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National Republican., 1880-12-29
POLITICAL POINTS.

Judge Kelley, who is in Philadelphia
for the holidays, says his chances for the Speaker
ship are fair.
This thing of dropping fellow politi-
cally is sometimes like tho old fellows wild cat
It's darned easy to catch him. but not so easy to let
him go,
Secretary Ramsey has influential back
ing for the senatorshlp In the press of Minnesota.
He was beaten for reelection six years ago by a
combination which broke away from the caucus
nomination.
The Washington Post calls it :" the al-
legged Democratic majority in the House." True
enough absentees have broken the Democratic
quorum and made the party oontemptible.-
Augttsta Chronicle,
Senator Jones, Of Florida, although he
Is admitted to be by all odds the ablest member Of
the Democratic party Of that State, finds consider
able opposition to his reelection because he is an
Irlshman. He will "boycott" tho Legislature.
What the Democratic party wants is q
policy, II hasn't had any for the last twenty
years, 1t hasn't been sincere inRnything' The re-
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Summary Vengeance.

Lynch law is not conservative or al
together safe element of dispensing JUS
tice under the banner of civilization, but
there are times, occasions, and oilenses
under which it may be more salutary to
the public welfare than to await the laws
delays. There have been occasions in
this city when summary punishment
would have been in accord with puplic
sentiment. There are crimes 80 revolving
that to allow the criminal TO exist after
its perpetration is a great tax upon pub
lie patience; and yet we are among those
who believe that, after all, the machinery
of the courts and the provisions of the
law are the safest agencies for dispensing
justice and sustaining the powers of the
Government A recent case of lynching
has occurred in the town of Bethlehem,
in the stNid and conservative State OF
Pennsylvania, whore the people took the
law into their own hands and hung the
criminal on the first tree. The crime was
Of the most sickcning character The de-
tail have already been published, and
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portray a most horrible crime perpetInted
by boarder in family, the,husband and
wife of which were murdered by him
while asleep by being Drained with an
axe. The ncighbors were aroused and
visited the terrible scene. They resolved
then and there to visit vengeance upon
the perpetrator of the crime, and the work
was promptly done. In this they cheated
the law of its right, while they avoided
its delays-its loop-holes through which
so many criminals escape punishment
the skill and ingenuity of eminent coun-
sci, and the uncertainties of justice
through hung iuies. The work was
promptly done under certain evidence of
guilt, and the expenses of trial and ex-
ecution were saved to the county. The
public mind submits in quietude.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
A Carrler Boy'. CompInInt.

To We EdF0r Of The Nl'I0ndE Republican.
New Years Day Is almost here, and / ask you to
say word for the carrier boys to put a stop to u
mean swlndle, We boys know very well that there
Is no obligation on anybody to give us n cent, but
we would like those ndpeople who remember MS
on New Years when we present the carriers 'ad-
dress to see that whatever they choose to give Ills
reaches our hands. Last New Years Day at two
iive-cent nickel, and another brought me three
pennies, Now, just believe both of these servants
got what was sent TO me- because don't believe
that rich people, who live In such big houses would
act so. They would he more apt to send word that
they had no change than send three cents. Please
tended for us. CARRIER BOY.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
A Tempest i'm a Tenpot.

There is another speck of war in the
East. Greece is Tuflled, and has some
sixty thousand men under arms and
"eager for the fray" 10 this she pro-
poses TO add forty thousand more, and
then she will be ready to beard the
Sublime Porte in his harcm. The casuS
GeNi consists in the fact that Turkey now
occupies and refuses to surrender posses
sion of region Of country outside her
ancient limits that has been awarded to
Greece by the supplementary conference
at Berlin. This ihe latter proposes to
possess by the force Of arms, if needs be,
unless some arrangement is made be-
tween the Porte and the other European
Powers for n diplomatic solution of the
difficulty. The allied Powers hesitate and
delay action, and Greece is becoming i'm.
paticntand sets her quilts on end as men.
ace, In the meantime, Turkey indicates q
decided indispostion 10 relinquish hei
hold upon the territory question, and has
gone so far as to eyince warliks purpose
If Greece should attempt to take posses
sion of it, There the matter stands
awaiting arbitration; but arbitration ol
no arbitration, the portending storm will
prove a white squall or mere wind gusts
Greece, with one hundred thousand we'll
armed men, will not provoke a war with
Turkey, Diplomacy is cheaper and safer
and will be quite as efficient in breaking
the hold Of the Porte from the few miles
of land which is claimed through Il treaty
title to which Turkey has given no as
sent.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

