, 1872-11-12
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| 1~A444CALs
returns are coming in more favorable to Jame&
Black, the Temperance candidate for President
than to O'Conor, the Bourbon-straight candi
| date.
AT tho close OF the year, andpractically ever
nov, the Government Of New York City is in the
hands Of the supporters Of the National Admin.
| istration.
1t is formally announced, as if by authority
that Governor Boutwell, will not remain in tht
Cabinet after tho 4th Of next March, and that he
will be a candidate for Mr. Wilson's place in the
United States Senate.
FRANK Bird, for Governor, ran ahead Of
Greeley in Massachusetts, and the threat Of the
"Young Democracy to give him liberal
scratching amounted to nothing.
In spite Of that audience at the White
House. Colonel Forney is still nervous and I'M.
happy in his mind. Witness the following para
| graph:
II there is anything Of which General Grant has
horror 1t Is cheating in elections. With his Just and
impartial mind he cannot close his eyes the TACT that
IN our recent contest fraud regned paramount Fraud
vas King and he will reject with inetfable the
idea that bis name should have been used for the
apology Of corruption in elections and yet the men
VINO these frauds 1Fh come in and demand
1t is currently reported in Cincinnati th at
Richard Smith, Of the Gazette, is getting ready
to run Municipal Reform canvass in the spring.
Mr. Charles Thomas il his candidate for MAYOR,
The Springfield Republican says:
Henry Ward Beecher lately notified General Grant
and friends that be should indulge in great planne5a
Of speech certain points after the election, Tie
ELECTION is over, Brother Beeeber.
-" The Republican party" says Senator An
corresponding responsibility That is word
the better class Of Republicans cannot hear too
often just now, or ponder too seriously-respon-
s1oat1ty. It means great deal to them, and to
the country.
John P. Jones, the San Francisco operator
IN the Comstock lode and Nevada politics, is
conceded to have made sure hiB election to the
United States Senate, uice Jim Nye. 1t cost
him trile over 100000.
The st. Louis Democrat (Grant) Gays Frank
Blair will have not few competitors for the seat
he holds in the Senate, and names as such
Colonel William H. Hatch, Of Hannibal, and ex-
Lieutenant Governor Thomas G. Reynolds. The
Democrat says Gratz Brown is on the aide of
Blair, and Schurz against him.
1t is doubtless idle to talk Of beating Conk-
ling in the next Legislature Of New York, and
yet many paragraphs in Grant newspapers point
to Ex-Governor Morgan as 3 favorite for sena-
torial honors. Conkling will be eligible to seat
On the bench Of the United States Supreme
Court after the next 4th of March, and Governor
Morgan may not have long to wait
Theodore Gibbs, one Of the Grant Con-
gressmen elected in Tennessee is the ss Frank
Lumbard' Of his district. He sung his way to
an election.
Lewis Hayden m F'ex-s1ave," who helped
"Shadrack' on his way to Canada in the days Of
the Fugitive Slave law, and who is employed in
the Office OF the Secretary Of State, at Boston,
iB elected to the Massachusetts Legislature for
the aristocratic State House ward.
The Now Bedford Mercury relates q little |
paIable-with political application--about 3
shlp-owner,. who. when bis whaler, the Eliza !
Jane, came in ''clean," complacently remarked: |
Well, we'll it isn't bad after all she has her
casks ready for another voyage!'
The Democracy beat the Wing party for |
twenty years. That party then changed it's
name to Republican, and has been in the a.
tendency for the last twelve years. The old ]
wings did not believe that name should stand !
in the way OF SUCCESS. Ideas are what men
should fight for, and not uames.-C Cincinnati !
En1,t1f.er