National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-18

ignored and oyerthrown. II is a significant
TACT, in this connection, that several of these
implicated Senators arc now sitting in
Judgment, or in preparation of tho evidence
Tor Judgment, Hpon Senator INGALLS, case
rs well as that of Senator KELLOGG. This
we think, presents another illustration oil
tho escaping thief crying out for the arrest
of an innocent party. But it is character
istic of the Bourbon Democracy, and the
natural outgrowth of bogus Homo Rule in
the South.
THE hard-moncy or honcst-monoy Ger
man-American vote, which was all cast for
Governor FOSTER in Ohio last Tuesday,
had much to do with the satisfactory ma
joiity ho received. When the question is
forced upon the people of o choice betwee n
honest government and the misrule which
would follow from the domination of UNI
stable and revolutionary theorists, this ele-
ment of our citizenship Is always to be
found in the front ranks of tho party of
stability and true conservatism. And in this
immediate connection it will not do to over
look the prompt aid and generous assistance
rendered in the defeat of the EWING RICE
Rag Baby combination by the Washington
Sentinel prominent National German
American organ. However wrong the Sen
tiaei may have been in the past, or is apt to
be in the future, regarding other questions,
it is certainly entitled to credit for its
straightforward and Independent course
during the late campaign in Ohio.
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THE diversity of opinions expressed re-
gSIiiS nc c:. ;:-cs 9: thA iatA Democratic
defeat in Ohio and Iowa is not so great as
is generally the case after the occurrence of
such au important political result 1t is
generally agreed that the finance question
had much to do with it, and that the good
crops, flush times and reviving prosperity
enjoyed by the country at large, and the
West in particular, were fortuitously ex-
tant rs unanswerable arguments to he
Democratic-Greenbaclt plea that o change
was required in the control of affairs. But
it is also unanimously agreed and emphat-
ically believed among Republicans and not
a few of the more conservative Democrats,
that the rampageously partisan and openly
revolutionary proceedings Of the Bourbons
in the late extra session of Congress had
more influence in tho premises than any
thing else. This means, in other words,
that the much-derded Bloody Shirt was
not waved IN vain. In fact, people who
were afraid of that ensanguined symbol
year ago, who were frightened out of their
wits by the most casual allusion to it, as
well as those who disbeleved in it, and
did believe in the Gush and pretended re-
ciprocal patriotism and sham nom Sec
tionalism Of the Confederate Brigadiers,
were found following its folds wherever
they were spread to the breeze. In truth.
il has become the emblem Of loyalty the
country over. Long may it wave
THE Carthage (Mo.) Daily Banner falls
into the style of the Okolona Southern STATES
with remarkable facility, as will be seen by
its screed on
THE BLOODY SHIRT:
Democrats hate it,
detest it,
loathe it,
curse it,
pray against 10,
ridiculc IL,
express supreme contempt for 1t.
shudder when they hear it mentioned.
And yet they made 1t during the Rebel
lion, and have continued its manufacture
throughout tho South since the war closed
through the agency of the rifle, the shotgun,
the revolver and the knife, which are the
Democratic implements Of political warfare.
Now the Democrat looks on the bloody
emblem of his hate and exclaims: "Its
horrd image doth unix my hair and
make my seated heart knock at my ribs
= against the use Of nature"
THE Richmond (Va.) State (Democratic),
in referring to its Democratic contemporary
in this city INDUCES tho following hattcr-
ing discussion of its wonderful qualities as
modern journal:
But we are, perhaps, paying too much alton.
ton to this Western adventurer who has
sought to introduce and naturalize frontier
journalism and customs at the capital of the
country by establishing paper whose utter
want Of dignity in its treatment of great pub
lie questions and disregard Of decency in as
sailing private character and catering 10 the
most depraved tastes has placed it beyond tho
pale of respectable journalism. When we look
over the columns OF this pretended organ,
filled with the most trashy and windy per.
silage, we cannot help comparing it with the
great political papers OF the past that gave tone
aud dignity to the press and elevated the So
ciety of Washington, such as the National In
tclligcncer and the Uaion-and then it is that
we realize to what depth Of degradation the
partisan press has flllen
CONGRESSMAN FRYE who has been plow-
ing the political field in Ohio, leaks to a re-
porter the following important information
Ho thinks GRANT and BLAINE will be the
only candidates before the National Convcn-
ton, as SHERMAN is unquostionnbly shaping
his course now for the Senate. lie notices a
very strong underlying current for GRANT,
since every time he mentions his name in q
speech there is u storm of applause which can
be heard n mile away. The party would unite
on either BLAINE or GRANT, and he max es
the reasonable prediction that the conduct of
the next Congress will have great deal to do
in deciding who will BIO the nominee.
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