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Show Gkass is getting short. There is 'a b:g excitement in republican circles. Tho Cincinnati hotel keepers, well aware of tho fact that the national republican convention of next June will be tho t funeral of that party, and furnish them the last chance to fleece-its fleece-its statcsmcn.oJhcc holders and office-seekers, office-seekers, havo already combined to advance ad-vance tho price of accommodations from two hundred to three hundred per cent, and reply to all inquiries that their rooms arc all engaged for the week of the convention. The attempt of the publicans to make a fortune out of 'a corpse has arrouscd republican indignation, in-dignation, and the national committee commit-tee ia begged to cut of Cincinnati and hold the convention at Chicago, whose hotel keepers are all honest, conscientious conscien-tious republican, while Cincinnati's hostelries aro kept by domocrats and rebels who would delight in nothing so much as fleecing the republican party. At the last accounts there were hopes of making the change. |