National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The BIRD is in splendid condition for
Fourth of July vociferation.
URUGUAY is enjoying her customary
FIAT MONEY is the central idea of the
party that has absorbed the Maine DEM
ocracy.
THERE are two or three Atlanta editors
who are still unable to boast of having
been decorated with cowhide.
IT is not fair to say that the profess
sional Civil Service Reformer is always u
knave-he is sometimes only fool.
THERE ought to be no difficulty in do
ing full justice to one of the Jeanette
heroes without being unjust to any of his
associates.
MINT, pineapple, and Strawberries, all
and severally, have been successfully en-
ployed as disintectants of Washington
malaria"
The minority of the present House was
billed by numerous organs to dominate
the majority. What has become of that
brilliant programme?
The notion that the Washington "ma-
laria" goes through transoms to attack
statesmen is delusion. Its customary
route is through straw.
IT is due to Mr.. Curtis to candidly con-
cede that the glove-ftting corset attained
its highest celebrity when the was the
leading writer for the fashion journal in
which that great invention was first
presented TO the American public.
One of the principal duties of the South
Carolina legislature, now in session, will
be to inquire what remains to be done in
order to keep a Bourbon minority per-
manently installed on the necks Of an
overwhelming Republican majority.
Thus far during the present year there
have been twice as many lynchings as
lawful executions in the United States,
and we have no knowledge of single
lyncher having been brought to trial.
This is not record to be proud of.
THE absence of the usual factional fight
in the Democratic party in Pennsylvania
robs the campaign of the one feature that
would have made it pleasant for the
masses of that party. A Democratic can
vass without any tactional hair-pulling is
an absurdity.
DEDMAN, of North Carolina, who started
for seat in the United States Senate
and brought up in cage ut st. Elizabeth
Asylum, has happily escaped the many
discomforts that attend the performance
of kindred duties near the midsummer
end of long session.
The general pulse of life in the United
States derives healthy impetus from
the concluding line of almost every re-
port of murderOus row in Kentucky
"The parties belong to tirst-class fam
lies" This insures handsome funeral
and glowing epitaph.
THE first rude contact of innocent chill
dren with the grosser vices Of this wicked
world is one of the most painful Of human
experiences Something akin to this is
the im mpression produced ON the dear old
Democratic party when her guleless soul
eontempates the iniquities of the Hub
bell circular informing Republicans that
the committee is ready to accept material
aid.
ALTHOUGH Republican ideas are max
ing rapid progress in Europe, there are
still some millions of workingmen in
that part of the world who find ample
compensation for endless toll and pinch.
| ing poverty in the reflection that they
have magnificent aristocracy! Those
sons and daughters of toll seem,proud OF
| filling the place of mudsills in the social
ediiice that is rooted with nobility and
turreted with monarchy, But our Ameri.
can nristocracy has no such base TO rest
on. 1t exists by the suiferance Of the
working classes, who have q majority OF
the votes and an immense preponderance
of brute force, the final arbiter when
disputes get beyond certain point.
SUPPOSE Reformer, having secured
himself in high official station, should
make an official decision greatly iniuri.
Gus 10 the general public, but worth some
millions to the head of "bloated
monopoly suppose that, q few years
later, the head Of the "bloated mo-
nopoly" thus enriched should buy a
metropolitan newspaper and put it into
the hands of the Reformer, is there any
brazen scoiier who would dare to rise vi
and question the true goodness of the
entire proceeding? 10 the reflective
mind such coincidence would appear
only rs one of those mysterious ways il
which Divine Providence moves for the
help of the "best elements in American
politics"
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