A Comfort For Warm Weather

The calm and complacent tone oí' tho resolutioua adopted by tho Republican Conventions held yesterday in Illinois, Indiana and Vermont cannot bo gratifying to the patiënt searcher after truth. The resolution writers who can deliberately set forth the statement that the administration of President Grant and the Republican party in Congress have redeemed their pledges and are entitled to popular confidence may show a failing raemory with reference to civil service reform, civil rights, flnance, retrenchment, economy and a few other matters of minor importanoe, but for warm weather what a comfort they are ! Only the weather is a trifle cool just now for fchem. - New Tori TriMtne, Isn't it time for the Democratie State Committee to issue a cali for a State Convention 'r1 It is not neoessary that the convention be held before the first week in September, but it is desirable that the Democraoy of the State be given to understand, through the autborized agoncy, that the party has not been old out in advance to the so-called " Keforni Party.'' Memory bas not to run back a great man y years to see the evileffects of delay, hesitation, and coquetting with the odds and ends of any or olí or no political organizations. No coininittee has the right to commit the party to a cessation of hostilities agaiust the cominon enomy of Democratie principies, or even to hold the party in check while a new one is organized. A regularly called convention of the party is the only body which can have authority to cali a halt, throw up the eponge, or throw the party into bank rnptcy, We have certainly had enough of playing second fiddle to either a sinall or a large handful of " Reformers," by whatever name called ; of dancing attendance at the doors of conventions representing no constituenoy of voters ; and of accepting platforms and candidates got up by self-constituted party organizers. The fatal experiment of 1872- when Gbeeley, the most unfit man in the whole country for a Democratie candidatoi was forced upon the party - ought to satisfy all that the Democracy cannot be tranferred bodily to a new organizationThe Democratie masses may be foolish " Bourbons," but the stubborn fact is none the less to be recognized. We then favor' the early cali of a State Convention, with doublé the representation of former conventions. With a platform protesting against the inflation of a vicious currency, and in favor of the earliest possible resumption of specie payments ; against a protective tariff in the interest of manufacturing or mining monopolist), and for duties levied solely for revenues ; against centralizing all power in Congress or at Washington, and in favor of home rule in all local affairs ; against lavish and corrupt expenditures of the peoples' money, and in favor of the strictest'economy and accountability in every department of the government, national or State ; and with tried and true men standing upon such platform, men whose bondsmen - where bail is required - will not fear to have their names known, the Democracy may invite all "Reformers" to strike hands with them, and will deserve if they do not win victory. - We commend these suggestions to ihe " mass convention" to be held at Lansing on the th of August, with a further suggostion that it move oautiously. The question is, shall Mahomet go to the ruountain or the mountaiu to Mahomet V Ik replying to some remarks of the Decatur lïepublican, expressing dissatisfaction because the State Treasurer " rofused to furnish information with reference to the State deposita as called for by one of the Houses of the Legislature," the Detroit Tribune denies that Mr. Collier made any such refusal, but " on the contrary, offered to place before the Legislature all the knowledge ooncerning the management of Miohigan's finances which they might desire to possess." Yottho ia, - rtojaia decline to make generally public, on the jround of its in vol ving serious injustice ;o individuals, a list of the banks and heir bondsmen in which the State funds were, deposited but this information waa rfaced at the service of any legislativa committee whicli might be delegated to investígate he subject." Was not that dodge a little ;oo thin ? If the Treasurer was willing ;o give to a Senate or House committee, r to a joint committee, the names of anks and bondsmen, why hesitate to ive their names in answer to a tion ? or was it expected, in that frank offer, that the committee would give pledges of secresy, so that their constituents, the public, should be none the wiser for the information they might get ? It is but the flimsiest excuse imaginable, the merest subterfuge, the clearest evidence of inanity, that suggestion of the Treasurer thatit might" be productivo of great personal in jury to ind vidual " to have it known that their names were on the bonds running from any bank of reputable standing, either to the State or its Treasurer. Neither the Treasurer nor the Tribune ever heard that it injured the general credit of an individual to have it known that he was on the bonds of a public ofiicer of good standing an repute. There is no more reason why a man whose name is on the bond of a solvent and safe bank should hesitate to have the public know that fact, than there is for his covering up the fact that ho is on the bond of the State Treasurer or some local officer ; and it is not within either our obeervation or experience that the bondsmen of officials enjoin secresy. The State Treasurer gave the public good reason to suspect tnat tne bank bonclsmeu in questiou may come under the head of " straw bail," and that there is " something rotten in Denmark." That suspicion will not be relieved by the special pleading of the Tribune. OüR Eepublican frieuds throughout the country are thoroughly dissatisfied and intensely disgusted with the " partisan" action of the Connecücut and New Hampshire Legislatures. The Republicans have had it all their owu way so long, in these as in other States, that it cuts to the raw to see Bepublican ofïïceholders give place to Democratie successors. It is a mark of total depravity, in Eepubliean estimation, that " Bepublioan county officers, judges, etc. have been decapitated," and the wailings over the terrible goings on would nearly cause tears to flow from that " bronze" statue of Franklin in the University campus, and would if the statue like, the original, wasn't considerable of a philosopher. But our Bepublican f rienda will get used to this sort o' thing after a while, and then it will come easier. Hexhy Gbinnell, some years ago fainous as the generous fitter out of au expeditiou in search of Sir John Franklin, died in New York, on the 3Oth uit., agod 75 years. Dennison and Blow have accepted the poaition of Cuinmissioners to govern the District of Columbia. Ex-Senator Cattell has declined.