National Republican., 1880-04-16
NOT HE, BUT 1.


Senator SALISBURY, of Delaware, is
selfish. But, then, selfshness is an heredi-
tary failing with the SAULsBURYs. The
family has been an ofiice-holding one ever
since n SALISBURY was known as Blue
Hens Chicken The disease is chronic
with them, aud so long as SALISBURY
breathes in Delaware, so long will he or
they be in Office And the offices that
family have held have all been profitable
The family knew Of the richest and mo st
influential, nnd-secured them. All of
which goes to prove, to use q homely
simile, the SAULsBURYs "kuew where the
hen scratched"
A bill was recently introduced in the
Senate to retire all non-com missioned Off
GERS after thirty years service to their coun-
try. All commissioned officers get retired,
and considerable sums of money are an
nually paid out of the Treasury for tn cir
benefit Then, why not the non commits
sioned2 There will never be many of them
and the sums required very small. But
Senator SALISBURY objected, and made n
somewhat lengthy speech againstit. Among
his other objections, he said that Congress
would not entertain proposition to re-
:" tire on pension public servants who had
been faithful in civil capacity" All
that is the milk in the cocoanut! How the
SAULsBURYs have been neglected! And
then, too, he said "mOney could not be
"raised by subscription to erect monument
ITO civilian, and that all the statues and
monuments had been erected for soldiers
This would be incredible were it not about
so. But hungry non-cOmmissioned officers
out of the service, too old or too feeble to
work, are not anxious about monuments
over their decaying bones; their anxiety ii
about their empty stomachs whilst living
And then consider the financial difference
between pens Joining civil servants and poor
non-commissioned officers. Why, we ven
ture the opinion that more would be re-
auired to pension the SAULsBURYs of Del
aware than the cOrporals aud sergeants OF
twenty regiments. All Mr.. Senator, if il
had not been for those non. commissioned
officers and their sympathizing comrades
neither you nor your brother Senators
would now have Il Treasury from which t.
draw your salaries or moneys to erect mon
uments to our dead heroes. Think of that
THE Bay City (Mich,) Tribune, after Civ
ing its reasons for preferring Genera
GRANT for the Presidency, INDUCES the
following incidental line Of remark
If there has over b cen any doubt that
GRANT would DO nominated, the BLAINE
bureau at Washington and the BLAINE press
everywhere would have removed IL by theil
niudicious course. They have done every
thing in their power to alienate the friends d
SuEEMAN and GRANT and WAsHBURNE
II they had been just aud fair in their can
yass, aud treated General GRANT and Mr.
SHERMAN aud their friends with ordinary
courtesy, Mr. BLAINE would have been thC
second choice of most of them, But now Mr.
WAsHBURNE stands a fur moro favorable
chance of a nomination than Mr.. BLAINE.
The Washington NATIONAL REPUBLICA,
asserts that HAYES keeps hundreds OF "trca
sonablen Democrats in the Departments, VIII
occupy places which should be filed by 10y
alists.h We suppose the Republican fellow
stonl so much that the Administration Is com
PEELED 10 get honest Democrats 10 do some o
| the Government work. The Admlnistratio
must have some common sense.-LOHispW
/ COWier.JoHUai,
In our humble judgment very little com
mon sense can be mined from Republican