Year: 1871

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In these days Of political wonders politi-
clans who do the pipe-laying for Presidential
candidates have need to be constantly on their
guard against surprises. To be sure there
was time when 1t was only necessary for the
wire-pullers to pull in a certain direction to
make this, that or the other ''eminent states
man" rise to the surface and take his
chances for a straight run to the White House:
but the case is far different nowadays. At
least the ''leaders" say SO, and they ought to
know what is what in the matter. Somehow
or other, pull as one will, the wires won't work
just as well as they might, if every 'aeader'
didn't want to be candidate himself and cut
out his next-door neighbor by fair means or
foul This may be thing to be regretted or
it may not, just as one views the subject; but
be that as it may, the plpe-laying for the next
Presidential election has so far revealed the
fact that there are more candidates in the field
than all the wire-pulling wisdom in the country
know exactly what to do with.


Under the circumstances the news furnished
us by our correspondent from Paris must be-
peculiarly distressing to the ''leaders" and all
the other patriotic gentlemen who want some
one of their particular friends to be President
or who are itching to get to the White House
themselves 1t is trite saying that man
often does his country good when he leaves it;
but the idea of politicians going abroad for
their own political good at home-in fact to
make Europe stepping stone to the Presiden-
tal chair-s, if not novel, certainly sufficiently
startling just at present to create Il decided
sensation in every political circle in the
| Union. Yet why have the wide awaxes of the
party not watched the way the wind has been
blowing in Egypt of late? Did it never enter
their minds that the Sage of Auburn while
hobnobbing with the Viceroy was making
political hay for himself at the same time?
That the further he went away from home the
nearer he got to the White House? And, in
fine, that he had mapped ont his route that
it must of a certainty end at home just when
he would be wanted as the right man to heal
up the differences of the past and express
himself gratiicd at being nominated for Pres
ideni, while those who stayed at home and
worked for the prize are put in the back
ground forever?


Judging from the letter of our correspou-,
dent it must be that the range Of Amer
lean politics has become too large for
this country, or at least the country has be-
come too small for it. If this be not the case
why make foreign capital the headquarters
for White House plotting and the byways of
Egypt and Japan the high road to Presidential
honors? We have now the secret of the
grand exodus of politicians from our borders
every few weeks for months past. Hereafter
letters to friends at home about the ruins of
Paris the length Of the Sntans beard or the
beauties of Killarney will no longer serve to
hide the real doings Of political pilgrims dur
ing their travels. Indeed, the subject is well
worthy the consideration Of stay-at-home
politicians, whose plans may be seriously in
terfered with if the pilgrims continue their
lodges about ~
The only way, in our opinion, to remedy the
evil is to allure them back to their native
/, shores, where they can be abused as heartily
for everything they say or do, and il they do
or say nothing for everything they do not or
say not as every other Presidential aspirant.
The Sage of Auburn is shrewd old man,
and he has lived many day. and who knows,
if he stays away from home much longer,
what assistance his friend the Mikado may
not be to him in case of tight squeeze be-
tween candidates in the conventions which
assemble next fall? He will bear looking
after and so will all the other prominent gen.
temen abroad, who may be even now laying
their pipes one way in Paris, while the folks at
home are laying theirs quite another way.


TlMro DANAOs. One of our special cor.
respondents with the Corean expedition says
that Admiral Rodgers refused TO receive
peace offerings of cattle, chickens aud eggs
from the whIte-cOa natives of that country,
because he preferred to accept no avors from
the enemy until the insult to the American
flag should be fully atoncd. We wonder if
the cute Admiral was not thinking of that
famous wooden horse when he declined
Corean comforts Possibly he surmised that
the sleek-ooking cows and chickens and
tempting eggs might be filled with cold
''pisen" in some ingenious fashion known
only to the Celestials. Undoubtedly Rodgers
had his head level when he turned his back
on the fresh beef and tender pules.