National Republican., 1880-04-20

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WASHINGTON. APRIL 90, 1880.
THE stauuton (va.) Republican Conyen'
tion meets tomorrow.
THE Montgomery (Aln.) Nail now inti-
mates that Congress is clothed with a
mastery inactivity"
CONGRESS did not adjourn over on ac-
count of HEIsTER CLYNnsR's marriage, but
it finds more trining excuses for wasting
valuable time.
THE New York Herald asks with becom-
ing innocence, "will the Republicans nomi-
nate the ex-President?" Most undOubt-
edly. 1t is the inevitable.
THERE is Il boom starting in Indiana to
nominate for Governor on the Republican
ticket Hon. ALBERT G.. PORTER, First
Comptroller of the Treasury.
SOME hoodlums of the press are now
cudgeling their thick skulls over the ques-
tfbns, "Will TILDEN decline? Will GRANT
"accept ?" They don't know.
GENERAL GARFIELD has said recently
that SHERMAN is sure of the solid vote of
Ohio in the National Convention. There |
upon BLAINE smoe faint smile.
IT will be rare fun to see the pretended
Republican journals, who are now abusing
General GRANT and his friends, turn tail to
and scoot OF put up his name and eat their
crow after he is nominated.
AND now they say that BLAINE delegates
have carried in Governor FosTER's IOhio)
district which is President HAYES home.
This is bad, but the BLAINE fellows are
"sly, very sly, sir; deyilish sly"
Ben HILL says " the only way to prevent
"him from doing his duty is to kill him y
but when JESSIE RAYMOND entered the
Capitol with that blessed baby Mr.. HILL
thought his duty was to evade her, and he
did.
THE Sanduslsy Register must be happy
when it sees Governor FOSTERS district
handed over to Mr.. BLAINE instead of be-
ing scored to the credit Of Secretary SHER-
MAN. There is nothing like a showing of
proper resentment.
THE snatching up of unconsidered trifes
by the New York Tribune TO array them
against the ex-President shows not only
great weakness but eminent meanness of
purpose. General GRANTS return trip was
arranged in December, long before any State
conventions were called, and yet it con-
tends that he shaped his trips so as to take
several of them in.
THE claim that Maryland has before the
United States Senate for $4,000 to COM
plete the survey for n ship canal between
the Chesapeake and Delaware bays is much
more honorable to her than in erecting n
monument to the rebel soldiers who attempt
ed to destroy the Government which is now
solicited for help to assist an important
State enterprise.
THE American Consul at Panama says
that "The explorations and surveys for
"canals across the isthmus have all been
"too hasty, and We're left too incomplete to
"satisly capitalists called upon to invest
"their money" And we think that NJ. DE
LEssEPs is about exhausted. No more
banquets, no more bull-fghts. The fact is,
that ship canal across the isthmus will
never do.
THERE is quiet though none the less
energetic boom goingon in favor of Speaker
RANDALL for the Democratic Presidential
nomination. Senator PENDLEToN, of Ohio
ex-senator STEVENSON, Of Kentucky, and
other Bourbon lights are concerned in it,
and a secret meeting was held at the Con-
tinental Hotel, Philadelphia, last week, al
which the above-named gentlemen were
present to further Mr.. RAYDALL's interests
But it all depends upon TILDEN.
A NEGRO rough who entered the hall in
which the Republican convention in Nor
folk was recently held, not being delegate
was told to "gitn This he would not do
and therefore he was given the grand
bounce" This acrobatic feat consists in
the perpetrator, unwilling or otherwise
being pitched headlong down the stairs
a fresh relay at the bottom tossing him like
ball into the street. After the "bounce
the individual generally goes home.
THE Democratic organ says that GRANT!
nomination will depend on the votes Of Ger
tain States, which it specifies, only one o
which (Pennsylyania) gave a Republican
majority in 1876, the remaining States Civ
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