Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-23
POLITICAL COMMENTS.

POLITICAL COMMENTS.
The South and the Treasury.-SOmo
Farty and the Result in Ohio.
SAYS Mr.. Jenkins, the Democratic can
didate for governor of Wisconsin:
We now have the unseemly spectacle of
the removal of nearly every emPloye of the
government upon q change of administra-
ton, as if the safety of the union depended
upon the jspitor 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
as the foregoing.-Chicago Times.
EKORTHERN MEN WITH SOUTHERN PR1N.
! CIPLEs.
"Northern men with southern princi-
ples," like the editor of the New York
Nation, are respectfully invited to con.
slider these three questions: ~ Do the
negroes of the south have any constitu-
tional rights? (2) Gan they exercise in
full the rights guaranteed to them by
the constitution and laws of the United
States7 (3) Should they be permitted
to exercise those rights3 An early an
swer will oblige. In the meantime the
Nation: will do we'll to forego its un-
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 despicable
character of the persons who have been
murdered for political reasons in Yazoo
and Kemper counties, Mississippi.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
| A SPECIMEN SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
The New Orleans Picayune, q Demo-
cratic paper of good standing, says of
Wiltz, 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 $12,OOO,000 in two years,
and he added 81, sou, 900 to the municipal
debt. It asserts that his administration
was the high carnival of robbery among
the politicians. It was the cap-stone to
the monument of misrule built by the
Joint labor of the pet-bagger and the
Democratic ward hummer. 1t stands as
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 cold shoulder to
the confederate brigadiere, and condemn
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 in congress last
spring is beyond conceiving, but the
attempt will surely be made.-Chicago
Times.
THE SOUTH AND THE TREAsURY-RA1Ds
OF A 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 l, 1878, and
for private "relief" to March 26, 1878,
and showed the enormous aggregate of
$3.50, ,000, 900. 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
official documents to the close of the
extra session of this year, and this
is the appalling result: From March,
1873, to July l., 1879, and
ommitting various blind claims
for enormous unspecifed sums, bills were
introduced into congress calling for
1851 ,Y61 GOO for internal improvements
in the south, and the private claims
amount to $53 ,415, 942 more. The official
records, then, omittiDg the independent
estimates of Judge T. w. BARLEY, coun-
sci for q large number of claimants,
prove that within q period of less than
| two years solid and disloyal south has
demanded from the treasury of the
nation, which for years it sought to
destroy, and which it now seeks to
bankrupt, q sum vastly greater, by rea.
son of the blind claims which are not
reckoned, than 81 ,287, ,524, ,735: These
figures need no comment to show that
the rule of the solid south means shame
and ruin.-New York Tribune.
SOME TIMELY APHORIsMs.
In speech at Ohemung, New York
Emory A. storrs, of Chicago, uttered the
following terse and telling aphorisms:
l. "There is no great heresy of th'
past twenty-five years that has not beer
nurtured in the Democratic party"
2. "Tbere is no fundamental law thai
has not met the opposition of the De
mocracy."
| 8. "fhe tendency of the Republican
party towards Capitalization lies only il
the affirmation that We are all citizen
of the United States, and owe itour frs
> and highest allegiance"
! 4. "The spectacle of the Democratic
party appealing for concord and unity
il beautiful. They insist on harmony j,
Yazoo county; they did the same il
Judge Chisholm's district; they vii
have harmony if they have to use shot
guns to secure It.
5. "Those who sought to destroy tn
nation are back again domineering it u
the interest of unity, and Ben Hill ant
Lamar sit in judgment on the pay O