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Some Evidence That Robert Lincoln

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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t lie present tieureUry of war, has conirueaoed training tor the presidentinl race iu 1884. Thk 00W is h considerable fictor ia American wealtli. Sho eontrilmtej an1111811 t our wealtli to the extent of 8250,1)00,00. -a4ta Not much c nü lenoe can be placed in a ma i ir bo ly of mea, who are good only through fea of c lastiaement. ííxainpl-: Tiie F.ji'iy-sfi-nth conrefs. It ís a noteworthy faot that those who imagine that newspapera are not the representativas of pnblÍJ opinión find themselves sadly mistaken when an opportunity for proof arrive-i. -&+ ■ i _ It is very evident that Gov. Cleveland bef,ns to hear the buazing of the presidential bee, and will trim his flowers accordingly All we have to say to the gentleman -tliat the bee has a red hot business end to him that hud better be avoided. Those who aaaert that railroads are the bjne and sinew of the country's prosperity stiould rememb.r that whilea railroad, properly eonducted, i8 indisble to comnaerce, tliese same railroadg are detrimental when they put f,.rth an effort to own the country. The Detroit Evening News wants to know: "If Mr. Ferry's eulogists are to be baheved, he is too good a man to be left in the United States senate. He is so good that he has been of no use there, and he should be permitted to remain at home and teaoh Sunday school at Grand Haven. The New York Graphic in an article un demócrata continuing Bepublicans in office says the democratie party would be generous t.i the point of idiojy were it to coafer on its opponents a continuance of the great balance of power they have had, and hace improved to the utmost, for the past twenty-two years. Aboct this time our republican friends begin to realize how much easier it is to promise what they will do than to do what they promise. They have been promisiug a whole catalogue of good things ever since the 7th of Norember, but advices from Washington indícate that they will be very slow about the performance of those works meet for r-"i lYuiuu me country expects. As a general proposition the republican party is exemplarily repentant, but it is by no means unanimousin respect to the metes, bounds and general eharacteristics of that repen tance. Sekator Beck, in asking that an investigation be made into the Hubbell "involuntary assessment," made the startling statement that "if the investiífation shall be ordered he would make the p oof so strong of outrages inflicted upon government employés that the aasessment business woul,1 be made odious even to theother side; itwould beshown that men and women had been ousted froni their places in the departments .vhose failure to contribute was due to absolute inability, and that in som i„. stanses democratie friends had given them money to pay these assessments so that they might be saved from starvation." Pbotectionists in congress have ooma to fully understand that the present tariffis an abomination to taxpayers of the country, and so they are attempting now to hoodwink voters by assuming an atiitude fav,rable to a reduction. An attempt is also being made by these proteotionists to flght the question on partizan grounds, their own party, of course, to get the credit of favoring ref.rm. The stand which the demócrata take is to accept what measu.es they can get for the publ.c benefit from the present congress, and then to complete thegood work witli a hand-ome working majority in the next Speakino of Bepubiicans asking for the few offices at the disposal of Gov. Bogóle, the Lansing Journal says: "The 100,000 federal oiHcials are republicana, as are the hundreds of state officials. And now that the election of Gov. Begole has put a paltry dozen places at his disposal, the republicans illustrate their generosity by putting in a pitiful plea for those too. And yet it is not because the saintly republicans care for the offices. Perishthethought! It is because there are no democrats or greenbackers in the itate who are fit to hold an office. What patnotic, self-denying and maguanimous fellows the republicans are, to be sure! With cheeks protruding with goodies, they would not run any risk of choking by whinning for the falling crumb. Oh, no! The cruel rule that consigns the good to an early gravéis all that stands between the republicans and longevity."

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Ann Arbor Democrat