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RHODE ISLAND.

The New York World Charges the Re-
publicans with Corruption in Carrying
the Recent Elections in That state.
Commenting on the recent election in
Rhode Island, the New York World saws
People who are under the impression that
bribery did not play an important part in
securing the small Republican or high-tariff
majority in Rhode Island the other day
would learn something by reading the
Providence Journal of the 9th inst. There
are accounts therein of the direct and syste-
matte purchase of votes that seem almost
as if they might have been written about
occurrences at the last November election in
this city. The price of Republican votes in
one important town ran all the way from
five dollars to ten dollars, closing firm at
the latter figure.
Yet the majority obtained by all this ex-
travagant expenditure was less than 1000.
as against 6,344 in the spring of 1854 1t
does not really seem from this as though
there was any thing cheering in the late
result to the friends of war taxes. From
the shout Of Joy that went up in some Re-
publican and certain miscalled Democratic
quarters the other day, when 1t was learned
that the tariff-reform ticket had not won in
Rhode Island, 1t might be supposed that
the cause of the Democracy in the Nation
had been finally snuffed out forever. The
JOY, however, was simply that the Republi-
cans had not been driven altogether off their
own domain.
The comfort which the high protectionists
profess to derive from the situation in
Rhode Island comes from the fact that there
is falling of in the vote for the Democrat
10 candidates this year as compared with
that OF last year. To any one who will ex-
anime the circumstances far enough to un-
derstand that many Republicans declined
for non-partisan reasons TO support their
regular candidates last year the fallacious
character of this comfort will appear.
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Braclng Up John sherman,

Murat Halstead says that the defeat of
Sherman's friends, Keifer and Lawrence. in
the Eighth Ohio district was only bit of
playful bandinage on the part OF the Young
Republican bloods Of the district. He fo,'
gets the old adage of the frog aud the bows.
What is fun for the young bloods means
death 10 Sherman IN spite of Mr.. Halstead's
remark that the only man who could divide
the Ohio delegation with Sherman has mt
himself out of the way.
Nobody disputes that the Ohio delegation
will come to Chicago solid for Sherman
externally. But on the deciding ballot the
Ohio delegation win be on the box,seat Of
the oandswagon or scampering for place
on the rack. f0
Ii II Is any consolation to the Sherman
boomers IN the North, it may interest them
to know that the Louisville Commercial has
taken poll of the chairmen of the Repub-
lcan county committees in Kentucky. ana
the returns show that, with Blaine out.
nine-tcnths Of them are for John Sherman.
On election day Kentucky will cast plu-
rality OF 10000 votes against whoever is run
ming against Grover Cleveland. Sherman's s
strength Is greateat whore the Republicans
have the least show
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UNCLE DICK.
The Great Republican Governor OF Illinois
Gives His Views on the Situation.
~ see that Allison has lively boom work

