Smyrna times., 1880-08-11

desperate one, and the victory Will pc
with that which organizes its forces and
handles them the best on the day of final
action.
THERE is going to be desperate battle
in Maine this year. The Democrats and |
Greenbackers have united on State, Legis |
lative and Congressional tickets, and pro- |
pose to make it warm for Mr.. Blaine and
his cohorts.
Now that the Democrats in most of
the Southern States have, as it were, no
Republican party to fight, they fall to
fighting among themselves, especially in
Georgia. This is what will disintegrate
the solid South, unless it is kept solid in
spite of the tendency to fall asunder by
the interference of outsiders.
The Democratic majority in Alabama
gets bigger and bigger as the returns
come in. At last accounts the figure was
$4,000, with an upward tendency. That
looks like overriding the thing. This
might be proper time to circulate the
Cincinnati Platform in Alabama declaring
the free exercise of the ballot the "right
preservative of all rights"
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, under the direction of the indie
fatigable worker, Miss Willard, has taken
to the now popular notion of grove con-
Vocations, and announces them in the
special interests of the temperance cause
at the principal points of resort, Chau-
tauqua, Lake Bluff, Round Lake, Ocean
Grove, and so on. Practical sessions for
comparison of experiences on the varied
phases of woman's temperance work
promised.
In Senator Blaine's speech at the Re
publican conference in New York he in
timated that favorable result in Maine
next month and in Indiana in October
would seriously demoralize the Democrat
ic party in the South. There is no doubt
but that successes in the preliminary &C.
tions in the States named would great
ly encourage the Republicans Of the
South, and draw out larger negro vote
than would be cast if those elections
went the other way.
WHILE our newspapers have occasion
to speak of the disgraceful work which
the Mormons are permitted to carry or
in violation of the law of the land, thC
German Government has given a sigma
moral rebuke to the United. States Gov
eminent by expelling from German terri
tory some Mormon missionaries who wer
engaged in degrading people into prose
lytes for their society. This exampl
ought to be initiated by all the othe
nations of Europe.
BALBo, the Italian, ended his life O.
the gallows on Friday. This ends th
display of sickly sentimentality SO abund
antly poured out in his behalf Nov
that he is dead, we suggest that Bender
the Kansas murderer still lives, and OF
pseudo philanthrophists, so found of poul
ing sympathy on murderous brutes, ca
have full play on him. Yet in point {
fact he is of the same type as Balbo.
is time that this miserable business wei
ended. If we are to have law again
murder, that law must be enforced
Otherwise, it is better to repeal all laws
PUNISH the crime OF murder.
WASHINGTON is afflicted with band
sharpers, who prey upon strangers an
sightseers, and who, from the small teri
tory of the district, have exception
facilities for carrying on their work witt
out fear of punishment. The usual pla
is for the sharper to offer his services as
guide, and take him to real or imaginal
objects of interest away from the bus
haunts of men, where they are joined |
confederates, and if the victim will n,
submit to be quietly feeced, force is use
and the robbery is consummated. Sue
Outrages to visitors to the capitol are r
ported daily to the authorities, thoue
doubtless most of the victims pock
their losses, rather than have any exp
sure.
The New York Tribune in speaking
DIR. Tanner, says "The Englishman wi
has successfully finished his fast in Cla
endon Hall will be regarded by half
the public as sincere zealot who ran in
the jaws of death to serve no good pu
pose beyond that of showing his ov
pluck, and by the other half as succes
full charlatan who has easily tricked
credulous public. II really matters lit
which of these var'irts is right. T.
construction OF Dr. tanners stomac
whether normal or covered, as he clain
with sandy deposits from the water
Tunbridge Wells, can help or hurt nobo
but himself But it does concern US
that he should have no imitators. In t
name Of decency, let the thing stop hel
We have quite enough morbid nastinC
to flavor our social and moral atmosphC
without this new and peculiarly offensi
show. With all good will to DIR. Tam,
we hope that his undertaking did \
pay enough to tempt any followers"
A LARGE party of Republicans, W
had been at party conference held
that city, left New York with Gen. G.
field ON Saturday at an early hour
Chautauqua, which they reached inEsafi
that night At all the large towns
the line of the Ere Railway he v
greeted by enthusiastic crowds, "
thronged the stations i'm order to obtain
view of the Republican candidate for
Presidency. Speeches were made
William Walter Phelps, Lieutenant4G j
ernor Hoskins, Benjamin Harrison, FIR
CHS Hiscock, Thomas @. Plat, Mu
Hastead, Senator Halbeat, Charles
Williams and others at the VARIOUS b: