National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

SAM RANpALL is rs good a Republican as Gar.
field, If the Memphis Arddnche knows itself.
DISTINGUISHED Tennessee editor says JEFF
Davis is preparing to return to the United states
Senate.
THE Republican gains in the towns Of Illinois
will more than oflscJ the Democratic victory IN
Chicago.
NoRToS's CDollas. Tex1 Intepige1csr says "thcre
never has been Legislature in Texas so utterly
worthless as the present
The Democratic party should be arrested on a
charge of disorderly conduct and locked up ior
another period Of eighteen years.
TsS Nciila e--i-S predicts music in the air
when t::o I'M m amneNylHg Sph Davis ana thirty
fellow rebels comes up for treatment in the senate
PRoNINESr men Of both parties IN Washington,
of the Treasury since Alexander Homilton.-CW'
cilpdii Gazette.
THE Democratic Springfield RepuNicGn speaks Of
the Democratic party rs being on trial. By Visit
ing Police Court you can find some portion OF II
OH trial any day.
THOSE who have sampled Uncle Tilden's new
bar'l are understood TO be quite as well satisfied
with the article as they were with the last previous
| tap.-ClCrCidpd Hcrdd
SENATOR HENDRICKS while In the United states
Senate, voted for the provisions IN regard to NE use
ofuoops at the polls which The Confederate DriSH'
| dicrs are now trying to repeal.
A CURIOSITY in politics IS that cX.Congrossman
| F. L. Woodbridge has been elected mayor Of Yer
| gennes, Vermont and his COlorcu c0hchlnan,
| Stephen Bates, is the new sheriff.
THE Democrats are just beginning TO wake up TO
the fact that there Is minority In Congress, ana
that before they can pass the bill TO storvc out The
| Government or overthrow 1t by stopping the sup
| plies, they must first settle with public opinion.
ONE of the lessons the Chicago journal notices
from the defeat in that city at the charter elections
is that the Democrats In their stupidity and utter
| lack of patriotic staesmanship, arc doing all they
can to make sure Republican victory next year.
TIE Rochester Union agrees with the Ulicd 0bscrtc'
| In the opinion that the Democratic party in New
York is in abad way through the extraordinary
| and INSCRIPTIONS efforts of ambitious men to
secure control of conventions and organizations III
| selfish interest
| "WAR Democrats and Independents have now
| another opportunity TO prove their loyalty. Tic
Union cannotbc preserved unless the right oil every
citizen to vote he desires be projected, and 1t Is
for this that the Republicans are now struggling
| PHjlddrlphjd Press
THE Grant movement has an unexpected acccs-
| sion. The Democratic candidate for mayor of Lit
| tic Rock, Ark, John q. Fletcher by namc says thai
ifhc presidentalcontost should be between Grant
and Tlldcn he should support Grant, and that hun
| dreds of old ConfcderOtcs are of the same mind.
THE Richmond (Va.) Sdie assures everybody tina
| no man could have conducted the war with more
| kindness and with fewer measures of retnliotorl
than Mr.. jefferson Davis, and that no act of Mr.
Davis administration can be pointed To in whicl
he did not conduct himself like Christian soldie
ana true gentleman.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN, now Governor of New Jcr
sey, has been killing legislative reforms by pocke
yctoeS, and he obtains the Judgment from the New
ark 1drcrtiser that he has made "a use of the eN
ecutive power uneNampGd in the history of th'
State aud arrogant in the use of the final preroga
tive of the Office"
JUDGE TAFT presided at Republican mass meet
ing in Cincinnati on saturday evening, and mad
n speech strongly denouncing the Democratic pro
gr0mme in Congress. II well remember" he said
"when, as prcludc to the rebellion In 1S60-6l, w
heard in Congress the balefu cry, Not man no
Il dollar to carry on war for the Union, or TO sup
press rebellion. Now again we hear like cry
Not n man nor q dollar 10 carry on the Govern
mcnt of the United States" That is the situation
precisely and the Judge might have added thn
failure would be written after the last cry as
was after the first