Tho Great Republican Governor of Illinois
Gives His Views on the Situation.
~ see that Allison has lively boom work
ing up in Iowa." ventured Rinaker in the
presence of Chicago Negs reporter.
"Yes," said the Governor, ''Allison has
had himself sprung upon Iowa Republicans,
but all of 'em have that kind of boom-it's
a chestnut, a chestnutr'
The last expression betokened deep dis
gust. The gloom was getting denser.
by the way, Governor, what do you think
about Harrison's chancesF'
''Yes, there it is again." exclaimed the
Governor, emerging from his corner for the
first time aud scattering the wreaths of
smoke in every direction.
"There it is again 2" he repeated, with some
yehemence. ''These fellows in Indiana have
got up fight between Gresham and Harri-
son, only to make an uncertain State more
uncertain. Indiana is uncertain-uncertain
as the d-lr'
The gloom was being dispersed.
] hear it said that Warner Miller is
authority for the statement that Conkling
has said that he would support Blaine II
Blaine should be the nominee remarked
Rinaher.
60 don't believe it-don't believe Conk-
ling said any thing of the kind" expostu-
lated the Governor. "Why, Conkling Is the
most malignant man in the country except
Joe Medill when he's mad"
Then the conversa alton became desuitory,
and the Governor was drawn out to give
his opinion of the situation, and Il REIN
forced the gloom which had been partially
dissipated.
" Our folks are not doing any thlug,m said
Governor Oglesby. I" Not doing any thing,
not saying any thing, not resenting aay
thing. There are ten or fifteen men in the
Senate with the Presidential bee in their
bonnets. They won't do any thing for fear
they will commit or complicate themselves.
Then every State has a candidate, and some
of them have two. There's Edmunds, of
Vermont, cold enough to chill the country
long before November. Then, there's
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, a professional
politician; Sherman, of Ohio; Harrison and
Gresham, of Indiana; this fellow Allison.
Of Iowa, and dozen others, They will ali
go down to Chicago as candidates, and only
the Lord knows what viii happen
What did happen then was that the
iaunty brakeman inserted his head through
the gloom and pierced the smoke-clouds
with: "The -wes-topat-willbe-
Elkhart." Here Governor Oglesby got up
to get OF the train, and was followed to the
door by General Rinalzer
wish you were going to Chicago with
me-" said Rinal1er.
" I'm gladI I'm notir cried back the Gov
ernor OF the great State Of Illinois. as he
disappeared into gloom biaciser and
heavier than that which he had just left,
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A Gauzy scheme.

The Blaine-of-busters' continue their
attempt to discredit the sincerity of their
idol. Their purpose to try and nominate
the Maine statesman in spite Of his delib-
crate and definite withdrawal is, says the
New York World, becoming every day
moro apparent.
The Tribune, for example, records the
election of delegates in Ohio under such
heads as ''Not for Sherman" Smashing
the Sherman Slate,' at the same time Civ
ing prominence TO letters reasserting that
"Mr. Blaine's letter does not preclude his
nomination, and if made unanimous he is
too brave and noble to decline''
Another indication of this purpose is
found in the fights that are fomented be-
tween supporters of other candidates.
There is scarcely Republican prominently
named for the nomination against whom seri-
Gus objections are not urged by the organs or
adulators of Mr.. Blaine. Their purpose evi-
IDENTIFY is to have the other Candidates kill
each other of, while the man from Maine is
"out of the contest" aud then bring him
forward at the last moment as the only can
didate on whom oil can unite.
1t is a gamo too easily seen through tn de-
ccive ANYBODY We adhere to the opinion
expressed on tho morning after the last
election in this State that "AIr Blaine will
not be renominated by the Repubhcaus.p
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The Ohio Senator Coos Back ON His Pns
Record ON the silver Question.

The Ohio Senator Goes Back ON His Past
Record ON the Silver Question.
The silver men in Congress, taking ad-
vantage of the necessity of reducing the
surplus, have revived that contention and
In quite formidable form. They insist ON
getting an amendment of some description
into the proposed Bond Purchase bill which
viii provide either for the virtual free coin
age of the white metal or for the purchase
OF silver bullion at its market price by the
Government and the issue of certificates
thereon, which would consequently, more
or less, enter into the monetary circulation
of the country.
Even that hitherto infiexible monometal-
list, Senator John Sherman, says tho Chi
cago Neaos, has been to q considerable ex-
tent won over to their scheme, doubtless by
the promise of the electoral votes OF the Pa
cific States in the coming Presidential cleo
ton. He expressed his acquiescence in
Senator Beck's substitute for the Bond
Purchase bill. Yet this substitute provides
that whenever any portion of the circula-
ton of a National bank not in liquidation
shallsbe surrendered, and shall not be taken
up by other National banks, the Secretary
of the Treasury shall purchase at the mar
ket price an equal amount of silver bullion
in excess of the minimum monthly silver
coinage, which shall be coined and used as
provided for in the Silver Coinage bill act Of
the 2Sth of February, 1878.
In his acceptance of this amendment
Senator Sherman has gone back on the
basic principles of his past record on the
silver question. Hitherto he has totally
opposed the coinage of silver dollars, un-
less their intrinsic We're made equal to
their nominal value. Now he not only in
dorses the coinage of dollars of thirty per
cent less value in the markets of the world
than their face, but he proposes to increase
said coinage to the extent of the withdraw
al of National bank notes. Such COM
plete political somersault, in the form of a
bid for Presidential support, was never be-
fore taken.
Let us glance at the effects of this amend
ment on our currency, and what do we find
to be their salient predisposalsl 1t is OBJ
vious that the amendment will cause an
expansion of the currency by further dilu-
tion OF its volume with deprecated silver
or silver certificates, or the silver bullion
will rest in the Treasury a mere dead
weight, carried at the public expense for
the benefit of the bonanza men of the Pa
cific coast. When it is understood that
there is now in the United States Treasury
over S900,000,000 of utterly useless silver
out Of S260,0O0,000 of that metal coined, the
wickedness and folly of adding to the ac-
cumulation will be clearly apparent. Nor
will the folly and wickedness of such a prop
osition be excelled except in the action of
an inexorable self-seeking politician who
Is willing to thus so scandalously sacrifice
principle to place and power.
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The Farmers in Earnest.

