National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

IT is not supposed that either Book
walter or Beltzhoover will decline the
second place on the Democratic ticket for
1884.
WHEN all who lost property during the
war have got their claims duly filed, may
we not indulge CLEAN of hope to hear
from that more unfortunate class of suf-
ferers who might have lost property if
they had had any?
DESPITE the lamentations of the croak-
ers it will be found when Congress gets
ready to adjourn that it has done more
for the good of the country than all that
was accomplished or attempted during
the six years of Democratic sway in the
House.
Mr.. BENEFITS newspaper is making an
effort to prove that it is impossible for
any member of the human family to live
more than one hundred years. Are we,
then, to doubt the authenticity and relia-
bility of Thomas PARIS letters to Thurlow
WeedP
DELAWARE has n right to punish petty
criminals with the lash," remarks an
amateur statesman of that Common
wealth. True, a State may do many
brutal and indecent things without go-
ing beyond her rights under the Consti-
tuition.
GOVERNOR PLAIsTED, of Maine, has sue
ceeded in developing more demngogue to
the square foot than any other politi-
clan of our day. He is right, however, in
his conclusion that it is not necessary
that / should be elected next fall" Such
consummation would not come under
the head either of necessities or luxuries.
The country Democratic organs are full
of predictions of stupendous things that
are to happen when the Congressional
Executive Committee gets the old party
ready for her summer campaign. We
are led to expect that she will steam into
the fray with neat but not gaudy outfit,
her coal-bunkers nickel-plated and her
smoke-stack painted sky-blue.
If Senator Mitchell will cast his eagle
glance backward along the route which
the Republican party has traversed in its
triumphant career he will find the way
lined with the political graves of states
men who went into those final habita-
| tions through the same style of chute
| that the Senator is now essaying. A few
| hours of this sort of communion with the
past might be profitable while the Sena.
tor sits by the glowing embers of his burn
ing bridges.
Is 1T according to the equities to make
such deal of fuss over the Manhattan
vile lady whose new baby weighs but
ten ounces, while thousands of proud ano
happy mothers of babies thatweigh more
than ten times ten ounces are living in
the cool, sequestered vale of obscurity
Or, if it be nobler achievement to have
ten-ounce than a ten-pound babe, whC
shall measure the glory Of the lady whC
has no baby at all? Let us try to be JUS
in this matter.
FROM its earliest infancy it has been
| the misfortune of civil-service reform tc
fall into the hands of bad managers. The
gentleman who opened up the boom in
the House u dozen years or more ago
and who has since been gathered to his
fathers, was honest in his purposes, but
so incapable of great business affairs that
he blindly plunged into enterprises in
which the fortunes of his friends were
dissipated. His successors have been
sentimentalists rather than practicalmen
If the public business were no better
managed than the average civil-serYice
reformer manages his concerns we should
be in desperately bad way. The au
thor of and sponsor for the original civil
service bill swamped the fortunes o
widowsand orphans in business venture
resembling Colonel Sellers's eye-wate
scheme, and he was one Of the best of thl
! list of the professional reformers.