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THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1884.
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H. O. HANSON, HUM
Macon. Quorate.
. a "pin-back," Mr. Bureherd wee
p. ,• pruuilneut then Belvi'e entlra
bat. tie.
N ti»Lr eight thousand Independent Re-
p. in, voted (or Clerelend In Buie
ch .sette. *
Ir Mr. Blelne reelly deilre* to go down
to posterity es • greet mu let him Intent e
ear-coupler.
Arrut Thankagiring, 8t. John will be
gin hie canvasa for 1333. Hehuoomeoat
of' in- w'Hemeea to etay.
I viorartr Mr. Blaine Is not to serve In
the White House a» long as Ibe people can
hire Mill Itutea (or him. Hie people nre
very kind to Jimmie.
3 It ib adversity and not triumph that
t:. t men's souls. In hb hoar at defeat,
the mean ness, telfbhnees and bitterness
of Blaine's character b betrayed.
Missouri raised thb year very nearly
210 000,(OS boihab of ears, thb largest
c: ever proltteed in the State, ud voted
Un I mocratlc ticket with her aieemtomed
vigor.
Ef Avtss reading Mr. Blaine's speech it
d : - seem ae thongh uotlier torchlight
pr •, i s ion «u in order. It brightens the
hh> k record of twenty yarn to beer
Bi .a stand on hie door step and howl.
- Mr. But ran complains that under the
p-r ent political eyatem the Southern
wl-l te nun ie stronger than three Northern
w'.i te men. Why, bless yon, Jimmie, that's
whot we usel to tell yon before the war!
Bt the by, the stock of ear-couplets now
•n hand la large enough to carry ns
thronih the winter. Whet b needed now
is a man who tun invent a method by
which the railroads are forced to use them.
. Ha. Buna's complaint b, that practi
cally a Southern white man's vote is equal
to the vote of three Northers men. Bat
w!< •! te* not Mr. Blelne jamp upon St.
John and the ProhibUioaiatt? St. John's
hi: c clique ae.*ii.a to have outvoted the
, entire P.cpubUcan party. .
It b not (he “prectieel dlsirauehise-
nu r.t” ot the negro that galls Mr. Blaine,
but the fact Ui,t the disfrauchisement does
sot take forty-two votes out of tha South's
del- gallon in Congress. It will be seen
Very soon who it Is that will stand by
Cuflke's civil rights the longest.
Ms. Buna said in hb speech at Au-
gr-u, Me., that he “owed natch to the
eminent scholars ud divines wh<\ step
ping aside from theirordinary avocations''
made hb “canse their cause, and to loyal
ty to principle added the special compli
ment of standing u my (hi# representa
tives In the na'ional struggle." .This in
cludes the Rev. Mr. Bureherd. Happy
Burchard! It is not often that two great
political parties lift their voices in grati
tude to one and the seme men at one ud
the same time.
Mow that the Independent Republicans
have beaten Blaine end Tammuy, the
New York Times meue to reform the
parly. It says: “It b called upon now
alter nearly a quarter ol a century of pow
er, to resume the work of an opposition
party, in which it won some ol its greatest
victories ud in which it developed its
greatest men. The work ia very different
now, bntit is important, udit will abound
in opportunities. The next four years
may see many ebuges in the composition
o! both parllei, but nothing is more cer
tain than that the Intelligence, the con
scientious devotion to principle, the gen
eral parity and dbintereatedneea which
were the characteristics of the RepublL
ea:is in their beat days will have ample
scope In the Immediate future, and wilt
have their due influence upon the coarse
of national affaire."
Tijrinn to Ktoaimcfc ftnrtv
There has Iteenderi-loped within the
last few days a disposition upon the
part of frte trade Democrats to side
track the lion. Bam Randall. It
lias eud only occurred to these
gentlemen that Mr. Randall stands
in nearer the throne titan do
muy of the ambitious Democrats who
year, su'd to clubs of insisted that the new President waa to
become Morrison’s ally and Watler-
Bon'a tool in a future effort to deal
the industries of tha country. Th
gentlemen have suddenly remembered
that Mr. Clcvelaud adopted nttb
ical moment, as the TbI/Bor am insisted
he should, sensible views upon the
tariff, and under Mr. Randall’s lead,
went into Connecticut and Now Jersey
with n construction of the Democratic
platform satisfactory to the manufac
turing people. It begins to dawn upon
many people that perhaps Mr. Randall
may bo allowed to stand by Mr. Cleve
land’s side as the chief representative
of tho Democracy.
This view of tho political situation
can hardly fail to be distressing to
somo of onr Southern Congressmen,
who throw aside Mr. Randall in the
last Congress and supported Sir. Car
lisle for Speaker—not that this unfor
tunate error ha- not already borne bit
ter fruit, for Carlisle's insult to the
South in the voluntary oath he took
has long since made the subject with
Southern men a painful one—bat be
cause they see political bankruptcy
ahead of them.