suit, as everybody knows, has been defeat II has
contcntcd itself With opposing Whatever the Ro-
publcans adyocatcd-Ncic Orleans Times.
Eighty.two members of the Know
Nothing Legislature Of 1885 had reunion at Bos.
ton Wednesday. That body elected Henry Wilson
to his first term in the United States Senate. The
Rev Daniel G. Eddy, Of Lowell, who was speaker
in 1855, presided at the reunion.
The probability of Secretary Sherman's
election to the Senate mus, be little CALLING to
that Southern statesman who predicted twenty
two years ago that John sherman would roost
lower the next time he ran for Office. BY the way,
where does that prophet roost himself now? Does
NhndY knnNy2
National Republican., 1880-12-29

WE may be mistaken, but We think
not, when we entertain and express The
belief that it is very absurd now TO allcge,
as the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore american docs that the recent
New York nominations were sent in at
Senator Conklings request, who desired
the changes to be made. We think it
safe to say that Senator Conkling has
made no request, nor has he expressed
any desire relating to appointments by
the present administration since the dis
placement of Arthur and Cornell. lie
may have entertained desires as to offices
In his State, but he has not expressed
them to the President by large majority,
Somebody else than Senator Conkling
will have to bear the entire responsibility
of the changes now going on in the Fed
eral offices in the State of New York.
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pInine Going 20 Emropc.

Wild rumors are, e,iylng abDut concerning Senator
Blainc's being appointed Secretary of State by
President Garfield. IT is said by those who ought
TO know best that Mr.. Blaine Is preparing for a
try.in March and returning next November. lie
would go in February If II were not for the close
vote IN nc senate amer March ,, An apparently
will Join his friend, the Hon. William Walter
Phelps, In Rome as early in the spring MS possible
has been expecting Mr.. Blaine and another friend
10 join him In the spring. Washington Correspond.
NIIrr NnLr InrL IrihIlIs
National Republican., 1880-12-29

THE cmigrants who are coming to our
shores seeking homes in the West are just
now enjoying the benefits Of the sharp
competition in the way of transportation
between the Pennsylvania and the Hud-
son River and New York Central and
Erie Railroads. The latter lines have
given notice to the Commissioners of EN-
igration that they will sell tickets at re-
duction of twenty per cent. from present
rates The Pennsylvania road made q
similar reduction three weeks ago. The
Commissioners complain of what they
term the commission nuisance, and while
they do not assume to dictate rates for the
roads, they insist that the commission
practice shall cease, in the interest of the
cmigrants.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

On the day before Bernharlts appearance in
Montreal the Catholic bishop published a card that
he had employed a competent person" to exam
inc the play, and that 1t had been pronounced as
" immoral" and conveyed "sad lessons to Chris.
tim minds" The result was that Sara took In
$500. The audience were mainly French, The
absence of librettos the hearty applause, and the
discrimination of points showed that there was a
more thorough sympathy between actress and All.
dience than is to be found on our side of the line
National Republican., 1880-12-29

broadway was cleaned Of snow and slush on
Monday night from South Ferry to Twcuty-third
street. Tho labor employed $50 carts and drivers
and 100 sweepers aud shovclcrs, divided into gangs
of fifteen carts and eighteen men cnch Every gang
had two blocks to attend TO, aud by two Il. IN the
work was done. The snow was dumped into the
East and North Rivers.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

THERE is altogether too much promis-
ouous shooting in this city on holidays,
and the tragedy of Christmas should
bring the use of firearms on such days to
final end. A residence on Ninth street
was shot into on the same day, the bullet
passing through the window and lodging
i'll the wall opposite. Fortunately no one
was hurt Other instances may have
occurred; for it is well known that the
same class of irresponsible hoodlums that
make the night hideous with horns and
pistols have not the sense to refrain from
shooting bullets.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

