National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-11-14


but it is as healthy us its origin. 1t cannot
survive long.
SENATOR WALLACE has abandoned the
idea of carrying Pennsylvania for the Dem
ocrats this fall.
BARKsDALE fired himself into the Sher-
iflalty of Yazoo county through the body
of DIXON. 1t was dead shot.
THE crop of cotton is larger by several
thousand bales this year than ever before.
Likewise the amount of political hell they
raised down there.
THE New York World knows all about
just what President HAYES next message
will contain. Perhaps it is preparing that
paper for the Executive.
HONEST Bob TooMBs! Death to the
Union is his motto aud ho is ready to
"try it over again." meaning that he is
anxious to renew the rebellion. Herein he is
plain spoken and honest, where his fellow
Bourbons are deceptively diplomatic and
dishonest.
WHEREVER the next National Republic
can convention may be held it will not
interfere with the GRANT boom, which is
National, and not circumscribed or infiu-
onced by local considerations. 1t would
boom as loudly in Cleveland as in Bangor
or in Philadelphia and Chicago.
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No reasonable man viii deny that Boss
KELLY's candidacy for Governor in New
York was, in one sense, an injury to Mr..
CORNELL. Disaifected anti-RoDINs ON Demo-
Gratis would, under other circumstances,
have voted for the Republican ticket or not
have voted ut all, and he would have reaped
the benefit either way
THE call for a meeting to recruit the
forces of the" THOMAS Mounted Battalion, {"
this evening, gives the veterans of this city
an admirable opportunity not only to evil
dence their devotion to the occasion, but to
add largely to the display Every veteran
should be in his saddle on the day of the
parade unless disqualified by wounds for
that service.
THE Charlotte IN C.) Observer meekly re-
marks, " OF Grantism the South has had its
surleit." 1t may think so, but as it now
looks, it may as well open its mouth, close
its eyes, and quietly take one more dose
without making wry face or performing
any unpleasant gyrations. 1t will be good
for the Nation, and the Observer will be glad
of it when it is all over.
HENRY WATTERsoN has recently had q
vision, in which he looked "adown the
great archway of American history" and
discovered a single pair, and he has been
hesitating ever since whether he would
draw to them or bet them as bluff He has
seen n great many sights in his time, but
they usually vanish like the baseless fabric
OF IA dream.
Ir is suggested that Major RENO, soon to
be court-martialed at Fort Meade, Montana,
has made failure of his life in the West,
and that his only chance now is to 90 East
and grow up with Colonel BAKER. 1t is a
question, however, whether even the Turks
would not become disgusted with RENo's
persistent disregard of the proprietes and
requirements Ol ClNlllLullOn.
No reception committee, orator or inter-
viewer has as yet been able to extract a
word, or even a shadow Of word from
General GRANT indicative on his part of
any desire TO enter public life again In
all this his good sense has not iniled him.
1t will be time enough Tor him to indicate
his own wishes and purposes in this regard
when the people have expressed theirs.
The Albany EUGHiag Journal suggests
that one of the important duties of the new
State Administration will be to perfect and
enact a new election law which shall more
thoroughly protect all true citizens in their
rights as electors, and afford more effective
safeguards against fraudulent practices in
elections The United States election laws
will furnish fine model for such q statute.
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WE are again forced reluctantly to admit
that the majority Of the writer's for the
Democratic press are either liars by choice
or accident. They one and all insist that
the blacks Of the South have lately joined
the Democratic party, and thereby account
for the succession of Democratic victories
of late years in that section, In the luce of
this, however, they insist that these Demo.
cratic "niggers are being colouzed into
Indiana for the purpose of making that
State Republican.
HONEST BOB ToOMBs.
ATLANTA, GA, November IL.
TO he EdhOr Of THE Chicago Daily Ne,cs:
Your telegram received. / decline to
answer, except to present my personal con-
graduation to General GRANT for his safe
arrival to his country. lie fought for his
country honorably and won. / fought for
mine and lost. am ready TO try it over
again. Death to the Union
(Signed) II. TOoMDs
THE Augusta lGa.) Chronicle is inclined