New-York tribune., 1874-10-13
POLITICAL NOTES.

Asa campaign war cry the Southern out
rage business has proved very failure The people
refuse to make fools OF themselves 10y getting excied
over it, Can't Administration organs start some
thing else
One of the speakers at the Democratic mass
meeting III Boston, Saturday evening" MI Charles Levi
Woodbury. made the startling announcement that there
was in the State party OF ay-at-home ne
pubicans who are constantly sitting on the shIt-ta OF
progress and shouting WHOA. haIner unuie"in0u
position, that.
Who would have thought it The same
Wlae A Simmons whom the Massachusetts Repub-
lean Stale Convention of 1873 asked the President to
"remove forthwith" aud whom party OF most respect
able Boston Republicans headed by Mr. John A. Forbes
went to Washington to protest against now has DIS
name first the list Of tde Republican Executive
Committee OF Massachusetts.
Gov. c. X. Davis of Minnesota is giving
Senator Ramsey hard fight for the United States sena
VOrsbp. Mr. Ramsey gained slight advantage the
her day by carrying III his favor the primaries In Ram
sey County in which the City of st. Paul is situated
The Republicans of Freeborn County have instructed
their senator and preseDtave 10 vote TOT DAVIS anu
he has similar support ID many other parts OF the sa'e
Senator Carpenters organ, The M'l'cdakee
Sentinel extremely anxious tnat the Senatorial Ques
aoD be left out OF the until the Legislature
chosen Let us first secure Republican Legislature 1t
says and then decide who is the pest man 1or
Senator phase the contest which Is particularly
d.tastetul to the Senator's friends is, doubtless the
action OF Republican primaries in lnstructug ther
delegates to oppose Carpenter " every timc."
Fx.Auditor McIlrath of Minnesota, although
embarrassed with &c indictments from the Grand jury is
a 10 have been virtually from the most ser
ous against him OF defraudng the state Treas
ury and embezzing large sums of public money. me
81 Paul Press says Grand Jury spent several weeks
in a rigi Investigation of the main charge ou1 WeTe m
unable find any proof Of Mr Mrirath gue hjp aT 20
indictments are all LOT aIeseo 'eoHu''"' ~ ~
are said To be Of small account.
Here is a man who evidently has a just ap-
probation value OF the promises made by Con-
cressional aspirants His name is Magilder, and he
lives in Colorado. Desiring to 60 to Congress- ne
announces in card public what he can do for his
commitments: promise have switch put in at the
county scat in IS minutes after my election pledge
myself to produce rain whenever needed thereby
avoiding the necessity of irrigation VIII 6ansh tne
grasshOppers from our land, anu render he Euofauo
West arden of Eien VIII "orK Tor hotnihg ana
board myself"
Congressman James B. Beck of Kentucky
has written a long letter the louisiana troubles,
charging that "Keloggs usurpation and DurelPs de-
cision was not only fOsieBed and encouraged by the
Presdent and his Attorney General who is simply his
man Friday convenient tool OF his master, but
was arranged dictated ny the President who is and
ought he held responsible before the American pe0-
pie for all the evils which followed" Mr Beck
says he hopes TO prove these assertions to be true
beyond all peradveDure by plain recital OF Iacls anu
dates, on the floor Of Congress this Winter.
This is the way The Cincinnati Commercial
frees its mind the third term question " In our
Judgment the President will presently ind occasion to
say that 1t will do. II is true that he is surrounded
nv datterers but he does not lack understanding and
cannot fail TO that the better classes OF people viii
object to giving him, third term. and that
Il would be desperate folly stake his prestige and his
glory In a struggle that must be vain II the American
Republic is not demoralzed and precarious as that OF
France Heretofore, since the beginning OF the seces
sion troubles the fooshness OF the Democratic party
has exceeded all competition but the third term pro-
feet, made serious by the Republicans. would surpass
AL the copperhead and copperbottomed foies OF the
times"