National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

HAA W. SoH
Mn. EAGLEsToN's temperance canvass
shows him to be thoroughly intent on
the good work of retaining inebrates.
THE friends of Mr. Tilden will never
be entirely satisfied while his neighbors
around Graystone fail to elect him for
road commissioner.
IT was fitting that two of our war ships
should go to Egypt. They are in har-
mony with the pyramids and crumbling
ruins of that country.
AFFLCrIoN is often the seed of virtue.
If there were no cruel disappointments
in politics the crop of Reformers wouldn't
be half so large as it is this year.
STIMULATED by the recollection that
| they gained two votes in 1880, the Yer
mont Democrats are going to take the
field early and work hard this year.
QUINCY, ILL.,, is not good place to en-
| 10y the luxury of shooting an editor. II
takes 100000 to bail man in that town
who has only winged one editor.
DECORATION Ds,,TwiSrss Il great dav in old
/ Hen.tsn.SesSyy. Ten times the average per-
| foration of diaphragms was accomplished
without anything like an exhaustive eff
fort.
| By this time there is beginning to per-
colate through the alleged brain of the
| Democratic party a suspicion that the
| right to rule is not one of the rights of
| Il minority.
IT may seem strange but it's fact,
nevertheless, that the crop reports make
no mention Of any material falling off in
States where the reformers haven't got
SO many offices as they wanted.
If THE Democratic party in Congress
were rs able in practical craftsmanship
as entering solemn protest" against
an accomplished fact, it might have a
possible hope in the dim, distant future.
Is ANY intelligent man so cramped and
distorted by prejudice as to suppose that
"under reformed civil service" the
Weather Bureau will permit square
leagues of icebergs to he floating off our
coast in June?
If the Democrats were consistent in
their free-trade maneuvers they would
push Frank Hurd to the front and give
brains n show. But Hurd wears too big
a hat to hope for much prominence in the
Democratic party.
A TEXAS correspondent makes hit
that is all the better for being uninten-
tional when he gravey assures us that
thousands of disinfected Democrats F."
and Independents.
NoAu's neighbors rose up en- ndsse when
the water was about four feet deep on
level, and "entered their solemn pro-
test" against that sort of thing, Just as
the Democrats in the House do when
things don't go to suit them. But the
water kept on climbing.
SHOOTING is the mode employed in the
Indian Territory in putting condemned
murderers to death. 1t is far less bar
be generally substituted for the rope
without detriment to any interest and
with several manifest advantages.
In communities where the sympathies
of the people are 50 strongly enlisted in
behalf of great criminals that crime can
not be punished, it may be polite to ne
gotiate with them as Governor Critten-
den, of Missouri, is said TO be negotiat-
ing with Frank James, At any rate that
is better than hiring an assassin to muir
der his friend.
LExIcoNs furnish no epithets suitable
for the occasion when one is called to
speak of such an act rs the DETACHMENT
Of soldiers monument at Lancaster,
Pa. Probably there are not u dozen
conyicts in all the penitentiares of the
United States who would not feel de-
graded by contact with the authors of
this deed.
In Is said that "France is determined
to make her naval power felt" French
|, war ships have always been noble objects
to look at, but when it has come to maxi
ing themselves felt there has been a con-
spicuous absence of some ingredient
essential to success. The martial glory
of France rests on the achievements of
her land forces.
SOME of the Boston papers have habit
, of speaking of "the best sentiment of
. Massachusetts, " rs if it were less akin to
, earth than to heaven. We make no
, doubt the best sentiment of Massachu-
sets is all right, as it always has been,
/, but it may not be purer, higher, holier
l than the best sentiment of other States
l Tho I-am-holier-than-thou" air is not
= always pleasant
} THE Chicago Times is of opinion that
/ the Presbyterian denomination is bound
| to shoot ahead, because it has imposed
/ increased rigor on its members in regard
to dancing, theaters, card-playing, and
4 other amusements in which 80 many
people naturally uelgHt, LILO gIounu
+ for this belief on the part of the Times il
4 that "the form of religion that requires
D the greatest sacrifice is endowed with the
power of fascination, few persons caring
. for heaven that can be obtained for the
n asking" 1t furthermore is the opinion
d of the eminent Chicago authority that
c most persons religously inclined desire
Y TO purchase the pleasures Of paradise al
i the cost Of the pleasures of this world
= This view of the question is not without
: the support of philosophy of certain
a school, but we did suppose that it wa
# little respected in Chicago.