National Republican., 1880-03-19

LUfUCoC LcUtttHUtc hOIbtHI VI"
cuJdtiOn IN the District.
WASHINGTON. MARCH 10, 1880.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the Herald Irish Fund
will be received and duly accounted for at
the counting. room of The NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN.
CARLISLE, Of Kentucky, has o level head.
SENATOR LoGAN's great speech will ap-
appear in the Congressional Record next Mon
day.
"ANYBoDY who succeeds in stealing
from the Democratic party is entitled to
"a pension. Humphrey.
Mr.. MCMAHON wishes there were states
men on the other (Republicaul side. All!
if he were only one, that would settle it.
THE use of hay has been discontinued in
the Philadelphia street-cars, as the Board
of Health of that city say it is detrimental.
THE best of friends disagree sometimes.
Read the debate between Senators MAxEY
and BECK on the Postoflice deficiency bill.
ROGER A. PRYOR, whose disabilities were
removed on Wednesday, did not like to fight
duels with BOWIE knives-hence he de-
clined to fight POTTER, of Wisconsin.
THE Southern press do not mince words
when speaking of their political opponents.
The late editor of the Southern Planter and
Farmer was "Funder," and the Richmond
Wing calls him forger and thief
IT is said that Mr.. MCMAHON, of Ohio,
interrupted the business of the Treasury
Department for the best part of q day, re-
Gently, hunting for frauds in the Govern
ment Printing Office accounts, but left no
wiser than when he entered.
"
Mr.. BURROWS, of Michigan, sounded the
keynote on Wednesday when he said !:
"There can be no question but that it is
the deliberate, deep-seated purpose of the
Democratic party to nullify such laws us
"they disapprove but cannot repeal"
The Louisville COmier.Journal very
naively remarks that the Republicans
"will vote for the devil If the convention
"says they must" Now, this is the first
intimation we have seen that there is even
possibility that the Republicans will 20
into the Democratic party for a candidate.
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"THE Democratic majority has found its
sway into this Hall by the light of burn.
"ing homes and blazing churches-over
murdered but unburied dead, and its
"bloody footprints stain the very steps of
"this Capitol So said BURROWS, of
Michigan, on Wednesday last. Harsh
words, but true.
THE late editor of the Southern Planter
and Farmer said: Unrestricted suffrage
ais the confscation of private property.
ave must bestir ourselves, and at once, or
abe forever undone." He did bestir him
self aud flee, leaving behind as memento
$4,000 forged paper, besides other little ir-
regularties-and this, too, without regard
to suffrage.
SINCE the Forty-fourth Congress the
Democracy have had eighty-four investi-
eating committees in the House of Repre-
sentatives. And what has been discovered
Nothing, except places for clerkships for
impecuniOns Democrats on the committees,
and deficiency of many, many thousands
of dollars to pay the expenses of said in-
vestigators.
THE Baltimore american continues to ill
its space with loaded and leaden columns
of attack upon General GRANT and the
third term, all Of which will fail Of its pur-
pose. The american will not be permitted
to do for the Republican party of the Ma
tion what it has done for it in the State OF
Maryland-send it to defeat-by its intense
selGshness and ill-adyised teachings.
Mr.. MCMAHON, of Ohio, made the remark
in the House of Representatives on Tuesday
last "thNt the people would rather trust II
Democratic than Republican House"
Tho gentleman must certainly be aware of
the elections which last took place for
Members Of Congress whereby Democratic
majority of seventy was reduced to seven.
And it will be still further reduced when
the elections take place this fall
SINGLETON, of Mississippi, said in debate
that 1--WE [Democratsl have been so busy fol-
slowing up the rascals of your Republican
"party that we have not had time to look
"over our own house." The latter part OF
his remark is about true-only he might
have added, "and we didn't wish to-" The
rascals of tn Q Republican party whom Mr..
SINGLETON has been following up have been
mythical, whilst the blood and flesh of his
own party are genuine. That's all there is
of il.
THE New York Tribune now fully in.
dorses the patriotism aud Republican 10y
atty Of Senator CoNKLING and his friends
in saying: "Mr CoNKLISG's friends would
shave done their best for Mr., BLAINE in
"1s76, and they will do their best for him
ain 1850 if the occasion presents itself" In
this the Tribune is clearly right, but we no.