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Year: 1879

The Democratic organ at the National
Capital assumes to speak ca cdthedra when
discussing the plans and purposes of the
present and the action of the late Con-
gress, under which the present extra
session was made public necessity. To
give emphasis 10 its utterances it resorts to
double leads TO make its assumptions and
absurdities the more apparent This is a
trick often resorted to by editors, and in
this instance for the same reason that the
quarrelsome braggart profanes at the top of
his voice, to intimidate his adversary. The
assumed mouthpiece OF the Democrats, in
referring to the revolutionary action of the
late session of Congress, declares the stand
that il the Democratic party made in
"the last Congress has met with the ap-
"proval of the people, when it has no more
knowledge or proof from the people TO JUS
tiiy such an assumption than it has of the
direction of the wind at given moment a
month hence. The people of the North and
West have not as yet voiced their views TO
any considerable extent on this question,
and we venture the opinion that if they had
the Democrats in Congress would call a
sudden halt in the direction the last House
of Representatives pointed.


The Democrats have demanded and con-
tinue to demand an abrogation of certain
laws which are in the interest of honest
elections and good government. They have
assumed an attitude of coercion toward the
Executive by saying most emphaticolly
unless these laws can be repealed the
wheels of government shall stop. This is
the Democratic situation, as established and
defined by q recalcitrant South and sub
mitted to by an obedient Democratic party
in the North. This situation was not and
could not be submitted to by Republican
Senate, and an extm session Of Congress is
the consequence, Now the trumpeter oi
the Democratic majority in both Honses
prOclaims TO the country that the Demo
Gratis demand the repeal of the test-onth--
the law which permits or authorizes the
use of troops under any emergency to keep
the peace on election day-and modifica'
ton of the election law relating TO mar,
. HhAlo NhN ohBNA Ni7Ol9i 9p bAANA ~ NAlA ~
harmless in detecting and punishng frauds
that may be attempted or perpetrated al
the ballot-box during elections.


These are the demands which the Democ,
racy make at this time, attended by a men
ace that, unless they are submitted to, ap
propriaions for the support and main
| tenance Of the Government win be with
held and its functions will be subjected T.
absolute suspension, This is the situation
and emergency as presented by the Demo
Gratis. Now each aud every of these laws were
enacted in the interest Of pure and homes


elections, and are as effective and importan


with one party as the other. They are no


partisan in intent, character or effect, an,


hence any effort to disturb, or abIogate, o


change them in way to weaken their ef


fcency, must be in the interest Of dishon
esty and fraud in our elections, Th
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald exhumes the fol-
lowing which appeared in THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN more than year prior TO its
passing under its present management:


We hope no Democrat will be left in the SER
vice when these discharges are finished. No
matter how high the position, no matter who
recommends him, let every Democrat step
down and out.


The Herald adds:


The remembrance Of this candid expression
Of opinion must go far to lessen our cotem-
porarys present grief Mt the prospect of seeing
Mr.. GoRHAM aud the other Senate officials re-
placed by Democrats,


We reproduce the above utterance OF THE
REPUBLICAN to say that we indorse 1T most
heartily, and to add the remark that in the
removal of Mr.. GoRHAM we have no regret
to express except that which relates 10 the
good of the public service. Neither Mr..
GoRHAM nor his friends have any grief oyeT
his removal, for it is one of the casualties of
political warfare TO which they submit with
becoming grace.
Year: 1879

THE Constitution requires that Congress
shall provide appropriations for the support
Of the Government. When it fails in this
requirement it becomes revolutionary and
assumes direct antagonism to the supreme
law of the land
Year: 1879

The question, the real question, now at
issue in this extra session of Congress, is
whether the State governments or the Ma
tional Government shall have superior con-
troll over national elections
Year: 1879

