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Year: 1879

less forces in which were incarnated his for
mer masters and oppressors. And further out
of Democratic greed of power at the North,
have come riots and bloodshed at the polls
in the interest of fraud and wrong, and 20
guard against or suppress such outbreaks
against the public peace and to protect the
right at the polls, the authority of law has
been conferred upon the Executive to use
the army. To abrogOte this authority is the
high purpose of the Democratic party, not
because there is any danger to the public
interest involved in that authority, but for
the reason that il stands between that party
and its purposes of wrong under which it
seeks to acquire absolute power in the Gov
ernment The Democrats are now engaged
in the preliminary skirmish of 1880, and it
is gratifying to see that the Republicans are
preparing with much vigor to thwart their
purposes with wisely-deGned issues, judi
ciously planned battlefield, and wealth
of effective ammunition.


MIR. GARFIELD opened on Saturday with
strong and effective battery, whose fire
carried dismay into the Democratic camp.
The fire Of the Democracy was exceedingly
weak and ineffective, and when the forces
ceased firing, under an adjournment, they
showed evident signs of decentralization. On
Tuesday Mr.. BELFoRD, of Colorado, has the
floor and will open the battle, and if he gets
intogood play he will follow up the advantage
of Saturday with signal effect. The Demo-
Gratis begin to discover that they have weak
cause even at this early period in the con-
test, and it will grow weaker and weaker
the more vigorously and thoroughly it is
ventilated by earnest discussion. The Re
publicans are full of spirit and undaunted
in courage under unity and harmony ol
purpose which makes them solid in the ell
| counter.
Year: 1879

The Democrats in the House on Saturday
developed their war tactics by deplOying
their skirmishers and marking their lines
of battle. Those regarded as Conservative,
such men, for instance, as STEPHENS, of
Georgia, were brought to the front and put


under exercise to test their loyalty to King
Caucus STEPHENS mannuvered with fidel-
ity but in weakness. lie kept strict step
to the caucus music but his weapons were
indifferent and his ammunition defective.
He simply declared the clause under con-
sderation, which repeals the law authOriz-
ing the use Of troops at the polls, to be ger
name to the army appropriation bill; but
his defense of the merits of the measure
was lame and impotent His argument, ii
argument it can be called, was weak and
dilTusive. 1t scarcely rose above the
grade of miserable pettifogging Of the
question. His strongest point was the
bare assertion that the law is lraught
with danger to the public well
fare, but we look in vain for anything
like argument or incident adduced to sus-
tain the point. He did say that the coun-


try had lived three-fourths of century


without such n law, and hence, inieren-


TALLY, there is no necessity for it now. And


it may with equal propriety be said that
the country had existed three -fourths of n


century with slavery and without rebellion,
but that ffords no argument why slavery


should have been perpetuated, and rebel
lion, when it presented its bloody front,
should not have been crushed out by the
strong arm Of the Government. Ont of the
rebellion came freedom and citizenship for
the slave, and with these events came the
necessity for using the same power that
freed the slave and made him citizen, to
protect him against violence and wrong
when he attempts to assert the rights Of cit
izenship at the polls where he has been, and
is liable to be, confronted with armed aud law
Year: 1879

The Democrats have had their banner
floating on the breeze for years, with re-
trenchment and reform and honesty in of
flee emblazoned in living characters on its
folds. This banner has not only been the
sport of the winds but the sport Of the
country, until it is badly tattered. Unde +
it that party, with TmDEN, the cham
pion railroad wrecker and election COR
rupter as its bearer, marched to defeat in
1876 Under it the war Of Investigation


was made upon Republican officials in all
Year: 1879

THE Democracy have always acted falsely,
therefore they must act absurdly. They
must seem TO be on the side of morality and
justice when they are not So we don't ap-
prehend that they will humbug the country
at large much on their high appeals for the
repeal of certain laws which they pretend,
ON moral and patriotic basis, to abhor.
Year: 1879

but If they can insert provisions in these
bills to aid the working of the party ma
chinery, they can go farther and embody in
them all the work generally done in their
nominating conventions, And perhaps they
would if they were not afraid of President
HAYES amiable obstnacy."
Year: 1879

