The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-28

weighs 22O pounds. What he means
is to be Senator in place of Mr.. Nor.
rill.
Gov. Palmer of Illinois would
make a good President. He is a
Radical Republican and a capital
Governor. Age tifty-fve, birthplace
Kentucky.
Gen. Frank Blair wants to be
President; but his tongue runs too
fast. He is kentuckian, fifty years
old last February. No chance for
him this time.
Winfield Scott Hancock is the
handsomest candidate, especially
when he is in full uniform. He is
forty-seven years old, and can be
run any time these thirty years.
Thomas \. Hendricks is devout
Episcopalian. He would make a
good President; but Pendleton' S
friends abuse him. He will be fifty
two years old next September
John I. Hoffman has declined to
be candidate, and that proves that
he is running more than ever. He
is forty-1ive years of age; good for a
short race; not a four miller.
Lyman Trumbu1 would make a
irst-rate President. He has every
qualification but popularity. He is
a Connecticut Yankee, and was fifty
eight years old last October.
If paying the public debt by
enormous taxes is a good Presiden-
tial platform, Geo. L. Boutwell,
should be the candidate. He is a
Massachusetts, Yankee, ffty-three
years old.
W. S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati,
would make a strong Democratic
candidate He is able, upright, a
gentleman, and the people don't
know much about him. He is forty
five years old.
General n. p. Banks would be
willing to be President He is a
Massachusetts, Yankee, born in jan
uary, 1916. He is tifty-tive years
old, and can be run at either of the
next five elections.
Ulysses Simpson Grant wants to be
President again dreadfully. He will
be fortv-nine years old on April
9th, 1871, but can't run in 1872;
the people have had too much of
him already.
Chief Justice Chase was born in
New Hampshire, January II, 1908.
He is siXtythree years old. If his
health We're good and the people be-
lieved it, he would be the candidate
of both parties.
Horace Greeley began to learn
what he knows about farming at
Amherst, New Hampshire. February
Sd. 1871. He is turned of sixty,
and may yet be entered for several
Presidential races.
Judge David Davis, Of the Su-
preme Court, is the heaviest Demo-
cratic candidate. Averdupois, 325
pounds; girth 120 inches; age about
tifty-tive. Fat men are often great
runners.
George II. Pendleton is an Ohio
man Of Virginia antecedents. He is
L gentleman forty years old, and
would make a better President than
candidate He has been beaten too
much in State elections.
Judge Thurman is a Virginian,
from Lynchburg, born there in
November, 1918, but removed to
Ohio in 1919. He is tifty-eight
years old-a very good age for
President. He makes too many
speeches.
Schuyler Colfax would make
pretty available Republican candi-
late, but he pretends to be for Grant. :,
He was born in New York, and is
'orty-eight years old, and has a
smile that IS child like and bland.
B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri,
would make a very interesting run
Ie is forty years old. All the
Revenue RefOrmers and Free Trade
would go for him; but
hey would not be enough to elect
lin.
John Quincy Adams, of Masschu-
etts, is the ablest of Democratic
statesmen. He is about thirty y-eight
ears old and in splendid condition;
)ut the Democrats will never elect q
Massachusetts, man. Let him move
o Indiana or Kentucky.