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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-11
THE sUPERsTRUCruaE,

" Having provided for place or places over
and on which to swing the bridge, it was next
in order to make arrangements for the super
structure, or bridge proper. To this end pro-
posals were asked, and on December 9Th, 1878,
were given the contract, or virtually So though
it was confirmed later, at the figures $44, 1916,
The superstructure. truss, cords,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
CowARDLY PUBLIC LEADERS.

The statistics show that the average citi-
zen Of this country who lives upon or within
his income earns and expends less than $500
year. The number of millionaires whose
incomes amount to thousands upon thou
sands of dollars per annum, the business
men, and the cOupon-clippers, who revel in
extravaganza or comfort, and those who en-
joy simple competency are IAmerous, it
is true, and growing more 50 every day as
the country progresses in wealth and its
almost inexhaustible resources are more
fully developed; but they are outnumbercd
a hundred to one by those who live from
hand to mouth, % whose wages do not ag-
gregate 81 day the year around. 1t is the
influence or jealous envy and, perhaps the
ignorance, Of this poorer class in our citi-
zenship that is just now Operat-
ing as the only clog to our fur
ther national advancement to the
more rapid development of the grand and
These may be plain words, and they are
unsavory but they are nevertheless true.
Being true they are worthy of calm analy-
sis and cold, cruel dissection.
The demagogucs in politics, who profit by
q knowledge of these facts and successfully
seek power by prating on the poor mans
wrongs and suflerings or the rich mans
! luxuries and wickedness, have more TO do
with crystalizing this jealous envy and ig-
norance Of which we speak into organized
opposition against the natural spirit OF
progress in the country than any other
agency; but there exists outside of them a
sturdy and patriotic determination among
many well-meaniug, though narrow-minded
and inexperienced people, to circum-
scribe every tendency to the en-
courogement of that spirit, They
believe in the old-lashioned policy
of letting well enough alone, and cautiously
interpose the emphatic veto of then ballots
against the expansion of our internal and
| foreign commerce or the natural evolution
of new channels of trade, So true is this,
! that the simple suggestion Of a subsidy, OF
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

One day of the TELLER Committee in
New Orleans reveals the fact that the reign
of terror in the South during the last cleo
tion has been so terrible and subversive of
the right of citizenship that the principles
upon which free and popular Government
is based are no longer respected in the late
Confederate States. True, only few facts
have been developed thus far in this investi-
CATION ofDemocratic atrocities; but these af-
ford an unmistakable symptom of the disease
that afllcts the "Solid South" from one ex-
tremity to the other. The first day, it will be
noticed, was devoted to the parishes of Match
itoches and Tensas, in Louisiana. There
terrorism and outrage were typical of the
whole South, though in Natchitochcs it was
comparatively mild. The witnesses thus
far be it remembered, are chiefly white
men, and what is more, ma
jority of them were Confeder-
ates during the war-pot carpet
baggers, but native born Louisianians. Now
let us see what has been proven in single
day. In Natchtoches it appears that Re-
publicans who presumed to assert the rights
of citizenship in peaceable meetings were
confronted with armed banditti, and driven
away from their homes under threats OF
death, and menaced with pursuit by blood
hounds unless they left the State entirely.
1t is made to appear that there is no law
lessncss among the negroes, and yet they
are murdered like sheep. Speeches calling
upon the colored citizen to come out from
the Democratic party are denounced as in
cendiary, and those who dare to make them
are pursued with a vengeful spirit No
prosecutions for fraudulent voting are mad c
for the reason that the whole State judi
ciary are involved in these frauds, and
hence no prosecutions are practicable. So
much for Natchitoches thus far. Tensas
Parish is the next in order, and we wait its
developments. The fact will be made ap-
parent that there was no free, fair, and hon
est election in Louisiana, and that the
rights of citizenship under Democratic rule
are not worth rush to Republican under
this reign of terror
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
WHY CORK sNuBBEp GRANT.