For twenty years the average South
ern Congressman has been issuing his
promises to pay to faithful henchmen
on all sides. Tho number of such obli
gations now out is simply appalling,
and the worst of it is, they all fall due
without grace on the 4th of next March.
If it should so happen that Mr. Ran
dall stands next the throne, while
there are many who can cheerfully rely
upon tils faTor anil patriotism, there
are a few who will find themselves with
nothing in hand to settle maturing ob
ligations, Tills explains the friendly
efforts now being made in Randall’s
behalf. The Courier-Journal for in
stance, has it:
Upon the next Secretary of the Navy the im
portant duty of constructing a navy will de
volve. The new Secretary will have tho dis
bursement ot hundreds of millions of dollars.
He should be a man ot experience la naral
affaire and ol In orruptlblo Integrity. Mr.
It,n .all Is such h mm. He would give a guar
antee at honesty, economy end Intelligence
which the country would recognize universally
and at once. His a] polntment would take
him out ot Congress and r -move the chief ele
ment or Democratic dissension, giving the ad
ministration a united party in the House
touching tho pdtey ot revenue reform to
which it will address Itself.
This is very transparent. Mr. Ran
dall ns Secretary of the Navy is a de
lightful picture to hold up even to Mr.
Randall himself, when we consider how
vitally Pennsylvania’s interests are af
fected by changes in tho naval admin
istration. But as Secretary of the
Navy, Mr. Randall would merely be
buried with honors, and ho is too active
now to submit to such an operation.
The Sun says:
Other followers ot the Hon. John arilfiu
Carlisle have likewise manifested a willing,
ness te zee Mr. Randall removed from tho
House ol Eeprescntatlves; and setae of them
even go to the great Irngth of proposing that
Cleveland should make him Secretary ot the
Treasury.
But suppose Mr. Randall should not like
this programme. Suppose he should wish to
stay In the nouse of Representatives, where
he has made his place, and where he wields
saoro power than any other Individual mem
ber.
In the cabinet, Mr. Randall would he only n
head e'erk to Mr. Cleveland. In the Houso of
Representatives he is a great figure on his
own account
Randall is undoubtedly the strong
est man in the Houso for Speaker. Car
lisle insulted his supporters, and 00
per cent, ot tho men who voted for
tho main act ot the administration have
lost their places. Carlisle’s excuse for
greatness has vanished with the last
effort of the freo traders. A stronger,
wiser element will pr bably rule the
party and the natural leaders of these
is Samuel J. Randall. Howover,wheth
er as Speaker ot the House or adviser
of the President, Mr. Randall will be
in position to settle somo old debts.
I Tito clerks of nil tlie courts are ap
pointed by the judges, and they are
uniformly Republicans.
All the United States commissioners,
who are appointed by the United States
circuit judges, are Republicans. •
There are nino circuit judges of the
United States, all of whom are Repub
licans, and some of them are very pro
nounced politicians.
The United Slates Treasury handles
over $600,000,000 a year In receipts and
expenditures only, leaving out of view
the dealings in national loans and
othet; groat transactions. This has all
been'dene by Republicans.
Tho Geological Survey, the Cooet
Survey, the Agricultural Bureau, the
Fish Commission, the National Mui
un, the government of the District of
Columbia, are all directed by Republi
cans.
There are nine Judges ot the United
States Supreme Court, one of whom
only Is a Democrat Judge Bradley U
the only one now eligible for retire
ment with a lull pension.
There ore about one hundred and
twenty five thousand offices, large and
small, in the gift of the administration,
Over fifty-two thousand of them are
post-offices, mostly below the grade of
Presidential appointment, which ran;e
from $1,000 salary upward.
There ore 96,000 officeholders sub
ject to removal, most of them post
masters.
In tho three branches of the classi
fied service there are shout 14,000
places that can be filled by competitive
examination only ander the civil'ser-
vice act.
There are 4,000 persons in the rail
way mail service, and 4,000 in the in
ternal revenue sendee outside of Wash
ington.
In addition to these, the Davis bill,
which hoe passed the Senate and
awaits action on the calendar of the
House, provides for the appointment
of eighteen circuit judges. It will be
seen that there will be opportunity to
turn a great many rascals oat, and the
success of the administration must de
pend upon putting honest men in. The
offices will not go round, but the pick
ings are very considerable and quite
fat.
Gentlemen interested can surrey the
list, ascertain what they most desire
and immediately start the petitions on
active duty.
The
Virtue Should Be Ite Own Reward.
