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RUSSIA AND Japan.

Russia has made great big bluff at
victorious little Japan, but Japan has
calmly informs Russia that if she wants
war she can have it.
Russia does not really want war, and
least of all, that kind of q war. 1t
would be one in which Japan would
have every advantage. While Russian
territory lies very close to Japan, it is a
vast stretch of wilderness, several times
greater than that which lay between our
populated territory and the Pacific
Ocean before the construction of the
Pacific Railroads. She has no people,
no supplies, and very few troops on that
side. All her population and resources
are thousands of miles away, on the
western side of the Empire. To send
troops and supplies by water would take
a longer voyage than around the world.
On the other hand, Japan is at home
in compact little territory, with more
really civilized people than Russia has,
with a people who can supply every
national want with their diversified in
dustries, and people who are ready to
man to fight for their country.
Evidently Russia is not such fool as
to go to war with Japan, and the Japan
ese know it.
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PERSONAL.

James r. Garfield is candidate for State
Senator from the Mentor District. His dis
tinguished father started in political life as
State Senator from the same place.
patriotic celebration of the birthday an
niversary of Gen. Grant was held in the Audi
tOrium in Chicago, April q, under the auspices
of the Press Club of Chicago. The event was
attended by Mrs. Grant and her daughter,
Mrs. Sartoris who occupied one of the boxes.
Nearly 5000 persons present. The pro-
gram comprised various musical selections. and
orations by Luther Latin Mills and Gen. o. o.
Howard Mrs. Grant and daughter were
rendered a reception in the parlors of the
hotel.
Amos Cummings tells the following story Of
visit to Horace Greeley in the Washington
Post: 81 worked with Greeley for years. He
always called me Asa; never could remember
Amos. One day l went out to see Greeley at
Chappaqua about some newspaper business.
The old gentleman saw me coming as he stood
looking out of the window, and opened tho
door himself. Come in here, Asa he said, in
his high, mealy tones, as he led me into fash
ionable parlor. 1 followed him into the room,
and as | was only going to remain q moment
laid my hat, gloves and cane on center table.
Greeley and l had just immersed ourselves in
talk when Mrs. Greeley swept into the room.
Now, Mrs. G.. what might call
spirited woman. The moment she entered the
door her eyes fell Indignantly oil my trousseau
as I'd piled it up-hat, gloves and stick-on
the table. Without word and before | could
speak to her, she swoopod down on the outfit
4La
them out of the window. Then she left the
room without pausing for speech, rs one who
had taught somebody that the hall was the
place for hats aud canes and similar bric-a-brac.
1 was inclined to get triae hot; man natu-
rally might who sees bis hat pounced upon and
cast into the shrubbery. But before could
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OF the numerous Republican Presi-

OF the numerous Republican Presi-
dental candidates, there is none more
worthy of the kindly consideration Of
the Union veterans than Senator Davis,
of Minnesota. He was a good soldier
during the war, and has ever since been
an eloquent champion of the rights OF
the soldiers not only before the Pension
Office, but in the matter of official pre-
ferment. For six years, while he was
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Pensions, Senator Davis daily entered
his committee room and began work
promptly at 9 o'clock in the morning,
although the Senate hour of meeting is
noon. During one single session of
Congress, the Pension Committee, under
Senator Davis's craftsmanship, reported
over 1000 pension bills, granting rights
to veterans whose claims had been re-
jected by the Pension Office. In 1890,
during his Craftsmanship, the Dependent
Pension bill was framed, perfected and
passed, mainly because of his superior
legal and parliamentary acumen, sup
plemented by his determination of
character. This is brief epitome OF
his record as steadfast friend of the
deserving comrades with whom he
served from 81 to '65. Hence, without
extending praise or. fattery to any
Presidential aspirant, THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE may truthfully say that there
is no man more worthy of the kindly
consideration of the old soldiers than
Senator Davis, of Minnesota.
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get up or say word Greeley stretched ont his
hand in = deprecatory way and ehssrsd me
with the remark: Never mind her, Asa she
thought they were mine Aft6rward. how
ever, when 1 recalled what Greeley's hat used
to look like had my doubts"
The widow Of Gen. Anderson. who lives in
Washington, treasures as sacred relic the IA
nous Tag which was on Fort Sumter when the
rebels attacked il. It was draped about the
casket of her husband when he was carried to
bis final resting place.
The Rev. Samuel May, Of Leicester, Mass,
one Of the few living veterans Of the anti
slavery conflict who espOused the cause Of tho
slave almost at the outset Of the contest. and
who remained actively in the conflict to tho
end. celebrated his s5ih birthday anniversary
last week
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NO SOLDIER NEED APPLY.

