The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-01
Political.

Republican papers IN Illinois rebuke the
letbargy in the party i'll regard to the coming
constitutional convention, and aver that Demo-
Gratis are secretly moving to overreach them in
shaping the fundamental laws of the State.
Colonel Gillaspy. the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Iowa, begins stumping tour
of that State tomorrow, Sept. |. He has twenty
five appointments. Senator Hendricks and Re-
preventative Voorhees, will join him at convent
ent places
in the November election there will be l25,OOO
registered voters, of whom 81, 900 will be whites.
OF this number 1000 will be polled and di-
vided between the candidates for Governor as
follOws;-Hamilton conservative, 10, ,0O0; Davis,
radical, 25000
For the seat in the Senate of Mr.. McCreery,
of Kentucky, whose term expires in 1871, there
are the following candidates so far:-Senator
McCreery, Governor John w. Stevenson, eX-
Senator Jesse d. Bright formerly of Indiana
General William Preston, formerly Minister to
Spain; John D. Carlisle, Esq, and Judge George
Robertson The two first appear to have the
best chance.
BY despatch from San Francisco we learn
that the political campaign in California is eX-
citing, the passage or defeat of the fifteenth
amendment by the next Legislature being the
great object in the contest. United States Sena-
tors Yates and Kellogg, Republicans and Hen
bricks and Thurman, Democrats, and several
members of the House, are taking part in the
! contest.
Senator Osborn, of Florida, it is understood,
! so says a Washington paper, has addressed
letter to the Secretary of War enclosing list OF
| Democratic employees at the Pensacola Navy
| Yard, and recommending their removal and the
appointment in their stead of Republicans
| Many of the persons named served in the Rebel
| army, and few of them are employed by the
War Department, which is the cause OF the letter
being addressed to General Rawlins.
The Memphis Aoalanohe pronounces def
ntely for Emerson Etheridge for Senator, and
gives as a rerson why that, If Andrew johnson
is chosen ''straightway Massachusetts will
transfer, as she has threatened, Beast Butler
from the House of Representatives to the Senate
Chamber; and the hall consecrated by the elO-
quence of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster will be-
come the theatre of the most disgracefu broils.
With Andrew johnson and Beast Butler in Con-
gTess, the public mind would be at once lashed
into fury. The people, now quiet aud anxious
to secure permanent tranquility, would soon
find themselves in n state of fermentation"
The Memphis AUdLdnche, formerly a rabid
Rebel sheet, and still ranking among the fore
most Democratic or conservative journals of
Tennessee, is evidently beginning TO compre-
hend the spirit of the age. The following SEN
sible paragraph from a recent number of that
paper is commended to the careful and prayer
ful consideration Of the World and the Express:
-'RecOgnize the negrOs right to vote; cease to
abuse and sneer at him; treat him as a human
being with soul in his body and as susceptible
of the sensibilites, the resentments and fraties
Of humanity, and he will at once emulate the
magnanimity of the whites, endeavor to rival
them in industry, enterprise and thrift, culti-
vate amity, educate his children, acquire home
stCads for his family, strive to deserve the conf
denCe of his tellOw-men, and, above all, he will
, never cast his vote to the injury of the white
man, who he has learned, by kindness, is his
: only friend