Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-15
Now VIII is Affect the P.rt,.

Judge Edwards PierrepOnt has been inter-
viewed by reporter of the New York Word to
get hrs views in relation to the 50 called s.de-
position Of MT. Sumner" and its effect upon the
IePublieanIarty. Judge Pierrepont in common
with many other sound thinkers believes its
eject will be to excite q great deal of CONVERSE
ton and some dissatisfaction, but nothing will
surprise people more than to see how little II
will affect the party. fact accomplished in
relation to a matter like this passes by and the
people cease TO talk or care much about il. There
4 no individual, however great and prominent,
WHO amounts 10 20 much a. the people or the
individual himself are likely to suppose. Judge
Pierrepont does not believe that in thirty DAYS
alter this thing has been accomplished, Mr..
Sumner being displaced and another man put
IN his stead, that Senator Wilson even, his
friend and colleague, will be in the least
opposed TO the administration on that account.
Mr.. Sumner was in relations Of such opposition
To the President that he was sure to embarrass
Lin, and will embarrass him less after this open
quarrel than he would if remaining at the head
OF the COmmittee on Foreign Relations. Those
already inclined TO be opposed to Gen. Grant
will use this to strengthen their inclination, but
ii viii not make any new opponents of the
President. Those who would have been his adj
versaries in any event, will, OF course, under
take TO use this to give force to their position.
The fact will soon be recognized tn at the diff
ference be tween the President and Senator
Sumner, q personal difference, had reached a
point where either the head of the party, the
President, or the head OF the Committee on
Foreign Relations, Mr.. Sumner, must yield, and
the party will sustain the President instead OF
ms opponent.
The campaign for the first election in the Dis
ifiet OF Columbia, under the territorial act, of
AL 10 nj
bers to the lower house of the Legislature, is
now fairly opened. The democrats and conser.
vatives held meetings in all the legislative dis
friets last evening, and elected i've delegates
from each district to the convention, which
meets next week to nominate a candidate for
delegate TO Congress. Mr.. X. T. Merrick is the
choice Of a majority OF the delegates elected
The republicans held meetings Monday night
and last night in most of the districts, and
orgsnized district clubs for the Campaign, and
meetings viii be held in the remaining districts
for that purpose tonight.
People who see the loose straw aiiost On
Fenrsy wanna avenue, opposite the market
house, 20 much TO the Disagreement OF that
thoroughfare, attribute the nuisance to the
market, supposing that il is brou yht on the
street from that point. This is mistake; the
straw comes from the street cars, and is pulled
out by the feet Of the passengers in making
transfers at the 9Th street junction.
AS the street railroad company show them.
selves 80 thoughtful of the public interests, will
they not be % good, il they insist upon using
loose straw in their cars, as TO clean up the uu-
tleAsant litter from the street,
SwIIZERLAND's CREDIT.-when BOurbakis
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