EDITOR PATRIOT: read in the Patriot some
weeks Bgo that Jacob d. Peterson, OF Our Township
(Eikrun) would be n candidate for Infirmary Dircc-
Tor at the Republican Spring primaries. jacob
can't get therel man getting as large n pension
hear lac gets ought to be satisfied without ask
ing Tor an Office. / have nothing to sRv about his
soldier record but tired OF hearing that
preference should be given to ex-soidi@rs
ELKRUS VOTER.
The "Elkrun Voter" in all probability,
was cowartlly stay-at-home during the
war, and made money while the old soldiers
were fighting to save the Union. At any
rate, this voter" has no love or sympathy
for the soldier, or he would not talk as he
does. The editor of the Patriot has known
Jacob ID. Peterson since early war times,
and he remembers we'll when Mr. Peterson
enlisted in the 9th Ohio Cav. He was then
a patriotic boy, as he is now patriotic man.
He served through the sanguinary part OF
the war, suffered and starved in q rebel
prison, and was hOnorably discharged. On
inquiry, we find that he gets only 81 per
month as a pension. Now to think that
this old soldier is 10 be vilifed and lied
about, simply because he asks of q party
small Office, is enough to make the old SOL
diers think about fighting again. In fact,
this "Eil,run Voter" means to attack, not
only Mr.. Peterson, but all old soldiers, and
especially pensioners. He says, am tired
of hearing that preference should be given
to ex-sodiers." Then he says, A man
getting rs large pension as lie gets" etc.
This "voter" VIII not cOucede the old SOL
der preference, and il he is getting PEN
sion that ought to satisfy him, so the voter"
thinks. Such ingrates ought to be placed
in dungeon for a time, and fed on bread
and water. All other things being equal,
the old soldier ought to be preferred for
public Office. The Republican party has
been pledged to that principle but it has
seldom kept the pledge. The Democratic
party has been pledged to the same princi-
pie, and it has seldom broken the pledge.
That is the difference. If the soldiers Of
the County are true to one another they
will stand by their comrades. 1t is their
patriotic duty to do so.
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GEN. SIcKLEs is strongly of the
opinion that Mayor Strong should re-
move Waring at once.

EVERY Post in New York and New
Jersey which has met since Col. War
ing's brutal illumination has passed res
olutions strongly denouncing him. The
Post at his home in Newport, II. l., has
been specially severe, and this condem-
nation has stung the Colonel into writ
ing lamely defensive letter.
EUROPEAN statesmen are reported to
be "much amused" at the neat way in
which Great Britain killed off "that
venerable bugaboo, the Monroe Doc
trine" The proceedings of the next
Congress viii probably not be SO anus
ing to these gentlemen.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To the Veterans of the
Great State of New York.

