Year: 1878

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Sept 9, rs.


The eyes of nearly all at this politica


centre who are to any extent interested


in politics, are turned Maineward Will


an intensity of gaze unusual on the oc


currence of her annual September elec


ton, seeming to show how, by genera
consent, the verdict will be accepted a:
a sort of guage of the ravages made b!


the greenback falacy IN the ranks of tn,
old parties. Vermont; though holding
her election little earlier, is so over
whelmingly Republican that the resul
is generally conceded before any canvas


has been made. Hence the election II
the old Pine Tree State is regarded a.
really the first gun, the preliminary
skirmish, of the great contest to be fought
in the great central States later; and
there is added this year, this new feature
of absorbing interest 1t is idle to spec
ulate as to the result. A few hours will
enable all to so nearly approximate it
from the data to be sent from points in
telegraphic communication with the
National Capital, that we may all be quite
certain whether or no the sturdily intel
ligent voters of that State have been
overwhelmed and led captives by the
hypocritical can't and clap trap that have
characterized the present campaign on
the part of the greenback orators i'm
ported to instruct the citizen in his po-
litical duties in such way as to secure
an endorsement of their mischievous
doctrines and contribute to the glorifca-
ton Of men so notoriously without po-
litical or moral standing as to have led
to their reputation by all the old parties
with which they haye been successively
identified during the past two decades.


The genius of Butler has considera-
bly, modified the apparent objects of the
gang of disinterested fellows who have
undertaken to roll back the tide of pro
gress in Massachusetts, under Butlerian
inspiration, and to make the plighted
faith of this nation Kissing and by-word
among other nations of the earth. It is
noticeable that Butler has made wide
departure from the rant, blasphemy and
ruffian menaces by which his Sub"
Kearney at first sought to bull doze the
voters of the Bay State and discipline
them into the Butler ranks. He soon
saw that Kearney hadn't the penetration
to see though it was constantly under
his nose from the time he left his sand
lot audiences, namely, that such style
was repugnant and was likely to drive
away ten votes for every convert made
from the unpromising material of the
average Eastern audience. Hence the
change of tactics which makes. benjamin
appear in role quite as harmless as
that Of the sucking dove. But traced to
its logical sequences, the advice he is
nightly giving Massachusetts, working
men is none the less vicious for its su-
gar coating. The vein of communism
running through all his speeches and
the poisonous seed he is dropping all
along the Massachusetts, wayside will
undoubtedly encourage the former and
yield harvest that will add to existing
demoralization; but few are disposed to
concede the State to Democracy under
thin disguise of the greenback dodge.


Sec'y Schurz has re affirmed and en-
larged the scope of his late decision rel
ative to the undisposed balance ofpublic
lands granted railroads, after a ladse offs
years. The plea of the railroad attorn
eys was that mortgaging the lands was
disposing OF them within the meaning
of the law, and that they are therefore
not open to pre-emption at $125 per
acre as stipulated by the Government
when the lands were conveyed to aid in
the construction of raid roads. What
ever may be thought of Mr. Schurz as a
party man or as Sec'y of the Interior
Dept, the plain and straight forward
manner in which he meets the sophis-
tries of the agents of these overshadow-
ing monopolies will be regarded as very
conclusive and can hardly fail of public
commentator.


Every little while Secretary Sherman
attempts a new device to rid the
Treasury of the rapidly accumu!ating
silver dollars in it. The time he spends
in this trying to find way to get them
into general circulation is pretty good
evidence of his perplexity, from source
that had not been anticipated, and un-
less successful it may in time prove a
source of real evil in several ways.


We are still forced to listen to the ter
rible details Of the yellow fever rayages
in the South with no sign of abatement.
Measures for relief are still being active
ly pushed, every one seeming to be per
sonally interested. MAXWELL.