National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-06-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

| nOninauOn.-FHhddelp CdH.
There is no style about Mcdonald, Waiter
sons candidate. His round head is bald, and
| his whiskers arc on his neck, trying to climb
out over his colar.--New Orleans Picdyue.
| Missouri is claimed to be solid for Tilden's
nomination, but his supporters are compelled
| to keep careful lookout lest some Mcdonald
man with Tildeu mask on gets q place on
the national delegation.
'Whom do the democratic business men
want for the presidency~ asks the New
| York Morning Journal. Some of them have
been heard TO express decided preference
for Mr.. Philadelphia North american.
Should Mr.. Tilden die before the conven-
tion, 10 will only be necessary to ran q stick
through an old suit Of his clothes, put his hat
on IL, and march up the aisle. The n0mna-
ton would still DO uhanimous.-L Louisville
| Post.
- A Russian attains his majority when he is
twenty.six years old, says an exchange Our
honorod friend, James Gillespie Blaine, is
somewhere in the neighborhoOd of sixty, and
hasn't attained his majority yet.-LolteU
Times.
Philadelphia reporter asked Postmaster
| General Gresham last week if he thought
| President Atrhurs chances good. Indeed
l do" was the prompt answer "No man has
yet been named who will make q better chief
executive"
1t Is said that Judge Holman sent three or
| four thousand cigars to his district few days
ago and had them branded Holman cigar"
with wood cut portrait of himself on
each box. This is a new wrinkle III political
campaign. Atlanta Constitution.
| Boys who were in their Latin grammars
when tho presidency was stolen will vote
next November.-NOw York Sun. The boys
who were not and never were In their Latin
grammars will elect the next president, as
they have all the presidents Commercial
Gazette
IL would not make much difference, but II
the New York Times would once week give
| an editorial stating what republicans can
carry New York, instead of one nearly every
day declaring that neither the President nor
Mr.. Blaine can, it would be o ohange.-BOstOn
Journal.
Tilden is likely to receive the democratic
nomination for president. 1t will DO given
as compliment. There is growing fear
that he has not enough strength left to decline
1t. The last time he said he did not want it
he whispered SO low as to DO almost unintel-
| ligible.-B0Ston Traveller.
Blaine is not as sanguine as he was, Arthur
| is not as sanguine as no was, Sherman is not
as sanguine as he was Edmunds is not as
sanguine as he WAS In fact not one Of the
old timers feels sanguine of anything but
his ability to prevent the nomination of the
other fellow.-CincinHdi NGies-JoHrlal.
1t seems odd to read formal and authori-
tative denial in Blaine's home organ of the
rumor that Senators Hale and Frye are hos
| tile to Blaine's nomination. If Hale and
Frye require certificates from Blaine's homo
| organ OF their devotion to their old chief
their zeal in his cause hasn't been bewilder-
-Philddelphia Times.
| The damncrot;o nat;onoI ooounnt;o,, x,-;II
have eighteen delegates less than the repub-
lican convention, no representative from the
| territories being admitted to the former. 1t
will need $50 votes to nominate democratic
presidential candidate as the two-thirds rule
| prevails in Its conventions. About 800 Of the
s02 delegates have now been elected.
The Blaine crowd in Ohio have discovered
| that the Sherman men have had razors con-
cealed about their persons all the time they
have been making such q show Of meekness
| and resignation, and there is state of
| indignation no longer concealed. Some of
| the supporters of Blaine evidently thought
that some of the smartest politicians In Ohio
would quit in the presence of great noise
Cincinnati Enquirer.
That the business situation will have very
much to do with tho election of president is
sufficiently manifest. Therefore the republi-
can convention should be careful to select the
man that would most nearly fit the situation.
| A long headed level-headed man of business
whose record is full and clear, and who has
| proved his wisdom by his acts, is the kind of
q man needed to head the republican ticket.
| With such n leader success would be almost
assured from the start Commercial Gazette.
President Arthur grows In the esteem of the
American people every day, and the shower Of
calumny that is being poured upon him by
unprincipled opponents has but served to
| nnaEa hig rapOrd shina all tho hriuhtar u
great man exists who has not thus been made
| the target of abuse, and Mr.. Arthur is no
| exception. 1t is seldom, however, that the
shafts rebound SO quickly from the target at
which they were aimed as they have in the
case of the President They have completely
failed in their intended purpose-Burlngton
HdWkeye
Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Com
| ntercidl lets the daylight through the as
sumptions of the Blaine men that their can
didate would be particularly available in
Ohio. Halstead declares, without hesitation,
that the candidate who would be strongest
in New York and Massachusetts would be,
without question the strongest man in Ohio"
So far as New York snd Massachusetts are
concerned it is possible to name half q dozen
men that would obtain more votes In those
states than James g. Blaine. Edmnnds, Ar
| thur, Sherman, Gresham, BristOw, and Haw-
ley would all got more votes in Massaohu.
sets and New York than would Mr.. Blaine.
The Philadelphia Press will please mako a
note of this Standardization Transcript.
II Is not always safe in politics to put Dues
tions with feverish earnestness. For in
stance tho New York Tribune, lifted up its
voice and cried, docs anybody know moro
than one man. prominently talked of for the
presidency, who could certainly carry Maine
in September" And the Portland Press the
leading republican paper of Maine, promptly
replied. mo Maine republican will do the
party in this state the injustice of intimatng
that any democratic candidate for the presi-
dency could carry tho state against any re-
publican candidate" Whereupon the Tribune,
having found out all that 1t did not want to
know subsidized with the agile grace of a cat
at whom n bootjack had been waited with
accuracy and xpoctedness. --ROcheSier Post
Express.
Gen. Arthur did not want the nomination
as vice president in the first place. and he
should not DO malgned because he happened
to be in tho limo Of: SUGGESTIONS to the
presidency. He assumed his unexpected
and undesired duties with commendable
humility and at the same time manly dig
nifty. He had the rightito be president, how
ever unwilling any faction of the party may
have been that he should hold that office, and
he has discharged its responsible duties with
as little spirit of partisanship as any presi
dent, except Abraham Lincoln, since the
early days of the republic Mr.. MacVoagt
has injured the cause of the independents in
the degree 20 which his vicious attack upon
ha rraai1ant ia inHnrgpd bu than DorfJY,,,