The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-06-14
politieal NOTED.


at Columbus, August @.
Kentucky Democrats are bnsilyengaged
In the thorough organization of the party
in the State
The Cincinnati Enquirer urges President
Grant to appoint William s. Groesbeck,
Of Ohio, Chief Justice of tho Supreme
Court.
Congressman-elect Smith, of North
Carolina, has published letter fayoring
the absolute reputation of the State debt
of over $3f,000000.
A Nashville, Tenn, correspondent says
that Andrew johnson believes most re-
ligiously that he will be the next President
of the United States.
An increase of the State tax to the tune
of 50, 900, 900 is one of the reforms which
the Republican Legislature has given the
people of New York
The only effect the Vienna Exposition
has had so far as the United States is CON
cerned, will be to expose the political cor
ruption of this country.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention will be held at Wilkesbarre,
the 9th of August. The candidates to be
nominated are Supreme Court Judge
and State Treasurer.
And now comes Bates county, Mo-.
and elects all of its Democratic Judges by
greatly increased majority over the
general election of last November. The
back pay steal and the Credit Mobilier are
doing their inevitable work,
A private dispatch from Montgomery,
Alabama, says Governor Tomas, Republi-
can, has appointed Robert G. Brickell,
Democrat, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of that State, vice Peck, resigned,
The Supreme Court of Arkansas, has
refused to act, for want of jurisdiction in
the Ono Wdrrahto case to Gust Governor
Baxter He was the Radical candidate
for Governor Of that State, and was declar-
ed elected against the Democratic candi-
date. After he became Governor, he
refused to be the tool of the Clayton
Dorsey faction, when they turned about
and tried to have him turned out of Office.
on the ground that the Democrat was duly
elected. The people of Arkansas are
delighted with the decision of the Court,
and now look forward to having an honest
executive.
1t is probable that the coming State
canvass in Ohio will be one of the most
exciting ever known in that State. The
Legislature to be chosen will have United
States Senator to elect, and this will be q
disturbing element on the Republican
side. Governor Noyes, who has been
renominated, is understood as being after
the Senatorship; 50 is Delano, so is Schenck
and so are halfdozen others. The
rivalries of these candidates, and tn.
jealousies growing out of them, will yer,
materially interfere with the race. On
the side of the Democrats and Liberals, nc
trouble of this sort will disturb the cam
paign, and with good candidates and {
thorough union, their chances for carrying
the State are at least equal to that of tn,
Radicals.
North Carolina, under Radical carpet
bag government, has debt of $50, 900,
600, or nearly one-third of the taxabl,
property in the State. South Carolina il
no better off under the same kind of gov
eminent. There every taxpaying vote,
has to pay at the rate of S43 head t,
support the State Government, not includ
ing the Legislature, which is one of tn,
most expensive in the country. In Nortl
Carolina, W. A. Smith, the Republican
Congressman from the Raleigh district
sounds the cry of reputation, and this or,
will increase in volume until there is
change of rulers, or the reputation be
comes fixed fact. In both of these ono,
prosperous States, and with a credit eaua
to the best few years past, plaques wors'
than those which visited Pharaoh hay,
come in the form of bad men to eat on
the substance of the people,-N. 7. Er
press.
WIsE-0THERwIsE.-Henry A. Wis,
writes letter of four columns to state hi
creed and to declare that he will run fo
Governor if only one of the two partie
makes a nomination. He is willing I,
take his chances with either one, but no
as go-between. He don't like either O
the great parties, though more than willin,
to be voted for by either, and not caring
which, if they will only follow his stan
dard. His creed embraces the good, bat
and indifferent, and may be CONDENSED
and stated in these few words:
No conflict of any kind between whites
and blacks the Z, s. having destroyed
old Virginia and created two new States
is responsible for the debts of both tn,
State government should assume the SOW
ereign right of insurance of life and pro
perty to meet the interest on her debt
and diminish taxation; the james Rive
and kanawha Canal should be built b,
national aid railroad monopolies and
rings shall be prevented by penalties rate
Of interest shall not exceed six per cent.
public schools shall be better regulated
assessments property shall be ad valorem
State revenue to be more punctually col
lected, and more economy observed in ex
penditures.
The PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY ON
THE LOUISIANA UsURPATIoN. Dem
ocratic State Central Committee met in
Philadelphia on Wednesday the 9Th inst
for the purpose of fixing time and place
for holding the State Convention. It was
determined to hold the Convention al
Wilkesbarrc on the twenty-seventh day Of
August, about three weeks after the meet.
ing of the Republican State Convention
After fixing time and place Richard Vaux
member of the Committee, called attcn.
ton to the condition Of affairs in Louisiana
and moved that the Chairman, in issuing
his call, recount the wrongs perpetrated by
the Administration upon the white people
of that State, and recite the indignation Of
the State Democratic Committee of Penn,
sylvania thcreat. First, that this attempt
to usurp the power given by the Constitu.
ton to the people of sovereign State wai
unprecedented in the history Of our nation
Second, that the success of this usurpatiou
made it more intolerable for the white
men of Louisiana to reside in their native