Abstract

Editorials

The article presents political updates of the U.S., as of May 15, 1879. U.S. That the prospects of the Republican Party have greatly improved during the past two years is a fact so patent to every close observer of the political situation as to need no formal proof. It may be questioned, however, whether many people now realize how seemingly hopeless the situation of the party was when U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes assumed the reins of government. According to another update, If people had not such very short memories in politics the newspaper accounts of the present crisis in the city government would furnish them with very entertaining reading. Ever since the foreigners began to form a large element in the city population the Democrats have had the city majority on their side; the Irish and Germans both, for reasons not necessary to examine here, never having taken to the Republicans to any great extent.