Smyrna times., 1878-08-14

history reveals the fact that he declined
being in the Presidential chair for three
terms. Gen. Grant is great man, but is
he q bigger man than Washington?
CONGRESSMAN BLACKBURN, in an inter
view, expresses the opinion that Mr.. Thur
man will be elected President in 1880. He
says the Democrats will carry twenty-three
States, and obtain control of both Houses
of Congress.
Mr.. POTTER has informed friend that
at the next meeting of the committee the
MacVeagh commission will be invited to
unbosom themselves. Those who recall
the cVeagh-Butler letters will expect
some fine reading when those sweet-tongued
gentlemen meet. MacVeagh got the better
of Butler before.
IT is clear that Mr.. Tilden has strengthen
ed himself with his own party by his Marble
manifesto. The Democratic journals are
pretty unanimous in saying that he has
answered conclusively the weak-back
charge. AS for the Oregon business, that
never did trouble them bit. Their only
fault with it was its failure.
THE farmers of South Carolina, according
to the Ne,os and Courier, are well off, and
will be better this winter than ever, be-
cause they have been working within their
means, have spent less money than in pre-.
vious years, and have bought what provi-
sions they consumed at exceedingly low
prices where they paid cash.
"THE man lesser than Macbeth yet great
or; that fiery and Incompatible Rupert of
debate, that chivalrous and white-plumed
Navarro of the rostrum, gallant, gianted,
glorious Butler" is the way Mr.. Kearney
talks of him. Now they say Mr.. Kearney's
brilliant eulogy of Butler, is identical with
that passed upon Blaine by Tom Fitch, the
" silver-tongued orator of Nevada.
GEN. BENJAMIN HARRISON opened the Re-
publican campaign in Indiana on Friday.
He said that the fear that all manner of
Southern claims would be paid if the De-
mocrats obtain both Houses of Congress is
real one, and not a campaign alarm.
General Butler, in speech in Maine, said
that the Electoral Commission was created
because of the fears of business men, and
that Governor Tilden had been cheated
by it.
GEN. EwING's speech in Ohio takes him
half out of the Democratic party and half
into the National party. He is Democrat
in Ohio; in New York he would be a
National. This is certainly fair construc-
ton of his remark that he has not a word
to say against the Greenback movement
I" in those States where the Democratic or
ganization is in the fist of the money
power" But it is evident that he does not
propose to go any further, at present.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has been talking
sense about the paternal plan of bringing
better times. He reminds the people who
want the Government to spend millions of
dollars on forts and public buildings and
river and harbor improvements, that such
temporary relief to Zone man in five hun.
dred" who needs work. But the average
politician is so afraid of the FIVE hundred
men, nowadays, that the courage to make
such remark is worth noticing.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THOMPSON is
proving what careful, business-like ad.
ministration will do for department. He
has already made almost sure that he will
not be obliged to call upon Congress this
Winter for deficiency bill. There seems
to have been no little circumlocution in the
methods Of the department by which al
every turn the Government lost money
Mr. Thompson has succeeded in changing
much of this. and what he has accomplish.
ed merely shows how much can be done by
a public officer who devotes himself to his
Office.
A LETTER from Georgia to the New York
Bulletin presents the crop situation there in
very satisfactory light. Cotton, grain and
about every other product of the soil have
yielded abundantly, for that matter almost
beyond precedent, and if there be no draw
backs from drought during the remainder
of the month, the writer is confident that
the Empire State of the South will be back
to the same prosperous plane which it occu
pied prior to the civil war. This is indeed
most gratifying assurance. Not the leas
gratifying feature Of the situation, it ma.
be added, is the steady industry and con
tentment of the freedmen.
GEN. BUTLER made a speech before
Greenback meeting in Biddeford, Me-, las
Friday night. He said he had left the oil
parties. He had belonged to the Demo
cratic party until it attempted to destro
the Union, and was with the Republical
party until it deserted its founders, tn
la6oring men. Capitalists, he said, no,
hold the Republican party bound hand AM
foot. Hayes has violated every pledge an
betrayed the negroof the South. Theefor
of Grants administration to strengthen tn
public credit was swindle. He reviewe
the history Of greenback currency, an
claimed that it should be made a legs
tender for oil debts, public and private.