COMRADES: You are doing superbly
in resenting the insults to your COM
rades everywhere of the foul-mouthed
recreant Waring.
The unanimity with which you have
denounced his calumnies is worthy of
the surviving representatives of the great
army of 44S,S50 men that New York
sent into the field to defend the ex-
istence of the Nation, and which left
1885 men dead upon the ground
where they fought, which had 5000 men
starved to death in prison, and $4,000
more who had succumbed to disease and
hardship pass away in hospitals.
Before the war closed New York had
made the dear sacrifice of the lives of
more than $4,000 of her gallant sons
upon the National altar. Out of every
nine New Workers who signed the en-
listment roll, one was dead when the
contest ended. Such sacrifice Of its
blavest and best no community in the
worlds history had ever made before.
Such glorious devotion to the holy
cause must win the admiration of all eX-
cept perverts and degenerates like God
kin and Waring.
You are doing your duty to your
selves and your comrades, living and
dead, by your singing rebukes to this
cowardfy calumniator. Do not let
up on him. Do not desist until he
is driven from Office, under the
whitening contempt of all good men.
Let it be definitely fixed that the great,
loyal, State of New York has no place
in her public service for man without
decency, without patriotism, without re-
spect for civic virtues, and malignant
slanderer of American manhood. Let
the expression against him be made so
unanimous and strong that it cannot be
disregarded, and bis punishment be
warning to the degenerate Americans
and imitation aristocrats of New York
of whom he is a sample and representa-
tive.
More than Col. Waring and the
present issue are involved. The fair
fame Of every Union veteran in the
country is compromised. Just as we
had administered severe lesson to our
haters and defamers all over the coun-
try, when we had, we thought, perma-
nently silenced the voice of detraction,
this upstart and renegade begins anew
the clamor that much bigger and more
important men had found it prudent to
desist from. Settle him decisively, and
we shall probably have lasting peace.
Yours, for the fight,
THE NATIONAL -RIBUNE.
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TPIBUNETS.

Life. Miss Chatter-What fool-kiIlers cigar
cts arc. Don't you think so, Mr.. NoOdleby?
Mr.. Noodleby 1 couldn't say, Miss
Chatter never smoked one in me life, don't
chefknow.
Life: "Our minister is one salt of
the earth :"
"Humph! Ours is so lash we hardly X
pect to keep him!"
50
life: He-Wasn't Browns wife named Stone
before she was married?
She-Yes; and it was a very suitable name
He-What 10 you mean?
She-Oh, nothing; only she threw herself
at his head.
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AN ALIENS VENOM,

Godkln, the boot-llcklng imitation
Englishman who edits the New York
Eueniag Post, is doing his best to help
his friend NVaring by filling his edi-
torial columns every day with the coars-
est vituperation of the GAR. Here are
few choice excerpts:
The Warning episode has been very useful
! in bringing in information about the COM
position of the Grand Army, but there is
very little of ii which most people did not
know already. The story which we'll
known New Yorker tells in another column
of $40 assertions out of 500 men in one regi-
ment accounts for at least $40 of Warnings
Grand Army assailants. We do not believe
that any organization that has ever existed
has done more to diffuse over a wide area
and among the plain people of the commu-
nifty, light views OF the crimes of perjury
and fraud and misrepresentation when COM
mitted against the Government 1t will
take more than one generation to eliminate
the pension poison from American morals.
The chief distinction of the Grand Army
-one which nobody can deny it's that of
being the only political organization III his
tory whose main object was the procuring of
q cash dividend for each member.
We Will not erect bounty jumpers, desert
ers, skulkers, malingerers, and pension
cheats into a sacred class of whom nobody
must speak irreverently. They must take
popular contempt along with their monthly
"divvy." We have, in fact, never
known an old soldier of und0ubted record
for valor and constancy and of spotless prI-
vate character who did not look down on
the Grand Army. We have heard from such
men within the last two days loud rejoicings
over Col. Warnings courage in facing the
bummers in the gate.
The writer of this venom is perverted
Irishman, who began his career as full
some worshiper of Her Most Gracious
Majesty, the Queen of England" Quite
early in his career he found that there
was more money for man of his stamp
in New York than in Dublin, and he
crossed the Atlantic to edit "superior
paper for the exclusive benefit of the
"upper classes " of Gotham. As daily
paper go it is very poor one, not COM
pairing in point of general merit with
any leading journal in a city of second
rank. 1t is never quoted or considered
except when it attracts attention by some
particularly rank n-Americanism. 1t
affects to despise everything that is dis
tinctiye of this country as crude, coarse,
and altogether below the English plane.
Having no Queen, no established Church,
no hereditary aristoeracy, this country
must always necessarily be inferior to
England. We doubt if Godkin has ever
seen a foot of American soil west of Hud-
son River He knows and cares as little
for the country at large as be does for the
heart of Africa. His world is "dear old
Lunnun" and the little set Of pinchbeck
aristocrats and imitation Englishmen in
New York, for whom he edits the E0en-
ing Post. In all his life Godkin has
never done as much service for the
country as a poor man who carried a
musket in the Army of the Potomac for
a week, and yet, day after day he calum-
mates, befouls, and lies about men whose
shoes he is not worthy to black.
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THE New York EUesing Post prints
a lot Of letters from "Men Who Agree
With Col. Waring," but it gives none of
their names. This is yesy cunning on
the part Of the EUeni,.g Post.
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THE rATTOSAL TRIBUNE PORTRAIT
CARDS

