Wilmington journal., 1867-09-27
GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS.


| The loyal Boston Transcript disloyally
says that Butler sis getting in bad odor
with the best men of his party Such as
Sumner and Wilson, we presume.
| WHAT THE RADICAL LEADERS ADVOCATE
An exchange says the leading Radicals of
the country advocate a national debt in
creased taxation untaxed bonds for the
rich high protective tariff for New Eng
land manufacturers shinplasters for the
poor and gold for the bondholders !; negro
mongrelism at the polls and in the Jury
i box disfranchisement of foreign voters :;
military satraps, at the expense of $780,
| 900, 600 to the general government, instead
of civil State officers, paid by the States re-
spectively negro Congressman and negro
Senators negro judges and jurors pegro
Vice President trial by military commits
sions instead of civil courts the right and
power of Congress to change our present
form of government without the consent of
the people the right of Congress to abol-
ish State governments and establish a mil
itary despotism over half the old Union ;
the right of Congress to force negro equali-
ty upon all the States-regardless of the
will of the people.
POLITICAL CHANGES. The Albany Argus
of Monday, speculating upon the recent
political changes in Maine and California,
says
Three weeks from to morrow elections
will be held in the States of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa Two of these
States, Pennsylvania and Indiana, have
been quite closely contested. Last year
the Republican majority in Pennsylvania
was HIS. Should the Democrats gain
proportionately ir that State as they have
just gained III Maine, the majority against
the Radicals would be fifty thousand ! In
Ohio, at the last election, the Republican
majority was, AZ, ,6S6. and a gain equal to
that CT Maine would give the Democrats
about $4,000 majority. In Indiana, the
Republican MAJ jority was last year IA, 2Q2.
and the Democrats there can have about
35, 900 majority next month, by doing as
well as their brethren in Maine. Apply
/ ing the same rule to New York State, and
majority last year was 13, 7S9, and at the
gain in Maine, the Democrats would have
a majority of about a round 100000
SUFFRAGE IN KANSAS. suffrage
meetings are now held in all parts of Kan
sas. The question is to be submitted, and
Governor Crawford Senators Pomeroy and
Ross, Congressman Clark, Ex-Governor
Robinson, and others of note, are said to
favor the proposed extension of the fran
chise.
RADICAL ENEMIES. .--'' Local Difficulties "
and " General Apathy seem to be the two
most terrible impediments in the way of
Radical success. Local Difficulties - sent
that party to the wall in California "Gen-
eral Apathy" caused loss of thousands in
Vermont; and in Maine both these cruel
disturbers of Radical harmony nearly sent
that organization into political bankruptcy.
NEGRO AMBITION FOR OFF1CE-The New
Orleans Times referring to the approach
ing elections in Louisiana, says:
cit is undeniable that strong feeling
of c0Ste-Of eXciusiveness--is growing up in
the breasts of the colored people, and that
the tendency to ignore white men as coun
sellors and leaders-even though they be
of tho most Radical type politically-is
constantly on the increase Even at this
early day, long before an election for new
local governments can be held, there is
scarcely State OF municipal Office that can
be named for which a negro candidate has
not already been put forward, with strong
and active supporters at his back. A col
ored man, now holding Office by appoint
ment of General Sheridan, boasted on a
leading thoroughfare, in tones to be heard
by passers, that he would be the next Sher-
if elected, if it cost him fifty thousand dol
lars He is confident Of succeeding with
ont any such liberal expenditure another
is quite as confident of being the next May
or. The member of Congress from the
First District is decided upon, and SO on TO
the end of the list"
A CANDID RADICAL. Hon. John Hick-
man, who was last week nominated in Ches-
ter county for the Pennsylvania Legisla
ture, made speech in which he gave his
opinion of Harrisburg in the following
plain terms
[ would rather spend three months in the
poor-house or prison of Chester County
than in Harrisburgh. No man can go there
and come back with an unsulied reputa-
ton, and [ am not sure that it is not my
enemies rather than my friends that desire
to send me there.
CONTESTED SEAT-Joseph Powell gives
formal notice to Congressman Butler, of
the First Tennessee District, that he will
contest his seat in Congress. Powell was Il
Congressional candidate, and received for
ty-one votes against Buffers eight OF ten
thousand. On the sole ground that Butler
was rebel in the early days of the war,
his competitor claims the seat.