THE ad rdlorcn, plan of Congressional sal
aries is again suggested. 1t provides that q
Congressman shall he paid according to the
value of his services, and that he shall in
turn pay the Government the full value of
any damage that may accrue to it from his
official acts 1t is further known us a
speedy two years. way to pay the national
debt
Year: 1879

The Constitution us interpreted by the
enigma. 1t is made TO mean one thing to-
day, another thing tomorrow, and some
thing else the day after. The convention
which nominated SEYMOUR and BLAIR for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the
United States n few years ago declared,
with indignant emphasis, that all the meas
uTes for the restoration of the rebellious
States TO the Union were unconstitutional,
null and void d5 iaitiO. In discussing the
resolutions introduced by Mr.. EDMUNDs in
the United States Senate a few weeks ago
every speech on the Democratic side of that
body was intended TO show that the Demo-
cratic party had accepted, in good faith, all
these measures as legal and valid. Truly
the Constitution seems to be n very pliable
instrument in the hands of the Democracy.
nish the rule for constituting that instru-
ment The Democratic National Conven-
tion of 1856 had the following plank nailed
down firmly into its platform:


We are decidedly opposed to taking from the
President the qualified veto power by which
he is enabled TO suspend the passage Of bill
whose merits cannot secure two-thirds of the
Senate and the House.


This plank contrasts wonderfully with
what we are now hearing every day from
these old BourbOns in both branches of
Congress in regard to the use of the veto by
President HAYES in suspending the pas
" sage of bills whose merits cannot secure
two-thirds of the Senate and the House"
How happy we should all feel in having a
Constitution plable enough TO meet all our
wants.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GARFIELD is the right man in
the right place. He leads the Republican
minority in the House with rare intelli-
gence. If the brute force embodied in the
superior numbers of the Bourbon majority
In that body is not altogether proof against
logic and fair argument, the veto power of
the Executive will not be invoked in the
present emergency.
Year: 1879

THE eternal harmonies exist without
blemish among the Bourbons of the Tail
Piece of the Solid South. BLUE JEANS
WILLIAMS, the executive head of the said
Tail Piece, insists that the Legislature
thereof is a magnificent fraud, and the
Legislature declares that b. J. is an eyre
gious ass. This Information is of import
ance only as proof that the Bourbons dc
sometimes, when treating of each other
stumble upon the truth.
Year: 1879

When we know that the Federal election
laws over which the Democracy are now
making such a moral pow-wow were strongly
called for in ORDER if possible, to secure JUS
tice at the polls and to prevent the Bourbon
element from reaping an advantage from
their various knavish tricks and banditti
operations; when we know all this, and
even more, know the precedents of the two
great political parties who are pro and con
on this subject it seems the height Of alb
surdity for the Democratic party now to
take its present stand and attempt to ap.
peal to the moral element of the country
for support in the repeal of these laws.
Year: 1879

SOME few years since the United States
Government framed certain laws for the
protection of the ballot. The occasion that
demanded such laws, we are sorry to say,
was urgent. 1t was evidently thought at
the time that these laws would remedy the
evil, but they have not on the contrary,
we now see the offenders, against whom
these laws were framed, in power sufficiently
strong to demand the repeal of these very
laws. BY and by we will have horse-thieves,
tramps and such like classes demanding, in
the high name of morality, that all laws OBJ
noxious TO the liberty of (such) citizens las
they be repealed We trust that we will
not come TO this pass, but these actions of n
Bourbon Congress would seem to establish
n precedent for it.
Year: 1879

1.-THE editor OF the HERALD is In no
sense responsible f + anything which APP
pears under the above head, and com
munications only carry the endorsement
of this journal when he fact Is SO stated.
EDITOR II ERALD
Year: 1879

NEW REVOLVING SULKY RAKE.
It has met an enormous sale at the East and
In and around Sacramento.