For four months the Republican leaders
In the Senate and the House, and all the
protection organs, says the Washington
Post, have been denouncing the Presie, ent,.
tariff message. Two or three of The fifteen
or twenty Republican asn..ants for the
Presidency are now on tne stump denounc-
Ing that message. It is the intention of the
Republican managers to make denunciation
or that message the chief feature Of the Ma
tional platform. Under such circumstances,
how hard it must be for these brethren TO
have the farmers Of the great Republican
State Of Minnesota rise up and send re-
sonant-shout across the Alleghanies to the
legislators in Washington: "W;c heartry
indorse President Clevelands views on the
tariff iss,1e -
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Done in Kindness, Perbaps.

IL Is said that no man in either political
party has ever heard President Cleveland
intimate in any way whatever that he is a
candidate for denomination. He is said to
avoid all references to the subject, and
every attempt to draw him out upon it has
been unsuccessful. His curious reticence
Is asserted to have given rise to much un-
certainty and various surmises, and a
washington correspondent says that the
impression IS gaining ground that he in
tends TO surprise the country with a letter
Withdrawing his name. But Mr.. Cleveland
is, says the Chicago HcraId, naturally of a
taciturn character, and might possibly re-
main profoundly silent on this subject
without meditating any thing of the sort.
His nomination is fact SO thoroughly
settled, so obvious to himself and to eyerv
body else that he probably thinks it is un-
necessary to do more than passively submit
himself to the inevitable course of events.
The story, however, may do very well to
cheer up weakened Republicans. Success
for their ticket with Cleveland in the aeld
seems to be out of the question, and the
story OF this intended surprise of the coup-
try by "a letter of withdrawal - from the
President may considerably brighten the
prospect, at least until sufficient time has
gone by to disprove it. Let them eniov IL
while they NAV.
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SAM JONES ON Politics.
The Preacher ThI.,ks Cleveland WIN n
E1ecfed Again.

The Preacher ThI.lgs Cleveland WIN n,
Elected Again.
rev. Sam Jones passed through Pitts
burgh the other day and was interviewed
by reporter who asked the reverend gem
tleman what he thought of Cleveland,s
chances for denomination.
Excellent he replied. "There is no
one else thought of, despite the scheming OF
BIZ Scott, Barnum, and Senator German.
Cleveland will be nominated because the
people are for him. The people are the
power these days. They won't stand any
boss dictation.n
"Well, how about his elections''
He will be elected, too. No doubt about
that In my travels through the North
find an unanimous sentiment for Cleveland.
1t seems to be growing and spreading. The
Republicans are alarmed, and are casting
about for a sheet-anchor for their hopes.
They must get O new issue. The red flag,
which has been their battle-cry ever since
the war, will no longer serve their purpose.
The great majority of the Southern people
are loyal, and the majority Of the Repub-
hcan party IN the North have accepted
them. This practically kills the bloody
shirt issue. Cleveland Will win this year,.
and at the end Of his second term the Re-
publicans will come again into power.n
" What do you think of Ingalls, spcech7',
"Ingalls is an ass. That Il all have to
say about him.
"What about tho tariff.''
That is Z, local, not a National ISSUE II
only affects certain States"
Tho Utica Observer: Our Republican
friends need not expect that any Southern
er--at least any Southerner who comes
from rebel State-will go on the National
Dernocra4jc ticket There Ia a nossfbflifv
Of course, that some man like Carlisle clay
be nominated for Vice President, but even
that is scarcely worth discussion. The
strong probability is that Western Demo
erat win be nominated for yice-P President
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John and .Y.,-,

