Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-12-13
POLITICAL NOTES.


than some other folks, and perhaps the
Democrats want to run him in 1880.
pas~In counting the chances for Re-
publican success in 1880 it should be re-
membered that resumption, with its
accompaning'prosperity, will strengthen
the Republicans in every position they
hold, for to them will belong all the
credit.
Bayr There is perceptible Democra-
tic plan to keep the Southern claim
question out of Congress till after 1880,
in order to be able to say that the party
has no interest in the payment of them.
This will not be sufficient. The party
must vote to make such payment i'm
possible before the public uneasiness
will be quieted.
Rss~lt has been very pointedly re-
marked that there isn't room enough
in this country for two Democratic par
ties. The experiment was tried in 1860
and it failed. Notwithstanding the ex-
perienco of the past, Mr.. Samuel j.
Tilden and his friends have started an
other Democratic party in New York.
Perhaps Mr.. Tilden will be able to
build up new organization capable of
landing him in the White House in
1880, but we rather think not.-Bali-
more Gazette dem.
R5SnThe more the policy of uniting the
Democracy on the financial issue is
discussed, the more apparent is it that
it cannot be done. The two wings are
diametrically opposed to each other,
and the inflationists are determined to
push their adversaries to the wall. 1t
would not be surprising if in the near
future the intelligent friends of hon
est money in the Democratic ranks
would be found working with Repub-
licans just as the War Democrats did
during the Rebellion. Buffalo CONNER
cial Advertiser.
R4~Gen. Joseph f. johnson, of Vir-
ginia, says it passes his comprehension
how any intelligent man can believe
the reports of the Southern designs on
the National Treasury. Still a good
many intelligent men do believe them,
and find themselves unable to believe
otherwise, in view of the solid Southern
Congressional vote against all attempts
to head off such designs. The General
should endeavor to grasp the fact that
Democratic action speaks more persua-
| L.
| Tribune.
B4Bolting Republicans find poor
comfort this year. There was Andrew G..
Curtin, who was honored with the Gov
ernornorship of Pennsylvania by Re-
publicanvoters and afterward appointed
minister to Russia. He "souredn and
went over to the Democrats. He run
for Congress in one of the Pennsylvania
districts this year and was beaten by
269 votes. But the Democratic Gov
ernor carried the same district by 4,00C
majority. How applicable is the script
ural Injunction that "the way of the un-
principled office-seeker is hardm Let
us draw curtain on the scene. --HdtUk-
Eye.
BaSn There is no lack of confidence
among the Treasury officials of the
ability of the Government to proceed
with resumption on and after Jan. /,
without the slightest interruption or
difficulty. With 1916, 900, 900 of green
backs nominally outstanding, of which
about 800, 900, 900 are now in control
of the Government, and not liable to
be presented for redemption, besides
800, 900, 900 lost or destroyed, the avail
able coin supply of $4,000, 900 will
cover the entire liabilities with the ex.
ception of $86,000,000. This shortage
of coin is not likely to be ever felt,
since the $50, 900, 900 of greenbacks un.
provided for would remain in the hands
of the people and unpresented for re-
demption if only $2 of legal-tendel
paper currency were retained by each
inhabitant of the United States.-
Chicago Tribune.
R9S-More than one-half of the Repub
lican members of the present Congress
who voted to repeal the Resumption
law failed to secure reelection. They
overestimated the strength of the dis
honest soft-money craze and in playing
the demagogue to it fell victims of theil
own folly. One of them was Johr
Hanna, of the Indianapolis district
When the debate ON the repeal was il
progress, Hanna said to an Ohio maj
who was standing up bravely for hon
est money: "You are making grea
mistake. You don't understand public
sentiment. When you get home you'll l
find nearly all your people on the Other
side of the question. Now know wha
Pm about. | am going TO capture tn,
whole National vote in my district.
When the election came off Hanna haC
the modification to be beaten, not by
Democrat, but by National. The de
lusion he had helped to foster swampe(
him. Cleveland Herald.
BaF~ 1t must now be sufficiently clea
to them that, unaided, neglected a
they are, the colored men of the Soutl
are unable to support the party +
| which they still declare their allegiance
Wade Hampton has suggested in seVera
of his recent speeches that becoming
convinced of this, the men of this sec
ton of the country would be the frs
to demand that the negroes be disfran
chised and the cotton States be deprive,
of the increased representation which
r given them because of their colored pop
ulation. Gen. Hampton can hardly be re
. garded as an authority on the prOspeC
tive policy of the Republican party, an,
, we give his significant suggestion onl.
because it indicates the general anxiet,
: which exists in the Southern mind a
to what course the people of the Nortl
will take when they become fully aliv
) to the fact that the colored vote, unde
| the control of the White League,
) simply means to Democratic suprem
+ acy. That they will ever seriousl
) consider the propriety of disfranchisinI
any man because of his color is, o
, course, absurd. They gave the negro
vote, and they desire to protect him il
; it. OF this the Southern Democrat
a may be assured. There are indicdtion
9 that the Republicans of The cotton State
a haze gone through the last contest Ohic
4 thy aOiH be obliged TO go through unas
SiSted.-N Y. Times.
r B6- The Solid South is badly scared
= There is abundant evidence of thai
4 The size of the electoral vote on tn
=, side of the Solid North has started III
: pleasant emotions. Here, for example
e is loud wall from the chief organ of tn
r South Carolina bull-dozers, the Neu
d and Courier, of Charleston. 1t says tn