National Republican., 1882-03-18

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matter of determining its policies and
selecting its candidates, and the honest
and earnest support by all of the candi-
dates selected under the party usages.
AS the line must be drawn somewhere, it
is generally thought that it will be
drawn at those who, like the editor of
the Tribune, persist in accusing the Presi-
dent, by base innuendo, of being in SYM
pathy with the assassination of Garfield
That gulf cannot be bridged.
THE Maine election of 1882 looms up as a
matter of serious Importance in view of
the determination of the Governor not to
call session of the Legislature to re-dis-
trict the State. The four Congressman
will be elected on general ticket. A
Senator for full term will be chosen by
the Legislature elected this year. The
Fusion leaders will go beyond all former
efforts, but there are many indications
that they have lost their hold on the
voting masses. The local elections in
that State this spring show very decided
Republican gains
WHEN Thompson's colt swan the
river to get drink that historic animal
gave evidence of far less simplicity of
mind than is shown by the Car it, as re-
ported, he really believes the Nihilists
have done with murderous plots. There
will be assassns so long as Czarism ex-
lists. Murder is the natural issue, the
inevitable result of absolutism.
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ONE of the most troublesome legacies
of the Hayes Administrations the diff
Guilty about the eght-hour law, all of
which might have been saved if Presi-
dent Hayes had followed the safe exam
pie of his immediate predecessor, who
did not venture to select such laws as he
would enforce, and such as he would per-
NIT to be trodden under foot.
II any creatures who are slandering
the dead President are begging Office
from the living" as the New York Tribune
says is the case, they are the shameless
vagabonds who SANDER General Garfield
by false pretenses that he had promised
them places, and that therefore they
ought now to be appointed. This city
has swarmed with them.
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THERE is high authority for the state
ment that the second death puts its vic
tim beyond resurrection but there are
several Democratic statesmen whom po-
litical death has laid out half dozen
times, and yet their skeletons are clatter-
ing about quite agilely in the hope that
lightning may strike in their neighbor-
hood two years hence.
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How would Randall and Watterson-a
protection head and free-trade tail-do
for the Democratic ticket in 1884? This
arrangement, with platform based on
the Hancock theory of "the tariff as q
local ISSUE" would seem to let in CLEAN
of hope on the sombre situation.
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No. The Speaker is not called on to
resign because he used the word "repri-
mand" in its general sense, and was
misunderstood as using it in its parlia-
mentary or legal sense. All has been
pleasantly explained and quietly settled.
Let the public business proceed.
SOLITARY confinement is one of the
modes of punishment which British
mercy employs against the imprisoned
suspects against men who are locked
up without any chance for trial on mere
suspicion that they may do something
disagreeabe.
In sending Mrs. Howe, the swindling
banker to the penitentiary the State of
Massachusetts vindicates woman's equal
right with man to be punished for
species f crime of which the tyrant man
has hitherto enjoyed an almost exclusive
monopoly.
WHEN we have free water-routes by
which the farmers Of the great North
west can ship their produce to tide-water
with speed and safety railway monopo-
lies will no longer fatten on the profits
of agricultural labor.
The State whose pious pioneers sold
red men into slavery, or snapped them
off for rum, seems more anxious than any
other State to give the yellow men full
swing on the Pacific Slope.
The ablest speech at the jackson birth
day meeting was that of Frank Hurd.
There is so much Democracy in Mr.. Hurd
that the Democratic party has no further
use for him.
THERE is urgent need of good seamen
for the navy, and this want will grow
worse and worse until our commercial
prestige is restored
If DR., Tachmyntis is sent home by the
Greek merchants of New York he may
be counted as leading item in our ex-
ports of fertilizers.
As President Arthur persists in giving
no cause for abuse there is danger that
several mongrel editors will bite them
selves and die
THE employment of fast tug to tow
the United States steamer Alarm would
greatly enhance her efficiency as tor
pedo boat.
The Gladstone Ministry is encounter
ing deal of heavy weather and the out |
look is far from cheerful.
Rarnum and the Circus.
thought It looked like second childhood last |
night when took my children to Barnums cir
Gus on the opening night to see there Grant ana |
Conkling and ScRles, all sitting together, looking
at the horses, while every of them was an in
ferior parsonage in the eyes of those ten to fifteen
thousand people, to old Barnum himself who |