National Republican., 1884-10-04
POLITICAL SMALL TALK.

Gen. Bragg won his nomination 20 con
Rress ia the second Wisconsin district by
the scant majority of one The dissatis-
faction among tho Irish democratic voters
in that locality Il pronounced and there
is talk of bolt.
To talk brazcnly of the "senility" and
Ignorance of Anson Morrill,, John G..
Whittier, Mark Hopkins, and Theodore
Woolsoy will prove to be an exceedingly
poor method of appeal to the head and
heart Of New England.-Boston journal.
Make no mistake friends of American
labor. The election of Grover Cleveland
would mean the triumph oftho free trade
democracy, the renewal of tariff agitation
in congress and the continuance of an un
certainty in business circles which is fatal
to all progress. Rochester Post-Erprcss.
Tho defeat of Congressman Vance, of
North Carolina, for denomination by the
democrats of his district, on account of
his free trade sentiments, is an indication
OF an awakening that Is going on oil over
the state to the dangers OF the democratic
free trade policy.-Boston Traveller.
If Mr.. Blaino's tour is 80 unbecoming
and so damaging as the democratic papers
say, we should think thoy would encour-
age him to prolong 1t, instead of clamor-
ing so loudly against it and telling him
how much better IL is for q presidential
candidate to stay at home with his mouth
locked and tho combination lost like nice,
modest, self-contained Mr.. Cleveland
Globe Democrat.
"Thoy who take tho sword shall perish
by tho sword" There Is profound
philosophy in this. Tho man who starts
out to make reform" campaign for
purity" and puts himself so far above his
fellows that he can only be dimly seon
through the nimbus Of high morality
with which he surrounds himself, will be
generally discovered sooner or later to bo
very poor article Of pinchbeck. Indian
dpoiis Journal.
Carl Schurz said in his peroration to
Pulitzer's speech that in Germany.
France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and
Austria there was against Blaine "the
same cry" that there was in England.
Well, what arc they crying about? Why
do they weep? DO they think Blaine is
not good enough republican for this
conntry2 Are they troubled about his
character? IL so, from whom did they
get their information Perhaps 1t is
Cleveland's purity that predominates in
their minds.-NeD York Extra.
Seldom has fate played any party a
more scurvy trick than when the oppor-
tune unearthing of the Halpin scandal
confounded tho independents who had
deserted tho republicans in order to sup
port Gov. Cleveland on high moral
grounds. To break definitely with your
party in order to introduce morality into
politics, and then to discover that the
candidate for whom you have made SO
many sacrifices has an illegitimate child
in public orphansge and a cast-of mis-
tress over the border, is trying indeed
| Pal IfaH Gd=ette.
of the independents it is my purpose to
speak in terms of the utmost Tenderness.
They have left us. Why should we
mourn departed friends? When l read
the announcement a few days ago, Mr..
Chairman, that they had gone heard the
news with great deal of solid comfort
pr at deal of resignation. But when
read along q little further, and found
that their absence was to be only tenn
porary, that they intended some day to
return, confess-who should not confess
it?-that my mind was filed with direst
apprehension. Emory A. Storrs.