National Republican., 1884-07-18
POLITICAL SMALL TALK.

1t is tho "Old Ticket with Hamlet |
left out.--Philddeiphia Evening Cal.
The nomination of Hendricks gives the
democrats q boaver-tailed tioket.-Neto
York Herald
The Wilmington IN. C.) Star says Gen.
Bragg, of Wisconsin, carries sting in the
end of his tongue.
Cleveland can neither nod his plume
nor hutter his red baudana. How can
he hope for enthusiasm p Cincinnati Tines
Star.
Clevelands nomination seems to give
more satisfaction TO the republicans than
Blaino's did to the democrats. ts.-Proridenc
Press.
The workingmen Of New York will be
divided between Butler and Blaine. They
have declared war on Cleveland. d.--Denver
Tribune.
When Hayes heard Of Hepdricks's
nomination he went out and wrung the
necks of four pullets for spite.-Colambus
Daily Times.
A lot of papers are explaining, "How
Catholics will vote" 1t Is likely Catho-
lies will vote as all other men-just as
they think.-Progress.
The democratic platform sums up the
democratic creed as consisting of the
wrongs of the ins and the desires Of the
outs.-Kdnsas City Journal.
The weight of the ticket Is In its tail.
The Cleveland kite will not soar very
high with SO ponderous candal append
ago. 1t would fly better upside down.
Denver Republican.
Bill English occupied seat on the plat
form at the convention, but it is not on
record that his presence paralyzed the
proceedings because Of too much enthu-
isasm.-Gdlueston Netcs.
Hendricks reply to Secretary Chandler
is labored and pointless In the future
he should be more careful as to how he
makes indiscriminato charges. es.-Bptalo
Commercial Aduertiser.
Cleveand's opponents are willing to
concede the fact that he weighs consider
ably over 200 pounds, but they will not
admit tho supposition that he is truly
good man.-Nep Y6rh Journal.
The bolt of Tammany, the big wheat
crop, tho subsidence of the cattle plague
and the on-appearance of the army worm
are bad signs for the democracy this
years.. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Irish democrats in Cleveland, Ohio
present an almost solid front in opposi-
tion to the democrat presidential ticket
| Their disgust with Cleveland's nomina-
tion is complete aud undisguised.
Roswell Pettbone Flower thinks Cleve-
land will carry Now York by 10000 ma
jority. This is the same Mr.. Flower who
thought he was going to be nominated at
Chicago last week. Philadelphia Press.
The studied persistency with which
Mr.. Tilden omits to congratulate Cleve-
land is accounted for on the score that the
old gentleman is training for a rowing
match with Hanlan.-Phitadelphia Press.
The greenbackers and laboring men in
southern Indiana show strong hostility to
Cleveland's candidacy. The leading men
in the greenback party in that section
express firm belief in Blaine's election.
Mr.. Hendricks is not behind Gov.
Cleveland in his advocacy of monopolies,
He advocates and voted for the grant of
54,000,000 acres of the public domain to
the Northern Pacific railroad.-Indian-
dpoLis Times.
Butler took his defeat good-naturedly,
but the old man has to be watched, all
the same. 1t lies entirely with Butler
whether the wOrkingmen's vote Of Mas
sachusetts will give that state to Cleve-
land or to Blaine-Houston Post.
The Maine campaign of this year, it is
expected, will repeat the stirring times
of the "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" cam
paigu. Already, the Boston Herald says,
men are getting their ardor aroused and
their blood quickened."
The English newspapers are of the opin-
ion that Cleveland will be a safer man for
president Of this country than Blaine.
Fortunately for us, only Americans can
vote at the election, and majority of
them prefer Mr.. Blaine.-RdnSas City
Journal.
Four years ago Mr.. Hendricks held
himself too high to take second place on
the ticket with Samuel j. Tilden. Now
he gladly takes the subordinate place on
q ticket with q man whom he had never
heard of three years ago.-lndiandpolis
Journal.
The thanks of the people are due the
democratic candidate for vice president
for thus early stating so frankly what the
programme is to be. The people under
stand it, but it is thus freshly defined for
them--a grand saturnalia of spoils; a
tumultuous rush for everything in sight
indianapolis NeiCS.
Some of his partisans are calling Mr..
Cleveland "The Man of Destiny" Others
name him "rhe Creature of Circum-
stances" After the second Tuesday in
November he will be known as the Buffalo
bull that made the foolish attempt to buck
the Blaine express train of the track
NeV-York Tribune
George William Curtis, president of the
Civil-service Reform association. march,
ing as an annex to the democratic party,
which, according to Mr.. Hendricks, will
demand the displacements of at least
$4,000 officeholders," is at once one of the
humors and shames Of current politics.
Indianapolis JournaL
A visit to the labor organizations OF
st. Louis dscloses the fact Of the deter
mination Of the working men to oppose
; Clevelands election. There are thirteen
lodges of the Knights of Labor in St
Louis, with a membership of more than
800 voters, and thirty-two trades unions
including majority of the workingmen