Uncle Jerry Rusk took a run down to
Washington the ether day, says the st, Paul
6tobe, and while there rambled into the Sem
ate chamber. 1t happened to be duh day
in the Senate, as Ingalls, and Riddleberger
were both out of town. Uncle Jerry OBJ
served John Sherman nodding over his desk
under the inspiration of one of Edmunds
constitutional arguments; so he gave the
doing Ohio Senator gentle nudge under
the fifth rib, with the remark that be had
one of Hoard's Wisconsin yarns that he
wanted to relate. The two ambled of to a
lounge at the rear end of the hall, and, as
Uncle Jerry is q slow talker, it took him
about one hour to reel or yarn that Bill
Hoard would have snapped out in ten min.
ptes.
The eagle-eyed correspondents In the re-
porters' gallery caught on to the confiden-
tial confab between the Ohio Senator and
the Wisconsin Governor. 1t didn't take
them long to.put this and that together and
start sensation. That night the wires
were clicking the startling information that
combination had been made, and that the
Republican ticket was to be Sherman and
Rusk. From such light trifles Presidential
Looms are sometimes built,
After all, the Shernan-fausk combination
wouldn't be bad one 1t would do as well
as any TO fall into the Blaine trap that is
going to be sprung on the convention. and it
would give Uncle Jerry chance to use his
razor on some Of the Wisconsin politicians.
who have been in the habit of jawing him.
Philadelphia Times; When Vermont. un-
der the very eye Of Blaine-hating Edmunds.
hops fiatfooted over to Blaine, and leaves
Eamunds yoiceless in the delegation to Chi
cago, II looks as If Blaine was to be forced
INTO the fight against all comers WeI
Blaine viii most enthnse eighty per cent
OF the Republicans of the land; but how
about the odd twenty per cents
New York World: The AIger C.lpb ~
Detroit is sending out pictures of a verv
noble and digni6ed-looking man. having
printed underneath: 81 General Russell
Alger." A lot Of political documents ac.
company the engraving, and it is evident
that the Generals friends are pulling every
possible wire in behalf Of their candidate
for the Republican nomipation.
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The bloody shirt advocates are in high
glee over the performance Of Ingalls, in the
United States Senate. Ingalls, has only one
'compeer IN the bloody shirt business IN the
Land and his name is Foraker. The bloody
shirt Republicans can now make out their
ticket as follows:
For President--J. B. Foraker.
For Vice cePresident--J. J. Ingalls,.
Platform-Blocdy shirt and bleeding Kan-
sas.-Ciesslasd Plaia Dsaler.
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snunIchinr shernan.

Joe Foraker, you are real cute, cunning
little fellow to head OF John Sherman's s
boom in that way. Every body knows that
you have been as mad as March hare bc-
cause Sherman wouldn't let you pose as
the Ohio ''faYorite son." and that you have
had It laid up for johnnie all along Now
JOG have him and viii shut him out, because
II there is any truth in a certain rumor
every body viii know that you are at the
bottom OF the scheme. The rumor Is that
q. caucus OF leading Ohio Republicans it
was unanimously decided TO require John
Sherman to put up his hotel bills in advance
II any thing can squelch Shcrman's aspira-
tons, that will.--St. Pawl Globe.
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Atlanta CohSt fssfioa; President Cleveland
should NOT only havo the right to make his
platform, but TO say who shall run with him
as Nise-PTesident- Certainly no one who is
Wiling to trust him 70 outline the princl-
pes OF the party viii object to his select
ing ms own associate. The convention
comes on before the Republican convention.
This was done to please President Cleve-
land 1t would make all the work of the
NATIONAL Democratic Committee in refer
ence to this call very foolish for him TO de-
cine to permit the use Of his name.
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SOCIETIES.
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N Regular communications, hrSt and
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CYPRUS CHAPTER No. ~. n. A. NJ. meets
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Visiting brothron cordially invited. u u
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Boston f1csr: IL Is 70 De nopeo rnaf the
lard question In Congress may be settled
before warm weather comes on. Other
wise it may melt out Of sight.
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A Humbur Canvass.