TENANTS haye been evicted in ireland
for hundreds of years. Landlords have
been made acquainted with its discom-
forts only for few months. But one
landlord makes more noise about il than
did hundred thousand tenants.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

California wheat-grOwers are watching with
eager Interest the approach of the eastern and
western ends OF the new Southern Pacific Railway.
For many years the farmers of tho Pacific Slope
have been at the mercy Of corners in shipping
charters. These will soon be competed with by the
new railway which will also compete with the
Union Pacific for the business of the Western coast
National Republican., 1880-12-29

THERE is one difficulty about the pas
sage of the three per cent. funding bill.
II it is passed under Democratic rule the
public will be afraid that the bonds will
be fraudulent in some way or other.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

DOES Mr.. Reagans interstate commerce
bill llcoverthcsevenm miles oftrack in dispute
near Philadelphia If it does it will re-
ccive respectful consideration. The COM
merce between the political centre of the
Union and its commercial centre ought
to be under the control of Congress if it
is not
National Republican., 1880-12-29

The Democratic party plainly wants to
make all the political capital they posi-
bly, can out of the funding bill Before
they leave for good they cry, ooh, give
us one chance to do something reputable,
that We may point to it in the future and
ask the public to condone our past of
fenscs." The three per cents. at this
price might be a bad Investment.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
What They Rpnlizp.

The New York Tribune of Monday. In q
leading article upon rcfunding measures,
says:
Nor has any bond ofthe United States ever sold
even for single day, at n price so high that II
would yield as little as three and half per cent
on It's cost, which, for four per cent bond, would
be about III, cx.interest
This statement is not correct and the
writer falls into the not uncommon error OF
treating the four per cent bond as Il per-
petuity or u perpetual annuity, instead OF
treating the bond as tcrminable. The
four per cent. bonds are redcemable at
the option of the United States Govern
ment at any time after July |, 1907 that
is, at any time after about. .twcnty-six and
half years from the present time.
On December "a, 1880, the mean price
of the fours of 1907, including the interest
accrued since October /, was 1l3 5-l6 the
net price, or price not including the ac
crued interest, being 1874, and the cor
responding rate of interest realized to in.
vestors in these bonds on the supposition
that payment of the principal will take
place on the first day of July, 1907, the
date when the bonds are redecmable, il
three and threc-tenths per cent. per an
mum. These bonds, so considered, have
not realized TO investors rate of intercs
as high as three and one-half per cent
for several weeks.
A four per cent. twenty-six and hal
year bond will realize as loV as three ant
a half per cent. interest on the invest
ment whenever its net price, or price no
including accrued interest, is as high a.
1886, instead of ia, the figure named b!
the Tribune.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

ACCORDING to Senator Wallace, the
Democratic party is to rise, "Anteous-
like, from the people, stronger than be-
fore" The performance came off last
night in New York. From the reports it
looks as though it failed to Antae up,
boWevar
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Mrs. par,ing.on on Ireland.

" More trouble In Ireland" read Mrs. Partington
81 wonder" said the old lady, laying down her
spectaclcs and blandly regarding Ike who was try
ing to tic hard knot In the cats tail 81 wonder
that government doesn't incorporate that Parnel
for life and send the ringleaders into bandish
those nnnnIlnm nntrnRnsn
National Republican., 1880-12-29

The yery.latest proposition for the disposal of
General Grant Is TO make him president of the
New FORK centennial celebration OF 1889. In the
meantime the General seems to be dsposlng Of
himself in his own way and to his own satisfaction.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Hard to Please.

Jones Is flult.hnding man. Nothing ever
peases him. While he was lying sick with
heavy cold the other evening his wife brought hin
IN beautiful new porous plaster, and he said
THE man who shot that thing must have beer
firing ut quail" .-NeiV York Herald
National Republican., 1880-12-29
The NllercIlce.

Georgia has been State over hundred years
and has only ono man among its inhabitants worth
81 100000. Colorado has been II State little owe
four years, and has at least half dozen citizens
worth million and over. Such Is the difference
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Close Cutting.