To the Editor Ofhe National RepRJiicdR:
SIR: As you seem to be labOring under
misapprehcnsion / will take the liberty of
making known fact in regard to the munich
pal authorities of Cork, and while do not jus
tify them in their apparent resentment, the
public might look upon it with some degree of
eXtenuaton. When our Centennial COM
menced, the people of Cork, full of love, good
feeling, generous, impusive, and liberty loving,
met and sent us an address of cOngratulaton,
&c, and when it was presented by q committee
appointed for that purpose, the President in
formed the committee that ii could only be re-
ceivod through the British Minister. How it
was subsequently received the proceedings of
Congress will show. This rejection of their adj
dress by the President is the real cause of their
recent action, and not the patriotic speech to
which you have recently twice referred. Re
spcctfuly, BENWOOD.
We give the above for the reason that the
writer, for whom we have n high respect
requests its publication, and not because
the proof is irrefrugable, that the reason as
signed therein for the action of the Cork
authorities is the true reason for that un-
preccdcntcd attempt to snub the ex-presi-
dent. The Catholic Hc,uM gives another,
and the generally accepted reason, for the
attempted aifrOnt, rs follows:
1t was reserved for the manly and truly
! Catholic corporation of Cork to administer n
fitting rebuke to the brutal and bigoted soldier
who in October 1915, took advantage of his
exalted position as President of the United
States to revive the beastly cry of "No
| POperyw We have been informed by cable
| that at a meeting of the town council of Cork,
on Friday, January 3, after several bitter
speeches by Catholic members, motion that
the letter of the United States Consul at
| Queenstown announcing General GRANTS
coming be simply marked Read" was car
ricd without dissenting vote. previous
motion TO give General GRANT n proper re-.
ception was ignored.
In order that our readers may appreciate
tho justice of the contempt with which the
people of Cork have treated GRANT it will be
necessary to say n few words of the character
of the man and his we'll l-kuown anti. Catholic
proclivtics.
General ULYSSES GRANT is a man notoriously
unincumherod by any religious belief Mt all.
lie is, besides this, a very rcticent man--one as
little given to speaking right out, rs a rule, as
the Emperor NAPOLEON III. For once, how
ever, this usually silent ruler spoke out, very
plainly, indeed, on Friday, October /, 1873.
The occasion was his delivery of an address at
Des Momes, in Iowa, to the reunion of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee. After
alluding to the late civil war in America-a
war he himself was chiefly instrumental in
bringing to a close by the simple device OF
pounding the South into submission by pour
ing in overwhelming forces upon troops that
were outnumbercd rather than Outmannuvrcd
-Gemeral GRANT startled his hearers by the
uttcranco of words, reading gomnously enough,
like the declaration of another war-a war far
more momcntous in character &c, &C.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
MILIrIRY CENrRILIzIrIoN.
The New Army Iiill-Abolishing the Secrc-
tary of War Curtailing the Presidents
Constitutional Powers.

The New Army IIill-Abolishing the Secrc-
tary of War Cnrtailing the Presidents
Constitutional Powers
Washington Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gu
2ette1
The new army bill contains some excellent
provisions. 1t would be strange If royal
octava volume of over 300 pages did not. As
already shown in this correspondence, item
braces n gigantic job, in the section depriving
tho Government Of the right to make arms,
which will work vast injury TO the best inter-
osts of the service, without any compensation
whatever.
The sections which reduce the Office of Sec
retary of War to a mere cpher-in fact, to II
grade below the kind of clerk General Sherman
on II memorable occasion declared Mr.. Stanton
to be--will probably attract as much attention
before the discussion of the bill is ended rs
any other features Of it. The object attained
by the bill in this matter--if not the object
sought by its the virtual overthrow of the
civil control of the military establishment, as
exercised by the President as Commander-ip-
Chief, through his constitutional Adjutant-
General, the Secretary of War.
This portion of the bill was prepared for the
commission. 1t is very adroit piece Of legal
workmanship. The first paragraph in rea-
llOl W lHt hpppalo " oulllt
the long pending question at issue between
the General OF the Army aud the office of the
Secretary of War, in favor Of the latter. But,
in various succeeding sections, his powers are
gradually shorn away until tho grade of clerk
! to which Sherman consigned Mr.. Stanton,
would be in the line of promotion for Secreta-
ry McCrary.
| 1t is surprising that commission Of Con-
gressmOn could he found that would delber-
| atly lift the military arm of the country above
the civil power, and yet this commission has
done it, so far as any law eau do it. In fact
in the opinion of excellent lawyers, they have
gone quite beyond constitutional enactments
| In their propositions. This bill, instead ol
creating tho army of republic thoroughly
subseryient TO tho civil power sets up an or.
ganization which centralizes military power
to an extent never contemplated by the Com
sttution, and expressly denied by repeated
rulings of the Supreme Court. The explana.
ton Of such propositions emanatng from q
commission of Representatives answerable Ia
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