Scarcely a week has passed since the
result of tho Presidential election was
learned, and yet already the fight for
office between the factions that united
to elect Mr. Cleveland haa begun. The
New York Herald tells Mr. Cleveland
that he cannot get along in his great
reform movemont without the aid of
the New York Independents, and that
he cannot retain this element in poli
tics without recognising their claims
for olfico and rewarding their seal. To
this the World very naively or very
sarcastically replies:
We should ke very sorry to believe that the
Independents, who ao unselfishly supported a
political opponent became they believed him
te he an uprilht. fearless man, anxious to give
the country honest government, would refuse
him their “continued confidence and sealoui
assistance," not becanso he disappointed the r
expectations, hut because hodldnotglvethem
•ubtnA offices. ■
It our contemporary's Idra that all who
helped to elect President Cleveland are to be
token Into his "counclli" ehoSld bo carried
. out, what a singular mixture we should hsvel
Certainly 8k John must he represented,
for the largo voto he drew from the
Republicans decided the result. Oneida
eounty must hare a cabinet position, for If rc-
tributive Justice had not reversed Qarflcld’a
majority there Blelne would hove been elect
ed. Dr. Bureherd cannot be offered less than
tho mission to Borne. Brother Cyrus, whose
Bcishssrar feast had so good su effect for
Cleveland, must go to the Court of 8t. James,
whore ho catt present the mins of his Andre
monument to the British Museum. On the
same principle t'-e esteemed Post may well
elaim th* Berlin mission; Brother Jones
should go to Vienua, and who will dispute
he rarii-loring Herald’s clslts to Mortou’i
dace In Paris"
Ran for f n* patriots.
The internal revenae masters
army of partisans more than 4,000
atrong.
There are five judge* on the Court of
Olalmi, ell of wham are Repablicans.
Every bureau in all the public de
partment* ia headed by a Republican,
chosen far political reasons.
There are fifty-three United States
district judges, who, with two or three
exception*, ere Republicans.
All the laud offices are occupied with
Republicans, some of whom have sur
veyed the road to wealth with official
seal.
There ore J4S consuls and many dep
uty consalMtbrood, who are, with few
exception!, Republicans.
The United States marshals and their
deputies have for many years been vio
lent partisans, bat they are appointees
of the President.
There are forty ministers represent
ing the United States in foreign coun
tries, every one of whom is a Repub
lican.
There ore six judges on the bench of
the Supreme Court ot the District of
Columbia, who, with only one ercep-
tiofi, ore Republicans.
All tho places of honor or of trust
within the grasp at the executive or of
the courts aro bold by Republicans.
All the divisions of the treasury, of
the Post-office Department, of the In
terior Department, of the army, ot the
navy, of the State, and of the Judiciary
Departments are in tha hands of Re
publicans.
All the collectors, surveyors, naval
officers and their subordinates are Re
publicans.
All the postmasters in the country,
with hero and there an unavoidable
exception, aro Republicans.
Proteotlon' tha National Polloy.
Editor McClure,a most accomplished
student of politics, has reviewed tho
situation and has reached the conclu-
sion embodied In the following para
graphs, which may be read with inter
est:
The Democratic South Is now more for pro
tection than ever before. The time has past
when the South can be milted to the support
of free trade. Tariff reform ft wants and de
mands, av does the North, hut a large majority
of the Southern Democrats tn the next Con-
greaa will be squarely for the distinct recog
nition of protection to American labor, In the
diicrimloattons of a revenue tariff. The lasne
has been vitalised In every State, and tho
Democratic 8outh la rapidly drifting to the
■upportof a sound protective policy, while
;he Republican West la., becoming the
let-bedof free trade. Of the forty-one Demo
crats who upported Randall In defeating the
only effort ever boldly made in Congress since
the war to depart from the protective policy,
nearly aU have bean returned to the next
Congress, while a number of the aggressive
free traders have been defeated In atrong
Democratic districts. Frank Hurd, the ablest
of them, waa defeat'd In an Ohio district
where a tariff Democrat would have been
elected by 4,0 0. New York city, who sup
posed centre of free trade, has sent
the strongest delegation of protection
ists that haa come for many years. Dorshel-
mer, Morrison's ablest Northern lieuten
ant In the battle of last winter, ia suc
ceeded by Pulltaer, an earnest protectionist,
and Cox, free trader, waa not heard on the
stump because the party la not In sympathy
with his tariff views. The Democratic South
and the Democratic States of the North an
now more thoroughly committed to tho Juit
protection of every prodnctl e general Indus
try of the country than ever before since the
daysof Jackson, and protection without mo
nopoly will bo one of tho cardinal principles
of the new administration. We apeak ad
visedly In saying that President-elect Cleve
land heartily approves of the protective
plank of the Democratic platform, aud
that freo trade, or even tho half-
fledged free trade that would disturb and
paralyse our legitimate Industries, will find
favor with the now President. The national
platform declared for protection; the South
haa declared for protection with revenue re
form, and the States of New York, New Jer
sey, Conneetlout and Indiana, which gave
thelrvoteeto lovcland, did It upon the dis
tinct assurance from Democrats leadars that
Democratic administration could havo no
sympathy with ties trade or with aiy other
than a Just pro active tariff policy.
