National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-20
EDITORIAL NOTES,

EDITORIAL NOTES.
WITn the aid of some thousands of
| Bedouins the Khedive seems likely to
/ hold his rcbellious ministers in check,
but the situation is not u pleasant theme
for the contemplation of the European
Powers.
TnE confidence with which Democrats
predict that they will elect the next
House Is calculated TO encourage their
opponents. There is no time when that
party is 20 sure 30 fail as when IL feels
positively certain Of success.
A NATIONAL mass convention Of finan-
cial cranks would have rs pleasant n time
IN trying tn agree on n system of national
finance as the Democratic brethren will
enjoy when they try TO formulate tariff
plank FOR the platform of 1884.
AK enthusiastic admirer of our morn
ing contemporary says il docs not hest
tate TO bring its own party to the bar"
The editor of the Post is not 80 narrow a
partisan rs 10 think Of gentleman's
politics on such social occasions.
1T IsS'r just the fair thing to complain
/ Of the plumbers and awkwardness of the
| Democracy. A party that is compelled
| 10 face about in order TO bring its brain
10 bear on any question is entitled to the
charitable Judgment of mankind.
THERE will never be any occasion for
using cheap iron guns to make monu-
ments for Democratic statesmen. The
brazen CHECK" of the party, hewn into
longitudinal sections, will furnish pillars
admirably adapted TO this purpose.
The man who has tried, year after year,
TO be u political boss aud has met with
nothing more cheerful than notifying
bfailure is the man whom you shall hear
lifting mp his voice and Justify crying out
in holy rage against the boss system"
THE remote descendants of great men
have an undoubted right to hawk or ped
die the personal effects of their ilustrious
ancestors 20 the Government or to private
parties, but the business does not present
a pleasing aspect from any point of view.
The country has become very tired of
hearing statesmen talk about "the decay
of our commercial marine" There have
been words enough. Let quiet reign
about the grave Of this great industry
unless we are to do something toward its
resurrection.
POLICEMEN who keep an eye to sewer
traps have notion that the floating
population" of Washington is rapidly
! increasing. The crime of infanticide is
shocldngly prevalent here, as is evinced
! by the number Of dead infants found in
sewers and back alleys.
liz matters of personal piety mission
aries take high rank, but il is worthy of
remark that when the Christian powers
of Europe desire 10 exert an irresistible
"moral force" on Turks, Egyptians, or
heathens, they send fleets of iron-clads
instead Of platoons of parsons.
No OTHER political event Of the rolling
year has saturated the Democratic soul
! with such an exceeding great felicity MS
the rascally Bourbon gerrymander in
| Missouri. Our phosphorescent morning
contemporary contenIplates this dirty
piece of political iniquity with joy and
pride.
TnE Landgrave of Iessc is to be con-
graduated II, as is reported, he has Sc
cured for his son the position of son-in-
| law 10 Queen Victoria. How happy the
! late lamentcd Akhoond of Swat would
| have been could he have made q similar
arrangement Cor his heir-apparont before
| he went hence.
TIE effort 20 break the will of the late
| Miss Burr, Of New York, n misery mill
| lionaire who forgot her own relations
when disposing her fortune, shows the
| deceased TO have been slingy and gripping
| to tho last degree, denying herself the
ordinary comforts Of life. But she may
have been sane enough for all that,
"IIow the Queen dimes Is the subject
of a acknowledgements article in
| London paper. One rises from n careful
perusal of this great effort with a firm
conviction that Her Majesty actually
masticates her aliment with her own
dental and maxillary apparatus Just as
ordinary mortals "wrestle their hash"
We ARE assured by q number Of agile
! Washington correspondents that the
| Democratic Executive Committee is
taking time TO prepare for great cam
paign." The country need not DO sur
! prised 10 SEQ the old party start on It's
| approaching cruise nicely lifted with
steam capstan and four-bladed propeller.
Ir Is well that the Democratic brethren
have had q good chance 10 turn them
selves loose on the tariff question. There
isn't single Northern State that can be
carried on an anti-proteclion platform,
and the leaders Of the Democratic party
know IL. But matters are so shaping
that tarih.for-reyenue-only platform Is
inevitable.
Ia seems II was a sad mistake, the idea
that there was any disorder Ia Arizona,
| Those "organiged bands Of desperadOes"
were merely Sunday-school picnics. The
real culprits were United States officials
who prosecuted innocent cowboys
According TO the Tucson Sar these
bloodthirsty officials "alone constitute
the lawless element"
II the political brethren Of Mr. Til
den had really believed that he was
defmuded of the Presidency in 1877,
they would have insisted on putting tho
martyr into the field again In 1850. And
il the voting MISSES hnd been convinced
that Mr.. Tildon was thus dolrauded they
would have elected him by an over
whelming majority. IL would be as easy
10 yltalize the dust Of Abel as put life
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