The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-07-14
Political Notes.

Political Notes.
Temperance parties are forming in most of
the States.
Senator Sprague improves. He now denoun-
ces Congress as band of usurpers.
Bullock's Endorsement by the Georgia Legis-
lature is like man indorsing his own note.
Tennessee has reduced its poll tax from ST. %
to so cents, and appropriated it all to the
schools
Governor Marshall, of Minnesota, refuses to
be candidate for Congress under any clrcum-
stances.
H. B. Smith has been Chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Conventions of Vermont TOR nine
successive years.
Ben Butler is slow to forget his war expert
fences hence he fears that in conflict With
Spain we should be badly punished.
disgusted with the Radical party every day, and
now threatens to leave altogether.
Judge Bingham, standing between another
Congressional term and mission to Italy, is
afraid to place his chances upon either.
There are indications of the organization OF
three Radical factions in Louisiana. Thus the
political atmosphere is purifying itself
The New England "Crispins" are all going
over to the Democrats, although they admit
that the Radical party is Celestial" one.
1t turns out that the riot among the negroes
at Tuskegee, Ala, was instigated by two white
carpet-baggers for political purposes.
4 Radical journal well says that Butler is
proud Of getting himself into political scrapes
that all other men would be heartily ashamed
Of
The working-men of Florida held conyen-
ton July 4, for the purpose of organizing a
party and presenting ticket for State officers.
The Democracy of Missouri will nominate
no ticket this fall, but preserve policy OF
"passive resistance"
It is now asserted that the colored youth, Jas.
w. Smith, from South Carolina, has passed an
examination ahead of forty-seven white youths,
and is an accepted West Point cadet.
A man in Decatur, Ala, advertises for an in
telligent and respectable woman to become
candidate for Congress in the Sixth District OF
Alabama.
Hon. Chas. III. Eastman, of Concord, n. H.,
now member of the Nevada Senate, is can
didate for the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor of Nevada.
The Nashville Herald declares that the Con-
seryativcs of Tennessee are earnestly and
wholly opposed to the repudiation of any por-
tion of the debt of the State.
The country is impatiently awaiting the pro-
duction of that hotel register with which But
Ter promised to cause Farnsworth to sink into
his boots with shame.
A bitter canvass is going on for Radical
Governor of Missouri. 3. Gratz Brown, Gov
crnor McClurg, and Messrs. Stanard, Benjamin
and Van Horn are among the contestants.
A Texas paper asserts that the bittcrest Rad
ical in the Legislature of that State is an ex-
Confederate General, who went to Brazil at the
close of the war because he could not live UNI
der the hated Government Of the Yankees.
Leading Republican Congressman admit that
the Democracy will have one hundred members
to the next Congress, and many of them con-
cede the probability of majority of Demo-
Gratis in the House.
The citizens of Blue Earth County, Minn.,
have begun the woman suffrage experiment in
earnest. AT political convention the other
| day it was voted to allow women to take part
in the nominating conventions.
The people of South Carolina have grown
hopeful since it has been found by an exami-
nation of the pay-rolls of the State Legislature
that every member could sign his name, and
was not obliged to make his 'mark."
The Congressional majority is said to be ma
king preparations to resist the admission OF
Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, as successor
to Senator McCreery, of that State, on account
of his "rebelious principles"
Florida has two independent candidates for
Congress State Senator w. II. Kendrick and
Lemuel Wilson. The former has been Dem
ocrat, but announces that he will not be pledged
to the support of any political party.
The Constitutional amendment striking the
word "white" from the Constitution OF Con-
necticut, which passed the House, now goes to
the next Legislature for two-thirds vote, and,
if adopted, goes before the people for ratifica-
ton or rejection.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks it almost
certain that of the five Ohio Democratic Con-
gressmen, General Morgan, Judge Dickinson,
Judge Van Trump and MIR. Strader will be re-
nominated. Mr. Mungen has several anxious
competitors fer the nomination In the Fifth
District.
Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania, who
is about so years old, visited Washington re-
Gently He was welcomed by many members
of Congress, and regarded as curiosity, in
view of the fact that he was elected to the
House of Representatives fifty years ago, and
served successive terms He is the only living
Congressman of half century ago.
viii some constitutional expounder be kind
enough to inform us where Congress derives the
power to say what kind of rails private rail-
road company shall lay down, and where it
shall put them? We shall probably soon hear
of bill compelling the people to wear nothing
but New England fabrics, use only Connecticut
hams and nutmegs, and warm themselves only
by Pennsylvania coal.
- An Indiana man recently wrote a letter to