Protection la now the accepted, Irrevocable
policy of the nation. New York city, where
the majority for Cleveland swells np to acorea
of thousands, now haa vastly more capital In
manufacturing than hit Philadelphia, and the
actual manufacturing products of the city ex
ceed the product! of the eity of factories end
homes. The heaviest Iron manufacturers ot
the United States are New York city Demo
crats, aneh as Samuel J. Tlldenand Abram 8.
Hewitt, and there fa not an Industry
demanding protection that does not now
number active Democrats amoDg Its leading
oapltallata. And what la true of New York
city la eqnallytrue of New Jeraey, Connecti
cut and Indiana, where Clerelend received
electoral votes. They are all protective tariff
Stale a-New York being much more so than
Rcpubl can Illinois, Iowa, Ksnaas or Ne
braska, and they will make end maintain Jnat
and liberal discrimination! in favor of the
protection of every general Indnatry, regard
less of tho Republican West or the free trade
dreamers of North or South.
We believe ills conclusion to bo based
upon wise and just premises, but there
ia eome skirmishing to be done yet.
The most important utterance In the
above is where Mr. McClure claims to
speak advisedly of the position of Mr.
Cleveland. But there is a short ses
sion ot Congress to be held before Mr.
Cleveland shall take bis seat, and a
long interregnum before his adminis
trative policy shall be made to appear
in his first annual message.
Mr. Randall has given public expres
sion to the belief that Morrison and hil
following will renew the horizontal
fight at the coming session. There are
strong reasons to apprehend that bo ie
correct. Hero and there may bo no
ticed indications upon tho port of the
whisky ring to mako another effort to
stuve oil' the payment of taxes.
New York Herald says:
Durlug the current fiscal Tear nearly 31,000.-
COOg.llouc of whlt-ky muit be remove! fro:
bonded warehouses, and cither exported t
thrown upon the market, lu tho latter evei
nearly t90.oei.000 lu taxes mutt ho paid to the
government by the owners of the whisky
This tax, If enforced, means ruin toth
owners, and, it la aald, will Involve the fail of
many banka which have made heavy loans
secured by this commodity. It throe or four
minions of gallons an thrown upon the mar-
ket per month there Is no limit to which the
price may not tall. It costa about IS cents to
mak* a gallon of whisky, and the tax la to
cents. There la going to be n heavy 1<
So it is altogether likely that much
of the limited time of the coming ses-
eioa will be uted up in An endeavor to
pass a whisky bill by threatening the
country with another horizontal tariff
bill. Accepting the figure* and prog
nostications of the Herald to be correct,
there is no good reason why the whisky
ring, which has "accumulated
wealth," may not pocket any losses
which may follow overproduction and
depressed business. The country can
not be alarmed at a prospect of cheap
whisky.
Mr. Olevelnna'a fgsoranoo.
Mr. H. J. Ramsdell, Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Preu, haa this to say:
Hr. Cleveland, I believe, la about 4S years
old. Ha haa alwaya lived within a day's Jour
ney of Washington, and yot he has never seen
Congress In Session, he has never aeon n Pres
ident, ho bM novor awn one of the great de
partments, and, although a Uwyor (an alleged
lawyer), he has never been In the Supreme
Court room. Not one of the three co-ordinate
branches of the gorerument haa ho ever seen
In operation.
This is oil true. But there are palli
ating circumstances which Mr. Rams-
dell should have stated. In the first
place there has been little attrac
tion to an honest man in a ses
sion of Congress daring the last
twenty vears; nor have the Presidents
of the last twenty years been of such a
character as to tempt a visit from an
honest man living in even "a day's
journey" of Washington. Many very
good men have never been into the de
partments or Supreme Court room.
The departments are the refuge of the
tools that have been used to dishonor
this government, and the* Supreme
Court baa been too often the reward of
thieves. It will be seen therefore that
all that is related of Mr. Cleveland may
be true and yet not discreditable to
him.
But the-time approaches when if
Mr. Cleveland neglects to enter into
and examine the methods and men nf
the three co-ordinate branches of tho
government" he may indeed become
subject to just criticism for bis ignor
ance. Several seats in the Supreme
Court will, in all probability, be vaca
ted daring his administration. It will
become bis duty and his pleasure,
doubtless, to increase the stock of
honesty which has in that institution
been suffered to run too low. It will
become his duty to clean out the de
partments and give the people serv
ants that are not only hon
est and capable, but willing to
yield labor (br the liberal wages paid.
It will be his duty to enter Congress
with wise counsels, patriotic plans,
and a determination not only to effect
stlch an union of the three "co-ordi
nate branches” of the government as
will give the people good service, good
laws and good law, but to supplement
all with an executive wisdom that will
make this union the mainspring of a
great era of national prosperity.
