National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-19

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WASHINGTON. JANUARY 10, 1880.
WAS always man of peace, and have
always advocated peace, although educated
a soldier.-U s Grant
THE District Home-Rulc boom will reach
its initiative demonstration this week. The
suffrage meeting Friday night will serve TO
start the ball in motion in earnest. The
eunuchs are respectfully admOnished to
stand aside.
REPRESENTATIVE BLACKBURN is on rec
ord as au advocate of suffrage in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Is he prepared to stultily
that record, or has he been misrepresented
by the current report that he is opposed to
Home Rule?
GOVERNOR" SMITH, the Fusionist,
swore up in Maine last Friday that he had
been elected to be Governor, land he'd he
id if he wasn't going to be Governor"
and all that sort of thing. But it was
Fiat oath, you see.
Now MosBY is to be a witness before a
Congressional Committee. But the Com
mittee will get no news out of him; he'll
tell all he knows, and more too, before he's
half way home, Not that it will be q half
seas-over story but one just about as CO.
herent and indiscreeuy public.
THE Administration has settled the matter
of appointments to the vacant foreign mis-
sions without difficulty. Ithas at the 50 me
time, if current reports be true, established
q satisfactory precedent by promoting to
those vacancies certain gentlemen who are
already employed in our foreign service.
THE Fusionists have themselves been
fused up in Maine. That is, the loyalty of
the Pine Tree Yankees having been heated
up to red white and blue temperature the
political atmosphere became too warm for
their cold-blooded treason, and their
seditious State government has melted
away.
CARCEEoNIsM has proved to be dis
graceful fizzle. The proposition to NOM
mate its author for Vice. President on the
Democratic ticket seems to have ended
where it began-in the fruitIess imagina-
ton of few BOurbons, who think that
Greaserism can be made to flourish on
American soil.
The first State election of importance
this year will be held in Indiana in April
next, when seven amendments to the con-
stitution of the State will be voted upon,
among them one to change the time for gen.
eral elections from October to November.
The result of this contest will have very
little significance, politically speaking, but
it will serve to put the boys in training for
the ensuing National contest.
IT Is history that either the assailing or
the assaulted party, one or the other, al
ways runs when bayonet charge is made.
Politically speaking, this history is being
repeated up in Maine, where the Garcelon-
ties are running for dear life, even before
the bayonets are crossed. And, we add
this has ever been the case since the BASH
BARsTow contest in Wisconsin in
1855, down to date. The Democrats of the
North always run and don't you forget it,
WHAT seems most to puzzle the sub
committee engaged in quizzing General
BRADY, in reference to the "Star Service, u
is how any man can take any responsibility
upon himself for the good of the SERVICE
This is evidently principle of official life
with which the investigators are unac.
quainted. If General BRADY is censurablc
it is for his faith in the belief that he would
be sustained by Democratic Congress in
doing anything merely for the good of the
service"
IL 1868 the Republican National Con-
vention met at Chicago May 20, aud nOmi.
mated for President ULYSSES S. GRANT
The Democratic National Convention met
at New York July 4, and nominated
HoRATIo SEYMOUR, of New York The
difference between GRANT and SEYMOUR
after the election was 1874 electoral votes
GRANT received 214, and was elected tC
come to Washington. SEYMOUR received 80
and was elected to stay at home. Perhaps
history is about to repeat itself
SPEAKER RANDALL was opposed to tn
law destroying the right of suffrage in thi
District Other leading members Of boil
parties in the House who were in Congress
when suffrage was taken from us, are nov
engaged in looking up their past records OIL
this question But it will make very LITTLE
difference how they stood then. The ques.
ton they will have to answer TO their con.
stituents is: How will they vote now that
proposition TO re-enfrauchise the people o
the District is about to be presented tC
themp
SENATORS BECK AND VOORHEES, insis
that it is inexpedient just now to repea
the legal-tender act Thereupon the New
York World calls them TO account, and, as