Also, all kinds of new and secondhand mas
chinery for sale. Farmers and others will
and it to be to their interest to call on me
before buying as I am selling everything
very low for cash.


jel9 ORRIN TABER.
Year: 1879




St. Louis Post-Dispatch Tho identi-
ty OF interest between the republican
party and the laboring men is beautiful
ly Illustrated in Rhode Island, where
the republican party rules triumphant,
and where the laborlng man Is free to
vote as he pleases-provided he owns
real estate assessed at $134. The heart
OF Rhode Island b!eeds for the poor
African. and believes that the revolution
established the inherent equality OF man
with man. but the poor Rhode Islander
who wants to vote discovers a wide
difference between theory and practice
There is an occasional republican pa
per which has brains and independence
enough to write the truth in spite OF the
wild assertions of the demagogical and
incendlary leaders Of its party. Such an
utterance is the following from the Gin
cinnati Gazette :-'The war settled that
the northern people will fight to keep
the natonaI union. 1t also settled that
they who tried to carry into effect the
democratic doctrine of the right OF
states to secede from the union got their
states badly punished, and whipped
back into the union. This is what the
war settled. There are loose declara-
tiors that the war settled constitut, onal
questions, that the war made us nation
with Il capital N, and the war did this
and that, rs if it had changed the organ
the frame Of our government is formed
by written constitution, and the war
made no changes in that" This will
all bear washing except the assertion
that secession was democratic doctrine.


Speak evil of no one, not even
Year: 1879

Those who buy their fruit from him will have
their cakes BAKED FREE OF CHARGE IF THEY
ARE SENT IN BEFORE TIE 10TH OF DECEMBER
tie sells his fruit as cheap us can be bought any
where in the city.
Year: 1879

II The Democratic papers are publishing an
account of what they call an affecting scene, de-
scribing Tilden at the bedside of gallant dy-
ing soldier" Upon reading the article, we find
that the gallant soldier was Gen. Dick Taylor,
of the Rebel army, who fought for four years to
destroy the nation. During the war, tens of
thousands of gallant soldiers died of wounds re-
ceived and diseases contracted in defence of the
country but We venture to say that in not
single instance did this patriot Tilden drop
tear at their bedside. Will the South reward
this devotion, and rally for the nomination of
Tildenf
Year: 1879

SERVED HIM RIGHT.-The papers ont at Salina
are engaged in the regular and time -honored
wrangle over the city printing. 1t seems that
the Journal had the printing, and that the Her
aid, if it could not get it for pay, at last de-
termined to make it worthless to anybody else
The last Herald publishes the following PROPOSE
tion that its manager laid before the new City
Council


To the Mayor and Common Council Of the city of
have the honor to submit the following PROPOSE
tion for the city advertising and printing for the city
of Salina Kansas:


will do all the advertising that may be required
by the city of Salna free of charge, and will do the
job work that may be required for the cost of paper
used and the presswork only, charging nothing for
the setting up and correcting of jobs


To all of which will enter into bonds of 81 900 for
the faithful performance and fnflment of the con.


Your obetient servant,


A. &. SrCEr, Manager.


Whereupon, continues the Herald, upon mo-
tion of Mr.. Gels, the Council declared the Jour-
nal to be the official paper of the city-at regu-
lar rates, We presume We take occasion to re-
mark, good for Mr.. Gels, and the City Council
We drink their good health. Not that We are
glad the Herald did not get the printing for we
do not care which paper has it ; but there is
principle at stake, for which we have long con-
tended, and we have had to contend against the
same ruinous tactics that the manager of the
Herald attempted. Every man who labors for
an individual or the public, is entitled to fair
living wages. No laboripg man, and least of all
Kansas country printer, can afford to work
without compensation. The man who, for spite,
offers to do so, must make mp the loss by extor-
,b, 10 fbara lv surip
stealing. The printer who, in order to spite or
injure a rival, will break down the wages of his
already poorly paid business, is a disgrace and
fraud upon the profession, and should not be
countensnced by legitimate workmen.
Year: 1879

II Just think of it All the negroes 10 the
South are coming to Kansas. There is supposed
to be four millions of them. This, added to the
million already here, will make five million
inhabitants. Under the next apportionment,
Kansas will have more congressman than New
York
Year: 1879

THE BALL Is RoILING.-The good work daily
goes forward in Congress Of making solid North


