Year: 1877

South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana and Georgia Ths
only preventive OF rupture will be cork up or kin
the rrepressible Bourbon.


The Grover investigation has not done much
for Grover except show that while his pathway hs
Senate was pretty lively with greenbacks, none OF
them fall out OF his pocket into the hands OF
impecunious members In another way the examination
has been great success. II has established the CHAM.
pionshp Of the Democrat the abest liar In
world.


There is a dispute in New-IIampshire con-
cemng the meaning OF the resolutions passed by the
Legislature the Of the Administration. The
Rel ublican Journals insist that the Southern policy was
not ndOrsed and that the President merely credited
with good intentions. Which means that the able eds-
lator looked upon Mr. Hayes merely large contract.
or OF pavement for the internal regions.


The Democrats of Ohio rise up in protest
against the rumoed attempt TO induce their Convention
to shat of the usual remark about eternal warfare on
subsidies They 1t shall be done the terri
bic enmty OF the Southern brethren 10 the contrary not
wthstanding This plucky but II ia giving a platform
plank more Importance than the average Democrat
dreamed 10 had before.


The Returning Board sensation has been
driven out OF the public mind by the strike and by the
revelation that David Dudley Field at the bottom Of
the movement The fact that Tweed's old lawyer who
had paraded the evidence In the in vain wa,
sl holding on to all the documents In the case.
sufficient to convince the public that nothing but
miracle would the threatened prosecutions from
ending IN hzzle. Mr. Field Is the best boomerang
engineer tins country has ever produced.


1t was announced some time ago that Gen.
Robert Toombs intended to throw the whole weight OF
his gigantic intellect in form Of amendments to the eor
ga Constitution The first indication that the throwing
has begun that has introduced resolution
in calling for the repeal OF
ding dueng, and has seen it voted down by majority
OF three Now let him introduce another giving
him permission to go of somewhere and shoot himself
and how many members Will have the harlihood
vote that down:


The silver excitement IN Ohio seems to have
disappeared altogether The only financial talk ls abou
the repeal OF Resumption Act and upon this question
il is amentably true that nearly the entire sentiment Of
both parties is Ia favor OF repeal There may be silver
plank in the platform Of both Conventions but it will Do
only as a companlOn-step TO the demand for repeal The
Dollar OF our Daddes has been serious hindrance
10 resump, ion other sentiment which the
West has been Infected with. The misguided advocates
OF 10 look with horror upon the Work Their bunder
ing has wrought


The financial demoralizatiOn in Ohio has
gone pretty far when weakened the back oi up
right man as Congressman Foster, yet this seems 10 be
the case he correctly reported by The Cincinnati
Enq,trer lie Is represented saying that he expecs
there will have to be some modification OF tie Resnmp
ton Act because W won't do to crowd things too hard"
His plan is: "I think the better way now would be to
adopt some plan Of approaching the value OF green.
backs am not FOR destroying them or reducing their
volume below $500 000 900. That's little enough
Then I would have the General Government bear
down the premium gold 1t can easily do that Here
they've got S35 100000 in gold. Now let them all
nounce that they VIII sell 1t to 'rcbants and importers
for legitimate purposes-for the payment Of dutes-ata
nominal rate, say Onebalf per cent premium That At
once brings down the price Of gold the street in New
York and other money centres The greenb is appre
ciated and gold brought down, and we accomplish re-
sumption practically without any of the strain or mic
Something has got TO be done when Congress meets 10
fltp Df
10 more than actual danger" Mr. Foster thinks the
Ohio Republican Convention VIII indorse the PRESIDENT
without equi vocation. As the President Is pledged o
carry ont Re unpt Act request Tor It's inOtllc
ton will be pretty near an " "eqftrocatOn'