Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-03-14
POLITICAL NOTES

AAe LoulSlau1 DelnOcratlc state Ion
vention will assemble at New Orleans
April 18th.
Ex-Governor Oglesby wants to be elected
United States Senator in place of senator
rrumLull.
The two branches of the Kansas Legis
lature have come to dead lock on the
apportionment bill.
Iowa will vote at the next election or
the question of striking the word male
out of the State Constitution.
Republicans in South Carolina propose
Ex-Governor James L. Orr as Vice Presi-
dent on the Republican ticket.
Should they run Tom Scott for the
Presidency, he will be familiarly known
as the Railuniter, not the Rail-splitter.
The colored men of New Jersey are to
hold State Convention to decide upon
the course to be pursued by them in the
coming campaign.
1t is believed that the Iowa Republi.
can Convention VIII recommend Grant
for President and Hon. j. +. Wilson for
Vice President.
The New York World denounces the
Democrats in Congress who voted to re-
peal the tariff duties on tea as set of de-
magogical duuderheads.
Judge Nelson, of Tennessee, who in
1850 was the great Wing leader in that
State, has declared his alliance with "the
Democracy at an end
There is now but little doubt that the
bill declaring valid all of the issues of the
South Carolina bonds will pass the Legis-
lature by large majority.
Portland and Lewiston, Me-, at their
charter elections yesterday. gave hand
some Republican majority. The latter
has heretofore been Democratic.
Judge Davis, the Labor Reform can
didate for President.is fifty-seven years
old, weighs three hundred pounds, and is
supposed to be worth $3,O0O,00O
John Tyler, jr., has written avery able
article in favor of the Republican party,
and predicts its triumph and its perpetui-
ty. He is now citizen of Florida.
The Mobile Register pitches into the
passive policy as one which demands all
the sacrifices and patriotism and giving
away on one side of a proposed coalition,
and that the stronger and larger.
If the Democracy attempt to come in
to power by adopting Radical principles.
and aiding in the election of some other
Radical to the Presidency. Grant will
succeed by larger majority than he did
in 1868.
TIE 'po ssum Democrats come in for a
scorching from A. ii. Stephens, who de-
clares them men as Radical az General
ion in their lives, who seek Democratic
votes to overset him and establish in his
place hot believer in centralism and
empire.
GENERAL Thomas A. DAVIES, Of New
York, announces himself a candidate for
President on the following platform: Il
will not accept any gift or present during
my continuance in office" Now, if this
self-sacrifcing patriot will only promise to
accept no presents while out of office. how
happy the country will be.-LouiSrilIe
Commercial.
Senator Wilson leaves himself in the
hands of lis friends. personal and politi-
cal, with regard to the Presidency. He
says: Whatever may be the result, |
shall be contented and shall do what /
can for the unity and success of the Re
publican party, whoever may be its can
didates, for | am bound to it alike by con-
viction and association, by gratitude for
its deeds of patriotism and liberty, and
by hopes OF services it may render to the
The Philadelphia Press says: The poor
workingmen who met at Columbus, the
other day, seem to have regard for
wealth very inconsistent with their ideas
Of reform. They have selected for their
candidates two of the personally wealthiest
mem in their several States. Hon. David
Davis, appointed to the Supreme Court of
the United by Abraham Lincoln, is one of
the wealthiest' men of Illinois; while every
body in Philadelphia knows of the wealth
and large estates of Hon. Joel Parker, of
New Jersey, the Vice Presidential candi
date of the Labor party.
Indiana adds her voice to the chorus of
her sisters, and declares emphatically for
Grants denomination. Indiana is one of
he doubtful States which the opposition
count on carrying, but whose majority in
favor of Republicanism is reasonably cer>
ain in all great contests like the one we
are Just entering into. Our friends there
start out we'll, with, as far rs we can judge
1T this distance, an unexceptionable tick
It. They have, at all events, taken time
by the forelock, and marshaled their
hosts while the enemy is still hesitating
On leader and platform.-Phitudet-
r,hia Press.
MIR Straw,th candidate of the Republi-
.ans for Governor of New Hampshire, en-
ploys in his manufactures 1000 work.
people. The democratic" newspapers
,ssume in advance that the 1000 voters in
Mr.. Straw's works will vote as Mr.. Straw
'ays, and that he will discharge all those
Who support the democratic candidate.
There does not appear to be any evidence
hat such is his intention, but it is handy
hing to assumeit to be so, and to preach
ong and indignant homilies on that as
1t may possibly be that Mr..
Straw can no more afford to lose the work.
men than they can efford to lose their
places that is, if the workmen be good for
anything.
The Columbus (Ga.) San dent mean
o have the Yankees misunderstood what
he South means to do in case of war with
England. Some of the Northern Radi-
.als imagine that, on the FIRST foreign gun
,ff our coast. the martial spirit of the.
South would be aroused from Canada to
the Rio Grandc, and thousands of our
men would crowd around the Star-Spang-