Mr. Cleveland is to-day totally ignor
ant of the government divisions, but
we venture the remirk that ere a year
has passed no Republican in ail this
broad land will be found complaining
that ho continued so. We are sure
that none ought to be permitted to
complain of want of attention on Mr.
Cleveland's part.
This letter we may Imagine was de
livered by him in person to the post
man from his front steps, for sorely so
important s document could not have
been carelessly dropped into the moil
box like ordinary correspondence.
Foar months have passed since the
writing of this letter—months of stir
ring events, hope, anxiety, torchlight
processions, elections, results, frantic
joy and humiliation. On Monday even
ing last Mr. Blaine again came out
upon bis front steps, but this time he
came to receive the sympathies of the
town folks and to make answer to such
questions of the hour os seemed to de
mand his attention. Again be deemed
it necessary that the South should be
commented upon, and here in port is
what he said:
The first Instinct of an American la equality,
equality of rights, of privilege, of political
power—that equality of power which leys to
every citizen “your vote la Juit as godd, Just at
potential aa tho vote of any other eltlaen."
That cannot be sold today lu tho United/. , ‘
States. The course of affairs In the South haa (tension or these points, we more than
once made earnest appeals for the har
monizing of the differences that were
apparent and that were growing under
the heat and temper of discussion.
The result has justified and vindicated
the position of the Tblkqbaph. The
New York World, the special organ of
than 1 c.ooo. They are deprived of a free auf-: M r - Cleveland, persistently declared
fnse and their rights aa cl iaeaa are scornful* that he did not favor the interpretation
•ly trodden under foot. Tho eleven 0 f the platform as given by Carlisle,
crushed out the political power of more
than 0,000,0CC American cltlaena and has
transferred it by violence to others. Forty-
two Presidential electors are eaelgnedtothe
South on account of the oolorcd population,
and yet the colored population, wlih
more than J.lot.fCS legal rotes, have been un
able to choose a alnyle elector, even in those
states where they have a majority of
One of the Humors of Po'ltloa.
If tho Democratic administration should
awsllowapthe Independents, how could the
Republican petty be reorganised and made a
powerful end beueflelsl organisation? The
independents would lose their Identity aa
soon as thoy entered the cabinet and the moat
promising result of their temporary revolt
from their own party—Its purification and
reform—would bo loaL—New York VTorld.
The point is well taken. The most
unfortunate event that now threatens
the Democratic party is the total de
struction or disintegration ot the Repub
lican. The Democratic party is solidi
fied by opposition. Left to itself, the
conflicting Interests within woald soon
produce a disastrous warfare. It
has a humorous sound, but it is
nevertheless true, that all hands must
now rally and help get the Republican
party upon its feet again. There can
bo no more contests until the prostrate
side comes to time unless we amuse
ourselves by fighting each other. Ob-
vioaaly we cannot assist the Republi
can party by seising its moral back
bone—the independent section. George
William Curtis, he it remembered, said
in effect that he was for Cleveland, be
cause ho (Curtis) waa a Ro
publican; that Cleveland’s euo
meant temporary defeat,
Blaine's perpetual. George Will'
iam looked forward to the day when
purged, sponged off and stimulated the
Republican giant would get upon ita
feet again and toe the mark. We sub
mit that George William’s strong ef
forts in the late struggle ought to be
rewarded with a frank recognition of
hie future expectation. But moral rec
titude cannot bo rendered mo o beau
tiful by the gift of office. \Vo must not
tempt a patriotic enemy to play the
traitor to his own people nor must we
place him where in a moment of
weakness he may betray ns.
From Mr. Blnlno** Front Steps.
On July 15iL Mr. Blaine wrote from
Augusta, Me., to tlio national Republi
can executive committee, accepting
tho nomination for the Presidency.
Tlio lettor was a remarkable ono in
many respects, but tho South, ever
anxious for peace, observed with pleas
ure the conservative language of the
man upon whom* it then seemed the
chief office of the country might de
volve# Mr. Blaine's reference to the
South waa couched aa follows
civil
was 1 ‘learning to vindicate
righto."
If "by a cruel system of intimidation
and violence and mu der whenever vi
olence and murder are thought neo
essai^, they aro absolutely deprived
of all political power," the man who
had just written the last twenty years
of tho country’s political power knew
it when he said that "violent out-
breaka in the South" were "excep
tional" and only "occasional."
