The Portland daily press., 1870-08-11
Political NO,ee.

A LETTER from Greenville, Tennessee, says
that A. II. Pettibone will be the Republican
candidate for Congress, and Andrew johnson
will yet be the candidate of the Democrats,
though Jim White now has the inside track.
The Anson Adrocate, speaking of the
Democratic State Convention, says: "All
plans to bring out compromise candidate
for Governor have failed, as we supposed they
would. But few discontented spirits in the
party are still unsatsfied and will possibly at
tempt some other silly thing"
THE Republicans of the Second Tennessee
District, according to the Knoxville Chroni-
Gle, viii nominate Hon. Horace Maynard for
Representative in Forty-seeond Congress.
A MEETING of the Pennsylvania State
Convention is called for August 1o at Altoona
to organize the party for the Fall campaign.
THREE States will be largely affected in the
Fall campaign by the negro vote. Delaware,
it is calculated, will be turned over to the Re-
publicans, several Congressional districts in
Maryland may be reversed, and the New Jer-
sey Republican vote will be augmented by
5O,OOO
THE Republicans of Louisiana nominate a
candidate for State. Treasarer, in New Or.
leans, on Monday. Congressional candidates,
except fer the Fifth District, will be named at
the same Convention. i
BALTIMORE is said to - "large and
respectable colored Democg - ganization." !"
This is probably one of esults of the
residence of "Mr. Nasby" ia M3ryland.
JUDGE D. P. LOWE, of Bourbon County,
Kansas, is the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Fort Scott District
The Forty-second Congress will pl obably
contain two colored Representatives. In the
Fourth North Carolina, and Fourth South
Carolina districts, two colored men have been
nominated, James Harris and r. B. Elliott,
both of whom stand a fair chance of being
elected.
Hon. S. S. MARSHALL, Democratic Repre-
sentative from the Thirteenth Illinois Con-
gressional District, will not be a candidate for
denomination. He entered Congress in 1854
ONE wing Of the Democratic party in New
New York city have made brilliant move
ment. This latest development of Democratic
Slial>5J 10 PoiduIi5 Tue olT6clS IHG
carcass of the murderer Real for political pur-
poses. This demoralizing exhibition is as
cribed to the thieves, assassins and despera-
does OF the city, but it shows how important
an element these are in the Democratic party
of New York city.
AN exchange says the only Democratic
speech made in Dublin, Ind, in twenty years,
was delivered there recently by Judge Good
ing.
- The Alabama Democratic State Conven-
ION meets at Montgomery Sept 1, and the
Republican at Selma Aug. 80. The latter
sesminate State ticket and one Congress
man, or more, if the new apportionment per-
init it.
AMONG thecanddates for Judge of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio, Hon. Milton L. Clarke.
of Chlicothe, is mentioned.
THE Republicans OF the Fifth Congression-
al District have adopted novel mode of nom-
mating candidate. They decided not to cal
convention, but, instead thereof, they ap-
pointed primary party election on Sept. s,
in which the Republicans of the district shall
nominate candidate by ballot-a plurality
deciding. "The action of the Committee. y
says the Chicago Post, "is severely denounced,
and it is said that a convention will be called
whether by the friends of Gen. Henderson
or Mr.. Ingersoll, we are not informed.'
DEMOCRATIC editor in Quincy, LII in
repelling the insinuation that he is candi-
date for nomination to Congress, admits
frankly that neither by The gifts of nature or
cultivation is he qualified, and he does not see
why he should follow the example of those
whose vanity and presumption lead them,
with no better qualification than his, to thrust
themselves forward into positions in which he
could only succeed in maksng an ass of him
sell. Somebody must have been hit bv this
modest man.
Official returns give the Democrats in the
recent election in Kentucky a majority of
about $4,000.