Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-15

POLITICAL POINTS.
The New York San calls Justify
upon Edmunds, of Vermont. to come
out with letter denouncing the third
term boom, just as if Edmunds were an
honest man. Edmunds, with Sherman,
helped to steal the Presidency for
Hayes, and to call upon him to de-
nounce a Republican iniquity is very
much like calling upon the devil to do
the same thing ng.-Iadiasaa Sentinel.
-O One of the basest instances of
ingratitude on record is the refusal of
Hayes to purchase biography of the
late Senator Chandler, the man to
whom he is indebted for his present oc-
cupancy of the White House. He
didn't even have the excuse that he
didn't want to read the book, for he
ordered one, at the public expense, for
the White House library. Exchange.
- 1t is in order for Blaine's friends
to claim for him another victory in the
arena of debate. Routed by the voice
of the entire Senate from his position
that there was a compact by which
Buffers admission was made dependent
on Kellogg's, he triumphantly reinstat-
ed himself by showing that a Southern
newspaper had so declared. There is
nothing like being magnetic. DE
troit Free Press.
: Nominate Blaine and put Matt
Carpenter on the stump for him.
Mr.. Carpenter was Blaine's attorney in
the Mulligan case, and knows all about
the rottenness and rascality of "the
plumed knight of Arkansas bond steals
ond nfhnr I.ifhnoroy, of
the Mulligan Letters would be delight
full reading with Blaine as candidate
for President. They would be proper
Offset to the Black List of scoundrels
whom the great Fraud bought and paid
to give him the Presidency towhich he
was not elected. Omaha Herald.
f: Mr.. Blaine succeeded yesterday
in precipitating a windy partisan de-
bate in the Senate The matter under
consideration was the resolution declar-
ing Mr.. Kellogg an interloper and in
truder, and proposing to invite Mr..
The time is drawing near for Mr.. Blaine
to exalt himself. He must stick tha,
poetical feather in his hat and plunge
around among the rebel Brigadiers like
an inf,lriated bovine in a queensware
shop. He hasn't shaken his fists at any
of the living monuments to the mercy
of a Christian people for some months,
and the rebelliOn-crushers in Illinois and
Indiana are losing faith in him as 9
Brigadier-tamer.-St. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas, the
small son of a great father, assisted Mr.
Robert Todd Lincoln in celebrating the
assassination anniversary by a third
term pow-wow at Chicago. Mr.. Doug
| las at present halls from North Caro-
lima, and therefore felt called upon tt
give diagnosis of the political situa
ton in that State. He classed it among
the 'tdoubtfuP' ones; thought it wa'
trembling in the balance" and tina
the nomination of Grant would snatch
| it as a Republican brand from the Dem
ocratic burning. .Whereupon, say tn,
reporters, there was tremendous ap
plause'' from pit, boxes and gallery
and the third-term book-keepers irme
diately credited Grant with ten addi
tional electoral votes.-Erchamge. =
--Apparently Senator Edmunds i
not above resorting to the tactics of th'
other Presidential candidates. Hi
speech in the Senate on the Genev;
award distribution was the most pro
nounced kind of bid for. support
Singularly enough, too, considerin,
Edmunds' reputation as a '.stalwart,
it was a bid for Southern support
When man in Edmunds' position
tells the -Confederates that the lat
war was merely "brave contest of tn
Anglo-S Saxon race for supremacy an
that ''treascn is not so offensive wor
as some people suppose it to be, be
cause our ferefathers were guilty {
treason in a municipal sense in ACHE,
ing our liberties, he "means business.
General Grant and Mr.. Sherman mus
look to their laurels.--Detroit Frt
Press.
The news from Harrisburg read
like a romance. 1t recalls the days
Democratic chivalry; the days whe
principles ruled, and the. integrity, til
usefulness and the unity of the party {
the Constitution were not sacrificed t
cliqueism, private quarrels and person:
revenges. 1t warns the cookies of tf
true Democratic heart to read the sti
ring words of Randall, of Wallace,
Vaux. of Stenger, of Dill, of Hensel, an
the rest of the brave and loyal spirit!
who, amid boundless discouragemel
and against an iron-clad machine, ha,
= held up the banner of the good ol
faith of Jefferson and jackson, an
who, driven apart for years upon loc;
issues, have at last come together upo
the threshold of a supreme Nations
emergency, pledged to see the wror
righted, and to drive the enemies
popular government into merited +
tirement. Such a miracle could on
| be wrought by the voice of the peopl
which is the voice of God. 1t isa toke
that the people are at the front, asser
ing their majesty and their power
Louisville Courie7--Jou77sal