Mr. Blalne’e July letter was the
* topics discussed in those coltitnnH, be
yond our readers, Senator Brown rep
resents tho flute of Georgia in its
highest office. Ho goes to Con- ^
I recognise, not with mt regret, th. necMtlty lotto of a statesman. Mr. Blalno’s
for speaking of two tedious of our oommoo November speech, the fulmlnttlons of
eountry. But the regret diminishes when I see a narrow partisan,
that the •lemeuta v whlch wpusM them are .t,-
fast disappearing. Prejudices havo yielded ”“ en together they constitute the
and ore yielding, while growing cordiality most prominent epitome of hypocrisy
warms tho Southern and Northern heart alike, seen In this age. They will serve as
Can kny one doubt that between the sections
confidence and esteem ore more marked than
at eny period in the elxty years preceding the
election of Preaid nt Lincoln t This 1a the re
sult in part of time and In part of Bepublloan
principles applied under the favorable condi
tion! of uniformity. It would be a great
calamity to ehange these Influences under
which Southern commonwealths are learning
to vindicate civil righta, and adapting them-
selves to the oondltloni of polltloal tranquillity
and industrial progress. If there be occa
•lonal and violent outbreaks In the South
against this peaceful progress, the public opin
Ion of the country regard! them aa exception-
nl, end hopefully trneta that each will prove
the leet.
an admirable monument for the vain
liar whose remains rest beneath them.
An Anxious Inquirer Answered.
The Dalton Ctltsrn propounds the
following:
Will eomebody please tell ua what the
Macon TeuasaPH haa to tay now abont
Cleveland's chances for the Prealdencyf If
we mistake not, that paper, Jnat after the
nomination, predicted in overwhelming de
feat for Democraoy. There la one very evident
fact: Colonel Lamar 1s no prophet.
As the Tbliobafr esn beet answeT
the inquiry, we have to say: ihat Mr.
Cleveland's chances for the Presidency
now depend upon the official count of
the large and very close vote in the
pivotal State of New York. Present
Indications justify the belief that the
count will be decided in his faro-.
The Citizen labors under a mistake.
The TsLiaBArn at no time has pre
dicted the defeated of the Democracy
by on overwhelming voto, as an inde
pendent proposition. When the Chi
cago convention, by the aid of votes
from States that could not cast a Demo
cratic electoral vote, insulted and
humiliated the right arm of the Demo
cratic party in the city of New York,
when it supplemented this piece of mon
umental tolly by rejecting the Ohio
platform tor one that was capable of
and did receive a double construction,
wo expressed the belief that if these
mistakes were not corrected the
chances for the success of the Demo
cratic party were gloomy.
In token of onr interest and appre-
| gress tn speuk, to vote
to use his Influence in fa vor of pr 'lec
tion. It is a pleasing fact that he is
. well equipped for this work, and the
| free traders will find no abler asd more
determined opponent. His election
places Georgia fairly upon the projec
tion platform, and signalizes
tlio growth of this .sentiment
under Intelligent discussion. We can
point to the fact with some degree of
pride. The TiLsoasrn inaugurated
the active discussion of this topic three
years since. It hoe seen other papers
in Georgia drop into line behind it,
and it can now congratulate the Legis
lature of Georgia on the selection of
one of it* able and distinguished advo
cates by a large vote.
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bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, ter,a
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and aft skin eruption! and positive
ly cares piles or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 11 cent! per box.
For sale by Lamar Rankiu Jt Lamar.
States that comprised the -rebellions
federacy had by the census of
1SSS seven and e half mUUoa whites end
5,1.0,000 colored population. Tb. colored pop
ulation, almost to a man, desire to support the
Republican party, but by e system of cruel
Intimidation and hy vieleneo eud murder,
whenever violence end murder era thought
necessary, they are ehaolntely deprived of all
political power. If outrage stopped there, It
would bo bad enough, but It dees not stop
there, (or the negro population Is not only
disfranchised but tho power which rightfully
ail 4 constitutionally belongs to them la trans
ferred to the white population, enabling the
white people of the Sonth to exert an elec’oral
influence far beyond that exerted by the seme
numbs.- of white people In the North.
What a ohange ia here, my country*
men t
The defender of July has become the
accuser of November t The a weet sum
mer philanthropy has changed color
and become autumnal misanthropy.
The glory of smmmer has departed.
The desolation of the fail has come.
We cannot quote the philosophy and
wisdom of any great Maine philoso
pher, but wo will at least drag in a
philosopher from Mr. Blaine's section
to throw light upom the terrible change
that has come over th* spirit of the
great Magnetic’s dream. Mr. Emerson
Bays, in effect, that before you .accept
the opinions of a man, first determine
why he is on that side. If we examine
Mr. Blaine's language of July and Hr.
Bloins’e language of November with
the candle borrowed from Mr. Emerson,
there can remain no mystery in the
mighty ehaage wrought in four fleeting
months.
tn July Mr. Blaine was expectant.
He desired the support of the South,
which the hopeful and discriminating
Mr. Elkins promised him, under the
skill of fin* leadership, might be dis
rupted.
In November, with Mr. Elkins’s brief
but cemprehensive telegram in his
pocket, Mr. Blaine has ceased to hope
and is himself again.