IF there are any dreamers in Congress or


ont of il who hug the delusion to their
minds that the people are regardless of the
manner in which the Government is carried


on, so it is carried on somehow or another,
they will be rudely awakened from their
false.conddence as soon as the public will
is demonstrated at the polls. The earnest
patriotism Of the American people was
never more thoroughly aroused than it is
now, and they begin to understand
the meaning Of the Democratic threat
to cut off the appropriations unless the
Government relegates its power of con-
trolling its own elections TO the States, In
Year: 1879

such an abandonment Of Legitimate super
vision Of its own affjiB the State Rights
Bourbons would receive such encourage-
ment rs would not only increase their az
rognnt assumption Of lordly authority in
Congress, but 20 far to insure their success
at the important national elections TO be
held next year And the loyal people oi
the country will hold any man, high or low,
who offers or entertaias a compromise OF
the rights of the General Government in
this crisis to strict accountability.
Year: 1879

Our Government must just now present
fine spectacle to the view of foreigners.
II is practically under the terror of threat
ened revolution, incited by the current
Democratic desire to destroy the purity OF
the ballot-box
Year: 1879

WHILE we are taunted with the unpleas-
mt fact that there are but two Union gem
erals in the United States Senate to some
twelve or fifteen from the Coniederacy, and
but a solitary subordinate office in that
body that is filled by Northern man, and
he not very far North, we have the consola-
ton of knowing that the North and West
are full Of Union officers and soldiers, whc
are engaged in the business pursuits of life
and who are not unmindful of what il
transpiring at Washington.
Year: 1879

THE Western boom May be understood to
some extent by the following extract Of a
letter received from friend who has re-
Gently taken up a residence in Wyoming
Territory:


/ now write you the cheering Intelligence
that wherever have been ! discover the most
ardent GRANT" feeling prevailing, and the
knowing ones over here feel assured of his
nomination, which will mean election, as the
Democrats, hanging themselves as usual when
enough rope is allowed them, have already
commenced suicide. THE NATIONAL REPUB.
LIcAN, which comes here, is accepted as stand
ard authority in matters political, as it is the
bold and fearless leader in that movement
which is destined to reap a glorious victory in
lSS0,
Year: 1879

MIR. SPINGER's proposition to guard the
ballot-box in the future against tissue bal
lots is a substantial admission TINT they
were Democratic power in the late cleo
tions so great that they should be guarded
against. They are peculiarly of Democratic
invention and use
Year: 1879

THE constipation of craftsmanship pro-
duced at the Capitol by a fear that general
legislation at this session will ruin the
Democratic party, will possibly be relieved.
The House managers in the Democratic
caucus have resolved to pull the plug out.
Year: 1879

lT appears on the surface that the Repub.
lican minority in both Houses is now look
threatened revolutionary demonstrations oi
the Opposition. This is right and proper
for the President is Republican, and it is
to be expected that he will stand out until
the crack of doom, If necessary, against the
seditionists. But meanwhile the party in
Congress, some Of whom, it must be adj
mitted, have not done much in the past
two years to show their faith ia the Presi'
dent of their choice, mnst do something in
dependent of him to oppose the revolution
ary designs of the common enemy. Tit
veto power is not the only weapon wi Il
which the Democracy is to be fought.
Year: 1879

SENATOR JONES is watching and waiting"
an opportunity to introduce his telegraph
bill when Congress shall open the door 10
general legislation. The action of the West
en Union Telegraph Company in exposing
the sacredness of private dispatches to pub
lie view in partisan interest has greatly i'm
paired its hold upon public confidence and
respect, and its monopoly character is some.
what jeopardized thereby.
Year: 1879

THE skilled, disciplined, and intelligent
Republican minority in Congress can, If
proper exertion be made, defeat the pro-
posed repeal of the national election laws
This object should be the first in the minds
Of every Republican Congressman and the
Presidential veto should be regarded as
secondary consideration-a last resort.
Year: 1879

A NUMBER of the more idiotic than the
average of anti-GRANT scribblers in the
Democratic press are raising great hula
baloo Just now over those Arabian stations.
They assert with unblushing elrontery
that he is the first President Of the United
States who has ever received presents of
any kind from foreign powers or potentates,
and cite the virtuous example of ANDREW
JACKSON in declining TO receive such gifts
by way of comparison. They either forget
or purposely overlook the fact that General
GRANT is not President now, and that he is
simply private citizen-nothing more and
nothing less. Were he an official of the
Government he would be precluded, with
out an enabling act from Congress, from ac-
cepting them; but as it is he is privileged to
do as he pleases, the only risk he runs being
the displeasure of the idiots to whom we
have referred. The average American citi-
zen, however, appreciates these gifts as so
many compliments bestowed upon the coun-
try at large through the medium of fell
low-citzen whose name and fame has added
brilliant repute and moral strength 70 the
principles Of republican government the
world over.
Year: 1879

