National Republican., 1874-07-14
POLITICAL NOTES.

The members of the present Congress from
Maine have all been renominated.
Ex-Governor Pendleton, of Cincinnati, de-
clines to be candidate for the next Congress.
Ex-Governor Marcus L. Ward is prominent
as the next Republican candidate for Governor
Of New Jersey.
In the third Iowa Congressional district the
Republican candidates are, Senator D. N.
Cooley, ex-senator William Larabee, and Judge
c. T. Granger. The prominent Liberal candi-
dates are DR.. Gilbert, Of Dubuque, and L. L.
Ainsworth, of West Union.
Official returns from all the counties in Ar
kansas but one show & majority Of II 500 for
the constitutional convention. The convention
meets Tuesday next. A large number Of dele
gates have already arrived al Little Rock.
General Gar6eld's enemies In the Nineteenth
Ohio district are making a vigorous fight
against his return. There is a plan on foot to
allow the opposition Republicans in each county
to present their candidates, and then concen-
trate upon the men of the greatest strength.
Governor Dingley and Joseph Titcomb, re-
spectively Republican and Democratic candi-
dates for Governor Of Maine, have been ap-
pointed lay delegates from the Maine Congre-
gstionsl conference to the national council, to
be held in New Haven in September.
General Banks is going to adopt lecturing as
a profession. He is at work on the following
subjects: "American Volunteer Soldiers" +"
''Blue Stockings" "What Man Owes to the
Town he Lives in" and "Princes of Diplo-
macy'-Csvour, GOrtschakOf, CASTELAR, and
Theirs.
Tns Indianapolis Journal says "The Gin
cinnat Enquirer continues to throw out feeiers
fsyoring Governor Allen, of Ohio, for the Pres
idency. As the Democracy is a resurrected
party, there would be an eternal fitness in their
running resurrected candidate"
The New York World commences an article
on the comet, and in the first paragraph goes
of in an invective on ''the Republican party
which has cursed the country with negro sae
frage, wholesale corruption. protechre tafh
and irredeemable rag money"
The next election in Alabama (November 3
will be very important one, as the six-year
Office holders are ell to be chosen-iudges Of
the supreme court, judges of probate, Cover
nor, Lieutenant Governor, treasurer, and the
members of the lower House of the General
Assembly.
An entirely new House of Representatives
will be elected this fall. The terms of twenty
five Senators expire next March, and the State
Legislature to be chosen this year elect most of
them. OF these twenty-five retiring Senators,
seventeen are Republicans, three are Liberals,
and five are Democrats.
So far as we can judge, says the Rochester
| On. y Democrat and Chronicle, Secretary
Bristow is managing his department In the
wisest and most economical manner, and is
justifying all the tributes paid 20 his financial
ability upon his nomination as Secretary Of the
Treasury by those best fitted TO estimate his
qualifications for this important trust.
The Democrats of the First Maine district
are having hard time of it in their efforts to
secure candidate for Congress. Hon. c. P.
Kimball was tried, but he peremptorily refused.
Mr.. W. H. Clifford, son of Judge Clifford, of
the United States Supreme Court, was next
sought, but he, too, has declined. The De-
mOcracy are now looking for another man.
The Delaware Republicans will hold their
State convention at Georgetown on July 2S.
There is good deal Of dissatisfaction because
the convention has been called so early, and
the chairman is accused of acting without con-
suIting his associates On the State committee.
Candidates for Governor aud Representative in
Congress are to be nominated.
Tired of hearing 'sthe same old lot" of men
brought forward as Presidential candidates,
the Cincinnati Gazette calls upon the gentlemen
who are amusing the public with Presidential
prophecies to bring forward new man. 1t
adds: "a man will gain reputation for bold
and original speculation who will discuss the
qualifications of-welI, say Bristow, or Evsrts,
or Marshall Jewell"
The Boston Advertiser thinks that the worst
TO be apprehended from the present antipathy
to dishonestyis that the people, 10 their anxiety
to get good men into the public service, wiz be
careless about considering strictly their quslih.
cations in the points of intelligence and knowl.
edge Of affairs. The union of character and
ability is the thing to be sought for and in,
trusted with power.
The Buffalo IN. ~ Express says: 'Ths Re
publican party, conscious Of its rectitude, courts
inspection and shrinks from no scrutiny, how
ever severe. The Democracy breads the light
1 lest its true character should be revealed and
it's deeds reproVed; IL hides its record In the
darkness as q plunderer would his pelf, ant
! weighed In the balance Of a righteous judg
could shieT6-iynd wanting In everything tha
: The Portland, Me-, PfsSs PC, execration."
ocrats of the Third district in this staE9-m