National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-08-30

nomination. Why should hop He knows that
AS regards himself and Hancock" the
mountain" must "come to Mahomet" Tilden
can't give Hancock the thirty electoral
votes of New York. but he can prevent Han.
cock from having the slightest chance Of get
ting them.
JUDGE BUXTON, the republican candidate
for governor of North Carolina, was elected to
the bench by the whole people in 1868, having
received tho nomination of both political
parties al timo of extraordinary political ex-
element. His great ability aud pure char.
actcr disarm the democratic mud singers, and
will attract the votes Of many independent
men to the republican cause.
THE Chicago Times says that It is unable to
find in all the utterances of tho southern dem
ocratic press aud orators single admission of
that which is fundamental to the existence of
a nation namely, the exclusive sovereignty
in an American people conceived as n unit.
But loud long and vehement assertions of the
contrary of this have been and are among all
ranks and characters Of southern politicians,
very abundant.
DOES John W. Forney ever recall the time
when, under Buchanan's administration ON
ployes of the Philadelphia custom.houso were
forbidden to subscribe TO the Philadelphia
Press under penalty Of discharges And does
he not remember that two gentlemen em-
ployed In that custon.house were discharged
for reporting speeches that were published In
that paper2 Such was democratic discipline;
and surely he can't forget 1t.
SO the mechanics and workingmen will sup
port Garfield and Arthur because 1t is for their
interest to do so. Amember oftho Silk Ribbon
Weav ers' union of New York and Paterson,
N. j., an organization which numbers more
than 1900 men, writes to tho national COM
mittce that they have decided to vote for Gar.
field and Arthur ito the last man." They say
, that they real ize as never before the injury
/ W hich the silk trade would sustain by the &C.
cession of party hostile to the protective
tariff and will do all they can to elect another
republican president.
For weeks past the democratic newspapers
have been insinuating that General Sherman
was afraid to produce the letters written by
| him to Hancock at the time of the excitement
over the presidential question in 1877. twas
| intimated that these letters would show Sher-
man to have been party to plot to seize tho
government for the republicans at all hazards.
Now that the letters have been printed Ii Is
perceived that they contain absolutely moth
ing of which Sherman or any other honest
man need to have been ashamed. They arc
precisely such epistles as might have been
written by any patriotic officer to one of his
personal friends in the army.
BUELL. takes gloomy view Of democratic
prospects in yesterdays Capital. He wishes he
had the serene serenity" of the editor of the
Sunday Herald, for then he could SEQ the prom
Used land not far away. As to the political pros
poet, he sees "super1uous" democratic parties
in New York, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia
which if continued will certainly land the
first two states in the Garfield column in No
vember. As to the accessions from republican
ranks ho says: 80 far as 1 can see with th'
naked eye there is but one fish of any size
swimming from s,,r::hliGan waters in the di
rection of our net, and that one was an Ole
shark of the name of Forney, to avoid catching
whom, viewing the matter rs practical fish
erman, would have withdrawn the net if
had had my way"