New-York tribune., 1871-10-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

in and Ohio, The Pour0h Post comes out
for Thomas A. Scott for President man to carry
Pennsylvania against Grant by al overwhelming ma
jOrity.
Gov. Randolph of New-Jersey is out in
proclamation against bribery at elections Tie New
Jersey Democrats this year appear be terribly afraid
will attempt an act so wicked and useless.
The Albany Epenin0 Times sOurly observes
"Thc most careful scrutiny Of tho rival State tickets
nominated at Rochester and Syracuse discover no
that has any special significance in the cause of
municipal REFORM except that OF Gen. FTaucs C. Bar
low, the Republican candidate for Acknowledgement"
Iowa voters who have just returned from
that State report that all attempts to bring the contest
the United States sonatorshp into the canvass In
their State pledcne the candidates for the Legsla-
were failures in almost every CasC-thc candidates for
the Legislature being nOncOmitta respecting that po-
worthy estimate made at this time rrsnectng the
chances of any candidate for the United States Senate
Some may have been thoughtlesSly surprised
at Mr. Tweeds saying his constituents: "The incst
maDle privilege OF voting should be exercised by all who
are entitled to the suffrage and all such shonld vote,
and others" To get at the exact meaning OF this
observation, It is necessary to look at 1t closely Tho
sihe determine how times at the election
It may he exercised. To donkey with conscience, 1t
ccnscience. something more hut to fW,oTn repeater
| it is, as b. 7. says simply "inesmsblel"
At the Philadelphia election, one Caroline
| Burnham, In the Fifteenth Ward, rendered her
| vote being accompanied by her attorney. Mr..
Kngoro. OF course the Judge refused to
receive the ballot upon which Miss Caroline sought the
Cont OF Common Pleas for mandamus: Judge Allison
refused this and told the lady Il she really wanted to 90
to law that her action should be brought against the
election officers. Upon this Miss r. and Mr.. X. dropped
person might have predicted. Now, If anybody will tell
us what the good is of going through this sort Of non
sense, we shall be much obliged to them.
The Gloucester (Va.) Herald raises great
fpc hat ia
| longer q single specimen Of the "potcal vultures
called "carpetbaggers in that county. II says: "FOr
time these dainty birds did a good deal Of lutterinG
screaming and tried hard to get coat Of tar added
good to crafty t6em refused them the boon t%a Of
Good for the Gloucester people Now seems they
are afflicted by another sort called and known seal
bigS Gamers 70 get into notorety troHgh the columns of
this Journal" What an uucOmmonly sensible Heaid|
LOCAL.
The Custom House party elected delegates
last evening to the County, Senatorial and Assembly
Nominating Conventions.
About 1000 German real estate owners
formed themselves last evening into an AniIamnmny
Association with ]. RiDGolmaD as President and r.
At a meeting held Tuesday evening by the
Executive Board Of the Council Of Political Reform Of
the XVIIth Ward the following resolution was offered
by George s. McWatters and unanimously adopted:
Resolved That Of this Bosr pledge Themselves ndydu'
S nS SGC no secure ea on an S honest @ and that hs request
The 5 6s s t4 So Dc e the sss: @ % sP ss days
It that the @ example M set by the above
Of the other anti-Tammany organizations.
STATE NOMINATIONS.
Wilbur F. Porter is the Democratic Candi-
date Senator from the XVIIth Jefferson and Lewis
District
The Democratic Convention of the WITH Ju-.
dicia District at Saratoga yesterday nominated Samuc
W. Jackson of Schenectady for Justice Of the Supreme
Court
The following are Republican nominations
to the Assembly addition to those before reported
Mddison-Ist District, John W. Lppitt. Orange-lld
District, Frank e. Abbott. QneeHS-lst District, 4.
Bradford Prince. UlSter-Ist District, Robert LOugran
Ex-Sheriff OBren was nominated for Sena-
tor in the Seventh District last evening by the Reform
Democrats. In tho other districts nominations were
made In the Firth Commissioner Lewis seemed to be
he first choice, and in the Eighth, Daniel f. T1eman
tHenry Murray, and Mr.. CaGssOn we're named for the
place
The Democratic Convention of the Xllth
Senate District Rensselaer and Washington Countes)
have nominated the Hon. William A. Russell of Salem,
Washington County. Mr.. Russell was once elected In
spectOr Of State Prisons the Know Nothing ticket
On the dissolution OF that party he fell INTO the Demo
cratic ranks. He Is experienced campagncr and his
friends hope that he will give Mr. Baker some trouDe
The following are Democratic nominations
TO the Assembly in addition to those before reported
Cau,oa-Ist District Charles H. Curtis; lid District
Asa H. Baker. OlintOn-Chauncy Turner Esser-Henry
Bradley. Je1erg0n-Ist District, Alvin H. Hall. LeDLs-
man. Oneida-IId District Lewis W. shattuck. Gho-
hdTie-Peter Couchnnn. 1fO0G-Gide0n " Chase WASH
in9ton-Ist Ustrct, George A. Hall lid District Alex
ander Robertson. Ydtes-Darius A. Ogden