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Show G0VEHN0S BOOTH ON POLITICAL ISSUES. The livAjth receptioa at the Grand hoUl t'ueoii.er evening consisted of a serenade and a speech by Booth. He dcL-lircd hiniitlt' fur tho people's independent in-dependent party, and advocated the election of aiute- and municipal oth-cers oth-cers withu,ii r- a-rence to national pulilied. Uat.iJc Hi' tho oliitv holders and otlico seeker.-, tiuuughout the country, i:e said theio are not to-day as many extreme (.irtisana us there-are there-are inuiaLc.-i of ttic I'.inatio atyltim, and the cuii.ela ot one class are j". t about us safe ad those of tho Other. Yet we are told that in tiding tiusi I sta'o and local olhees, wo are to, have an eye 8;nle to :h making of the, next pr,v d -nt f the L" nited SLales, nt.d, thedi-tributin of ( deral patro mge ihe parceling out f .-i sly thousand federa: app iistsiitU: ll'at tlmre is 6iw inys-lenu', inys-lenu', eonnection between the soper-vi-'irs of the c: y and the collector? hip ol'.N'ew V rk; b te-.-n the Jchool director direc-tor of the e-oi.icy ar.d the minion to Frai ee. We ate instructed that in the preH'i'COuf this myalet ious, awful con-neetii con-neetii n sl- are to bnw our hnds and behold be-hold tho eitv plun lered by water ..'cllellle.. epprr-- d by RAS IT. Oliopul ies, the iii-a j.- u-'s o:r.- o d-n of thieve-. H. un?en -Jd-i on piivalo speeuUtion. harbor har-bor dues clbtt dun personal account, the slat- giiverinii nt run by a railroad company, a-..' the city government owned by a ba-.K. You must do all this I'or the "indication of asublime principle local solf-iiovvrMiiont with your eye.-shut. eye.-shut. Sensible; but we fear, fallacious tall; Just now. Tlio democracy are bound to run ilicir own machine this year and next. Very likely they will manage tu run it into tho ground, aud after that wi!! come tho deluge, or a new party. Booth is evidently not posturing for the next campaign, but rests in the idea that thore i& nothing in the democracy but their memories of the past and their hopes of the spoil.-; hi the future. Before this speech, however, the republicans had hoped to drag in the independents; but it is generally regarded thai ' Booth's position virtually gives tht ' state to the democrats. |