National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-04-22

an organization as the Ku-Klux Khan,
when its members came into court, con-
fessed their crimes, and took their sem
fences from Judge Bond. The present
situation is like tho Ku-Klux episode,
except that the crimes charged are less
violent, although they are not q whit less
prcjudicial to good government.
If the readers of The REPUBLICAN de-
sire to have an intelligent and compre-
hensive view of the rights of an Ameri-
can citizen as against the illegal, unjust,
and arbitrary exercise of power assumed
until quite recently by the House of Rep
rescntativcs, and also by the Senate, we
commend to them the exhaustive argu-
ment of Hon. d. w. Voorhees,, published
in this issue, made yesterday in the Cir
cult Court In the case of Hallet Kilbourn
VS.. x-Sergcant-at-Arms Thompson for
false imprisonment. Mr. Voorhees, argu-
ment will live in history along with the
opinion of the Supreme Court of the
United States upon the same subject.
THE Malley trial, ut New Haven, will
be long and tedious, like that of the
clergyman who was charged with the muir
der of Mary Stannard. In this case, as
in that, expert testimony will be the
leading feature, and experience has
shown that when equal inducements are
offered on both sides science can bisect
itself with impartiality. We shall find
Professor b swearing to just the reverse
of that to which Professor A swears, and
so on to the remote end of a dreary
chapter
THE Democratic party was always the
friend of labor" so says q ponderous
organ. There is grain of truth in the
claim, but it was slave labor that the
party befriended until it went out of
power in 1861. Since that time il has
had no fixed policy except opposition to
every progressive proposition. War de-
stroyed its idol, slavery, and broke down
its affairs. Since then it has found no
shrine at which it can comfortably wor-
ship.
Now and then Democratic member
JlldJ tllC INtlluDil-
cans would not let the Democrats ere
form" the tariff during the last Con-
gress. What was the majority doing
when the minority thus managed the
House? Or was the majority of brains
on the minority side2 And why, if the
Democrats desired to move in the direc-
ton of free trade, did they unanimously
vote for protectionist for Speaker
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Mr.. MuRcu, of Maine, cherishes hope
that the Senate will be induced to move
for its own destruction by voting for the
submission of an amendment abolishing
itself Mr.. Murch's idea, as we gather
from his Philadelphia speech, is that the
voters of the United States should as
semble, like the voters of a New England
town, and make their own laws. This
will have to be relegated to the smiling
future.
The man who has forgotten the joy Of
his adolescent soul when he was pro.
NOTED from petticoats to pants can have
no adequate conception of the hilarity OF
the senile Democracy as it counts up a
few gains in township elections. There
is more soul-felt exultation in its blatant
jubilation than was ever expressed in the
cackling of pullet over her first ovicular
achievement
WHILE the national Democratic organ
is raising its solemn voice in favor OF
hard money, it does not wish to be un.
derstood as frowning on the fusion of
| Bourbonism and Greenbackism in Maine
Indeed, the agile organ would like the
Democratic brethren to lift collection
of hard money in aid of the Greenback
campaign in the Pine Tree State.
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A SCIENTIST in Paris claims to have in.
vented process whereby the tempera.
ture of a closed room may be reduced to
seventy degrees below zero. 1t might be
a good thing to have large hall in this
country thus refrigerated for the use and
occupancy of ambitious men who sci
their hearts on Arctic explorations.
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II the time and effort that have been
wasted in vain attempts to destroy the
liquor traffic had been devoted to the
proper regulation of that business the
country would be much better off. Toe
many reformers reject the good that il
attainablei their zeal to grasp that which
is beyond human reach.
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"THE country is prosperous without 9
commercial marine or q navy" remarks
one of the rural solons at the Capitol
There are men who are hearty, rich, anG
prosperous with but one eye and only
half an outfit of legs. Still there is {
prejudice in favor of two eyes and full
complement of limbs.
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THE new crop of Democratic presiden
tial candidates could show q good dea
more of activity in their own behalf /
they were not compelled to sit on the
political collins of their predecessors il
order to prevent their resurrection. Tax.
ing one consideration with another it is
a trying situation.
AFTER carefully studying the unhappy
situation in Ireland, both retrospectively
and Unexpectedly, we have been ablC
to learn that Suspect is person who
is suspected of harboring a suspicion tha
the British government in that afflicted
country is not altogether lovely.
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