MUNCHAUsEN is dead! Long live the
Washington Post!i But it seems that the
successor NJ the King of Prevaricalors finds
its shouldeNS too broad and capable to wear
his compara4 4vely puny mantle. Referring
to the so-call& scandal regarding the First
National BankSof New York, which had its
inception in liN, and which now only ex-
lists by the support of liars, this more-thon-
MuNcHAUsEN remarked yesterday that
President THOMPSON of that bank was so
much alarmed, as well as disgusted,' n
year ago, that he withdrew from the bank
altogether, selling his stock at a large ad-
vance" Unfortunate THOMPSON, that his
disgust should carry him away and permit
him, blindly and stupidity, to sell his stock
"at q large advance" But the truth is, Mr..
THOMPSON simply severed his connection
with one bank TO take a similar position in
another. lie is now president of the Chase
National Bank of New York, with which he
is probably willing to get disgusted also,
provided he can sell his stock at large
advance Wonder if the owner of the
Post wouldn't like to get up similar dis
gust regarding that unsavory institution
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

real reason, however was that the inquiry
would be an awkward thing, and would
" establish on awkward precedent" This is
a sad, sad admission, coming as IL does from
a leader Of the majority partyin the House
but it is characteristic of party that does
not hesitate to condonc murder and whole
sale assassination as necessary and excus-
able political agencies.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

SENATOR EDMUNDs resolution declaring
that, in the judgment of the Senate, the
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amend
ments TO the Constitution of the United
states have been legally ratified, and are as
valid as other parts of the Constitution 4;
that it is the right and duty of Congress to
enforce such amendments by appropriate
legislation, and the duty of the executive
department of the Government faithfully
and with diligence to impartially execute
such laws that it is the duty of Congress
to appropriate money to that end, and in
structing the Judiciary Committee to re-
port bill for the protection Of the rights
of citizens and the punishment of infrac-
tions thereof, strikes directly at the founda-
tion of all our national political difficulties
or troubles. 1t is simple and emphatic
reiteraton of the principles of the Republic
can party and at the same time re-
ncwed Endorsement of the most prominent
| political achievements Of that party. 1t will
put the Democrats in the Senate to q direct
test on the question of their honest submis-
sion to the much-abused results Of the war,
particularly on the question of the legality
of the adoption of the amendments, for the
successful ratification of which it is charged
that the new State of West Virginia was
especially created. Let the record be made
up without delay.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
THE ALBANY CAPITOL.

The new capitol building of the State of
New York, which was dedicated on Tuesday
last, is said TO be a magnificent pile, The New
York Times IN referring to it says;
Everybody admired the new capitol build.
ing incomplete as it is, and enthusiastic con-
noisseurs said that it marked the beginning of
q new era in American architecture.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

TALK about the 'IFon." PorrAH and the
cipher dispatches; didn't his recent New
Orleans investigation result in a big round
U? But it was the cipher of The Awful
jerks, and not the one used by the copor-
ceners in 1876.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

Now the Opposition has settled down to
the unanimous announcement regarding
Resumption that its success is due to sheer
luck, and not to any craftsmanship or capa-
ble management ny the Republican party
How lucky the people Were we add, tc
have the lucky Republican party in power
at this junctue, instead of the proverbially
unlucly Democracy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THE POTTER Committee has an oppor-
tunity to examine certain important WIT
nessjust now whose testimony will open up n
new field Of investigation This oppor-
tunity has been gratuitously rendered to it
but there are doubts whether the tender
will he accepted. If it is not, it will be in
order to call for the reason why, you
know
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
Too Much for die PatIent EdItor.

