National Republican., 1873-11-07
POLITICAL MOTIFS.

ALTuoreh there lie no election for Governor
In Tennessee until next fall the Republicans
are already canvasslng the claims OF Mr.. W.
2. Jones.
TuE st. Louis RtpuJliodn is not yet con-
yinced that Its party is alive. It says that
practically there Is no such thing as Ma
tional Democratic party"
THE Sacramento Bee gives currency to q
report that John =. Swift and NJ. NJ. Estee,
both Of San Francisco, will be candidates for
United States Senator, provided Gov. Booth
can't make the rifle.
TuB Ohio constitutional convention, II ls
presumed, will submit the result Of It's labors
for the adoption Of the people Ivy the fret
day Of April next. The new constitution will
redlstrlct the State and provide for q new
Legislature and State officers, TO he elected
next October.
A MEMBER OF the Missouri Legislature,
whose reputation was that OF a soilcd rooster,
absentcd himself for awhile under the plea
of sickness, and shortly after had his death
announced. Thereupon the Legislature passed
the usual resolutions Of coincidence, some OF
the willy members bittercst enemies euloyized
their departed friends exalted character
and high moral WORTH" and the next day he
renppcarcd In his seat, with the resolutions
| and eulogios neatly pasted In his meinoran-
dun book as satisfactory answer to all us-
complimentary inslnuations In the future.
Or the present temper and tendency ip
California the San Francisco Bulletin says :
| 1.-THE no1t Legislature will he In session in q
/ few weeks. Rumors are already rife OF bills
which arc to be put through on private ac'
count. According to the present outlook the
incoming Legislature will not bc good one
Il T.. -. L. Al .Rftl
/ Of which Will ignore public sentiment or fail
to watch pretty sharply all the bills which
originate with an adverse party. With a
watchful Governor, there will bc a dry time
for that class of men who constitute the
Third House.
AT recent meeting the colorcd people %
Savannah formally resolved that II IA mani
fostly unjust to leave 24,5lS colored peopl,
without education, that 10, 100 whites may b,
raised to high scholarship, as so many mas
tiers for slaves prepared to their hands, ant
to be kept in subjection by the darkenlng in
iuenco Of Ignorance, and that, In their opin
ion. the dccadence OF Savannah Is referabl
TO the discord and antagonism OF the tw'
races, capital being unwilling to come wher
intestine dlscord separates one part Of th
community from the other. Never will Sa
vannah prosper" they say, 'tlll the domi
nant race are willing to judge men, not b
their complexion, nor by their places OF ma
tivity, but by their qualities. All We ask |
fair play, and that we may stand or fall b.
our merits or demcrits."
The New York Nation thinks that til
ablest men In Congress arc not college mer
and that there are there college men whot
! one would never suspect Of being so. II says
, "For instance, Mr.. Trumbull did not hay
; the advantages Of university training, but hi
esteemed colleague, General Logan, was grad
uated at Louisville University. Mr.. Poland
: of Vermont, was as unfortunate as Mr.. Trun
0 bull, but our much-respected friend, Gcncrt
Butler, is, classically speaking, an alumni
n of wateryille. Some men Of whom one woul
feel sure that they had received the benefit
college training and associations did not; an
most notably, Messrs. Bayard. ConklinG
1 sherman, Thurman and Edmunds. Other
b. again, as to whom one might safely max
oath that they had never seen college say
: through the windows Of q railway car, arc 7,
:, corded as having received collegiate edl
cation; aud among them arc Mr.. Pomero,
= OF Kansas, Mr.. Conner, Of Texas, aud NJ
Q VOORHEES,, of Indiana II says further thi
G "thc records Of Congress show that the con
:. mon boast Is true that men Of the humble
!, position can rise to the honor of goycrnin
4 the country; but they also show that u
I honor has become very small and Is eontlpl
ally growing less. 10 the cult
yated and refined there Is nothing more di
tasteful than to be compelled TO mingle vii
, undignifed, uneducated, self-assumlng &C
/, leag gues.'