Hon Nicholas Ford member of Congress from
Missouri was elected by two majority. Total vote
was i3,53S A close call.
In 1874, ROmualdo PachccO, Republican, was
elected to Congress In California by one majority.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

THE people Of Boston have commenced to quar-
rel among themselves as to whce Is, and which Is
not literary. The very best English in use can
now he collected in quantities by people visiting
National Republican., 1880-12-29

CoNEy ISLAND seems TO have been the focal point
of the great storms of last week. They all but de
molished the great hotels and summer buildings
of New York's seaside resort
National Republican., 1880-12-29

THIS mercury has taken the room with
a bay window in the basement of the
thermometer.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Sara Beruhurdt keeps diary in which she puts

Sara Bernhardt keeps diary in which she puts
down all her experiences. But this is not an in.
novation. ON the lst of january the American
people will write on the first page; midnight;
began to keep diary today weather cold {;
made calls" January p" Weather still cold
don't feel we'll to-day; will write more tomorrow"
January g." Have not written in diary for some
days; weather disagrceablG.' This concludes the
original entries. The rest of tho volume is devoted
to taking account ofbad debts.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

SENATOR WALLACE has been writing a
screed in the North american Rcriew on
fertile subject, "The Future of the Demo-
cratic Party" Apparently he has sat down
with blinds over his eyes and revolving
from his inner consciousness the idea that
everything is in a wrctched condition
and everybody in miserable state, as
cribes it all TO Capitalization, and makes
it the mission of the d. p. to set it all right
again. If the Senator will remove his
blinds for moment he will see that ii is
all right now. But it might give him the
blind staggers.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

LAST NIGHT was the night set for the
wake over John Kelly. The mourncrs
were on hand.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

Now THEY blame it all upon Kelly.
The Democratic party is ruined, and he
has ruined it, Unfortunate party, and
wicked John Kelly, to thus abuse and
lay waste the future prospects of an in
nocent, unohending, and feeble organiza-
tion, so weak and defenseless that one
man has power to wreck its fortunes and
its hopes. Poor thing! The great trouble
with the Democratic party has been for
long time that it has had too many
corrupt men and too little principle in
its concrete to give it adhesive power.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Taxa ,Eu, to Ro.tou.

There are but few Of the Ponca Indians. Boston
should invite them 10 Boston and settle them in the
classic suburbs ot Cambridge Cincinnati CONNER
cidi, (Rep)
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GENERAL NOTES.

The Russian tariff has been increased ten per
cent. upon all imported articles except salt.
National Republican., 1880-12-29

TnE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN will print q
complete list of those receiving callers on
New Years Day in its issue of January J..
All communications giving notice of calls
must be accompanied with the name and
residence of the writers. Send them as
early as possible.
National Republican., 1880-12-29
Spencerian Business College

COR. OF SEVENTH AND l. SITS. N. w.
This Institution has progressive and successful
perience of sixteen years. II educates young men
and women for usefulness and seisupport. Its grad
yates positions OF trust and profit Course OF
study and training comprises the English Language,
Business Arithmetic, Spencerian Practical Penmnn.
ship; bookkeeping by single and double entry adapted
To every variety of business; BUSINESS Practice re-
quring the making ont and exchanging of all kinds
OF business papers, paying and receiving cash and
keeping tho accounts; Eocuilon and Lectures. Day
and Evening Sessions begin MONDAY, AUGUST 20,
or address HENRY &. SPENCER, Principal auE
National Republican., 1880-12-29
AMusEMENTs To-NloHT.

WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 20, 1850.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-03
Imply RE.IOLCLNGS.

