National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-04-22
WASHINGTON, n. C., APRIL %, 1889.

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No,o e ne TINE 70 ,Iscribc
WASHINGTON, n. C., APRIL %, 1889.
Population Of the National Capital. 100000
An,uscmPniS fortnight.
NArIoSAL TIEArnE--Audrau Opera Company
THE Snake Charmcr'
TorDs orERA-HousE &c. Minnie Palmer -"Mu
Sweetheart"
WILLARD HALr-Profossor Carpenter.
ODp-FElLows' HALr-rhc Worlds Museum.
BOURBON decentralization is making
commendable progress in Texas.
NORTH CAROLINA ought to blossom into
reliably Republican State this year.
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Lrss maXillary motion in the House
would greatly facilitate the transaction
Of business.
Mr.. ForsTEn's Irish policy is almost as
humane as was the Indian policy of
Warren Hastings.
NEITHER raft nor skin' navigation should
be deemed worthy of weighty consider
alton in the items of the river and harbor
bill.
TIE victories of our equine representa-
tves on the British turf should not dis
turb the equine-imity Of patriotic Ameri-
cans.
TIE House makes enough noise in
discharging Cannon to excite the envy
9 Il
navy.
THE lingual activity on the Democratic
side of the House is out of all proportion
to the cerebral force il, that section OF
the Hall.
THE Arkansas bloodhounds should be
hitchel to the Delaware whipping-posts
and both should go into the Democratic
platform in 1854.
a THIEF who cannot do II neat job gets
no respect in Missouri. The st. Joseph
bond.steaers will get all the punishment
that the law allows.
WHILE ch eerfully opening up all the
professions to women, Massachusetts,
shows very decided dissemination to
give them the ballot.
LET us be moderate in our Boosting OF
American civilization so long rs packs of
bloodhounds are kept as State property to
hunt down fueitiycs from prison camps.
ABUSE of William II. English still con-
tinues staple OF the Democratic press.
The unhappy man will never be forgiven
for not rolling out the promised bar'l in
1880.
IT was the plain, unvarnished lunacy
theory, and not pretense of divine in
SEPARATION, that secured the acquittal OF
the man who fred pistol at Queen Vic
tora.
THE more promptly and judiciously
the work Of Congress is performed the
better the condition in which members
will find their fences when they 60
home.
THE hangman effected some reduction
of the population of the United States
yesterday, but even while his victims
were dangling the murderer was not will
ing to rest.
Mn. TILDEN has joined the "Young
Democracy of New York" The sage
safely rested his claim to admission on
the moldy tradition that he was young
Democrat once.
THE best thing that Republican can
didate for Congress can carry along with
him to show to the people this summer
will be a record of good work performed
during the present session.
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EX-SENATOR EATON has always passed
for Il Democrat of the old school, but his
brethren in the House abuse his tariff
commission bill us roundly as if he were
disciple of Wendell Phillips.
WHETHER the james or the anti-James
wing of the Missouri Democracy shall
control the State convention is one OF
those problems whose solution rests in
the heavng bosom of the near future.
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THE Democrats are claiming Ohio this
year as eXultingly as they did in 1880
Hope deferred does not make the Demo
cratic heart sick, but a very small victory
completely demoralizes the ancient party
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Petty affairs, for which Congress
should provide some simple mode Of ad
justment occupy so much Of the time
and attention of both Houses that the
great business matters of the Nation are
neglected,
SOME of the Bourbon bulldo2ers openly
threaten that if they are to be "perse
cuted" for election frauds they will re-
sumo the old plan of suppressing the
majority by force instead Of more peace
ful devices.
FREE TRADE Democratic speeches
should be literally circulated among the
miners, iron-workers, and factory opera
tiyes in Indiana. Three or four hundred
copies might be we'll placed in Mr. De
Pauw's gass-works.
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IL the Gladstone government con
tinUcs 20 make its present high average
at plumbers il will 20 out Of power before
many months on the crest Of u tidal wave
like that which swept the Beaconsfeld
ministry into retirement