The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-24

81 head, Indiana Republicans believe in
phrenology.
GEN. GRANT recently wrote letter to
cx-Gov. Routt, of Colorado, which closed
with this pointed paragraph relating to
the present political struggle:
The Republicans seem to feel great confidence
III carrying New York and Indiana. II they do
We art safe, and another four years will proba-
bly, sce the breaking up Of the Democratic party
and the organization Of two national parties ex-
ercisIng the franchise freely, without fear, in
all sections alike.
That is pretty clear indication of
what the general thinks of the Democrat
ic party. Democrats are probably thor
oughly convinced by this time that he
will not support Hancock, and that their
predictions that he would were, to say the
least, premature.
A PARTY of Indiana commercial agents
called upon Gen. Garfield, ut his home,
on Saturday, and were courteously re-
ceived. The general made them a very
appropriate speech, thus adding another
evidence of his remarkable ability and
good sense Ill this direction. In the
scores of brief and impromptu addresses
which he has been called upon to deliver
since his nomination he has exhibited
excellent taste, never violating propriety,
and never failing to utter some thought
or suggestion worthy of consideration in
itself, and attractive by virtue of the
eloquent and forcible language in which
it is clothed. Nothing tests n mans in
tellectual power and alertness more than
this kind of speaking, and none of our
public men have ever stood the test bet
ter than he.
DEMOCRATS point to Moseby, and
Longsteet, and Key rs evidence that
Republicans have put ex-rebels in Office,
and that it is inconsistent for them to
talk about the favor which has been
shown the ex-rebels by the Democrats.
But they overlook very striking differ
encc in their assumed parallel, namely:
the men whom the Republicans have put
in office have abandoned the "lost
cause" and profess IN earnest
desire for the preservation of
the Union and for harmony between the
sections; while the men whom the Dem
ocrats have advanced embrace every OPP
pOrtunity to parade their part in the re-
bellion, their regret at its failure, and
their admiration for its heroes. Some
even go further, and by word and deed
proclaim their purpose to reject as far rs
possible the results of the war. The
difference in this case is just that be-
tween repentant andunrepentant sinners.
+. Il. BELTzH0ovER, Democratic men,
Der of congress from Pennsylvania, was
requested by constituent to introduce
and urge the passage of certain pension
bill, and in reply wrote that he would
cheerfully do 80 but for the fact that
"With HC present Democratic house
"pCasiOn bills do not bear much .fapOr.
cit has become almost impossible to
"get consideration of such bill at all,
"and when considered ITS chance of
"passing the house is very remote, and
"thc rCbGi general UhO is at The head
"of tie pension committee in the sem
safe is still more adverse 10 aitO,Oing
/" any such bitis to pass"
OF course the writer meant pensions
for union soldiers-any scheme by which
rebel soldiers could be benefited as well
would doubtless receive favor. 1t is one
of the anomalies of Democratic ascend
ency in congress that rebel general is
ut the head of the committee which has
to pass upon the bills for the relief of
soldiers who saved the government from
the rebellion in which he was engaged.
A Democratic victory this fall means q
great deal more of this kind of thing.
AMONG the Democratic speakers sent
into Vermont to aid, if possible, in re-
ducing the Republican majority, was one
Col. Martin, of Mississippi. In one of
his speeches he is reported rs having de-
hvered himself as follows:
We are charged with stealing the negro vote.
Well, are we to blame for 1t? Those who gave
the negro vote forgot the Lords Prayer, il
they ever knew it, especially the clause which
| says Lead US not into temptation" They
gave theright to vote to the negro. by 30 doing
they gave to the souih forty-six additional cleo
toral votes and forty-six additional members of
congress-. Now, We determined to get those
electoral votes and those members Of congress,
and We got them. Are We to blame for II? The
Republicans tempted us, and We fell. Now that
We have them We propose to keep them.
This was altogether too frank IN adj
mission of the facts, and Col Martin
was sent home. He did not explain the
cause of the "solid SOUTH" az he was
expected to do, by the lying assertion
that the negroes had freely voted the
Democratic ticket, but said frankly that
it was caused by the theft of the negro
vote, and he palliated the theft and an
nounced the purpose of the Democrats
to keep the thing thus stolen. This is
the course pursued by some southern
Democratic journals-they admit that
they have captured the offices through
fraud and intimidation, and justify it on
the ground that that is the only way in
which they can secure control of the
governmental machinery, and that they
are the only people fit to handle it. The
northern Democratic organs, however,
assert that southern elections are fair,
and the negroes have been converted to
Democracy.