Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1878 — WAR TO THE KNIFE. [ARTICLE]

WAR TO THE KNIFE.

, :o: Hayesluixd the Conspirators. [Boston Post.] The recent action of the republican members f congress, in cauc is. is an attempt at b ill-dozing, and will soon show the country the true mettle of the president. All past talk about his southern policy confessedly goes for nothing. The resolutfons contained no .-illusion to lire subject. The cotnplaint’was, simply <iud solely, that the president’s civil service order enjoins "90,010 republican officials throughout the land” from active campaign work, and thus makes certain the “restoration of tiie democratic party to power,” which “would be a great national calamity.” This is a precious confession. It allows that the dominant element of the republican parly is opposed to civil service reform, and that all pretences in that direction have be»-n a sham and delusion. It is also a public proclamation that without, tiie active aid of officeholders the party can not be maintained. It places the president in the awkward position of being required to falsify ips own professions, or of disobeying tiie decree of his party. If he does eiiher he has a hard road before him. To go back on his avowed professions and rescind his own orders will result in a forfeiture of public confidence. To disregard the mandate of these congressional dictators will result in open war and leave the executive without the semblance of a party. The issue is so direct that it can no longer be avoided. The resolutions of Sargent were referred to a large special committee “with power to [ eoiiter with the president on the sub- ' ject.” It was not enough to leave the , mutter open to the ordinary methods j of influencing the executive, but the I white house is to bo besieged by acon- , gressional cabal, firmed witli swords ■ and staves, to con pel a surrender or ! the “eating the bitter bread of ban- , ishment.” Thus lit) representatives and more than 25 senators have decreed. But neither Blaine or Conk- ' ling were among them. The reason wiiy it is not difficult.to guess. Fortunately the president is not a e.mdidale f»r a second term. If he h is an honest purpose to carry out wiiat he has repeatedly avowed to be needed reform, he lias but to maintain bis position in a patriotic and manly way. This attempt at duress, and to place him under party keepers, is not creditable to its authors ami ought not to succeed. Business in Chi ago last ween seems to have been confined to bankrupt cases. Fifty-one bankruptcies were tiled durimr that time, on Saturday twentyone being begun. Sherman is getting his work in rapidly. The poorest girls in the world, the Worn m’s Journal, are those who have ncv<-r been taught to work. That poverty is not purely feminine.

A young sprig of the law of this place, who was evidently outside of his calling, “sat” a bantam hen on 15 Buff Cochin eggs about four weeks ago, and although his bantam has become bow-legged and badly stretched from her efforts to do her whole duty, he is sorely puzzled to know why the blarsted things don’t hatch, He is the same fellow who last season sowed radish seed whien developed into a fine bed of “touch-me-nots!”