There are muterings Of discomfort I'm the Demo.
cratic household about the work of the Potter Com
mlttee Thatla trip 10 New Orleans seems to have
been one evaporation too much for the patient
editor who has been trying 50 hard for months 10
demonstrate that the committee was not such a
farce as ii seemed to be, The poor man gives up
the Job with groan now, and asks 10 have the
committee removed from the public eye
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
DRoPoSALs FOR PAPER FOR THE PUBLIC
l. PRINTING,


Sealed proposals will be received until Wednesday,
January ~ 1870 at 10 O'Clock H. m for furnishing the
Paper for the Public Printing until the 3st of jan
nary lsJ the said proposals to be opened before and
the award OF contracts to be made by the Joint Com
mttee on Public Printing to the low est ana best bid
tee rescrving TO itself the right 10 reject any and all
Dds as It's Judgment of The best Interests of the Gov
ernment may dictate.
Detailed schedules of the description, quantity. and
quality OF the paper required, accompanied by
pies and blank proposals. and giving the regulations
ID. &.
The contracts will he entered into for such quaint
Ties ns may lie needed during the year, and no more.
lhe estimated quantities set forth In detail IN the
schedule comprise
5000 reams of best machinennsh printing paper
2iN3S.
1900 reams calendered printing paper, 2ixSS
$3.50 re'uns calendered printing paper, different
sizes.
$500 reams sized aud calcndered printing paper
different sizes
600 reans sized and calendered tinted printing pa
per of different sizes,
3OO rennis engine sized paper for Post Occ blanks
different sizes.
5000 pounds map paper, different sizes and weights
1000 pounds plate paper
2i40r reams white writing paper, different sizes and
weights.
G,7OO reams colored writing paper, different sizes
and weights.
600 ofcover paper different sizes and weights
hO fealnS muIla paper different sizes.
900 sheets imitation parchment, different sizes
2OOOJ rcams bnnk-nOte paper.
I5luOO sheets ol glaZt bond paper No. 81.
10000 sheets cara board,
by direction OF the Joint Committee Of Congress ON
public Printing. JNO. ID DEFREES,
WAsIISGToS, Dec. y, 1878 Public Printer
dpCl1.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

TlNIW IVIN NVTTVI
Perhaps the telegraph does him injustice, but II
its ticks may be trusted Senator Voorhees, yesterday
made the truly Interesting discovery that the nnan.
Cial panic Of 1878 was the appalling penalty" paid
by the misguided people OF this country for the
bare proclamation of specie resumption the said
bare proclamation, If VIC mistake not, having been
tnoIn IA 1874
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THE chagrin of the Opposition at the
success of Resumption is apparent on every
hand, bat nowhere so emphatically as in
those quarters where it is suggested that if
the demands of trade should take specie
out of the country, and all that sort of
thing, the Old Nick would be to pay. To
this remarkable If we have to say that it
resides mainly with Congress to prevent the
drain of specie from our banks and Treasury
vaults which would be required to provoke
the disaster threatened. Our commerce is
ilOurishing, our prospects of retaining the
balance of trade in our favor are encourage
ing, and our ability TO sustain this hopeful
condition of affairs is unquestioned, pro-
yided Congress does not mischievously de-
stroy the good that has been evolved from
the struggle incident to our transition from
initiation to substantial "hard-pan." II is
worth while, in view of this conceded fact,
to watch closely the result of these insidi-
Gus suggestions, especially among the Demo-
Gratis in the House, where they find embodi-
ment in wish which is father to the
thought. 1t is, perhaps, unnecessary to add
that the Democratic party, for the purpose
Of partisan advantage, would not hesitate
an instant to impede Resumption, and over
whelm the country with renewed financial
distress. In plain terms the chagrn of the
Opposition amounts to simple desperation
over the fact that the Republican party has
achieved the difficult task Of restoring our
currency to its par value. They will do
anything and everything to destroy the
fruits of that great and victorious achieve
ment.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

