Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-22
TX. Gov. Carney seems Ii


- tx. Gov. Carney seems likely TO receive
the Republican nomination for Governor of
Kansas. Gov. Crawford Is becoming formid.
able competitor OF Sidney Clark for Congress
j. :. kalloch. and Judge Thatcher are also in
the field, and have many friends
The new Georgia Senator is named Homer
Virgil Milton Muller
The following have been engaged TO speak
in Michigan for Grant and Colfax during the
present campaign: Hon. Z. NJ. Stanton; Gen
Wade, of Ohio; Senator Cress~elI, of Mary.
land, Senator Harlan. OF Iowa.
- The action OF Hon. VIM. Il. Allison, Ire
publican,) Of Iowa. In regard to the whisky
tax. has displeased the Dubuque distillers, and
they have put mp one J. K. Graves as an indie.
pendent epublican candidate to compass Mr..
AlliSon's defeat.
In the Ninth Ohio Congressional District
there is a division in the Democratic ranks
The New York Sun says: "a month ago bet.
ting on the Presidential election was two to
one in favor of Grant. This was the rate of
John Morrissey's famous bets, which, through
misunderstanding. have given such umbrage
IN the Fourth Congressional District, and
drawn. Since then Seymour stock has risen 10
the sporting world, and bets are now made at
one hundred on Grant TO eighty on Seymour.
Many Seymour men among the betting frater.
nifty think that before election Seymour will
have risen 10 par, so that then IL will not be
possible 20 get any but even BETS
The Democrats are making quiet but ex.
ceedingly thorough canvass in Pennsylvania
I he Republicans are beginning 70 work in
earnest, also, and claim that the northern tier
OF counties of Susquehanna, Bradford, Tioga,
Mexican, Potter, Warren, and others will give
increased Republican ma orities. Lycomng
is counted for Grant in November. The Re-
publIcans in Lancaster county will elect in
October two members Of Congress, one TO fill
the unexpired term Of the late Thaddeus Ste
vens, anc a Representative TO the Forty first
Congress.
Hon Demas Barnes has addressed his con-
stItuents in the I'd district Of New York. de-.
clining 70 be a candidate tor reelection to
Con gress.
Mr.. Gravely, who failed to get renomina.
ted to Congress in Missouri by the Republicans,
Is "kicking up u muss' in his district, and
threatens to defeat the Republican nominee.
-Greeley figures out Republican victory
in New Jersey. He says: ave shall carry
both Newark City and County (MIddlesex) for
ter three IN one against rs last Fail. The high
est Republican vote ever polled in the State
gov. Wards in 65l was 67,525: the highest
Democratic vote (McClellan's in 6i) was
6s,02i. We shall now poll 75,tOO votes for
Grant"
Hon. w. b. Jones. elector for Grant, in
the Fourth Congressional district Of Alabama,
declines 10 serve, and will take the stump for
Seymour and Blair.
The Hon John MorrIssey says that he
certainly shall have the Democratic nominal
uon for Congress in the Fourth District. His
pluck is good, and hitherto his luck has been
good also.
The New York Herald, which had held to
Seymour for nearly a week argues that only
two States can be positively counted for Grant
1. e., Massachusetts and Maine. II thinks 1t
probable, however, that Grant will carry seven
other States in the list-Rhode Island, Ver-
mont. kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan,
and Wisconsin. The Herald says "New Hamp-
shire is not by any means a certainty for Grant
while Indiana and Illinois. in the absence of
slavery and the broad war Issue, are Demo-
cratic States, and will in all likelihood indi-
cate well defined sympathy with the reac.
tionary movements against the party they have
acted with for the last two Presidential
elections. No man has any right TO count
West Virginia for any party. 1t has no re-
corded prediction. II has only voted in one
Presidency, and then il decided for the war,
and for the simple reason that its right TO de-
eide at all, even Its existence as State, would
AT that time have been denied by the other
party Ohio is somewhat in the same position.
as Indiana and Illinois. IL was Democratic
State in the old days; but went with the Re-
publicans on new ISSUES" This is the Herald
point OF view for this week
In the course OF Mr.. Pendleton's speech at
the Democratic meeting at Bangor, Me-, he re-
marked that il was chiefly owing TO the indom-
nable frmness OF Maine Senator that the
President was not deposed from ONCE, and
Radical leader put IN his place. at this point
he report says: General Roberts proposed
Ihree cheers fOr t0e HON. Wllllaln fltt esseu.
den, the Senator alluded to, and these wsRe
gwen with the greatest enthusias m, the audi
tnce rising"
The Boston correspondent OF the Chicago
Tribune says the opposition to Gen. Butler In
his district is very bitter ''on the ground OF his
Reputation theories, but it lacks the two i'm
portant elements Of courage and cohesion, and
against Mr.. Buffers aggressiveness and pluck
will make very little headway. The Boston
Daily Advertiser has declared that his course in
regard to the bonds has put bar sinister IN
his political record which ought TO disqualify
him tor receiving the Republican nomination;
but that paper does not enter with much
communion, and the Republicans Of his dis.
trict TOO timid and too conscious Of his great
powers Of remembering an injury and Of
making his hatred felt, TO do their part vigor-
ously."