Those Rebel Brigadiers have no sense or policy
about them. They find themselves in power, and
cannot suppress their natural instincts. Every
time one of them opens his month, he makes
Republican votes Blackburn, of Kentucky, de-
clared that they would not stop until they had
torn every vistige of war legislation from the
statute books Beck, of Kentucky said they
would carry their point, if they had to starve
the Government, and stop its machinery. In
short, they are determined to destroy the results
of the war, and accomplish the objects of the re-
bellion, and not Northern Democrat in Con-
gress has the back bone to take issue with them.
But even these men see the inevitable result of
their course. Blackburn has undertaken to al
ter his speech for publication in the Record, but
has left it in as bad shape as before. Some of
the Democratic papers of the North are making
feeble effort to prove that the editor of the
crazy rebel sheet at 0kalona, Mississippi, is a
Northern carpet-bagger, hired by the Republi-
cans to keep up strife; but they are making poor
headway at it. The hand writing is on the wall.
Year: 1879

pulous demagogue, without principle, and who


would sell out the Republican party, whenever


his advantage lay in that direction. We were


then innocent and unsophisticated, and too con-
scientious to look out for Number One, even


when it could have been done by acting from


policy. A personal visit from Lane, several


years before the events here spoken of, and sew
eral interviews afterwards, had not softened our


heart. We may mention, in explanation of


things.hereinafter stated, that the only time we


were ever an applicant for public Office, was
when Lincoln first became President. We were
a candidate for the Iowa and Sac Indian Agency,
and imagined that devoted aud poorly requited


labor in the Republican cause would gain it for
us. We even had the promise Of Mr.. Dole, the


Commissioner of Indian Affairs but there was
. higher power than Dole. Another applicant
was man whose services to the party had con-
sisted in voting the ticket, Whenever it was
convenient for him to attend the election, but
whose business was sharp trading and jockeying,
and skinniug strangers with paper town shares.
But this man was brother-in-law of the new
Lieutenant-G Governor Of Indiana, Oliver P. Nor
ton, just then on his upward way to fame and
Morton was townsman and intimate ffiend of
Caleb B. Smith, the new Secretary of the Iute-
rior. II is hardly necessary to say that we did
not get to be Indian Agent, and our aspirations
for Office cooled Of then and there. But Lane
knew we had been candidate for the place. He
never forgot such little things, but kept them
stored up, for future emergencies.


Nov, to the narrative. Some time after the
Legislative election of 1862, when members of
the House were chosen-we cannot name the
precise date, but know that it was somewhere
between the 25th of November and the middle
Year: 1879

Lady: "But, tell me, Miss Jen-
kins, why are you not satisfed?n
Governess: "Well, the fact is,
madam, l should be perfectly will
ing to stay If Master Tommy was
not so plain; but am afraid of his
being taken for my little boy some
day when we are out walking, and
that would be SO very unpleasant.
Year: 1879

Always offer ladies the right arm.

 Ladies do not talk across the street.

 Walk around lady's train; do not step across 1t.

 Much undrrscoring in letter is meaning less and vulgar.

 In lowing the inclination of the head is alone necessary.

 The well bred are free from pretence or su- -perciliousness.

 Nothing IS more vulgar than hnery and jewelry our of place.

 More than three in one family shonld nev- CT accept general invitation.

 A hostess should command silence among her guests during the performance of Music A Gentleman walking with lady returns bow made to her.

 It is the place of the one introduced to make the first remark.

 The custom of sending flowers to funerals is growing in disfavor.

 Don't keep flowers for your friends coffins Give them now.
Year: 1879

Notwithstanding the adoption of the new Constitution, it is some pleasure to kno" that Constitution can neither make mines nor take them away from us. And though some of the provisions of that instrument bear heavily upon the mining interest. cap ital will protect itself, if necessary, by dis- Incorporating in California aud incorporst- ing in Nevada, where their business can De done, and thus avoid the restrictions of the new ConstitutIon.-Bodie News
Year: 1879

SEYMoUR.-Late aovices from this new town are of most fattering nature. BIT. Cusenpary. the Superintendent IS pushing work on the new mill to the utmost, anu will have the machinery all m position in- side of the next thirty days and ready to produce bullion. The people in Arizona have great faith in Mr. Cusenbarys man sgement and confidently believe that ne will make it one of the best paying proper ties on the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1879

Its bad enough said the eldest Miss Crabapple to her seven sisters; sits bad enough for pa to talk about msrrying. at this time for fife; but when he excuses him. self by saying that that pert made nP young thing will help us girls by at tractiug men to the house, it's little too outrageous to stand. so it is." And they passed resolution to enter a nunnery Tn a body.
Year: 1879

"A very charming illustration of an au-
insi's Intelligence is in the performance of
"Netty," beautiful trick-mare, that was
recently exhibited at the aquarium 10 New
York city. A six-barrel gate-no toy gate
but as high As mans heads placed in
the ring. a horse comes running out and
places himself alongside the gate. At the
word. Netty goes around the arena at .
terrific pace, andtakes both gate and horse
in her wonderful stride. Another horse
comes out and takes his place by the side
of number one.