Who is raising all this racket about free
tradel asks the Boston Glob-. Who has
even proposed free trade, or limited that it
is either practicable or desirable! The
Democrats certainly have not, nor do they
propose to- Tho free trade yell which is be-
ing raised in tho cars OF the people Just be-
fore the cIaYass for tho Presidency apans is
tho preliminary part OF the programme and
the Republican leaders and managers fancy
it is going to curdlo the hood OF the average
voter with fear. But nobody has so much
as mentioned free trade except themselves.
and they have 70 keep it gong in order to
furnish an effective contrast to the high
protection dogma which is all the stock in
trade politically left 20 them.
We do not believe that this hnmbucging
cry Of free trade Is going to produce nDv pop.
ular effect this year, unless It is that Of wear-
ness and disgust on the part of those whom
it Is the design 70 hum5ug. There Is only
one proposition before the country at this
time, and that is tho prudent and steady re-
duction OF the revenue. The Republican
speakers, instead Of opposing it. set up the
cry Of ''stOp thief As they run away from it
New York Post sStcvsS Dorsey has
been heard once more, aud as usual takes
occasion TO abuse the mpg7Yumps. Among
other things he says that ssevery one Of
them who began the first kick at Grant in
lSs2 has landed squarely in tho Democratic
party" This Is rather severe on two Of the
New York candidates for the Republican
nomination-SenatorH Hiscock and Chaunccy
III. Depew, both of whom were :. kicking at
Grantin 1872. " not TO mention the New York
:. ..s-zf aud its present editnr
The Washington Critic thinks tnar .-tne
Presidents letter 10 the Civil-Service Com
mission Is one Of the most practical, busi-
ness-like documents that have emanafed
from Administration headquarters since
NJ cleyelapd's Inauguration
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DEfruIA LopGE, No. 100, X. of p. ucots Dn
Monday evening of each week, nj Odd Fellow >
hall. Visiting Knights In ROOd standing invi-
scd to attend. r.. II. VINCENT, Z. Y.
HARHY PLAGNAN. X. OF II. & =.
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n II q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. ~.
VI us Os Regular Communications, first
and third Monday evenings Ia each mouth.
Mrs. r. ~. STOUT, W. NJ.
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a AF& A. NJ. Delta Lodge No. IL
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~ ~ third Saturday evenings In each
i" mouth l. W. STOUT, w. "
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Bound for California.

Yesterday Mrs. Chas. NJ. Meacham
and little son Rodman, Henry Tandy
and Jesse l.. Edmundson, left for San
Diego, Cal, where they will make
their home in the future.
Mrs. Meacham, goes TO JOIN her
husband, who Is engaged editorially
on the Daily San Diegan. She is a
most excellent lady and will be
missed from the social and religious
circles of the city.
Henry Tandy, is most exemplary
young man, and has been, for several
years past, an attachee of the KEN
TucKIAN office. He has always con-
Quoted himself in such manner as
to win theconfidence and esteem OF
all who know him.
Jesse l.. Edmundson, has secured a
position as reporter on the Daily San
Diegan. by energy, hard study and
perseverance, this young journalist
has step by step risen to the position
he now occupies in the field of jour-
nalism, and is a self-madeyoung man
so far as his attainments are con-
cerned. lie is sober, moral, and full
ambition, and will yet rise higher
on the ladder of success. May sue
cess attend him.