Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-10-23
POLITICAL COMMENTS.
me south and the TreAsury--Some
timely Aphortsms--The Democratic
Party and the Result I'm Ohio.
SAYS MIR. Jenkins, the Democratic can.
dldate for governor of Wisconsin.


dldate for governor of Wisconsin:
We now have the unseemly spectacle of
the removal of nearly every empioye of the
government upon change of admnistra.
ton, as II the safety of the union depended
upon the jaritor of a custom house, who
cleans spittoons, entertaining political
opinions at one with the party in power.
1t is obvious that Mr.. Jenkins has
given up all hope of being elected gov
ernor OF Wisconsin. No man who thinks
he may get votes enough to elect him to
a high office ever utters such sentiments
rs the foregoing. - Chicago Times.
NORTHERN MEN WITH SOUTHERN PRIN.
CIPLEs.
Northern men with southern prinoi-
pies" like the editor of the New York
Nation, are respectfully invited to con.
slider these three questions: Q) Do the
negroes of the south have any constitu-
uonal rightsH (2) Can they exercise in
full the rights guaranteed to them by
the constitution and laws of the United
StatesH (S) Should they be permitted
to exercise those rights? An early an
swer will oblige Ia the meantime the
NattoE will do well TO forego its I'M
doubted privilege of pointing out the
hardships that the whites of the south
are suffering from, the extreme peril of
permitting carpet baggers" to appear
in any community, and the despicsble
character OF the persons who have been
murdered for political reasons in Yazoo
and kemper counties Mississippi.---Chi-
cdgo Tribune.
A SPECIMEN SOUTHERN DEMoCRAT.
The New Orleans Picaytoie, Demo
cratic paper of good standing, says of
Wilt, who has been nominated for gov
ernor by the Louisiana Democrats, that
as mayor of the city he WAS the most
expensive New Orleans ever had. His
council spent $4,000, 900 in two years,
and he added s., 500, 900 to the municipal
debt. 1t asserts that his administration
was the high carnival of robbery among
the politicians. 1t was the cap-stoIe to
the monument of misrule built by the
Joint labor of the carpet-bagger and the
Democratic ward hummer. 1t stands ~
landmark in our political history to
guide all good citizens away from the
camp of the professional politicians to
seek for honest and faithful servants"
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE RESULT IN
OHIO.
The result is sufficiently clear as to
the way the political wind blows. State
sovereignty will be more unpopular now
than it has ever been before. Some OF
the Democratic politicians will even
suddenly learn, perhaps, that they have
always been in favor of national supre-
macy. The example of the Wisconsin
Democrats in turning a cold shoulder to
the confederate brigadiers, and condemns
ing, through the mouth of their stand
ard bearer, the bull-dosing policy of the
solid south, will be initiated on all sides
The anxiety of the northern Democratic
party to prove that it owes no allegiance
to the southern political captains will be
absolutely painful. Just how the
Democratic leaders will try to obliterate
their obstructive record IA congress last
spring is beyond conceiving, but the
attempt will surely be made Chicago
Times.
THE SOUTH AND THE TREASURY--RA1Ds
OLA HUNGRY HORDE.
A year ago the Tribune issued an
extra containing the various articles
upon the subject of southern claims
which it had published in previous
months. The compilation, prepared
from official documents at Washington,
brought the record of demands upon
congress for internal Improvements at
the south down to March /, 1878, and
for private "relief to March 26, 1878,
and showed the enormous aggregate of
$3.50, 000,0 600 This vast sum was stated to
be only the beginning of what the solid
south would demand. The Tribune has
caused the record to be completed from
off cial documents to the close of the
extra session of this year, and this
is the appalling result: From March,
1873, to July /, 1879, and
ommitting various blind claims
for enormous unspecified sums, bills were
introduced into congress calling for
1851 ,S61 GOO for internal improvements
in the south, and the private claims
amount to $53, Ale, 942 more. The official
records, then, emitting the independent
estimates of Judge T. w. BARLEY, coun-
sci for large number Of claimants,
prove that within a period Of less than
two years solid and disloyal south has
demanded from the treasury of the
nation, which for years ii sought to
destroy, ana which it now seeks to
bankrupt, a SUN vastly greater, by rea,
son of the bird claims which are not
reckoned, than 81, 287, 524, 1886. These
figures need no comment TO show tha'
the rule Of the solid south means shame
and ruin esy York Tribune.
SOME TIMELY APH0RTsMS.
In speech at Chemung, New York
Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago, uttered tht
following terse and telling aphorisms:
|. "There is no great heresy of thu