Year: 1878

pntl Your mead against the wall. 1t will even bet
Colonel IDgersoll solves the silver problem tenn.


porarliy when ne says tie way ont of it is to put


more silver into the buzzard dollar The onIv


trouble is that the injection will have to be re.


peated from time to time as silver goes down in
value. But the silver agitaior does not wan anv
SOLUTION which takes away the Z" cheap" quality OF
his beloved dollar.


The most startling revelation made by Congress.
man Buckner IN his financial observations is ths
remark about bimetalic standard lie admits
that an attempt to circulate silver and gold under
equal restrictions will reduce the country to silver
standard. He is in favor of that standard, Of
course: but his admission is precisely what the
gOld-bugs have been abused for asserting during
the whole controversy. If the truth has at last
worked its way into Buckners head there is hops


for the rest of the silver shOuters.


General Garfield thinks that one of the great


questions which now press upon the country and
Congress for immediate attention and solution il
what shall be done abOat Chinese Immigration


In conversation with the Editor of The Infeligeaoe


of Wheeling, W. Va, the General seemed TO lean
toward the ant-Chinese side of the question: as hs
LAID considerable stress upon the fayOrlte Cali.
fOrna argument against them, namely. their refusal
to assmlate with our civilization. There is suf
fcient evidence that the Democrats hope TO make
capital on this issue for the purpose OF gaining
strength in the Pacific States tor 1850.


Postmaster-G General Key has abandoned the Old
Line Whig and taken as q hobby Grant for


third term. It will be unfortunate for Grant if the
championship Is fatal to him as il was to the o.
L. w. Mr.. Key says he went clear out to the Pacific
Coast saw a great many people, and saw scarcely
ans nybody who was not for Grant. He is sure the
General is very popular in the West and the Pacific
Slope is solid for him. Blaine has a good deal OF
popularity in the West tOO but Grant Is the first
cnOice. AlT. Key is not talkatve about the sec
ond place on the ticket but he suspects that tne
persons who nave been putting his name there are
doing 1t in JOKE. 1t Is barely possible that they are


II the advertised programme for General Grants
return to this country is carried out, and he lands
at San Francisco, he is likely to have rOusng
ccption. Congressman Page says the Republicans
on the Pacific coast talk about nobody else for
President and were he to appear there they would
light bonfire IL san Francisco which could be
in Omaha. Next to Grant, Mr.. Page says Blaine is
the favOrite, thus implying that there IS an Occa-
siOnal whisper for somebody except the General.
MIR PAGE has made the discovery that Blaine is
not popular in New-YOrk, which seems to indicate


that California is little TOO far OF 10 furnish suit
able post for accurate observations IN New-fOrk
State.


What does it mean 7 Since the election the Dem.
ocratic and assistant Democratic editors have
united In a furious support of Grant for third
term they are sure the elections have made hls
nomination neyitable that he IS the only cand'
date the Republicans can elect, and that his non
nation means "centralization' They are sending


ont right and left to find men who are in favor ofa


thifd term and they publish the views OF these per-
sons with great prominence and with earnest asSur
anccs of their paramount Importance Ihey lHlonl
their readers dozen times uay that ne oidnt
! movement is gaining tremendously. IeIGapS lIey


are right perhaps il Is gaming, Dui WnaJ uoeo INK
irrlption OF fervOr IN its support meant