National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

IT is solid comfort to bankers, plumb
crs, and journalists to know that, at any
time, they can get gold bars for coin.
UNLESS there should be a radical change
in the tenor of the evidence in the Malley
conviction.
ARADI PAsuA is still sounding his loud
timbrel, or blowing his horn, DER Egypt's
dark sea, as if there were no such things
as ironclads.
IF the great Bourbon device of tissue
ballots were available in the House the
Republican side would be but an insig-
nificant minority.
LAWYERS are being ground out by the
schools at the rate of some hundreds a
week, but the upper tiers of the profess
sion are not crowded.
BEFORE the Democratic side of the
House enters on another parliamentary
struggle it should have itself nicely fitted
with n Mallory steering propeller, and
stow most of its ballast aft the main
hatch.
EGYPT really needs new Khedive,
and there are valid objections to giving
the place to any European statesman.
In this emergency why not call tex
Vice President Hendricks to the front ?
He would achieve such success rs has
not been recorded since Sancho PanZa
governed his insular domain.
ITmay be stated, with entire confidence,
that Secretary Chandler will not follow
the example Of one of his recent prede-
the suppression of labor disturbances. 1t
is not believed that the disturbers could
be induced to march to tide-water, and
put themselves under a monitors guns
for the sake of being suppressed.
The Committee on Commerce having
by II vote of II to declined to report
Mr.. Reagan's bill to regulate interstate
commerce." which meant q law regulating
railroad charges, n contemporary pro-
poses that commission clothed with ad-
visory powers and TO collect and report
information touching railway transporta-
ton be created by Congress. Now that
commissions are the order of the day,
why not this?
The two-thirds rule in Democratic ma
tional conventions is up for discussion,
with q pretty vigorous demand for its
abrogati0n. 1t is just the discussion for
the Democrats in Congress fresh from the
tDllltol NhNlNll NhN9 thN
doctrine that one-lifth ought TO control to
engage in. Democrats who maintain
that the majority rule ought to prevail
and they are numerous-must find it
difficult to support their party in Con-
gress. The right Of the majority to rule
ought to be good Democratic doctrine |;
but the Democratic members of Congress
fought nearly ten days for the right of
one-iiith to govern.
WHEN, in the midst ofthe campaign of
1880, the tariff panic struck the Democ-
racy, hopelessly mixing its cerebrum with
its cerebelum, and softening the osseous
tissue of its spinal column 80 that its
frame swayed and wobbled in manner
that would have been pitiful if ii hadn't
! been so ludicrous, our morning contem-
porary, the central Democratic organ, led
the stampede, and distNnced all COMPETE
tors in jumping the platform That was
less than two years ago, but the same
organ now rises up every morning to blow
a lusty blast in favor of just such plat
form for 'S4 as it spurned in 80. II we
could dictate that document we should
certainly put into it the central idea Of
the Democratic creed-"A tariff for reve'
nue. only"