THE most encouraging news is received
from Republican sources in California. The
Golden State will wheel solidly into the
line with her Republican sisters Of the
North in opposition to Confederate aggrcs.
sion,
Year: 1879

THEY have constructed an iron pier some
six hundred feet into the sea at Long
Branch 10 accommodate steamers, but ut
its present length it does not promise sue
cess. 1t lacks two hundred feet of the de-
sired point, and that when reached, except
in calm weather, will probably fail in
providing a safe and comfortable landing.
The New Jersey coast is better adapted TO
shipwrecks than anything else in the way
Of navigation.
Year: 1879

THE Union Brgadiers, who are running
for Office in Ohio on the Confederate ticket.
will have themselves to thank for their own
defeat next fail. This entire proceeding re-
minds us very much Of the Confederate
Brigadiers in the Southern States running
for office on Union platform There is
this difference, however; the people of Ohio
arc not to be hoodwinked by outward show
OF LOUD protestations, They look deeper
than the surface into the true inwardness OF
things.
Year: 1879

ty-sixth district of Pennsylvania, who is
always at his post of duty, and invariably
IN antagonism to the willy and unscrupulous
Southern Democrats aud their dough-face
allies of the North. Mr.. DICK is new
member, but he is rendering yeoman SER
vice to his country and the Republican par
ty, and gives fine promise of future useful
ness under the experience of his position.
lie has recently been called home by illness
in his family, which we trust will not long
keep him from his field OF duty aud useful
noec
Year: 1879

A report of the superintendent Of
Truancy in New York city closed
with the encouraging assertion that
the compulsory education law is
steadily lifting the children of the
streets. out of the depths of vagranoy
and vice, and out of the clutches of
the law, and placing them in schools
and institutions, "to be cleansed, in
strueted and reformed, and made a
blessing rather than a curse to So
ciotv"
Year: 1879

A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature which provides
that any male teacher who shall have
continued in his teaching for thirty
years, and any female who shall have
steadily taught for twenty-five years
shall be retired on a pension.
Year: 1879

TIE wicked Telephone is greatly
gratitied that Z" pious preachers In Aus
tin take turns in praying gratuitously
for the divine blessing on the Legisla-
ture ami s deliberations. There is
no money to pay chaplains, and hence
the gratuit Ius prayers" II the preach
ers will do it for nothing why pay for
it? This is the principle applied when
the State deals with printers. Starving
devils must have work, and they take
it at start alton rates, and then starve
before the contract is executed, and
the WORK is poorly done, if done at all.
But it is all right if the preachers must
go to bed hungry.
Year: 1879

nonsense on the part of the Democrats win
end with this ill-fated measure. II is use
less to contend longer with the inevitable,
and they may as well bring themselves into
harmony with the Constitution and the
laws OF the country before they raise storm
that they will have no power to allay. In
q party point of view we could wish them
to perform their disgraceful role before the
country until December, but the country
needs rest from such performances, that
business confidence may be restored, and the
enterprises of the people may reach plane
above this wrangling to tear down the Fed
eral power and Mexicanize the country by
q recognition of the evil dogma of State
Rights. Let us have peace.
Year: 1879

To supply the extraordinary demand for
Senator Conkliag's Great Speech upon THE
EXTRA SESSION OF 1879; WHAT IT
"TEACHEs AND WHAT IT MEANS" he
National Republican Printing Company has
printed large edition thereof in pamphlet
form, coarenien for public distribution as a
Republican campaign document. Copies oJ
this pamphlet may be had on application at or
Counting Room or JOB Office, at the rate Of
$40 per thousand. Orders respectfully solicited
and promptly filled.
Year: 1879

