National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-24
EDITORIAL NOTES,

A POLITICAL cyclone has Frustrated
more than hundred lengths of Beltz.
hoover's fences.
THERE is nothing about which Ken.
tuckian is so particular as his boots-he
expects to die in them.
FAILURE will attend the great Demo-
cratic attempt to swing into power on
the saloon front-door issue.
IT is far more important for Congress
| to do all its work well than it is for men,
bers to get home at an early date.
THE New England States have an
immense hay crop this year, despite the
recent change in the Boston collector
ship.
IT is a dull day now that doesn't wit
ness the neat and workmanlike turning
off of u dozen or twenty nominations for
Congress.
LoNG-RANGE breech-loaders are the
only kind of stump-orators that the
Democratic committee will put into the
field this year.
In IS true that reformer is not COM
PEELED to be fraud, yet this absence OF
compulsion seems to have but little infu-
ence on results.
"A 1i' iJOllb IllllOSpllllCI puts Jlp uBe Oh
the world at 20000000 years, but the
diary of Mr.. Thurlow Reed does not con-
firm this estimate.
LET us hope that Bismarck will live
long and prosper. We are indebted to
him for large and valuable portion OF
our alien population.
TIE most ignorant crowd of non-pro-
fessionals could not do more contradictory
swearing than has been achieved by the
experts in the Mdlley trial,
THE man at the northwest end of the
wire should have some pity on the De-
mocracy and stop the growth of the Re-
publican majority in Oregon.
OK many points of political ethics there
is serious lack of harmony among the
Missouri Bourbons; but they are still a
unit in favor of the Leeompton constitu-
ton.
DISASTER does not crush the Delaware
Democracy. They have nailed their flag
to the top of the whipping-post, and
have sworn that they will never sur
render
TIE man who, n few days ago, "put
Ohio down for 10000 Democratic major
ity this year," has started for Oregon to
see what knocked out the Democratic
bulkhead.
THERE are two classes of statesmen
who do not sport honorary degrees
Those who don't care to invest, and those
who can't raise a ten-dollar note for the
faculty of q country college.
Now THAT the Hon. Horatio Seymour
has written his name before the title of
Road Commissioner will it be in order
for the Democratic press to stop cracking
gloomy jokes about Road Commissioner
Hayes"
THUS far this rosy month of June has
been phenomenally prolific of suicides.
Will not some learned Reformer show
the fatal connection between the Hub
bell circular and these untimely exits
from this vale of tears?
WHOLE families of Americans who
have never seen any portion of this con-
tinent except few of the seaboard
States are now journeying through
"Yurrup," as if life held no other possi-
bility half so valuable as sight Of moldy
ruins.
If the central Democratic organ had
given to the cause in Oregon the time
and toll ii has so municently bestowed
on the royal babies of Europe, the Re-
publican majority in that State might
have been kept down to reasonable
figure.
NOBODY pretends that Mrs. Langtry is
q great actress. Indeed, she makes no
claim to greatness in that line. But she
will draw well in America because her
name had been so prominently before
the public in the role of professional
beauty for years before her advent ON
the stage.
MICHIGAN is badly hocked-indeed thu
chest element of Michigan is disguised;
Jockey has been detected in selling a
race. We understand that it is the moral
laXity Of the jockey, rs shown in permit
ting his rascaity to be detected, that has
narrowed up the moral feelings of "the
best element"
A TEXAS Bourbon, writing of the poit-
zeal situation to friend in Washington,
classically remarks that "we must have
our learnedest and most able statesmen
at the front if we are to check disinfec-
ton in the party" He concludes with
an earnest recommendation of PROMPT
and decisive action, because "tempus is
fighting with unprecedented CELEBRITY"
Evidently this is an occasion that de-
mands dispatch.
TIE seaside, mountains, and lakes may
furnish cooler resorts than can be found
in Washington in midsummer, but one
need not go out of this District TO find