The Columbus journal., 1880-05-05
Politics and the Weather.
-CLAIrpoN. April %, 1850.

once had il To- below zero here,
and after that can scarcely be said
to have had any winter. We have
made up for il by cold and stormy
March aud April. For a fortnight
back il has blown in a manner wor-
thy Of Nebraska. But it is now
beginning to soften into spring.
Soon the dsndelion, that
"Dear common flower, that grows by
the way,
bringing the dusty road with HARM
lees gold,"
fer which | have so often looked in
vain upon the prairies, will..soon be
bestrewing the short, sweet grass.
From what | hear, il will not do
for the JOURNAL to reprove its
Genoese contemporary much longer
for being so indiscreet as 10 mention
the rainless skies OF Nebraska. A
youthful member of my family some
time since charitably proposed that
we should barrel up some of our
superabounding rainwater for prai-
rie use. If il were not for high
railroad rates this might be''a mutu-
ri good. 1t would he 80, at least, if
the Ohio soil were not so much
more craving of moisture than the
Nebraska soil. But | hope that ere
This reaches Won Divine Providence
will have sent a plentiful rain, that
will have rendered all my condol-
ences irupertinenf.
The "Grant BOOM" somehow,
seems rather 10 hang fire. Ohio is
g pretty serious dog in the way.
And the remembrance that repub-
lies are only TOO apt to be "over-
weighted by their Presidency is
still more serious one, which no
amount OF pooh-poohing will blow
swsy. Let patronage be sternly re-
siricted by genuine snd permanent
reform, aud il will not matter much
il President il elected twenty
times. But until then I think the
nation will show It's mind that once
is safer than thrice.
Blsine. is. not open TO that ohjec-
tion. Unfortunately, however, he il
open 10 a great many other obirc-
tions. But If the Republicans really
want. not merely TO nominate their
man, hui 10 elect him, why should
they not nominate a man who, like
Senator Edmunds, will certainly
draw every vote that is not already
sure for the.other side? We Inde-
pendents, | know, are troublesome
fellows, and if the Stalwarts could
only make clean sweep of US, they
might, dare say, nominate Bab-
cock himself, without any uncom-
Portable remonstrances. But as long
ss We are let TO live, We have votes,
all the same as the editor OF the
later = Ocean himself. And when
we ask, not that one of our number
should be nominated, but that man
should be nominated, whom, like
EDMUNDs, a Republican of the Re-
publicans, we shall count il an honor
to support, both reason and pru-
dence suggest that we should be
listened TO. And as to his State,
what one has deserved well of the
Republican party, if Vermont has
not?
Certain silly people about here
smell the Pope so strong in every
Thing, that they actually object to
Sherman on the ground that his
sister-in-law is a Roman Catholic
As il he chose his brothers wife for
him! / should like to have seen
him volunteering such an Office Tor
our Anglo-Ssxon Tecumseh. But
in truth, an unreasoning, and almost
ferocious hatred and dread Of the
Catholics is spread through the Re-
publicsns of this whole region. in
good part through the intemperate
bigotry OF the Cleveland Leader.
The editor of this, il is true. has
suffered one OF the deepest of do
mestic wrongs at the hands of those
unscrupulous zcalots who "compass
sea aud land 10 make one proselyte,"
regardless of every principle of |
frankness or honor, or parental |
right. We can sympathize fully |
with him in his burning Indignation
ST such an outrage, aud its perpe- |
traitors. But no man has a right TO |
allow his private griefs to poison |
his public uttersnces. Ii they are |
so great ss TO have disturbed the
balance of his mind, he should retire
from the editors chair. And that
the balance of mind of this gentle
man Is disturbed, is sufficiently clear
from the tact that lately, when a
professor of Oberlin Theological
Seminary, in public address, ut
tered a few friendly words of our
Roman Catholic fellow citizens, and
fellow Christians, the Leader fell
foul of him, with the inquiry, Is
there Concealed Jesuit in the Fac
ulty of Oberlin Seminary TIE
amusing absurdity of this attack
will be more evident when we con-
slider that the professor in question
nulv eeid what nina tontbs oc .ho !