OUR Democratic neighbor, the Sunday
Gazette, proceeded last Sunday to denounce
the gross personalities which have illus
trated the controversy between the post and
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN in Il manly
and straightforward manner, which elicits
our approval and does credit to it as an evil
dence ofan intent, to say the least, to make
the profession of journalism as respecta-
BILE as it should be, in the District OF Column
bia. AS for the share we have reluctantly
taken in this matter, we have only TO say
that while we have Jared little better than
the Irishman did in his discussion" with
the pole-cat, the excuse for our course has
been the same that is always offered by any
gentleman who condescends to stew q
blackguard in his own gravy. And we
have thus condescended only when the
provocation ofvirulent personal attacks and
| attempted interference with our business af-
fairs has been offered
Year: 1879

THE weather was unusually warm yester-
day but the Bourbons did not suffer from
the elemental heat. They were parboiled,
as it were, in the political hot-water deluge
which fell upon them in the shape of a
veto.
Year: 1879

THE fabled hen Of the mythical CALEB
was never in such q predicament as the
Bourbon party is now. The President
makes very good CALEB in this political
tableau, when his amiable obstinacy is
aroused.
Year: 1879

THE President and the Republican party
are as earnest in their demands us the Bour-
bons pretend to be to keep bayonets away
from the polls. But they do not intend
that it shall be also kept away from the
breasts of riotous seditionists, nor from the
hearts of mob leaders.
Year: 1879

The Comque was crowded last night The per-
formaucc of the Pinafore Minstrels was fine The
bill is very attractive. one feature IS n presenta.
ton of political satire entitled death and Burial
OF the FOrty.iiith Congress" matinee will be
given at the usual hour this afternoon.
Year: 1879

THE uptown street cars from the Capitol
yesterday afternoon exhaled streams of
sulphurous smoke which did not arise from
the heated condition of the trucks The
Bourbon Congressmen riding in them found
themselves in "hot-box," however which
accounts for this extraordinary phenomena.
"Our army in Flanders never swore with
half the vigOr they did.
Year: 1879

THAT was lelt-hand hit at Bourbonism
in the message yesterday: the alluson, we
mean. to the whisky rebellion in 1904. This
new Bourbon rebellion can only be coerced
into loyal submission to the laws by the use
of the same means that were employed in
that whisky rebellion of the earlier days of
the Republic.
Year: 1879

The recent canvass of the country through
the enterprise of the New York Times, by
which it is made apparent that there is u
longing for General GRANT all over the
country as our next President and that
that longing is in very large majority, has
excited much attention and comment from
all sorts Of people. As appearances in this
world are very deceptive, it is not best, per-
haps, to take the canvass Of the Times at
par value just yet; and, after all, it is no
more strange at this era that everybody is
crying for General GRANT as a remedial
agency for impending ills than it is that
even fraction of the Democratic party
should want TILDEN as their candidate in
1880. We have been suspicious for some
time that the people might want General
GRANT in 1880 as their standard-beare
and if they did we knew that at the proper
time and in the proper way they would in
dcate their pleasure in this regard and pro-
vide amply Tor its realization. Then the
question will be peculiarly between General
GRANT and the people, and we shall have
nothing to do but to defer gracefully to
their mutual determination.


But to return to the developments of the
Times, We notice that the New York
EUening Post, journal of marked political
eccentricity, is now busly engaged in solv-
ing the problem why it is that public atten-
tion is so directly pointed Mt General GRANT
as the Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency in 1880. The Post wrestles with the
question manfully, but evidently only
catches feeble glimpse Of the real cause of
this rising tide in his favor The Post is not
partial TO General GRANT, indeed it does
not want him, but seems to be impressed
strongly with the idea that his candidacy is
among the inevitables. 1t seems to be its
thought that old issues are coming to the
front, and, as he represents the questions,
Year: 1879

The effort of Senator BLAINE in the SEN
ate on Monday, which we published yester-
day was honorable alike TO himself, to his
country, aud to the occasion which called it
forth. 1t is charged with power of thought
and cloqucncc OF expression 1t is strong in
its facts and invincible in its argument, aud
to the candid and intelligent mind it shows
the utter falsity, absurdity, and dishonesty
Of those who, in the measure under discus
sion, have attempted to commit q great
wrong to the nation by stripping from the
elective franchise the last vestige of power
to protect itself in its integrity and our
Federal elections from becoming the prey of
mobs and outlaws. The dishonesty of pur-
pose which characterizes caucus move
ment, for the measure under discussions like
the two others form the triplicates which
were born of that illegtimate machine
Of Democratic power, was laid bare
by the eloquence and argument brought to
bear upon the occasion. 1t was made APP
parent to the unprejudced mind that these
three measures, for the perfection of which
this extra session of Congress was made
necessary are presented as deformities
conceived in sin and brought forth in in
Equity" TO menace the President into
submission to the dictates of party caucus
under the alternative of revolution which
will come in the Withholding of supplies
and the starvation of the Government, from
the effects of which its functions must cease
to act, involving suspension and inevitable
dissolution.


