National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-14

that, he is credited with little Irritation
with the Greenbackers. The Grecnbackers
nre very hard up for material, you know.
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RANDALL's most faithful henchmeu are
his Southern Bourbon chairmeu. They are
thankful for past favors, of course; but
gratitude is better defined as lively sense
of lavors yet to come. Mr.. ATKINS, for ex-
ample, is extremely grateful; likewise Mr..
WnITTHoRNE.
Room is an inconsidcrate triflc in Rhode
Island, small as the State is. Providence
(the city will provide it for the Demo-
cratic and Republican State conventions on
the 20th instant. Verify, the lion and the
lamb shall lie down together in very close
quarters.
THE attempt to make the Speakershp
campaign strictly temperance affair has
failed. RANDALL still holds to his cold
water principles, but the Bnurbons at the
upper end Of the Avenue have returned TO
their native milk" Democratic enthusi-
asm never did thrive without stimulaut.
dence that the Democratic majority in the
next Senate will be the same-eight-tha
it was in 1861 when the South seeded, the
Virginia star cries out L" Now let the Marine
Band play Dixiem Certainly, and wind
up with the Bonnie Blue Flag.
UNEASY rests the head that wears the
Cipher Crown. The Florida Democrats who
have been indicted for election frauds in
1878 indicate willingness to confess not
only to the frauds perpelratcd that year, but
to similar ones perpetrated in 1876, bywhich
they tried TO carry the State for TnDEN
Startling developments arc anticipated.
NEARLY MI Of the candidates for the
offices of either the Senate or the House, it
is noticed, are from the East and South.
Mr.. FRANKLIN, Of Missouri, who claims
that he represents 10000 Democratic ma
"iority west OF the Mississippi certainly
carries @ very large load of sin upon q sim
gle pair Of shoulders, if this claim is true.
STrICT neutrality in the Speakership cou-
test is The guiding motto OF the Demo-
cratic organ. It lives up so close to this
maxim that it refused to print the MCAR-
DLE-MANNING letter the other day the
refusal being based, among other reasons,
upon the fact that it is 50 abusive of RAN
DALI But the Government Printing
Office job looms up in the dim, very dim,
distance as further and weighty influence
in the premises.
THE St. Louis GioJe-D Democrat prints Il
story in effect that respectable family
from the North recently settled in one of
the southwestern counties of Missouri on
farm purchased aud paid for. The neigh
bOrs soon discovered that the carpet-ba g.
"gers" owned a piano, and Immediately
served notice on them that they must burn
it, which they did, The banjo, says the
GioJe-DcmOcrat, is the only musical nstru.
ment tolerated in the Democratic sections
OF the State.
o'REILLEY was elected from the Brook.
lyn district as "Relorm Democrat" But
he deceived his constituents. He was not a
thorough Democratic relormer-only a
bounty-jumper, n deserter and an Office
seeker. As soon as he gets into the House,
however and forms the close alliance with
the Coniederntes hispast record entities him
to- he will blossom out into II thorough Re-
former We have hopes for O'REILLEY, in
view of his promising efforts as u beginner.
MANY of the Northern Democrats who
were ignored by RANDALL in the selection
of chairmen for committees in the last
House are now working for BLACKBURN or
some other Southern man. 1t Is personal
spite with them and it is so deep that they
aro willing to take BLACKBURN and the en-
tire Contederacy to their bosoms to crafty
it. This in illustration of the patriotic
statesmanship Of the average Northern
Doughlace.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS has selected q
seat among the Democrats in the next SEN
ate This accounts, possibly, for the prev
alent rumor that the Democratic side of the
Chamber needs propping up. Mr. BAYARD
having been whipped back into the caucus
ranks, 1t does not appear that any political
proppingV necessary. Therumor undoubt-
edy has the change of base by the distin-
guished Illinoisau as its only substantial
foundation.
COLONEL MCCARDLE emphatcally and
tuthfully declares that not II single Demo
crat could have been elected from the South
but for the fact that they were intensely
Southern, and had also been Confederate
"soldiers,n That is to say, the people oI
} the South repudiate as their representative
\ all those candidates for Office who have no
&een Confederate soldiers and who are no
~ intensely Southern" Aud the logic Of al
4 this, taken into consideration with the fur