Show HIS EYE ON THE MAIN CHANGE the electoral fraud of 1876 has paid its chief accessory well enough mr ijames i known to be at present engaged in having his residence at fremont ohio enlarged and thor hughly re fitted preparatory to hia leaving the white house which he aas been allowed to occupy for four years thanks to the disreputable machinations of john sherman et a and to the forbearance of uncle y who would rather suffer a wrong in peace than attempt to right it by var close financiers have kept an eye on mr accounts and have come to the conclusion that between his usurped income of per annum and the stingy niggardliness of his household he must leave managed io scrape up a net balance of from to money hoarding seems to have been from the very start the absorbing thought of the fraudulent president his personal meanness is as well known at the capital as the personal hypocrisy which is one of the distinguishing features of the intruder how mr hayes has mans aged to save about 85 per cent of his salary or an equivalent amount amidst all the expensive high life dissipations of the gay potomac capital may bo surmised from the following facts which the su picks out among many as very illustrative iiames entered office in the last quarter of the fiscal year of 1876 77 for which six thousand dollars bad been granted to his predecessor to cover contingent expenses one of his first acts was t ask through his secretary rogers for a larger dea stancy than the whole eum allowed for the year without giving an aam to I the request and it was not until john sherman bad patched up a false estimate that a scandal was prevented which must have involved both orant and hayes but particularly the latter in an attempt to grab money to which he was not entitled SENATOR EDMUNDS of vermont who enjoys the best reputation of all republican politicians and statesmen is thus appealed to by the now york sun mr george F edmunds united states senator from vermont holds is his possession today to day n peculiar and tremendous power he is perhaps tha only one man in the republican party who by a simple declaration cl of his sentiments could render a third term an impossibility mr edmunds is not a mere politician he rises lo 10 the dignity of a statesman he is supposed to have a conscience we believe ho has a conscience and if he has a conscience considering his uncommon intelligence he must be conscientiously opposed to a term of the presidency for any man he knows of course he must know that it is a step towards imperialism and he must know what an unbounded curse be to this country now why should not mr edmunds come out and denounce the third term project at once and save the country from a great possible danger after such a letter wo believe grants nomination at chicago would be abandoned because the schemers who are promoting his nomina tion would lose their confidence in his election will mr edmunds perform this high duty to hi country WHATEVER ELSE may be doubtful about the intention of the authors of our tariff laws they undoubtedly meant to place on the free list all materials used in the manufacture of paper it happened that pulp of wood which is by far abo most important element in the manufacture of paper used by the daily and weekly press of the country was not specifically and by name exempted from duty under a treasury decision which held that this verbal omission ws fatal to the free admission of wood pulp a few manufacturers of that article havo boon able to impose an exorbitant tax on the general body of paper makers by whom it is of conrao shifted on the consumers tho newspaper publishers of the country and the burden falls with special hardship on publishers out tide of the great cities we consequently quent ly being impoverished BO that handful of monopolists may grow rich abo powerful champion of these is representative garfield were his opposition to taft bill withdrawn tho restoration of wood pulp to the free at where it would le accomplished in a fow days while hia continues the monopolist art can mr garfield to continue his of a most and oppressive lax which brings in no rev yuo o tho government but which very decidedly with aba off kf among the people y |