Political Clippings

It is nowpretty well settled that Republican ofKce-holdera rob the regular soldiers with as little ruth as thoy rob reservation Indiana. It also appears that the big office-hol dors rob the lasser ones. - Harrialiurg PutTOÜ (Uem.) Let tho investigation go on, ly all mi-iwia, and let thn very " bottotn faets " be turned up to the light, but let ns not judgtt uu til we get facto. When pooplo get to suspecting that everybody is dishonust and everything rotten, thoy are not in a mood to tnake just dis crimination and fair judgnients. - Boston Glolie. (Iiul.) But let us take warning, and gire it to our children. Whenever vanity and gayaty, Iots of pomp and dres, furniture, equipage, buildings, great oompany, expeasive divergiona and elegant entertainment get the better of the principies and judginents of men and women, thore is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral or political, they wili lead us. - John Adam. Grant's avowed reasou for desiring a secoud term was, that hu should be vindicatod. Now, indeed, does he require vindication. - Pittsburg Post (Bern. It is a pity that it took a body of learned men so long to discover what everybody else knew - that Pinchback was never elected, and that if he had been his place was in prison and not in the Senate of the United States - Inquirer Philaddphia {liep.) The crisis came when an ignoraut soldier, ooarse in his tastest and bluut in his peroeptions, found of money and material enjoynient and of low oompany, was put in the Presiden til chair. We blame nobody for this, and nobody was blamable. The party did the best it could under the oircuinstauces, but his real character as a ciyilian begaa to appear very early in his administration. It was fully revealed when hereceived his second nomination, and the day he receivod it the Repuhlican party assumed the responsibility for lam and his followers, which ïi to-day covering it with infainy. - Tlie Nation (7oi.) It' the Repúblicas party can manage to elect its President this year on the issues of the abulition war of 1860-65, it will be a great inducement for it to bring about another war of somt kind before 1880 to arouse popular enthusiaim. - Salt Iake Herald (Ind.) Robeson says that McCulloch, exSecretary of the Treasury, is " ono of the meanest of Grant's man eueinies." It is doubtful if all the man enemies the President ever had hav damaged his oharacter and administration as badly as some of his mean friends - like Robeon, Belknap, Babcock, and Schenck, for instance. - Chicago Timas (f ad.) The best evidence of the rottennoss of the whnle Schenck business is found in the facts that the Administrateon has steadily refused to make any uxplanation concerning it. - St. Jxuü JiepMtcan. How much worse is Belknap, who allowed his wife to sell a post-sutlership, thim Grant who encouraged his brother to sell half a dozen Indian traderships f If the one is iinpeached, why should not the other be P Possibly this reflection has induced the President to niodify his rirst harsh judgment upon Belknap's offences. - Ghiaigo Times (Ind.) The 1 ast reoorded utterance of Colonel Fred. Grant, before he left for the Black Huls, was : " Father hoped they would sift and sift everybody about him, and then they would tind out just how things stood." It uiay happen in the natural course of events, that it muy become positivcly necessary to sift "father" in order to "find out how thing stands."- Isouüoüle Courier-Jouriial (Dem.) There is but one thing to be done with a troe which bears such fruit as Credit Mobiliers, salary-grabs, whisky-rings, army-rings, navy-riugs, Boss Shepherds, Babcocks, Williamses, Creswells, Robesons, Belknaps. It is a clear case for laying the axe at the roots. Pruning and grafting and manuring are a sheer waste of time. - Sfiringfield liepublican (fnd.) The Cincinnatti Times speaks of " the astouishmeiit and incredulity" with which the Belkuap uews was at first received. It is this same " astonisbment and incredulity " with which the truth lias been received in his country for the past seven or eight years that hasplayed the mischief with us. If the fooi-killer were to suddenly musiur his forces and pounce upon the whole of us at this time, he could hardly be blamed. -