National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-14
POLITICdL NOTES.

THE lie Roy Gu.ctie warmly favors the selection
of Hon. Reuben l.. FentOn for the Berlin mission
TIE Wilmington IN. 60 Star wants General W.
;. Hancock next year because lac refused to play
satrap in Louisiana at the bidding Of the Grant
Administration"
A CANDIDATE for the Lieutcnant-Govemorsh
of Kentucky is eulogized as ''the man who put So
bills through the Senate in one night and let The
boys out before the bar-rooms closed"
THE Louisville Journal says General Grant should
be placed the retired list where Fillmore Pierce
aud Buchanan were placed. This is a feeble echo
of the rebel yell which Grant smOthcred in 1865.
THE demise Of the Des Moncs People did not
deprive that city of Grccnback organ. Blu. the
reality of Democratic dccadencc in Iowa is singu.
larry Illustrated in the fact thnt the capital of the
State is wholly without democratic newspaper
Is GovERNoR BISHOP preparing for the bloody
contingency of both Presidential candidates Of
1850 being chosen from Ohio that he advises the
increase Of the militia and ts establishment upon
war footing?
THE Greenbackers have sent the Rev. Mr.. De La
Matyr, Congrcssmnn.clect from Indiana. as u mis-
siOnary TO the south. His clerical mantle us q
Methodist divine is expected 10 commend him to
me southern "bnll-do2trS' who are nothing If not
piOus.
THE Boston Traveller condoles the good Potter
who went out hunting for Republican frauds and
had to come home with the Dcmocratc.1lldcu
under an awful cloud of raScality, which over
shadows his fine, fair, frank faCe.
They have Senatorial question In Missouri, and
q ST Louis Itmrs editor on Saturday interviewed
senator Cockrel on the subject. The editor went
of stuffed fun of information about the snow the
corn crop and hogs, but could learn nothing about
politics.
THE Washington Post dramp) asks: "Will the
country by 1850 have sufficiently recnperatcd from
Grant to endure another attack" TO that part of
tho country" which showed its heels at Donelson.
at Nicksburg and all through Virginia until ii fell
exhausted at AppomatoX this Is probably n serious
| question .-Detr0h Post
LARGE majority, in fact nearly all, of the Dem
ocratlc papers outside of Indiana strongly OPP
| posed TO Mr.. Voorhees, election 10 the Senate
| They speak Of 1t as an impending calamity to the
party generally, and likely to infict a fatal in
| jury upon 1t in lndiaun.-Hididndpgii JO,iJ1d,
| (Hcpubiicdn)
| The Atlanta CoaSthtioR says "tlie Republicans
| sun regard Grant Us the coming man, and we
| hardly know whether to laugh or cry" Possibly
| but the Constitution will remember perhaps that
| when il and its fellow-rebcls II few years ugo
| heard that Grant was the coming man, they knew
| mighty quick whether TO laugh cry und they
| didnt laugh, either.
The country demands peace and business Law
| lessness destroys business and whatever has that
effect Will meet with stern diSapproyul Mt the bal
! lot.boN in 1880. This question Of individual re-
sisancc to the execution of the laws of the United
| states must be settled. 1t will be settled by the
people at the polls If the Democratic party in the
south has not the virtue and manhood to settle II
in the cours.-S. Louis Times ,DcH,)