National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-21

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THE Democratic party, like Tony Lump |
kin, always coughs "when the liquor goes
the wrong way" At the last election in |
North Carolina the liquor went all wrong. |
Under the management of Dr. j. j. Mott, |
chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee, and his lieutenant, Mr.. F. N.
Cooper, yawning chasm was opened in |
the Bourbon ranks on the question of
prohibition which remains still un-
closed and threatens to permanently dis
rupt the party and now they are cough
ing" In the House of Representatives,
on the 18th instant, Mr.. Armfield, of
North Carolina, introduced a resolution,
with prodigious preamble, assailing
DIR. Motifs administration of affairs as col
lector of the sixth North Carolina in
ternal revenue district and in the Senate
Mr.. Vance, of North Carolina, has pro-
cured the passage of q resolution calling
for copies of all charges, complaints, and
reports in this same regard. Proceed
with your investigation, gentlemen The
Internal Revenue Service rather likes
this sort of thing. Mr. Emory Speer
once made similar move in regard to
internal revenue matters in Georgia, and
started boomerang from the effects of
which he and his Bourbon friends are
still staggering. When the facts in re-
gard to the way in which an orderly OBJ
servance of law and an honest collection
of the revenue have been brought about
in the sixth North Carolina district in
place of lawless violence and rampant
fraud shall be fully made known the re-
suits to Bourbon Democracy will be not
less disastrous than in the Georgia case.
The Democratic party can never agree,
nor yet can it agree to disagree, on the
tariff question. 1t is dangerous explo-
sive which they feel compelled to handle.
Among their most conspicuous leaders,
as well as with their rank and file, there
is every variety of opinion, from unquali-
fed free trade to prohibitory protection.
more apparent becomes the impossibility
of harmony. They cannot even maintain
spirit of tolerent charity. Free-trade
Democrats hurl ugly epithets at such of
their brethren as advocate the protection
of any industry. Angry retorts are
hurled back. The breach widens per-
ceptibly. Meantime there is no element,
section, or faction of the Republican
party that is not in favor of so laying the
duties on imported goods as to furnish
| protection to American industries. There
may be differences of opinion on minor
details, but on the great question of pro-
lection there is complete accord. The
tariff discussion is therefore bound to
result in an increase of Republican
strength.
THERE are few Republicans in the
South who shudder at the progress of
the great Liberal movement. They fear
that when all the anti-Bourbon elements
are consolidated the organization will be
so large that there will not be enough
Federal offices to go round. But these
timid and tremulous brethren will find
that their opposition cannot check the
anti-Bourbon wave. Ina few months they
too will join the Liberal column, and will
feel the better for having yielded to a
generous and lofty impulse.
CHEAP labor is the bone of railroading
in the United States. Enormous salaries
are paid to few high officials, while
men employed in humble capacities, but
on whose intelligence and fidelity the
safety of trains is dependent, are not
, adequately compensated. Faithful, eff
\ cient, and intelligent service on the great
lines of travel ought to be well rewarded.
Such pay should be offered and such
chances of promotion should be open as
will secure good men for all kinds of rail
way work.
ACCORDING to the theory of General
Chalmers and his school of political phi.
losophy there is great convincing power
in certain leguminous plant having
crooked pods covered with sharp hairs
and belonging to the genus stigo!obium
The General is willing to stake his repu
tation for veracity on the assertion that
three pecks of those pods in the hands o.
active young Democrats will suffice tc
drive thirty colored men away from the
polls without firing single ball cartridge
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ONE reason why the woman suffrage
ladies like to hold their conventions il
Washington is the interesting and sug
gestive fact that, so far as voting is con
cerned, every male citizen of this Dis
trict enjoys the same rights that are exer
cised by his revered grandmother. In
deed, the maid of all work or the baby'i
nurse girl is the equal, in this regard, tt
the most intelligent, respected, and in
fluential gentleman in the District o.
Columbia.
, IT seems that Mr.. Window was bolC
"usurper that's the latest word forit-
when he granted the request of the hold
: ers of skies and tives to let them tax,
three-and-a-half per cent. in lieu of cash
There may be n sewing circle of solemn
sisters in some rural hamlet who will b.
impressed with "the height of this grea
argument" but it cannot find lodgmen
in urban intellects of any calibre.
IT has been mentioned in the Hous
as a subject for regret that fourteen hun
, dred bills reported during the Forty
/ sixth Congress died for want of time t.
give them consideration. In the cntir
, record of the Forty-sixth Congress Their
is nothing which the patriotic mind con
, templates with so much satisfaction a
, that beaD of dead bills,