National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

The democratic caucus is good thing, lo-
cause nothing else can just now be invented
to decide whether there is o living democratic
party or mott Philadelphia Times.
Tho question whether one man or another
is ignorant, cowardly and vacllating in the
matter Of party measures cappot be decided
in o caucus at Washington. 1t must 20 to o
higher court. Petersburg fader-Appedl
Congress will do nothing rash, Congress,
bearing in mind the election next November,
will persist in doing nothing of any kind with
an energy that will tire it to death before the
campaign fairly begius,-Neg |ork Graphic.
OF all tho muddles of modern times the tar
jff muddle aud the democratic party Is the
greatest. Tho leaders do not know what they
want, and tho people do not want anything.
Here 10 where the trouble comes in.--SMn fFdll-
cisco Post.
The whisky bonded extension bill, if it
shall pass both houses of congress, should be
vetoed by President Arthur on the ground
that 1t is the meanest kind of class legisla.
ton and establishes q mischievous prece-
dent-Ddncito (Ry) Tribune.
There is one highly credtable feature
about Mahoneism that will never be observed
in so-calied happy democracy. Aiahoneism
has never failed to improve (and that very
largely every office taken out Of tho paws of
bourbonism. Bourbon official reports them
selves say Us much.-Richmond Wig,
This country has now three white els-
plants Bsrnums, Forepaughs, aud tho
Morrison tariff hill owned by the democratic
party and now on exhibition at the capitol
at Washington. Of the three the.Iatter seems
TO DO the most troublesome and Is especially
dangerous to the democracy, 1t is feared its
trunk is loaded with dynsmite. -l0rf Pa
| Dispatch.
Following the example of Oakland, the
party, by making determined, united, pro-
eressiye campaign, will place california in
| the column Of republican states next NOyem-
hor. 1t il naturally a republican state by
from 10000 to 10000 majority, and it only
needs ,iudicious political management to
prove this beyond cayil at the coming cleo
tian,- Oakland (Cal,) lidetf,
If colored citizens cannot have their politi-
cal rights il they are to be bulldQged, outraged
and murdered whenever thoy attempt to az
ercise these rights, then let us see to it thai
the increase of representation in congress
and the electoral college, which the negro
citizens have thus secured to the solid dem
ocratic SOUTH DO wiped out, and that il b.
deprived of the political beneft5 which they
have thus wrongfully and feloniously OBJ
tanned. .-NcW York Reppbikaner (GermGn),
Free trade was the nest egg of disunion
and now the dregs Of disunion are the chic
fed and productive industries as tho opl!
source of the nations wealth. power, anC
progress, u battle for free trade ia battle TO
the destruction Of free government, an,
history will repeat itself in 1854, as it did II
1882 and again in 1861, by the industries o
the nation crushing out the last vestige O
free trade ruetionists.-NoyOib (Va.) Sea
port -..-.....- ',,
The first stroke of the whip is to be lai
across tho broad shoulders of the democrati
Marty at Washington next Tuesday. TIL
CALLED Jade will vince and shuddeT and shriel
irQm Maine to California, and from Michigan
to Louisiana. Tho ruthless policy is part q
the rule or ruin method always pursued b
: that sort of leaders whom they get Into powci
, and il has one beneficial eonsequenGe-th
whip is promptly transferred to other hand
at the nearest elections,--Ne Orleans PicO
yuma
Tho most curious boom in tho large con
gregaton Of presidential booms is that iabele
Henry H. Payne, Of Ohio. This gentleman
who ia four years older than pilden and
United States senator'eeGt, has pOsitiyol
, declared hundred times over, with increa
ing emphasis each TING, that no Is not cal
dldRte His sons and all tho members of III
s family make tho same declaration, Yet, {
: tho same time otiorts--hard, active efforts
> haYo been made and are being made to GreaI
. Payne sentiment throughout the Couptr.
At his homo in Cleveland there Is y literar
bureau energetically at work in his interest
and q daily paper has just boon started in oh
same city TO advocate his nomination. A
J, this Is strange, very strange, and IL Augges
, that tho best way 70 be u presidential capd
o date is to refuse TO be q candidate.-BaltimO
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