National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ofanything suspicious have been released.
BALTIMORE is menaced with season of
amateur tragedy-so soon after the small
poXl
| TIE cruel Canadian government OBJ
stinatcly declines to subsidize rifle team
this year.
LANDS in soveralty-about six feet by
two-should DO assigned to the Apache
cutthroats.
THIS has been rather dull week in In
diana. Mr.. Hendricks hasn't been inter
viewed but twice.
The Loco who was recently killed in
Mexico was not one of the Locos who
used to fight the Wing party forty years
ago.
THE ponitcntiary is quite too good
place for the gamblers who tried to run
in a "cold" deck ON Charles Francis
| Adams.
CONGRESS will have no excuse if it
makes any mistakes. The National Dem
ocratic organ has been good enough to
show how mistakes may be avoided.
EVEN the most consummate adepts in
the art Of filtration may learn something
by keeping an eye on the movements of
Venus and Jupiter for the next few weeks.
/
twenty years ago had lie been compelled
to read the dreary drzzle of bosh that
the alleged mediums are pouring out in
his name.
"IlE may have the skin of Esau, but
his straddle is the straddle of Hendricks"
said Democratic statesman as he saw
Jumbo moving down the street last Tues
day night.
IT seems hard that Oscar Wilde should
have made fortune by lecturing to the
Americans, while his more illustrious
predecessor, who lectured to Balaam,
didn't lay up dollar.
THE Malleys are wearing olive-green
suits while on trial for the murder of Jen.
ME Cramer. When the trial is over an
addition will be made to their costumes
in the shape of black caps.
A WEASEL would dislocate its vertebre
if it should try to follow the line made
by the Bourbon gerrymanderers in Texas
in their efforts to fence Hon. George W.
Jones out of the Forty-eighth Congress.
THURLow WEED says there is no reason
to believe that the Norwegans discovered
this continent in the twelfth century
That settles the question on expert au-
thority, and wehope itwillno be brought
up again.
AFTER reading the expert testimony, inn
the Jennie Cramer case for few hours
one turns to a Patent-O Office REPORT with
keen relish, or finds the 'price-list of n
hardware dealer demonstrating as thrill
ing romance.
."EaNfIRE enforcement from machine
methods" is the term employed by the
Independents" of PENNSYLVANIA to
designate proposed surrender of the Re-
publican majority to sore-headed and
turbulent minority.
WERE the State of Texas as densely
populated as the Kingdom of Belgium it
} would contain nearly one hundred and
forty million inhabitants. Evidently we
shall not be cramped for room in this
country for some years to come.
SINCE tremendous stretch of credulity
is demanded in either case, let us rather
believe that q ballot-box stuffed itself
} with 1000 fraudulent ballots than that a
chivalrous son of the Palmetto State
could be guilty of dishonorable act.
EMPERoRs WILLIAM and Franz Joseph
show no desire for q meeting with their
dear brother of Russia. 1t seems to be
accepted as mathematical fact that ones
personal safety increases in proportion to
! the square of his distance from the hor-
ror-haunted Gar
The suicide of the young man away
down in Georgia, who shot himself be-
cause his sweetheart wouldn't stop dane
ing at his request, was sad episode, but
really such youth is better off on the
retired list of the graveyard than in ac-
tive service in this troubled life.
AN extensive and rather attractive as
sortment of titled British are on their
way to our shores. We hope they will
| trnxra1 oil tho IT,,itn1 al
gather much useful knowledge. They
may be absolutely sure that none of them
will be locked up as suspects"
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, holds that
the Democracy of to-day is Jeffersonian
in its ideas and principles" Jefferson
upheld "unquestioning acqulescence in
the will of the majority" The Democ-
racy of to-day believes III majority rule
when the majority is Democratic.
SAKE appears to think "the head of a
, Saracen over the door of tippling shop"
, is as proud thing as can be shown. But
if SAKE had seen the great National Dem
ocratic party glorying over q victory in
town election he would have beheld
"the very personillcation of pride"
1T is the opinion of Mr.. Dana's news
paper that the Grant guard will con-
tinue to survive as long rs there is Il cob
of corn left in the public crib" Just so
it will be their duty to survive in order
to protect the public crib from sneak
thieves-the guise of loud-mouthed ire
I formers"
THE st. Louis papers can't understand
| why the beer-gardens are crowded while
the churches are almost empty in that
city on Sundays. 1t seems to us that
this state of things is largely due to the
-. fact that St. Louis beer has much
higher reputation than the pulpit oratory
of that city.
IT is seldom that any warrior is &c
!. honored as was the late Captain Jack
when the military decided TO go at him
| with half section of artillery. If this
| sort of Oriental etiquette goes on it will
soon be deemed the proper thing to cal
out a whole battery when an Indian
! desperate is to be sent hence.
The Philadelphia papers are giving
: great attention to minute details. What
i a satisfaction it must have been TO theii
readers on the morning of the Sd instant
? TO learn that Senator Cameron ordered
\. baked beans and Mr.. Mitchell took straw
s berries and cream for lunch in the Sen
ate restaurant on the preceding day.
: IT IS rather luminous logic that of Mr.
e Cabell, who objects to the proposed tarit
a commission because he didn't like the
!, work of the electoral commission of 1877
" His ratiocination is almost as admirable
u as that of the horse-trader who declared
4 he could never make satisfactory swaI
with any man who had red-haired wife