National Republican., 1880-08-11

nine cents to the dollar the administration was
commended by democrats as great success.
When government four per cent. bond under
republican administration has become worth
Sl.O9 to the dollar these same democrats are
appalled, at the failure and wonder at the stu
pidity of the people In not seeing the differ
ence. After November the wonder will be
augmented.
NOTHING has yet been heard Of that $4,000
which was tho basis of the Field boom in
Georgia. The size of the boom was not pro-
portonate TO the amount contributed, aud the
persons who put up the money have been dc.
manding bill of particulars ever since the ad.
journment Of the Cincinnati convention. Mr..
w. E. Thornton, Georgia editor, very speci-
fcally charged General j. b. Gordon with
handling the money and then betraying Field
in favor of Bayard. Gordon's son tried to
bulldoze the editor with an umbrella, and since
then we have had noinformaton.
THE Washington Sentinel is going sharply
for the democratic congressional campaign
committee. II says: "Sx weeks have
passed since tho Cincinnati convention, aud
that precious time has all been squandercd in
splurging, juuketing aud paradng in print.
The republican committee have sent out over
100000 documents from this city, while our
selfgorifying managers have not printed or
mailed single one. Tho thing has gone too
far. No work has been done of the least value.
The cause is imperiled by criminal neglect,
by stupidity, by bad whisky or by something
worse"
A GENTLEMAN now a resident of this city,
but native OF Tennessee, is now in that state
on visit. He writes to a friend that he is
struck with the lack of improvement either
in the material or political status of the Sec
tion. The rebel element Is US unchanged as
the hills and appears to be Interchangeable. 1t
hates the union, freedom and progress as Of
yore. They will vote for Hancock, but with
u mental protest that IL is for purpose. lie
finds the atmosphere so unfriendly to union
men and republicans that he feels that gift
Of ten square miles of land in his native state
would not induce him TO live there.
THE democrats are daily becoming more
and more confused and alarmed as TO their
condition. With leader that is despised and
hated by the solid democratic south; with dis.
stractions in Indiana and Virginia; with peril
their hopes in Pennsylvania dissolving view;
with Connecticut slipping beneath their feet,
| and New Jersey becoming more uncertain for
their cause daily; with New York rapidly
| crystallizing into stalwart republican state,
the party begins to mourn as one without
hope. Their prospect is dark, and they are
studying the handwriting on the wall with
| terrible forebodngs.
THE Memphis Appeal publishes mn article
that is brilliant illustration of General Han.
cocks demand for a free vote and fair count.
Lot the Mississippi plan be restored. 1t says
Garfield will be sacrificed to hamper the in
coming administration with hostile congress.
Your own state, Mississippi, has been asst gned
the duty Of supplying two of the number re-
quired to reduce aud destroy democratic ma
jority in congress. Will you submit2 Can
You stand idly supincly, and witness the con-
summation of n gigantic conspiracy? No, a
thousand times no. Then awake; stir up your
clubs Let the shout go up. Put on your red
shirts and let the ride begin, or we will be
sold into political slavery"
CHAIRMAN RUNNELLs of the Iowa republ-
can state committee has bee east MS far us
New Hampshire, and after five weeks alb.
sence has carried home most cheering reports
to his party associates. The Drs Moines
Register thus reports him: ~ feel well salts.
fed that we shall be able to confront the solid
south with solid north. From 1872 to 1876
our party had been steadily losing strength
with every successive campaign. The ten.
deucies in 1876 were all against us. Now the
situation is entirely reversed. From 1876
until the present campai gn we have beer
growing stronger every year. The party i;
more confident and more hopeful than it has
been at this stage of the canvass in any presi
dental year since 1868. We have no factiona
differences. All are united and working to-
gcther for success"