Probably there is not an intelligent Demo-
clat who has NOT been at heart surprised and
disgusted at the vOcifel Gus praises bestowed
by Democratic organs upon General Hancock s
letter. The intelligent Democrat after read
ing that scIecd of schoolboy cOmmonplaces,
had mentally said to himself: :" 1t is decent,
"ha1mless, and there is nothing in it. On the
whole pei haps it was best for him to say
"nothing as politely as be could" But now
comes this gush of seeming enthusiasm and
delight from the organs. What does it mean ?
Ale they all childish enough to accept as states
manship the empty and WORKOUT platitudes
which for fifty years have decorated school COM
positions? Not at ALL these organs know
perfectly well that nothing has been said that
touches in any way the questions now before
the country. Both parties say "The Consti
sutton must and shall be preserved and
have been saying it fol twenty years and more ;
but each has constantly declared that, in GER
tain policies or measures the other was tying
to violate the Constitution. Both parties say
that il is only by a full vote, free ballot, and
fair count that the people can rule in fact"
But Democratic acts show that full vote
means in New York the issue of 80, 600 fraudu-
lent naturalization papers in one year; that a
free ballot means in Louisiana freedom to vote
the Democratic ticket or be shot and that
fair count means at the South, as in Maine Ie-
versal of the will of voters. On the other hand.
Democrats claim that votes have not been
fairly counted in three Southern States. What
has General Hancock to say about any of the
N alters really at ssue2 Not word.
Again, as 10 the civil service, all parties have
said for fifty years, as General Hancock
evasively repeats, that "no incompetent or
dishonest persons should ever be entrusted
with Office" But the question is as to the right
mode to get honest and competent men into
office. Democracy insists "To the victors
belong the spois =" What has General Han
cock to say about it' Nothing. And again, all
parties say that industries ought to be devel-
oped and prosperity increased. BIT most Re-
publicans hold that this can be done only by
honest money and protective taIiff; Den o.
cats almost unanimously say that it can be
done only by initiation and free trade. What
has Hancock to say Not one word about the
money question not one word about modes of
taxation SO ON to the end. There is not
woId which any school-boy of Jealous
faith in either party might not have
written, and not one word which General Gar
field himself might not have uttered, If willing
to waste SO many words IN saying nothing. At
any other time, such letter fIom q candidate
would have been received with shame, rs a
palpabe evasion of every point at issue. 1t is
the emptiest utterance ever made by any candi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-03
nEIAV1RE TOO.

AS the campaign advances it becomes more
and more apparent that the Democrats made a
gigantic blunder in ayOwing theiI purposes con-
ceInIne the Tariff so bluntly in their platform.
They are soI1y already that they did not sugar
the free trade pill little, SO that the working
men would not at once see that it was poison to
them. The mischief is done now, and it is too
late to remedy it. Every intelligent mechanic
and factory operative in the country sees that
the Democracy has thrown OF all pIetence of
friendlincss to his interests, and Is pledged, II
il gets the power, to strike down the protecting
arm of the Government which shields him
from the competition of the haIf-paid, half
starved Labor of Europe. No soft words OF
Democratic orators will turn away the wrath OF
the American wOrkingmen now that the De
mocracy has thus plainly avOwed Its purpose.
In It's practical results the tariff for revenue
"only,n which the Cincinnati platform de-
mands, would be to deprive half of our arti-
sans Of employment, and to cut down the wages
of the other half
The Democrats may as well give M all hope
of carrying the close States Of NewJersey and
Connecticut with such platform. They will
be lucky if they do not lose Delaware, too, a
State which has never failed to go Democratic
since the first years of the war. \ large part
of the voting population Of Delaware is con-
cent1ated in the busy, flOuIshing manu-
featuring city of Wilmington, and is composed
of intelligent, forehanded mechanics of North
ern and foreign birth. Wilmington is the
chief morocco manufacturing place in The
United States, if not in the entire world. She
has also extensive ship-yards and machine
shops, great car and carriage factories, and
multitude of other important manufacturing
concerns. In proportion to her size, her in
terest in the protective tariff system is as great
as that of Philadelphia. She is, in short, busy
hive of industries, all depending for their pros
perity more or less directly upon the present
schedule of protective duties.
The Delaware Republicans are awake to the
fact that they have a fair chance to carry the
State. Long before the Cincinnati Convention
blurted ont its design to cripple the industries
of the North at the bidding Of the Southern
masters of the Democratic party, they took
successful measures to get their voters regis
tered. Hundreds of them had been purposely
left of the rolls by the Democratic assessors.
They forced the Courts to restore them. With
the old Republican vote fully registered, the
new vote that will be secured by the agitation
of the tariff question will break Delaware OFT
from the Solid South. The Democrats have
been counting upon the State of the Bayards
and the Saulsburys as their property as GER
tainy as Georgia. gallant effort on the pant
of the supporters of Garfield and Protective
Tariff will place 1t til year wi ere its interests
LEON the side of Pennsylvania and the Repub-
lican North.