Political Clippings

Tho way in which thoy construct platforms in Ohio reminds the New York World of the method in whioh tho oíd negro put on his tight coat. First you squoeze ono arm into it and then the other ; and thon you "try to stand on your hoad and hab a general coiiwulaion." A census of tho voting population of Baltirnoro has just beeu oompleted. It shows a falling off, as compared with 1876, of 3,117 votes. The decrease is aecounted for by the tact that many persons withhold thoir naiuoa from the pólice, fearing the census was being taken for tho purpose of drafting into military service. It is the President's own State, a United States Senator is to be chosen, and the Kepublican party in general is to bo more or less affected by the result, wherefore the press everywhere watches closely and comments freely. It is apparent that after this no report whatever can do Stanley Matthews injustice. There has not been such an astounding collapse in many a year as in this mau's roputation. - Hartford Courant. Colonel Halliday, who was nominated by the Demócrata of Virginia for Governor of the State, stands straight up and [own on -the subject now uppermoat in Virginia. In a letter written last spring ie said : " If the people of Virginia are now resolved to go back upon a ronown hitherto untarnished by the repuiation of her plighted faith, they must ;nd some other than myself to do their jidding." Holiday is evidently a 8afe man for the people of the State to in;rust with exocutive power. Thore ia nopart of the country which tas a livelier interest than the South in ihe maintenance ef the Federal authorty acting within the limits of the Contitution ; and there are few men, we re sorry to say, now in public life at he North, who seem to have such an labórate conception of the just balnee and distribution of general and of ocal powera, which is tho true strength f our eovornment. as tho leadiiic