Netty goes about the track once aud
clears the gate and both horses with a sim
gle leap. A third horse comes out and
takes his place by the other two. Netty
first walks up to the gate and looks over it.
Ii Is really higher than her head, as she
naturally holds it. What is she looking
at? She is counting the horses! Fact.
Once Netty tried to jump over six horses,
failed and hurt herself. After that she
never could be persuaded to jump If there
were more than four, and no art can make
her try. She always satisfies herself as to
the number before she leaps.
Year: 1879

MIR. sOIoN CHASE OF MAINE ON FINAN


cIAL QUESTIONS.


The great hall of Cooper Institute
was about two-thirds filed last night by
an audience which had assembled to lis
ten to the lee ure of MIR. Solon Chase,
the Maine o aior, OH the Greenback
policy. Peter Cooper pr, sided. The
Chairman, in introducing Mr.. Chase,
remarked that it was to be the pleasure
of the audience TO listen to a gentleman
mighty mind in long course Of effo.t
to call and fix the tention of the
American people on question that de
manded the most profound coni idera-
ton and the most decided action. He
said that he believed wit "a Senator Jon. Q
when he said the present was the accept
able time to undo the unwilling and
blundering work OF 1873. The legisla-
tion referred to by that Senator TOOK
wrongfully from the soldier, the sailor,
tn. farmer, the mechanic aud the mer-
chant their money, the p ople's money,
that which the Government had paid
out for all the germs Of labor and prop
erty that were needed to save our coun-
try and secure for us and our posterity
that union and independence that was
won for us by the tolls. the sufierings
and death of our Pa riot Fathers.


Mr.. Chase, who was received with ap-
plause, assei ted that the banker had
made hims If rich by cutting down the
price of labor or reducing the power OF
money, which was equivalent to stufiing
more life into a dollar. One man Got
his dollar made larger by the sweat OF
his brow, while another got his made
larger by the law. He would ask who
gets .he richer, the producer or the bond
holder. A voice in the crowd, The
bondholder.'1 And he wou'd like to
know when John Sherman killed the
goose that laid the golden egg, and where
were they going to get any more eggs.
The shout about the revival in business
was all done for political effect. Tie
speaker attacked Secretary Sherman fol
the course he had pursued, and ridiculed
his method of peddlng ont specie in
Wall street. He asked the people to be
guided by their own convictions and moi
go on turning the gIindstone that wa'
sharpening the knife that was to be used
in cutting the hamstrings of industry
He spoke of the great reduction in pro
visions and clothing, and told OF how
not long since, he had bought pair o.
overalls for twenty cents, but he did moi
think the shopkeeper who sod then
could at that rate use much butter on his
bread, and the Sc ms ress who made
them up could certainly not use any but
ter at all. He argued that if prices were
better the woman who made up those
overalls could butter her bread on boil
sides.
Year: 1879

"A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
The City Council last night passed an
ordinance to return to the contract sys-
tenn for cleaning the streets. This is
steps in the right direction, and will add
TO the credit of the Council with all
risht thinking men. What we want is
economy and plenty of it. Let us get
the taxes down, and thus help to get the
value Of property up. The more valu-
able property is the more labor will be
In demand for the building Of houses.
The streets require very little labor in
the winter, and for that matter the
heavy rains seem to have been our best
scavengers and so they will continue to
be no doubt.
Year: 1879

The CITY was officially notified yes
terday of another loss through the de-
fslcstion of one of Its former Radical
CITY Treasurers, (Killgore.) These
loses are hard to bear when connected
with such legislation as run the city in
to.a quarter OF a million Of debt In
about five years, added to which was
the increase of expenditure for the pur-
chase and keeping Of the useless city
hospital, the squandering of money by
making numerous unnecessary offices,
and an enormous outlay by the early
mlsmansgement of the Cool Spring
Reservoir.