Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-24
POLITICAL ITEMS.

chance of carrying the Dry Tortsgas.
The Ne'7 York Citizen Dem heads its
editorial on Gov. Seymour's nomination,
"Might be Worse"
a Cincinnati paper suggests that the Re-
publicans offer day of thanksgiving for a
happy riddance of the Blair family.
A Missouri paper calls the nomination of
Frank P. Blair on the ticket with Seymour
letting ''the tail go with the hide.
The Upton Times, the most influential
Democratic paper in the With Indiana Dis
tri ct, throws overheard Seymour and Blair
''FRoNT seats reserved for Freedmen, was
conspicuousiy displayed in handbill calling
Democratic meeting at jackson, Miss.
GENERAL RosEoRAys is in Chicago, aud
washes his hands of the Democratic Conven-
ton. So does Gen Sherman, and every
other fighting General.
Why is the Blair family like the smallpox?
Because every administration must have it
once.-[ Cincinnati Gazette. Not any for
the Grant administration,
AN exuberant Democrat boasts that his
party has stifrened up immensely of late, in
fact seems to have suddenly acquired back
bone" Yes, Greenback bone.
GOV. SEYMOUR says in his spee2a of accep.
tance he has been "caught up by the tide"
lie has, sure enough-the tide that will take
him up Salt River.
., I4cSS Ne y pases1ea~e & -.iies'n
head. and defantly exclaims, Secession is
not dead; II Is ,aora alive than ever ~
"BLAm is unpopular in the Southwest -
shout all the Democratic papers, finding him
unpopular everywhere else. The further
down you go, the morepopular is Democracy.
FRANK BLAIR says, ''the contest before US
is for the restoration of our race Old Blair
and "Gummy'' view it in that light precisely;
it's ''the restoration of our race" they all
say.
The Natchitoches (La.) Times is informed
that at meeting held at Ringgold (Bienville
PARISH on the 10Th ult., lao colored men
joined the Democratic Club. Whew! Think
of I49 colored men joining Seymour Club
in this hot weather.
The Ohio correspondent of The Times says
that Gen. Grant has only ''dogged persi $
tency'' to recommend him to public favor.
That's just what Pemberton said. eff it was
not for his dogged persistency,' said he, ''rd
have held Vicksburg till doomsday.'
The Norcich Bulletin, having read Mr..
Belmont's speech, in which he charged the
expenses of the war upon the Republicans,
says that Gen. Forrest ought to have followed
in speech charging the Fort Pillow massa-
ere upon the ''niggers'' who we're butehered.
The Hartford Times quotes the Blair shirt
story, and says: 'Keep cool gentlemen,
Seymour and Blair viii take your shirts off
for you in November, beautifully" Bridge.
port Standard thinks this friendly admoni-
ton to Republicans to watch their clothes
lines.
The Louisville Democrat says: "We re-
gret to see that there is not that cordial unity
among Democrats, that loneness of temper,
that is needed to secure success. A rivalry,
why we need not explain, exists in certain
quarters and a jealousy" Can this mean
Miles O'Reilly and Sam. Cary
The Netc- Haren Register thinks it ques-
ton of some Importance to know who U. S.
Grant is. just so. Gen. Buclner, on whom
Democrats can implicitly rely, can give the
desired information.
THE Hon. J. W. Gordon of indianapolis,
who of late years had cast his lot with the
Democracy, is unable to swallow the Seymour
Blair prescription, and says that he shall
vote for Grant and Colfax.
SOME one has recalled the pat verse in the
"New Gospel of Peaee:" "And now of the
Pahdees be was called Seymour, because he
could Saymore and name less than any other
man ivin.'
The Democrats in Washington and Sun
flower Counties, Miss, actually ran mig
ger" for the State Senate. His name is VIM.
T. Combash, and he turns out to be doser
ter from Co. X. sd U. s. Colored Infantry.
IT is confidently stated that Gen. John A.
Dix, now American Minister at Paris, is one
of the thousands of War Democrats who, in
refusing to support Seymour and Blair, viii
heartily sustain Grant and Colfax.
The New York Journal Of Commerce,
good Democratic authority, denounces the re-
pudiation platform of the New York Conven-
ton.
THE CAHINET.-Governor Randall, Sec
retary McCulloch and Secretary Seward indi-
cate to their friends that they have no in
terest in Seymour's success.
IT is stated that General John A. Dix, now
American minister at Paris, is one of the
thousands of War Democrats who in refusing
to support Seymour and Blair, will heartily
sustain Grant and Colfax.
GENERAL SHERMAN was stopped on the
street in st. Louis on Thursday by some en-
thusiastic Democrats, soon after the Seymour
nomination was received, and asked if he
would support Seymour. He replied, en-
phatiealIy, no; that be was for Grant, and
that Grant would be elected.