Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-17
POLITICAL POINTS.

-Conkling hates Blaine and has
not spoken to Washburne for twenty
years. The nomination OF either one
would not inspire Conkling to make
&C the greatest effort of his life'' to win
the election City Times.
-George w. Curtis and his inde-
pendent followers are earnest in oppo-
sition to a third term of Grantism, and
are SO determined that they will not
support him under any circumstances.
And yet Cameron merely smiles,
cracks his whip, and orders the circus
to go on.-Rock Island (IU.) Argus.
Texas falls into line for Grant,
and thereupon the New York World
declares the Republican machine
creaked little, but a copious applica-
ton of elbow-grease overcame the
friction; the recording angel chalked
up sixteen votes for Grant, and she'd
ding sneer upon Blaine's chances
wiped them out forever.
When Mr.. Forney speaks of
General Grant as q the hope of forgive
ness to the South, of peace to the North,
and of rest to the whole Nation" he
says more than any occasion in a coun-
try SO prolific as this is of honest, saga
cious, patriotic men, can ever Justify.
Such talk smacks more of sycophancy
than sense.-iSt. Louis Republican.
The Atlanta Post says: The bar'I
is a very essential thing in the politics
of these days, and the announcement
that Senator Blaine has recently made
two millions in mining stocks is sig
nifcant and important one. General
Grant has no bar'l of money himself,
but he knows a great many people
who have, while Secretary Sherman,
with decided skill, has filed two or
three barrels with special treasury
agents.
- We think it was Josh Billings or
some other experienced philosopher
who said that when a humble bee stings
another man and we know it, that s
knowledge; but when the humble bee
stings us, that's experience. Secretary
Sherman would seem to have learned
the force of this definition, for he is
now reported as saying that she re-
CARDS the whole feature of patronage as
an obstacle rather than help to Presi-
Dental aspirations" If he only knew
this before he tried it he has had expe-
rience of it since.--Detron Free Press.
- Logan remarked in the Senate
recently that if he had been in COM
mand Of the Army of Virginia :. there
would have been no Fitz John Porter
knocking at the portals of Congress to-
day." This is most tremendous,
though er post facto threat. 1t will be
generally construed to mean that Lo-
gan would have made speech to Por-
ter. Our own impression, however,
which we believe to be also Logan's, is
that he would have bitten Porter s
head off and asked to be made Lieu
tenant General by the Confederates fol
doing it.-N. Y World.
- OF course no rational person be.
lieves that Mr.. Kellogg, Rep, was ever
elected to the Senate of the United
States, and of course also no such per-
son regards Mr.. Kellogg, Rep, as a fl,
man on general principles to have a
. seat in the Senate of the United States
But the New York World is of the opin.
ion decidedly that at present and fol
some little time to come Mr.. Kellogg s
presence in the Senate of the United
States will be of greater service to the
Democratic party than that even of 8
respectable Democrat. An awful ex
ample in Office without right by grace
of the Republicans is worth more tt
liberty and the law than blessed mar.
tyr.