The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-26
Editorial Notes.

H. l.. Morey has ne would be happy.
BY the way, Barnum, how does Hunt the
rascal down " strike you as motto?
Perhaps Ben. Hill will be surprised, but the
Republican party declines to dsband as he re-
quested.
Ii would have been more than IS in the peck
never been born.
Barnum will be chiefly famous in history as
the man who did a thing so mean that William
II. English spurned it,
Alexander Stephens says the Democratic
the hogtrough." That promotes Barnum from
a mule driver to hog-driver.
II Sickles, Forney, Butler, Butterfeld and
other renegade Republicans will go of in
corner somewhere and form new party OF
their own it will be a great relief to the Re-
publicans. All danger of their coming back
will then be dispslled.
Mr.. Watterson, in burst Of frankness which
is characteristic of him, says 1.-THE history OF
the Democratic party these twenty years is
neither very edlfyng nor very savory. But it
is very instructive" This is unadulterated
truth.
When modest correspondent asked Gen.
Garfield Tor information about his Cabinet, the
General smiled land observed. THAT is some
thing we will know more about three months
from now. have made up my mind to be for
three months a frst-class listener" If the
Office seekers have their way he will have
chance to do all the listening he cares for.
Amateur statesmen who are wisely arranging
matters at Washington for the next foar years
are liable to be disappointed unless they take
one important fact into consideration. And
that is, that General Garfield will have little
more influence with the next Administration
than any other man.
Congressman Aiken, OF South Carolina comes
to the front with the outspoken opinion that
the Northern Democrats are party with
name, but without principle" He thinks the
South had better break with these Northern
allies and look out for herself. What he says
about the Northern Democrats is true enough,
but the Northern Democrats might well retort
that if the Southern Democrats were not so
encountered with principles, all of them bad,
there would be more hope for the whole party.
The proposal is seriously made in the South
that the Electoral College for Garfield. They
have no moral right to do such a thing, and Of
proposal Is made is significant. One of the
Alabama Electors Is openly favoring the STEP
and the Editor Of The Seaport Appeal, of
Brunswick, Georgia, alsu advocates 1t. This is
fresh symptom Of Southern WEAKNESS of
Southern solidity, and most significant one.
One CT The veterans5 OF the war, who lost
leg, was urged at the polls in Maine to vote for
Hancock. well" said he, " can't do it, l
had dream last night. 1 dreamt 7 went TO
the polls and deposited Hancock ballot and
just as did 90 I received tremendous kick.
/ looked around, and there was my old leg,
which was buried nearly 20 years ago just as
lively as cricket. No sir, no Hancock vote
for me-"
The Democratic Committee are finding out
that lie well stuck to before election is
good deal more troublesome than truth after
election.
Taking one consideration with another, the
muie-buyer's lie is not happy one.
There were 10 cphers in the last Demo-
cratic campaign, and there will be no forgery
in the next. The Democracy is slowly and
painfully acquiring wisdom.
Hancock carried California by from 81 to 1i3
plurality, and Garfield carried 1t by 507 plurali-
ty. Hancock gets five electoral votes, and
Garfield one. The Democratic newspapers
who regarded it as lamentable defect OF the
electoral system that those citizens OF Cali
fornia who preferred to vote for only five
Hancock electors we're able to do it, are re-
specially requested to wal little over this
latest defect, whereby State can be carried by
two candidates, and that one who receives
much the smaller majority can get nearly all
the electoral votes.
1t looks now as If Barnum would allow Gar
field to take his seat.
Several Democ ratio editors have rushed to
the front. about two weeks behind him, with a
request that the guilty ones in this forgery
business be brought to justice. The Republic
cans will see to that, brethren, and don't you
forget it.
The country begins to understand that
Democratic fraud yell invariably precedes
Democratic catastrophe.
1t is announced as fact that William Fl.
English refused to distribute in Indiana the
packages OF papers containing the forged Nor
ey letter which Barnum sent him. The work
was too vile for English to take a hand in.
That entities Barnum to the belt as the cham
pion mean man Of America.