Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-29
POLITICAL COMMENTS.


upon the jsDitor of custom house, who
cleans spittoons, entertaining political
opinions At one with the party in power.
It il obvious that Mr.. Jenkins has
given up all hope of being elected gov
ernor of Wisconsin. No man who thinks
sbis6, ,oa5s, ,ei eaReeASh te Ssls0ts hiRn tta
- the foregoing.-CAicago Times.
NoBTHERN MEN WITH SOUTHERN PRIN.
CIPLEs.
Northern men with southern princi.
ples," like the editor of the New York
Nation, are respectfully invited to con.
slider these three questions: (l) Do the
negroes of the south have any constitu-
tional rightsf (2) Can they exercise in
full the rights guaranteed to them by
the constitution and laws of the United
Statesf (3) Should they be permitted
to exercise those rights! An early an
swer will oblige. In the meantime the
Matior 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 etbsggers to appear
In any community, and the despicable
character of the persons who have been
murdered for political reasons in Yaxoo
and Kemper counties, Missisaippi-CAi-
cago Tribune.
A SPECIMEN SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
The New Orleans Picavune, . Demo.
cratic paper of good standing, says of
Wiltx, who has been nominated for gov
ernor by the Louisiana Democrats, that
~ mayor of the city he was the most
expensive New Orleans ever had. His
council spent $l2,OOO,OOO in two years,
and he added q, ,5OO, 900 to the municipal
debt. 1t asserts that bis administration
was the high carnival Of robbery among
the politicians. 1t was the cap-stone to
the monument of misrule built by the
joint labor of the carpet bagger and the
Democratic ward hummer. It stands a.
q landmark in our political history to
guide all good citizens away from the
camp of the professional politicians to
seek for honest and faithful servantA"
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE RESULT In
OHIO.
The result is sufficiently clear a 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 brigadiert, 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.-Chioogo
Times.
THE SOUTH AND THE TREAsURY-RAIDs
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 Warrington,
brought the record of demands upon
congress for internal improvements at
the south down to March /, 1878, and
for private relief" to March rs, 1873,
and showed the enormous aggregate of
1850, ,O0O, 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
IL the appalling result: From March,
1873, to July l, 1879, and
ommitting various blind claims
for enormous unspecified sums, bills were
introduced into congress calling for
9691, 1861, 600 for internal Improvements
In the south, and the private claims
amount to 81, Az, ,942 more. The official
records, then, omitting the independent
estimates of Judge T. W. Barley, coun-
eel for . large number of claimants,
prove that within . 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, sum vastly greater, by res
con of the blind claims which are not
reckoned, than 81, ,287, ,6N, ,736. These
figures need no comment to show that
the rule of the solid south means shame
and ruin.-New York, Tribune.
SOME TIMELY APHHRIsNs.
In speech at Chemung, New Yor 1
Emory A. storrs, Of Chicago, uttered the
following terse and telling aphorisms:
l. "The1e IL no great heresy of the
a. ~ l>k L. L.