National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-12-26
VOICE OF THE WEEKLY PRESS
Selections from the Issues OF Members
of Our "Co-operntiye Press System"

of Our "CO-operative Press System"
| The supreme court Of Ohio, as expected,
| decided the Cincinnati mandamus case In
| favor OF fraud, forgery, and ballot-boX stuff
ing, and ordered the certificates given to the
| Democratic senators. Glib. Atherton, who
| was defeated by $4,000 majority, sat on the
case to give the Democrats a majority on
the bench. Ninton Record Macarthur,
| Ohio
Shall Dakota, as the coming mighty Re
publican commonwealth Of the great north
west, stoop to conquer statehood from an
unwilling administration, by accepting such
ante.nstal degradation as is thus proposed
| to her by this latter-day Andre? Shall Re-
| publican south Dakota prostitute herself TO
this openly confesscd lust Of Democracy for
the purpose of getting Democratic oppo-
sition to our division and admission re-
movedP Shall Dakota stoop to obey any
such mandate, and thus creep into the
| Union by the backdoor, and on her hands
and knees at that, timorously hiding be-
meath the patronizing protection Of Demo.
cratic oat-tails?-[ Dakota State journal,
st. Lawrence, Oak.
Senator Plumb lost no time after Con-
| gress convened IN introducing his bill to
open up the Oklahoma country to actual
settlement. We think II will become law
this session. Linn County Clarion, Mound
| City, Kan.l
A measure has been introduced by Sem
ator Plumb, authorizing the President to
negotiate with the Indians for the cedng Of
| the government Of certain parts Of the Ok
| lahoma lands, upon which the gaze of the
| boomers has been longingly rlveted for
many years past. The adoption OF such
| measure is, II appears, but matter Of time,
| and Will probably afford a peaceful solu-
| ton OF question that has caused world
| of trouble to at least two administrations
| Southwest Missourian, Lamar, Mol
The Little Rock Conference Of the Moth
odist Episcopal Church South, at its recent
session at Arkadelphia, voted to retain the
| word "South" as denominational charac-
| ter, and against consolidation with the
| Northern Methodist Church. Republican,
West Fork, Ark.l
There Is no question of the great coal de-
| post beneath us. We have every assurance
| Of getting natural gas, and with these things
come the railroads. There is not particle
Of doubt about It. Keep up the boom, and
In less than five years Columbus will be not
only the leading railroad town of south
east Kansas, but the great manufacturing
center.-[Courler, Columbus, Kan
The Secretary OF the Interior has decided
In the Michigan land cases, known as the
common limits of the Marquette and State
line and the Ontogagon and State line
roads, that the titles to the lands are not
void, but voidablc, and may be submitted
to the board OF equitable adjudication for
confirmation of the entries. The principle
involved In this decision affects land esti-
mated to be worth S20,000,000. IL relates
to the even numbered sections only. and
not to the lands granted to the railroads.
Wayne County Courier, Detroit, Mich.
The Republican Supreme Court should
set the election In Cincinnati aside. Their
Democratic predecessors say the law Under
which the election was held was unconsti-
tutional, then, Of course, the election was
unconstitutionalg-[S Sunday Courier, Green
vile, Ohio.
A De Witt special to the Lincoln Jour
nal reports For several days past dogs.
sheep, cattle, and horses have become af-
| fliCted with hydTophobia, and the fatality
has been great. Within the last few hours
its ravages have increased to an alarming
extent. One hundred and eight sheep have
died with the malady, besides other live
stock, and the disease is rapidly spreading.
Ezra, Emerson, Neb.
Fulton county is having quite boom in
the way Of emigrants. | know of about
forty families that have settled In the
county in the last two months, and great
many more are coming In the near future
Pioneer Republican, Elizabeth, Ark
We have repeatedly called attention to
New England. What has made her, with
her cold climate and thin SOIL the power she
is in material wealth and prosperity? Not
her soil. Not her climate. Not her situa-
tlon. None Of these. What then? The en-.
terprise Of her people as manifested In di
versified industries. We repeat what We
have said before, that our section-the broad
Albemarle country--is full of such oppor
tunities; ineXhaustible resources awaiting
development, and lettering labor wishing
employment. All Of these should be set ii
moton-should be doing and making some
thing, providing for home labor, producing
home products, increasing home comforts
each little spring or rill Of industry contrib
uting to the grneral streams of prosperity
which are gotten together by the business
ceDters and make the great ocean of wealth
happiness, and prosperity which is the nat
ilral heritage OF the south.-[North Caro-
linian, Elizabeth City, n. c.
One day Washington dispatch viii an
nounce that Jeibach will be appointed gov
ernor OF Dakota In few days: next da,
comes the news that Pierce will be allowed
to serve out his term; then that Col. Bentol
Is the coming man, and next 1t is stateC
that Barney Caulileld has assurance. AL
this is encouraging. Dickey Count
Leader, Allendale, Oak.
The fact that the southern people are 81
largely American makes the progress o
prohibition more rapid than In the north
One per cent. OF the population is a larg
estimate for foreign born persons. The OPP
position to prohibition In Iowa would b.
comparatively nothing II the same relation
existed here.-[Lyon County Reporter
Rock Rapids, Iowa.
OF all the questions before the presen
Congress the tariff and the silver coinag
are decidedly OF the most vital moment
The former Is one to which the latte
is subsidiary to a very great extent
Whether the vast industrial masses of thu
country shall be plunged into the degrade
ton whose depths the European artisan
and laborer have long since reached, o
whether they shall continue to be, as the
have been, the best paid and the most in
telligent of workmen, is the problem to b
solved. In magnitude and Importance til
question overshadows all others.-[ Herald
East Saginaw, Mich.
But white men are taxed forpublc school
for negroes Kindle the fire and arous
race prejudice. But stop and reason a little
You white men so taxed have your choic
between two risks-inadvertently gettin
the ''niggern into the United States Senat
II you educate him, or In creating San Dc
mingo for yourself If you allow them +
swarm and multiply In brutal ignorance
Perhaps, after all, 1t were best to educat
the black man to know his rights, an
duties, too, and, II it be so, let him becom
senator,-[ North State, Greensboro, n. G.
The trouble with Mr.. Cleveland seems +
be n willful determination to put on Jeffer
sons knee brooches outside of pair @
Jackson's overalls. sit can't be did. n-[ Re
publican, Mount Vernon, Ghlo.l
Congress is organized, and, as usual, ha
before 1t for consideration, or for buncombe
any amount of matter relating to almos
everything imaginable. But when the chat
is winnowed from the wheat very few grain