National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-12-26


to he given In favor of sustaining the law.
Herald and Recorder, Walden, n. VI
The whole machinery Of Justice In Ohio
Is closed and broken by the Infamous par
tisanship Of the supreme court. Soon Ohio
decisions will be held in contempt, aud
evil.minded men already see that justice In
this state is impotent to punish crime.
Atherton, Owen, and Follett will every
where he regarded as thcdcfcndcrs Of fraud
and me.-[Chroniclc, Norwalk, Ohio
The President, IN his annual message, IN
discussing civil service reform, comes down
from the aerial haZiness OF George William
Curtis and other down east college dudes
and injects little common sense into this
subject Of doubtful utility. II the law can
be so amended as to give the honest work
irgman an equal chance with the rich and
"iniluential," and throw sufficient restric-
tons around the length Of time Offices
should be held under the awards Of the
commission, so that an oflice-holding class
will not grow up under II, some good may
result from it, Levy County Times. BroH.
son, Fla
The supreme court of Ohio, as at present
constituted, is burning disgrace to the
memory of the honest men who wore the
judicial ermine In days when II was con-
sidered criminal to condone fraud.-[Guern-
sey Times, Cambridge, Ohio.l
Land Commiss oncr sparks's peculiar rul-
inps have aroused sparks of resentment In
the breasts Of Dakota settlers which bid fair
to he famed into flames of Indignation
Sparks appears to be counting the same
kind OF notoriety as Villas, but they will
probably both be brought to realization
OF the fact that the people have some rights
which land commissioner and q Cabinet
officer are bound to respect David City
Tribune, David City, Neb.l
II has been the custom Of Democratic
politicians for years to ascrbe all the hard
times to Republican msrule. In the face of
this, times are harder and money scarcer
than II has been for a number Of years, and
that with good crops, and the Democratic
administration not yet year old.-[Nau
Buren, Graphic, Van Buren,, Ark.
Hon. Willard Davis, ex-attorney general
OF the state OF Kansas, died at Topeka on
the 9th instant, OF congestion Of the brain.
He was an active, aggressive man, and In
politics was q Republican indeed, having
the same convictions In Kentucky, where
he was born, as In Kansas, where he died.
Republican Citizen, Atwood, Kan.l
Judge Coon, Of the district court In Min
neapolis, has decided that the Minnesota
law of 1885, or the butterine section of the
dairy law, is unconstitutional The Judge
held that the New York supreme court de-
cison declaring the butterine statute uncon-
stitutlonal is sound commonsense. There is
also recent Michigan decision which tends
to the same view. The Minnesota laws Of
1885 has fourteen sections, relating not only
to the manufacture and sale Of butterine,
but to the sale Of unwholesome and I'm
healthy dairy products, false brands, the APP
pointment Of dairy commissioners, &c.-
Wright County Republican, Coketo, Mimi
Another land fraud has been unearthed
in Nebraska, this time in Cheyenne county.
The perpetrators Of the fraud are Denver
men, five Of whom have been arrested and
now languish in the Omaha jail. The bal
0nce, eleven, are still at large, but measures
are being taken to capture them. The per-
petrator of the land fraud In Basset, Brown
county, will 60 behind the bars, having
been exposed by one Of his hired TOOLS
THE Frontier, O'Neill, Ncb.
Senator Sherman has introduced bills for
the purchase Of sites and erection Of public
buildings at GAINESVILLE and Youngstown,
Ohio, the amount to be expended In each
case to be $780, O0.-[ Gazette, Chlllicothe,
Ohio
Nebraska has finally come to the front
at the national capital for an honorary po-
sition on the Republican slate In the Demo-
cratic house. The Republican caucus nom
inee for chaplain halls rom this state. They
might have gone further and Jared worse.
-LRepublcan, Weeping Water, Neb.l
In his message to Congress the President
refers properly and feelingly to the death
of Vice President Hendricks, but neglects
to say anything about the death Of Gen.
Grant. Is it possible that Grover has never
heard Of the first soldier of modern times
-lTheILeader, McLeansboro, Ill.
The people have small patience with
speeches or bills made for buncombe or
partisan purposes. What is wanted is
| legislation that will tend to build up the
material interests OF the state and sew up
| the meshcs, through which criminals escape
unwhipped Of Observation-Disclosures Madi-
sonian, Winterset, Iowa.
The Republicans of Evansville must be a
dandy set, If reports are true. They are
| boycotting their postmaster for the only
reason that the postmaster Is Democrat.
| Did the Democrats do so with the former
postmaster, who was a Republican. IL
they did, both parties should, out Of respect
| for their friends, crawl into hole and pull
the hole IN after them.-I Obseryer, Osakis,
MINI.
An increase in the public debt OF nearly
five millions of dollars in a single month Is
pretty fair beginning for the reform
Democracy. We congratulate those voters
who so earnestly desired change on the
success Of their efforts, even though It
may not be to their liking. News, Bloom
field, Ind.
1t is none too early for the Republicans to
begin to study these facts and figures They
ought, also, to consider the prospect Of in
| creasing their representation from the
south. Thirteen Republican congressman
only were elected from the sixteen southern
states In 1884, five less than were chosen In
that section In the Democratic tidal year
| 1889. The desire expressed that economic
questions may hereafter be made prominent
and the pronounced hostility Of the leading
southern Democratic papers to the election
of congressman opposed to the protection
that larger number OF Republican con-
gressmen may be elected from that section
In 1ss6.-[liuntington :(W. Na.) Republic
| can.
The admission of Dakota will be, doubt
less, brought up before Congress after the
holidays. There is no just reason why she
should not be taken in now; In fact, 1t
ought to have been done by the former
Congress. 1t is said that Nevada in the
Senate and House will object because Da-
kota has not half million inhabitants
[Key of the Gulf, Key West, Fla.l
Pennsylvania pays her debts in COM
Portable way. Last year 81, iii 600 of the
states Indebtedness was wiped up, and yet
she had enough to pay the expenses of
government and trifle of million dollars
remaining in the cash box, which might
just as well have been swelled half n million
more but for "saintly Bob'sn special ses-
sion.-[ Juniata Herald, Miillintown, Pa
Maj Edwards, of the st, Joseph Gazette,
seems to be having good deal Of fun all
to himself of late, prodding the Demo-
cratic hornets nest in this state. For
some time past he has been waging bitter
war against what he calls bossism In the
Democratic ranks, and some of the Demo-
cratic journals are doing their best to muz-
zle him, but so far all their efforts have
been In vain. The major is a good deal like
| Collins'R ram He has n head Of his own