Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-10-02
POLITICAL ITEMS.

A TERRE Haute, Indiana Hebrew offers
standing bet Of $40, 900, three to one, that
Grant will be the next President.
FIFTY.Two persons at Des Moines, Iowa,
who have heretofore been Democrats, have
declared their intention to vote for Grant and
Cofax.
GEE. BUCHANAN, commanding the fifth
District, has declared fer Grant He has
been commended by Democrats for his Con.
seryative instincts.
HALF the voters Of Union township West
Virginia, put their names on the Grant list
on the 18th. Among them were six old Dem
ocIats.
CalFF JUsTIoE CHASE, ex-candidate for
The Presidency before the New York Conyen-
ton is announced by the GAINESVILLE Courier
to have written letter TO friend in that
place declaring for Grant and Colfax.
SuRRATr has been released on a technical
point The eniency of the court in permit.
ting him to plead pretty much as he wanted,
finding one special plea after another and
never allowing the Government the advantage
Of its own demurrers, is at least extraordi-
nary.
Gen Charles W. Roberts, of Bangor, who was
a speaker IN the Democratic interest in Pc
nobscott county, Maine, said in a recent
speech take out the churches and the
temperance societies, and there will be moth
ing left Of the Republican party
TIE Ku-Klux of Alabama have made haste
to prove 10 the world that the Governor and
Legislature are right in calling upon the
President for troops. They have Just mus
tered in force near Tuscumbia, overpowered
the officers of the law, and hung three ne
groes.
THE New York Times says il is stated that
General Hancock has written letter saying
that Seymour and Blair have not the ghost Of
a chance, and adds: 1--WE could name half a
dozen very prominent Democrats in this city
whose names would carry weight everywhere
who have openly said the same thing"
If our Copperhead friends are not satisfied
with Radical reports and speculations con
cernlng Maine, they may read what one of
their number-the Richmond Dispatch-says
on the subject. That Ia
III Maine shall shoy a gain. Larqe or
small, for the Radicals, Seymour may consid-
er haS chance for being a successor of George
Washington as small indeed
Small it is; let it be recorded.
AT one period of the war the Government
had not greenbacks enough to pay the soldiers.
and the Secretary of the Treasury offered
those Government bonds. Thay accented
the offer and took $4,000, 900 of the seven
thirty bonds. Were these "fighting boys in
blue" ''bloated bond-holders?''
NEW system The Democracy have in
vented new mode of cyphein.' They turn
the figures upside down, and run them the
wrong way. BY this ingenious mode, the
more they lose in any State, the more they
gain. Isn't it nice? Necessity is the moth
or of invention"
A PARTY of Western politicians had occa.
sion to call on President johnson last week
Their mission was to seek Government patron
age for election purposes. One of the NUN.
ber has since let out the fact that the Presi-
dent did not receive them kindly, but rather
discouraged them. He spoke dolefuly of the
prospects Of the Democratic party, saying that
he firmly believed Seymour would not carry
more than four States, in November next
"IF ANY Man Pulls DowN THE AMERICAN
FLAG SHooT HIM on THE SPoT." Such we're
the orders of distinguished Democratic
official under Mr.. Buchanan, who loved his
country more than his party. The man who
made that memorable order was Genearl
John 4. Dix, who afterwards, when in com
mand at New York, told Gov Seymour that
he had troops enough to manage his friends
and hlm too. and who is now the American
Minester to France. No one, therefore, need
be surprized to learn that General Dix de-
clares no earnestly in favor Of the election of
Grant and Colfax.
CoRRY 0'LANUs has heard all about those
Immense Rebel gains in Maine" He has
received the following letter:
SoUEDUNK, Ne.
To C. O'LASus, ESQ: The election in
the town has gone just as we expected The
Republicans have carried the town by an in
creased majority, but the heaviest proper
tionate gain has been on the Democratic side. |
as you will see by the figures:
1867. 1865. 1867 1868.
Republican so 60 Democratic IL 81
Totals.......-5l so
The Democratic gain is 100 per cent, while
the Republican gain only 20 per cent. At
this rate the redemption Of Maine is only
question of time.
Yours, HCGH B. BLoDE.