traitors
have in all ages been exocrated. BENEDICT
ARNOLD deserted from the ranks of the
American patriots when their cause was ap.
parently hopeless but from that day to this
he has been detested by Englishmen as we'll
as by Americans The Republican party in
Georgia is not strong, but there are enough
true men left to continue the struggle, aud the
time will come when our glorious cause will
triumph. Then the traitors who sought to
stab US to death when they thought our cause
hopeless will be detestod by Democrats az well
as Republicans.
When the marshalship Of the State OF
Georgia was given to the Democracy under
the demand of STEVENS, GORDON, and HILL,
the Republican cause in that State was
badly given away, and its friends were
National Republican., 1878-09-02
How to Show 1t.

Cincinnati Times.l
George William Curtis, candidate for Senator, Is
showing his admiration for Civil-serviCe reform by
attacking Roscoe COnkling candidate for Senator.
National Republican., 1878-09-02

THE Democratic organ charges us with
eating peck or two of dirt in the way of
"penance" on account of the BUTLER bond
cmeUte. BE that as it may, when we find
that we have been betrayed into fault
which is not yet Npparent--we shall make
haste TO do justice to any party we have
wronged, and then we will not do IT under
the glise Of evasion or prevarication, such
as was resorted to by our neighbor when We
drove him into corner on the Old Govern
ment Printer question. We shrink from no
justiresponsibility we sneak out OF no en-
counter; but we will make haste to repair
any wrong on our part, or to explain any
appearance of wrong that lays at our door
we would even go so low as to apologize to
General BUTLER if we had wrouged him
and if that is eating dirt" we prefer it to
persistence in wrongdoing, or resorting to
evasion or prevarication to escape the just
responsibility of our acts