National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-10

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Largest legitimate morning circu-
tdtiOn tn the District.
WASHINGTON, APRIL 10. 1879.
THE unruly House spent the most of the
day yesterday in discussion of rules.
TIE plunderers are maturing their plans
for another assault upon the Government
Printing Office.
AS MATTERS are progressing nowadays
the old flag" seems to have fallen into dis
use except rs convenient expanse upon
which to display advertising notices.
To USE a favorite phrase of LEE CRAM
DALI the Greenbackers split the Demo-
cratic party wide open" in Ohio and else
where in the late local elections.
YESTERDAY was not q very good day for
selecting stalls for the horses who propose
to enter for the rhetorical race under the
legislative bill. The number was not as
large as the day before. The chin market
lulls
THE more the Democrats load up with
Greenbackers the more they sink in the
water. They have no buOyancy. The coa-
litonists are going down together. Mark
the indications in Ohio. Dead weights, you
know.
SENATOR THURMAN didn't boom much at
the late municipal election in Columbus, his
home and the seat of his ambition and hopes.
The city went Republican for the first time,
and some people are wicked enough to inn
pute the result to TILDEN.
To open up general legislation Just now,
ut this stage of the extra session, would be
greatly to the advantage of the lobby gem
orally, and especially to the plunderers who
have been lying in wait hereNbouts for an
opportunity to steal the Government Print
ing-Ofice.
EX-SENATOR BARNUM, of Connecticut, is
said to have made the deliberate declaration
that the debate on the army bill has cost
the Democrats 100000 votes already. To
which he might have added that continu-
ance Of this debate will ultimately send that
party into political bankruptcy.
WHILE Mr. BLACKBURN is engaged in
the business of wiping out "war measures,
he should not fail to try his hand at his
own record, which embraces the fact that
he turned traitor to his country without
even the doubtful excuse Of going with
"his State" Kentucky did not secede but
BLACKBURN did.
FRANK f. NEvINs, the correspondent Of
the Chicago Tribune who dishes up the leg.
islative proceedings for that sheet Mt Spring.
field ILL.,, has got in Jail for recalcitrancy as
witness before an investigating commit
tee, and now calls for an early adjournment
of the Legislature, as the hdbeaS corpus ha'
failed to release him.
HERE it comes again " Republican gniui
in New Jerseyw When will this thing
stop? And the COnlederacy is at hand a
the National Capital to take charge o
things /! This is an insult to the patriotism
and craftsmanship Of the Confederate Bour
bon-Copperhead-D Democracy. l
is really mot too bed.
THE entire country has been in a broat
grin lately over Wiper BLACKBURN's allu
sion to Secretary EvARTs as an intimida
tor. 1t exhibited lamentable ignoranc
on Mr.. BLAcKBURN's part of Mr.. EvARTs
prominent Characteristic. If the Democrat
are never intimidated until lie does it, the,
well, they will not know when it is done
His methods are those Of a conciiator an,
adiplomate.
THOSE who are in such hot haste to Sc
Senator CARPENTER down Gs free lance
politics may as well wait until he develop
himself on political questions The Ney
Hampshire Senatorial question wears no pc
litical significance 1t is purely questio
Of constitutional jurisdiction and right an
one over which lawyers disagree very casl
under their differences in mental organic
ton.
THE official publication of the new or +,
vised treaty between the United States an
Japan in these columns yesterday attracte
some comment in diplomatic quarters. III
negotiation of the treaty was not known {
suspected, and the fact that Secretar
EARTs had struck out from the beNte
paths of supposed-to-be fixed relations wit
the Orientals, and established new and el
larged commercial reciprocites, served (
create some surprise.
THE gallery lunatc evoked from u
depths of political fantasia by our dearl
beloved Confederate House, returned to h
admonitory duties yesterday and bellowe
out: Woe woe woe ! TO this den
"thievesw OF course the House couldn
stand any such plain talk rs that and Il
poor fellow was fired ont at the pointo OF
doorkecpcr's boot 1t was noticed, hos
ever, that the crimson flush of injured j
nocence wasn't spread around very thi