The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-15
The Dofeat or General Blair.

After seventeen ballots in the caucus Of the
democrats and liberals of the Missouri Legis-
lature Lewis V. Bogy, of st. Louis, was
nominated for the place. in the United States
Senate, of General Frank Blair, the present in
cumbent. The decisive vote was-For Bogy,
sixty-four; for Blair and others, forty-seven.
There were bakers dozen of candidates in
the contest, including liberal proportion of
ex-Confederate army officers. But the essential
point in the case is that among all these can
didates General Blair has been defeated and
so, on the 4th Of March next, he will retire, at
least for year or two, from public life.
This is o remarkable case. General Blair
and Governor Gratz Brown were, in fact, the
chief contrivers of the liberal republican move
ment of the Cincinnati Convention and of the
Presidential coalition ticket of Greeley and
Brown. The fusion of the democrats with the
anti-Grant republicans in Missouri, 1870, had
been 80 successful, in the election of Brown for
Governor and Blair to fill the remnant of
an unexpired term in the Senate. that
these men, with Carl Schurz, really believed
that their Missouri coalition might be ex-
tended over the whole Union with the same
success. Hence the Cincinnati Liberal Con-
vention and the cooperating Baltimore Dem
ocratic Convention on the liberal ticket of
Greeley and Brown. From the general ship
wreck Of the fortunes Of this coalition hardly
man has been left to tell the story. We had
supposed, however, that in democratic
Legislature General Blair, as q democrat,
would escape the shoals and breakers and
come safely into port again. But he, too,
goes down, and the Missouri democrats, in
abandoning him, have evidently had enough
of the passive policy of his new departure"
THE DEPUTY CHAMBERLA1NsH1p.- the
application for an injunction against John
Foley, who claims the Office of Deputy Cham
berlain under the assumption of the power of
appointment by Comptroller Green, the Court
decided yesterday that Deputy Chamberlain
Palmer, in whose name the application was
made, had no standing in Court the proper
person to complain being the Chamberlain,
and not his deputy. Thereupon the applica-
ton was made in the name of the Chamberlain,
tuo VcmPoInfy inJuHctlon against MI. COley
was continued, and the final hearing set down
for tomorrow. As yet the attempt of Comp
troller Green to force upon the Chamberlain q
deputy to whom no objects has resulted only
in entailing needless expense upon the city.
A PROPOSITION made in the Pennsylvania
Constitutional Convention to remove the State
capital from Harrisburg to Philadelphia is OBJ
jected to by some OF the country press on &C.
count of the temptations that would surround
the verdant rural members in case the change
should be made. But then, lobby accommoda-
tons would be hugely augmented and back
hand operations greatly facilitated. II would,
therefore, be the same in the long run.
The DEATH OF NAPOLEON continues to have
an improving effect upon the Paris Bourse,
where French rentes yesterday were quoted at
5427-an advance Of forty-fve centimes since
the night previous to the fatal event ct
Chiselhurst.