Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Tho Solid 80uth-DemOcratlo Pul
pOses.~PendletOn's Financial Talk.
A SOLID south means 1873 electors
votes, and a solid north means 231 elet
toral votes. The two together mean tn
election of the solid north candidate b
SO majority of the electoral votes. The
mean that the election will not 20 to tn
house, and that it will be of no use t
unseat Republicans and seat Democrat
with viow to such a contingency
Chicago Times.
Ex.GovERNoR JOHN NJ. PALMER, O
Illinois, now editor of the Springfield
State Register has spoiled himself as
Democratic aspirant for the presidency
by frankly saying, in answer to tn
question, that free and fair election il
Yazoo county, Miss, was an impossible
ty, and that the same was no doubt tru
of the whole state. The ex-governo
was once a fighting Republican, and a,
eloquent advocate Of freedom; but go
bewitched, some way, and has beer
training with the Democrats for the las
five years. Evidently some of his oil,
blood has got into his veins, and is get
ting the better of his sham Democracy
Although his name has been serioul,
coupled with possible nomination fo
president, yet he doubtless knows thai
he made too good a record, as Republi
can, at one period of his life, to ever ge
the endorsement of the heaven aban
doned wretches of the Yazoo stripe, wh<
will dictate the Democratic nomination
next year.-Sheboygan Times.
JUDGE HUMPHREY, who had an op
portunity of hearing q large amount O
testimony from injured parties, during
his sojourn at Washington, has called
our attention to long and very inter
esting interview, which National Re
publican reporter held with Col. A. T.
Morgan, on the cost of being Repub
lican in Yazoo county, Miss, and the
treatment he there experienced himself
The account, which will be given tC
our readers in detail at another time
recounts how the killing of Republicans,
and the disoreonio;ne of thei. ..,ootiugs,
has long been regarded merely as q
pastime. And even Dixon, who for
months had been the champion of "solid
south" bullies, was not permitted to
escape his own methods of extermina-
tion, when he dared to lend opposition
to the dominant party. Morgan, as is
we'll kno Hn, is an outcast from his ov n
ountry,-having been driven from there
for daring to assert his own political
opinions, nor can he return, for expert
ence has proven that no man is safe who
believes that the results of the war are
fixed and eternal-Huds0n Star and Times.
JEFF DAVIS says there has been no
contest in this country for the liberties
of the states since the war of independ-
ence." just what Mr.. Davis and the
Democratic party would call the little
episode from 1860 to 1865 does not ex-
actly appear. 1t is period, in their es-
which should not be referred
to for fear of "rousing bad blood" The
best blood of the nation was spilled in
that contest, and the loyal people who
forgot it and refuse to protect by the
ballot that which brave men in the field
secured by sacrifice of their lives, are
of the rich boon they have re-
ceived. The fact is undisguised that
the attempted destroyers of that period
are putting forth herculean efforts to
gain by assassination what they failed to
reach by open battle. No sane man can
doubt the disastrous results to the nation
if their efforts are crowned with success.
1t is fortunate for the people that the
called session of congress SO fully laid
open the plans of the brigadiers and
their allies that any man can see the
motives and intentions of the leaders.
The man who has no fear from such
source, and no anxiety, fails to read the
history of the past, marked as it is with
footprints of blood Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Mr.. PENDLEToN says that at the close
Of the war "the public debt was enor.
nous, and all of it except the debt
incurred before the war, the small
amount of 1910 bonds then out, and a
few other special obiigations-in all a
very small proportion of the public debt
was by law, by the common consent of
all parties, and all public men, payable
in legal tender notes." This is not a
statement of fact. The public debt
reached its maximum at the end of
August, 1866. The interest bearing
portion was then $2,381, $50, ,295. OF
this the portion contracted before the
issue of greenbacke, which MI. Pendle-
ton admits was payable in coin, and the
portion contracted during the war which,
by the express terms of the authorizing
acts, was payable in coin, together
amounted to $689,O0O,000, which was
very much more than q very small pro-
portion of the whole. OF the remainder,
$236, 900, GOO of one and two year notes
of 1863, was payable in "lawful
and it was, in fact, paid in
greenbacks. The 7.30 notes, or bonds,
then amounted to $83O,0O0,0O0 These
were payable, principal and interest,
in greenbacks, or fundable into
$40 bonds, at the option of the
holders, at the end of three years from
their date The most of them were
funded into 5.20's, rs the law provided
that they might be. Now, as to the
5 2O's, of which about $1,000, ,O0O, 900 in
all were issued,-about $775, ,O00, 900 OF
which were known as "consols" of 1866,
1867 and 1868,-it is not true that they
were "by law, by the common consent Of
s1l parties and all public men, payable
in legal-tender notes." The law did not
declare them to be 60 payable. ltwould
be more correct to say that all intelli'
gent men agreed at that time that these
bonds were payable in coin, than to say
that they agreed that they were payable
in greenDacks. 1t was not until some
two years later that Mr.. Pendleton in
vented his Ohio idea of greenback pay
ability. Some doubt about the matter
was expressed at an earlier day, and, tt
dispose of the doubt, the secretary o1
the treasury had officially expressed the
opinion that the bonds were payable i1
coin, and it is notorious that they were
sold by the treasury az coin bonds, and
that they were bought and sold in the
market as such.-Chicago Times.
japanese Maxims.
Some of the precepts in the shorter
code are based on instincts of good breed
ing, and, apart from local coloring, art
such as characterize civilized society