Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-02
POLITICAL.

Us Alexander Ii. Stephens was weigh
ed a few weeks ago, and kicked the beam
at 81 pounds ayoirdupois
Us The temperance movement is get
ting quite formidable in Pittsburgh, and
politicians are at loss to know which side
of the question to take. The temperance
men seem determined they viii not sup
port any man who cannot show good re-
cord, and it may be that both parties will
make better selection of candidates than
has been for several years past.
gY Mysterious hints are given out in
Massachusetts, that the Liquor Dealers
Association has ramifcations throughout
the Commonwealth, with membership
as secret, if not as numerous, as the Know
Nothing Lodges of olden time, and that
people will wake up surprised on the
morning after election, to find how ex-
tensively they have welded their power.
CB~ The Republican State ticket in Iowa
is thus divided according to denomination
al creed: For Governor, Merrill, CoDgre-
gational; for Lieut. Governor, Scott Pres
byterian for Supreme Judge, Beck, Bap-
tist for Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, Wells, Methodist; for Attorney Gen
eral, O'Connor, Congregational All are
church members and strict temperance
men.
GB "Rev" c. Chauncey Burr apollo
gized in a late speech to his southern
friends, because he was born in Yankee
land. We are reminded of the bashful
young man who escorted an equally BASH
full young lady AS they approached the
dwelling of the damsel, she said entreat-
ingly, "Jehiel don't tell anybody you
beaud me home" "Sary," said he, don't
you mind. Pm as much ashamed Of it as
you are" @Htb
Wy The Princeton Qll.) Bureau County
Patrsot, Democratic paper, says: We
are pleased to notice that the New York
Egp,'ess comes out with powerful article,
to the effect that no man can be Demo
crat and go for negro suffrage. Good
that hits the nail on the head. This
squirting toward negro equality by certain
Democratic sheets, must be put down at
once ana loTeVef. ~
Us" It is, noticed asa remarkable feature
of the! recent commencement at Harvard
College that the, degree of IL, D. was NOT
conferred upon President johnson. Al
though Presidents have heretofore been
regarded as certain Of that Literary distinc-,
ton, we believe that no Northern College
of any repnte has yet. dared to offer it TO
him This is an honor which is undoubt-
eddy reserved for Washington College over
which the rebel Gen. Leeptesides : = = =
GaB The Impartial Suffrage Convention
at Trenton, N. j., Tuesday, July 90, was
an event which brings the Republican par
ty in that State into full sympathy and ae-
tive cooperation with the party of the
country. This was all the more important
and necessary because, since 1865, when
the last regular Republican Convention
was held in New Jersey, the issue of inn
partial suffrage has been both developed
and accepted in the party elsewhere and
another Republican State Convention will
not be hello until next year. 1t was the
lack of such formal acceptance in New
Jersey that furnished some of the Repub-
lican members of the last Legislature an
excuse for opposing, and thereby defeat.
ing, measures for impartial suffrage in that
State last winter.
gsg' The Gubernatorial offices of New
Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Iilinoia
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
and Kansas {thirteen States) are occupied
by men whose fame date from their milF
tary service. To these may be added the
late Governor Wawley) of Connecticut
and the Lieutenant Governors Of New
York, Maryland, Michigan, &c, and q
multitude of minor State ctices in all the
State. The soldiers have furnished to the
Senate Messrs. Ferry, of Connecticut
Ross, of Kansas, and Thayer of Nebraska.
and to the present House more than thirty
members, including such names as Buck.
land, Cake, Cobb, CoburD, Dodge, Car
field, Harding, Hays, Paine, Pile, Raunnl,
Shanks, and Washburn (of Indana), not
to mention Banks, Butler, Farnsworth,,
Logan, Schenck, and Washburn (of wis,
cOnsin), Of political prominence before the