But the defeated Republican candi
date hoe opened even wider the joints
in hie battered armor by his impudent
curses hurled southward in this the
hour ot hie humiliation. No change
has beon wrought in this section affect
ing the negro. That eminently happy
Btato of feeling said by Mr. Blaine to
be the result of Republican methods
and existing between tho North and
South, yot remains, but solidified and
sanctified. If in July it would havo
been “a great calamity to ehange the
influences under, whloh the Southern
commonwealths are learning to vindi
cate civil rights and adapting them
selves to the conditions of political
tranquillity,” it would be a greater
calamity now. The late election was
the most peaceable over held in the
Sonth, and the "public opinion of the
country regards as exceptional” still
the "occasional violent outbreaks. 1
There has occurred nothing since July
that should lead Mr. Blaine to regret
his handsome defenso of the South and
her methods bat Mr. Blaine’s defeat.
If "the course of affaire in the South
hoe crushed out the political power of
more than 0,000,000 American citi'
sene,” Mr. Blaine know it in July.
If “they aro deprived of freo suffrage,
and their righta as citizens are scorn
fully trodden under foot," it has been
going on jnst that way tor twenty years
and Mr. Blaino had the facts before
him in July, when ho said tho South
Hurd, Morrison and Watterson, and
when the donbt grew stronger Mr.
Cleveland was carried into the States
of Connecticut and New Jersey, to as
sure the people that he did not mean
to disturb their industries.
No Intelligent and fair-minded man,
looking at the figures in New York
city, can fail to admit that but for the
vote of Tammany, the organisation
insulted and spurned at Chicago, there
would be no necessity now to count
the votes. Mr, Cleveland would have
been defeated by the votes of those
organisations which were active and
prominent in seeming the blow at
Tammany, that was an indefensible and
unmitigated outrage.
Before tho 4th of November camo,the
Democratic party was cowering in fear
and abasement before the men it had
wronged and insulted. We have rea
son to know that the leador of Tam
many pocketed the insult, rallied his
followers and turned the tide of battle,
for the reason that the defeat of the
Democracy would Insure the further
oppression and suffering of the South
ern people.
We are entirely satisfied with the re
sult. We recede from no position we
have assumed, and would not now al
ter, amend, abridge or mitigate any
opinion delivered in the campaign.
We see clearly the dangers and diffi
culties to come to the party in the fu
ture horn the claims of candidates
of the various factions, the demands
of the hungry office-seekers and the
diversity of opinions «f those who
claim to have done most for Mr. Cleve
land's election.
As we do not expect to seek office or
dole out patronage to others, we are In
a position to sustain Mr. Cleveland
when some of his enthusiastic partisans
of to-day will be eager to tear him
down. We may add that if the effort
to elect Mr. Cleveland in Georgia had
been half so persistent as the one to
slander, misrepresent and destroy tho
TxLKaRAPH, it would have been shown
in his majority.
Speaki-B of Misquotation.
New York Tribune. *
We observe wltu regret that a number
of < ur contemporary ure iiu lined to put
the tongue of 1-vitv against the i be-k of
rid cule became one of iheir. fellowe baa
misquoted «ome line* of Low*ll an I at
tributed them to Whl tit-r lVjjrsb .uI Jn't
do so. Krerv mortal ir f.ite<l aooner or
later—generally Hooner-to credit a bit of
verse or prone to tbe wroua nutlior and
give it incorrectly. There is a tradition of
a newspaper man who closed an eloquent
response to tbe toast "Woman," by de
claiming with much feeling;
O worn n! in our hour* of ease,
Uacertelu. c •>. and hard to plaue.
But seen tf*o oft, f miliar with your face.
We drat endure, then p ty, then embrace
Itiss-kfe to efflr •» that if this editor is
still in tbe flo-b. be has rtfrafned from
alluding to tbe current coufonnding of
Whittl»*r with Lowell. A fellow failing
makes us wondrous kind; and Is worth
two in the buab.
A writer in CAamten* Journal in dealing
with thi« snnj^ct of an unfortunate in
dividual who tried to say: /
Woman, withoatjier, man would be a savage,
but owing to circa usances— aud more par
ticularly a commaViot under under his
control was made to say:
Woman, without her mau, would be a savage/ 1
One of tbe many amusing stories in
whieh "Prince" John Van Burcn figures
as hero turn* on a droll feat of bis of mis
quotation. Tue Prince once accepted an
invitation to address# large gathering of
Sunday*scbo3l children, and in tne course
of bis remarks undertook to entertain them
with the story of Jacob and Esau. Midway
in tbe narrative be was aware tha- bi»
coat-tails were being vigorously pulled,
and half turning bis bead to ttud
out the tmabie, he was mat
by this exhortation from the friend in his
rear I “For goodness sake, cut it abort,
John, and sit down; you*re getting tho
hair on the wrong in an " One of the last
places that one would look fur a ruisquo-
tati n of a poet woald oein an authorised
edition of a poet's works. And yet the
blue and gold edition of the poems of Oli
ver Wendell Holmes contains a misquota
tion fo which be ha« be»n at pain* to coll
attention. And in one of George W iliam
Curtis’s books the line from Hamkt—
Tbe “hart" uncalled p ay,
is misquoted
The "heart" uncalled P 1 *?-
Certainly if tbe bouts nod ftunaeUmee,
the newspapers are not to be expected ab
solutely to refrain from thac exercise.