Senator BLAINE stripped this deformed
child of caucus legislation of all the dis
guises that dishonesty and sophistry had
thrown over it and laid it bare in all its
features before the country. The act was
performed with mastery power. The hy-
pocrisy out of which such n measure had
been conjured up was shown as plainly
rs the sunlight i'll a clear sky by chal-
longing proof from the Democratic side
of any danger that is lurking anywhere in
the country that our elections are endan-
gered by the presence of United States
troops, and the attempt to adduce any such
proof was lame and impotent, There were
two instances cited-one in West Virginia,
in 1870 and the other in Kentucky, in 1865,
before the close of the war-in which troops
had been in the vicinity of polling places
during elections, but in neither case does it
appear that the soldiers in any way inter-
fered with the purity or justice of the cleo
tions then pending So 1t appears that
there is no call, no necessity, for the sixth
section of the army appropriation bill, which
has been thrust upon this measure as an
engine of mischief, discord, and ultimate
revolution. The country begins to under
stand this, and it is patiently waiting, con-
fident that the President will exercise his
act of marked wrong and injustice.
Year: 1879

WHILE the New York EgeninQ Post and
other pronounced anti-GRANT papers are
looking around for explanations for the
current popular demand for his renomina-
tion, they must not attempt to misead the
public by the assumption that the Repub-
lican party is responsible at this period for
the existing revival of sectional or war
issues. 1t is the custom Of this class of
journals to make this assumption when in
fact the Republican party is simply and
properly engaged in the honorable duty of
preserving inyiolate the legitimate and
deaTly-bought results of the war. The
truth is that the Southerners themselves
are responsible for any revival Of these
issues that may have occurred, And es-
pccially is this true Of such Southerners as
Mr.. BLAcEBURS with his infamous prop
oation to wipe all Of the war measures
Year: 1879

For "ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain" in legislation the present Con-
gress has no parallel in history. The rules,
laws, and usages in legislation have ceased
to be of any consequence either with the
Speaker of the House or with the majority
who dance to his piping. They have discov
cred through the calcium light of ALEX
AMBER IL. STEPHENS lofty intellect and
vaulting inventive genius that there is no
difference between bill and petition, and
the former can be smuggled into the House
through the petition box just as well MS to
follow the usages and customs of legislation
that have ruled for more than q century.
This is great aclIieycment-very great
for it brings Joy and gladness to the Green
hackers, who are rs full of bills as a shad is
OF eggs in the spring, and might die of
strangulation if they did not find the relief
afforded by the magic petition box. This
special dispensation is hailed with as much
satisfaction rs a heavy frost after long
siege of the yellow fever pestilence. One
thing, however, is very certain, the more
bills these Greenbacll Democrats smuggle
into the House of Representatives the less
the country will find cause of rejoicing
should there be any prospect of their ever
becoming laws. 1t is intimated that both
LADD and DE La MATYR were so rejoiced
over this discovery for the introduction of
bills in spite of usage, that neither could
sleep, so they spent the night in n sweet de-
lirium, singing praises to the sage of Geor-
gia, who has made discovery of more im-
portance to them than that of the North
Pole would be to the cause of science.
Year: 1879

DEMOCRATIC fear of intimidation. on the
part of the army is based upon the startling
TACT that on the average there are only sixty
soldiers TO each million of people in the
country. The danger is imminent.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats in the Senate are in honor
bound not TO disturb Senator KELLOGG in
his occupancy of Il seat in that body. They
agreed to the inviolability of his tenure
when Senator BUTLER, of South Carolina,
was admitted, and the agreement was some-
thing more than tacit.