So far there has come no suggestion
from the South 10 run Col. Waring for
President He is just the kind they
want Northern man with Southern
principles"
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Every comrade wants to go to the
great National Encampment at Louis
vile, next September; but the question
of transportation is very serious one to
many. The NATIONAL TRIBUNE will
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We will furnish a round-trip, first
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TIE right TALK.

The Lisbon co., Patriot is Demo
cratic paper after our own heart Read
this OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES talk in
recent issue:
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Gen. DANIEL i. SIcKLEs will make
the address at Baltimore on Memorial
Day.
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IT seems that Col. Waring was an APP
plicant for membership in Lafayette
Post, GAR, of New York City, and
was rejected. The swells of Lafayette
Post have always been particular as TO
those they associated with. All the
same, they are royalty good comrades of
the GAR, and their appearance in
every parade Of the National Encamp-
ment is one Of its most ereditable features.
WARISG now says that he wants to
drop the whole matter" Naturally.
We have heard Of other criminals stand
Ing before the bar Of justice expressing
n similar wish.
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TINS is reporters description Of Col.
Waring, as he arrived the at City Hall,
riding a beautiful bay mare:
His wonderful riding costume was the
center of admiration. TWAS as remarkable
in It's way some Of his letters aud utter
ances. His riding trousers were a rerela-
ton. Made OF gray English cloth, they
were very broad at the hip, down to point
below bs askle. and were held down 10y
broad straps Auckled under the riding boots.
The riding jacket was Of dark English cloth,
made to ii' very tightly. The collar was
buttoncd close around the throat in military
fashion. and the body OF the jacket reached
only to The hips The riding cane, hat and
gloves were all Of the regulation English
patteTn
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The NATIONAL RIBUNI
SUPPOSE THAT

Col. George Z. Waring had lived in
the South, served in the rebel army and
after being appointed to a prominent
Office had come out publicly and de-
nounced bis late comrades in the rebel
army as "a gang Of drunken bummers,"
men who had sold out to someone or
another, etc, what would have become
of him?
What a howl ofexecration there would
have gone up against him from the Po-
tomac to the Rio Grande, with the New
York Times and E'ceni1g Post joining
their yelps in the general chorus.
Politicians, press and pulpit would
have We'd in denouncing him. Judas
Iscariot and Benedict Arnold would
have been compared with him to his
disadvantage He might not have actu-
ally been tarred and feathered and rid
den on a rail, but there would have been
strong suggestions of that punishment
He would have been ostracized every
where, his old friends would not have
spoken to him on the street, men would
have refused to do business with him,
and bis family would have been put
under social ban.
Whatever faults the Southerners may
have, they have the grand virtue of
holding in the highest esteem the men
who fought their battles for them No
man dares to outrage public opinion by
speaking Of rebel soldiers other than in
terms of the highest praise.
Such a malformation as Col. Waring
would be impossible south Of Mason &
Dixon's Line. 1t can only develop in
slums of the Great Cities or in the arts
tocratic atmosphere of Newport, r. l.
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One section heartily applauds Col.
Waring. The Southern papers cannot
contain their delight that an ex-volun-
teer should come out and .denounce his
old comrades as a crowd of drunken
bummers. This confirms the worst that
those papers have said Of them.
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