National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
POLITICAL SMALL TALK.

POLITICAL SMALL TALK.
Butler does not know who tho vice |
presidents are running on tickets with |
him, but he thinks they arc sll good men.--
| ~. Louis Post.
Tho republican majority in Vermont
| falls below the majority of 1850, but we
observe that il is sufficiently tremendous
Cincinnati Iimes-Star.
Hendricks letter publicly discussing
Cloveland's withdrawal shows either
treachery, hopelessness. or sheer hebetude
and nobody has ever taken Tom Hem
bricks for a fool.-Bg9alo Commercial
| AdUeriSer.
Under the last democratic president
1891 out of every 100000 of public rev.
enue collected was either lost or stolen.
Under the administration of President
Arthur the loss on every 100000 was Is |
cents. Keep the rascals out.
Other hearts must bleed. Mr.. Beecher
| wonders if there ever will DO put up a
pure man for whom righteous person
can vote without blushing. Ben Butler
winks his bad oye on the Brooklyn side |
aud says, "Vote for me, Harry."-New
| Orleans Picayuae.
Since Col. Thomas p. Ochiltree has do.
! clined to become candidate for n second
term in congress the lone star of Texas
has decreased in size from the ostenta-
tious proportions of green cheese to the
ridiculous diminutiveness of dried pea
Chicago Notcs.
Mr.. Beecher should not be censured too
4 hsrshly for that little "error" las the New
York Post calls it) of ten years ago. He
was only giddy youth of go sowing his
wild oats" and Elizabeth was a married
woman, and, as Mr.. Godkin delicately
| points ont, could not DO 'seduced."-r-
Chicago Tribune.
Tho Boston Globe, with the air Of one
who has found out all about it, says,
Gov. Cleveland will carry Buffalo and
Erie county handsomely. The people
there are immensely proud of him." 1t
is doubtful which OF these two statements
will cause tho more merriment in Buff
falo.-Rochester Post-E1press.
If workingmen do not like Grover
Cleveland and the attitude of his party
toward their interest they should stop
between stations and see the train whiz
by. There is no reason why they should
throw away their votes on Butler, IL they
are really in earnest.-lnter-Oce
Poor Mr.. Hendricks! lie is working
very hard under exceedingly adverse
circumstances. His pathetic appeals for
votes are calculated or at least intended,
to melt the hardest hearts. Cleveland is
too heavy load, however, to be piled on
top Of Hendricks's own unworthiness.--
Troy Times
Mr.. Mast makes great struggle in his
cartoons of this week to be as powerful
as ever no was, and his British lion be-
tween Butler and Blaine is not bad. Still.
we need from Nast's pencil q few cartoons
of the reform governor, wrapped in the
radiant raiment of his purity and march
ing to halcyon victory along the broad
road of democratic reformation.-Hai.
steads Extra.
Tho latest slang political term is
doodle bug. doodle-bug is sort of
cross between mugwump, Gentle
hermit and a genuine native dude. He
imagincs he carries the future of the
country in his breeches pocket and sits up
nights thinking of the transcendeut i'm
portance of his vote. On election day he
fails to vote, because he doesn't want to
fall in line with lot Of rough men.---Neip
York Tribune.
1t is interesting to notice that the In-
dianapolis Sentinel, which is to be hauled
into court for its dirty campaign SANDER,
is the same paper that started the accusa-
ton against Blaine in the Little Rock
and Fort Smith case 1t Is interesting
also to notice that the accusations in the
{ Little Rock and Fort Smith case were
started at the instance of Harrison, the
indianapolis banker, who has just shut
up shop and swindled a host Of deposit
ors-Porttand OregOniaa.
If the democrats are not successful in
November it will DO because the manage
+ ment Of tho campaign is given over to
maj glaFN atanN
and who, in the last days of that struggle,
threw away, by trickery and cowardice,
what might have been a substantial vic
tory. Trickery, as shown in the manner
. with which they approached and handled
the Morey letter, and cowardice displayed
I in their treatment of the real vital issue
0 of tho campain, tho tariff. - Louisville
a C0urier-JOurndL
/ The voice Of the late George w. Julian,
4 Of Indiana, has been heard murmuring
a in the miasmatic winds which blow along
the stagnant Wabash that "the para
h mount issue in this campaign is political
!. morality" Personal morality, according
/, to this oracle of the misty past, has no
o part as an issue in the canvass. for which
comforting utteranco there will be abund-
= ant gratitude in the neighborhood of Al
:. bany. The late Mr., Julian was always
an interesting individual. In life he was
imposing, and no energies from the
shadows Of the forgotten to assure us
> that in tho oblivion he is unique.-Phila.
delphia Press.
In recent speech at Indianapolis Mr.
Hendricks declared that "the Irishman Is
natural democrat" Why? Unless
Americans are natural democrats, Irish
men are not. Would Mr.. Hendricks
admit the German is natural republic
can? There is no nature In politics and
there ought to be no nationality except
}, that which pertains to the name of
American. We are tired Of these constant
appeals TO lrishmen as Irishmen and
Germans us Germans. It-would be we'll
if wo could all learn that in reality we
are all Americans. This time we are
electing an American president and all
annnnls shonld be addressad 10 nitiznna ns