National Republican., 1884-03-04
POLITICAL MOTHS.

POLITICAL MOTIFS.
The Michigan rcpubl ican state convention
for the selection Of delegates to the Chicago
convention, will be held at Grand Rapids,
April "a
Cleveland is not much talked of now as q
possible candidate. Tho impression has gone
west that Cleveland must DO an Ohio man,
and that hurts him.--New Orleans Picaynne.
Tho silence which surrounds Mr.. Tildon
when tho inquiry Is made whether he will be
candidate for recollection is almost deafen-
ing. 1t Is aggressive enough to destroy all
the smaller booms.-Atldnta Constitution.
Mr.. Payne's decoration regarding the pres
idency is an exact repetition Of his words on
tho sonatorship. We are sorry to say that
Mr.. Payno's declarations are to be taken
with several grains Of ofsalt.--Steubenvil Gazette
Tho coming ticket for the democrats seems
to be: For president, b. i, Butler of Massa-
chusetts for vice president, Carter Harrison,
of Illinois. Platform: We know what wo
want Let tho bird O. freedom shriek--PhN-
ddciphid Press
Blaines great trouble has beon tho eagor-
ness of his friends. They have put him to
such speed at tho beginning of every race
that he has boon tired out before reaching
the FIRST quartor-pole. That is tho aflliction
now.-New York Graphic.
The latest suggestion for a presidential
ticket is Logan ana Low, the latter mayor of
Brooklyn, who IL is believed, IL nominated
for vice president, would mako New York
state certain for the republican ticket. He
Is great power in Kings county, n stronghold
OF New York democracy. Quincy Wig.
Unless he gives some evidence Of change
Of mind from both his public and private
utterances, it would be well to go q little slow
in booming Gen. Sherman, in our opinion.
Senator Sherman probably is or may be o
candidate. He would make better president
than the general, and we believe could be
elected Charlotte (Mich.) Republican.
1t is quite evident that just under the
political horizon there is low-lying boom
for the Hon. William w. Eaton, Of Con.
necticut, as tho democrato candidate for
president. There are occasional attempts in
various quarters to touch it oil, but somehow
it hangs fire. The democracy might go a
great deal further and faro great deal
worse.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Savannah Neus thinks it would be a
good thing both for tho south and the negro
if the latter would be colonized in q terri
tory. The Inter Ocean would suggest that
inasmuch as the negro of Georgia has boon
doing all the work for a couple Of hundred
years, how would it do to colonize tho whites
into territory? 1t might prove to "be a
good thing for both the south" and the whites
| We simply mako the suggestion in the light
of the fact that the negro has the same right
to live in Georgia that the white man has
and has as much right to move tho whites as
they have to remove the blacks.-Inter Ocean
The Northwestern Christian Aduocate, lead
| ing Methodist organ, rules Gen. Sherman out
of the list of presidential candidates because
his family are Roman Catholics. We do not
remember that this foolish objection wa'
raised to "Old Tecumsoh" when it was
deemed necessary for him to go marching
through Georgia. Nor can we say that w
are prepared to admit the relevancy of Ger
tain democratic criticisms upon this display
of republican intolerance" in view of tho fac
that the glass Is as yet not green upon thu
political graves of Francis Kernan and Will
lam Purcell. Post -EGpress.
The developments of the next four week.
are likely to be highly interesting, politically
both in this state and throughout the union
There is not the slightest excitement anC
scarcely any discussion in this state on th
subject of presidential nominations. Arthur
friends are making the stilest kind of still
hunt, if they are hunting at all. If there 1
any favorite candidate from New York oi
either side, the mention of such candidate
name docs not seem to stir a ripple on tn
stagnant pool, for politics sleep on the abys
without q surge.n Politicians are indifferer
and "going slow."-Troy Budget.
Rev. G. S. Smith, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
colored orator Of eminence in the west, an
chairman of the colored mems republica
, committee of that state, makes reply
+ Wayne MacYeagh's rose-colored msgszin
article on national politics and presider
making. In answering Mr.. MacVeagh
assertion that the war is over; that th
angels of peace reign supreme and undi
turbed; that the supremacy and authority
the nation are everywhere acknowledged an
obeyed; that the constitutional rights OF til
citizen are universally respected; and that I'll
various avenues leading to tho pursuit
happiness arc free and unobstructed to I'll
troad Of fifty millions of freemen," NJ
Smith says that the rebellion inst
tuted in tho south in 1877 again
the right of colored men to the exerci'
, of political freedom is still in force, and thi
| every person who gives to it aid and suppol
is a rebel not only against the constitution
! rights of sovereign citizens, but against ii
, government and authority that conferre
, them. Continuing, he says: "Ihe rebellio
| OF the present is as much in defiance of I'll
constitution and powor of the nation as wl
the rebellion OF 1861; and it remains to
seen whether the mighty will that has dC
. clared that all the citizens shall be entitle
| to exercise the right Of political freedom wi
, prove sufficiently strong to resist and owe
come the rebellion against tho right of tt
: citizen, as it did the rebellion for the di
}; mcmberment of the union. When free speec
: shall be made as much q matter of fa
{; in Mississippi as it is in Illinoi
), and the approaches to the ballt
a box as free and unobstructed
, South Carolina as they are in Ohio. and ever
#, vote as honestly counted, then will tho rebe
, lion of 1870 be at an end but no sooner. I'll
republican party cannot now without gre
dishOnor and sure defeat shirk tho respons
bility of dealing honestly and vigorousl
with the question. 1t has long retained Il
: faith and confidence of the people by /
o guarantee to make triumphant upon ever
a inch of this thrice blood -drenched land tn
= trinity of immortal and priceless principle
y liberty, equality, and justice, and tho vei
- moment that IL swerves from this principle
. forleits tho confidence and faith OF those wi
= have 80 long upheld and maintained it. "
: do not ask it TO declare war against IL
south but against rebellion and lawles
nes5-agsinst treason and political assassin
tons"
i Sham RefOrmers.
a ChicIJO NclUS.