WHEN will Mr.. PoTTAH make his report
of the result of his recent and latest inves-
legations in New Orleans? An anxious
public awaits an opportunity to laugh at
him and increase its doubtful admiration of
the insidious adroitness of The Awful
.Jpnks
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THE little bill of Mr.. Cox relating to the
next census is very cunningly-devised
machine for putting the control of it
in the hands Of the bull-dozers of the South,
and under control Of the Democrats North,
where fraud or accident has given them the
Governorshp of States against the popular
sentiment. Cunning SAMMY! Now, have we
q foolish Congress that will step into this
little trap.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

Mr. Walt Whitman docs not see how any man
can work In place as magnificent rs Mr.. q. w.
Childs private Office III know | could not" he
says ~ could do my work much better with ink
blotches about me and n litter around, and with
few broken chairs in the ROOM"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THERE is evidently no Pottering in the
investigation now going on in New Or
leans. You see there is truth-TELLER at
the head Off
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

TT is a question whether Mr., REAGAN's
objection to ACKLENs demand for an in
vestigation can be sustained by any consid-
Grafton of morality or strict prOpriety. The
constitutional provision bearing upon this
subject. G., AcKLEN's personal qualifca-
tions TO be member of the HOuse-giyes
that body the power to judge of the elec,
+" tions and qualifications of its own mem
"bers." This power, it will be admitted, is
broad and comprehensive enough to enable
the House to investigate its membership
and expel any member who may, in its
Judgment, be disqualified by reason of any
official or unofficial act. But Mr. REAGAN
objected to the investigation ON the ground, as
he expressed it, that the subject involved, a
criminal charge of seduction, is one over
which the House has no jurisdiction. His
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THE skies are not so bright for VOORHEES,
to succeed himself, as many have supposed.
The Greenbackers have the power to die
tate, and as DE La MATYR was and is now
a stalwart Republican, except his ultra
Greenbackisn, it would be an easy matter
to unseat VOORHEES, if the Republicans
would coalesce with the Greenbackers and
support DE La MATYR or some other Re-
publican of that stripe.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
These Bile of Credit.

Eighteen years ago the Democracy pronounced
paper money Haunting lie, by which they meant
to assure the world that the Government of the
Union worthless and the bills of credit ii Issued
a fraud. 10 day these bills of credit are worth n
small premium in the money markets of the coun.
VY,g
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
Civilization aud Barbarlsm.

Unpleasant as the admission may be, the truth
campaign Of 1850 must be fought out on the old
sectional line of 1860 That line docs now, as 1t
did then, divide the civilization and the barbarism
of the country.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

OUR Democratic cotemporary calls atten-
tion to the fact that large numbers of
negroes in Georgia who had fulfilled the
requirement Of paying taxes before voting
took part in the election down there last
Monday, while many of the poor whites
failed to come to time" This is sad, very
sad but it shows, as Mr.. THURMAN said
that wealth and intelligence will tell
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
Afordlng pleasure to Tie pemocrnoy.


For the purpose ofaff0rding pleasure to our Dem
ocratlc friends we announce that ii is positively
stated that Mr.. Tilden is shaping his political
1880
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THE saddest man in Washington is ACK-
LEN, who was so terribly anxious for that
investigation, you know.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09
Tilden's ClainOr.

lNeW YORK 1flbunel
There is n rumor that Tilden has sent his "Glam-
orr in a letter TO Chairman Potter. II he has we
shall know 1t, for Mr.. Potter will run away when
he gets it,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-09

THE National Democrat says Governor Garcclon
left the Republican, party aud joined the Democ.
rucy "in 1867 and 1868 when the question of chang
ing the contract and paying the $40 bonds in coin
came up aud the Republican Congress decided In
invOr of paying them In COIN and II adds; "To.
day he is marked MS a hard-money Democrat" Are
we to understand that hard.money Democrat is a
man who believes in paying the bonded debt in
deprecated paper2