Whether or not a kna vledge of the fact
hastened tbe death of John Sru irt Mill is
not known, bat they do say that a friend
of the great philosopher cam* upon these
entries in a catalogue of a library in one
of the rural towns of England:
Mill. On Liberty.
Do. Ou tbe Floss.
This in ita way is as serioai a misquota
tion os that ascribed to a colored prmcher
of Alabama—'"And the whale said unto
Jonah.'Thou almost persasdest me to be
• Obriatlan.*" • — - - — - • •
Sueli illustrations of tbe frailties of tbe
bunteu memory might readily be multi
plied. But we nave produced enough to
abqw that boasting ia vain. Let tbe n.wa-
uaper that never made a misquotation re
joice with trembling
To Whet Base Uses.
Rockland Courier-Gasette.
"You like the paper, don't you?"
unirked the editor, as the woman in the
striped shawl paid six in oaths in advance.
“Very well,” replied the woman in the
striped shawl, guardedly; “daring the
summer I have lleed it betterthau usual.”
“Ah, indeed I” the editor happily chirped;
‘I suppose you have been interested tn
my denunciations of our depraved oppo-
in's, the opposite political party?"
“No-o,” said the woman slowly, “it wasn't
exactly that," “Then what waa it?’’ tha
editor aaked, still smiling; “let me know
what other feature of my neper isso indis
pensable to my valued lady or. I fluency.
What did you like the paper for?" “Be
cause," the women In the etrlped shawl
explained, os the pat her reoript away
where ahe never woald And it again, “he-
cause it ie so atrong. and so nice to amaeh
flies with." And the editor's stony stare
woe equal to these in Banker Hill mona
ment.
—St. John has bis revenge that Dr.
Pierre Uilhert, ■>( Havre, expresses the
professional • ilnlnn thatoholere ie almost
•are to be fatal to persona addicted to
•trong drink.
—Plon-Plon’e boy Viotor is now liv
ing a quiet, deeurous life In Peris, prepar
ing to ran for acme minor office under the
Rrpnbllo end fahv onnvmrwd that the Bo
naparte boom Is forever ‘ butted."
The Farm, Field and Stockman, of Chi
cago, ia the leading agricultural patter of
the country. The pnMiaher is spending
more labor and money than ever before
to hold the distinction the paper boa en
joyed for the poet eight years, of the larg
est circulation among tbe best people.
Wblleltteagrlcultur.lin name yet it has
a large amount of apeoe in each issue for
home and literary enterteinmen’. One ol
the moat fascinating stories ever written
Is now ranning In its columns. Read
their advertisement In this iuue.
The Election ot Senator.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown was elected
to succeed himself by the Legislature
on Tuesday. Every Senatorial vote
was cast tor him. In the House two
votes were given to General Toombs
aud twenty-five members did not vote.
The twenty-five votes cannot represent
the strength of the free traders in the
House, tor we know ttyit Dr. Folton’e
views on the tariff coincide With those
of Senator Brown and this journal.
Borne of the voters will receive their
compensation in lemonade and other
delicacies at Concordia Hall to-night.
Others, no doubt, expect to receive
theirs when the dividing-out of the
plunder captured in (he Presidential
campaign takes place.
By this election Georgia is committed
by her representatives to the national
policy ot protection. It has been the
dominant, controlling issue since the
assembling of' Congress in December
lost. No matter what other reason
may have influenced representa
tives to support Governor Brown,
they have returned -to the Bonate one
who occupies the exact position
held by the TsLcauarn in relation to
internal revenue and tlio tariff. While
wo are responsible to nobody far tho
The Oreat Exposition Inaugurate* Theri
The approaching Inauguration of the
ipoeltfou of the World’s Industiy at
New Orleans, La„ at noon on tbflelOin of
December, reminds us of tbe EXtronrdl-
na-y Grand 8em1-annual (the 187th) Draw
ing of tbe Lou tiena State Littery et the
eame hour when $622,000 will be dlatrlbu-
tod among the fortunate investors in sums
from $150,000 «o $50. Full particulars can
he had on application to M. A. Dauphin*
Ne*r Orleans, La.
I hara a poslttn »a»ly t* Ua tttr»
EMthoaaaniUofeaMaortha want kla* And or (onr
tSfftlhflr wVifi a Va LOA EI^TRaATiaM on thU