Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

George H. Brown has declined
the Office of Chief Justice OF the SUI
preme Court of Rhode Island.
Montgomery Blair is said to have
a good prospect of being sent to
Congress from his district in Mary
land.
The electors of Arkansas have de-
cided to hold q Constitutional Con-
wntion by a majority, which is es-
timated at 10000.
You might as we'll undertake to
row up Niagara Falls with a knit
ting-needle IS to elect a temperance
ticket i'm most States.-MRpdukee
Sentinel.
The Hon. John A. KassOn has ar
rived home at Des Moines. He says
he stands by his letter and is not a
candidate for denomination.
Bill Crutchc:.eld, Republican Con-
gresham of Tennessee, says the
civil rights I'LL was not passed, be-
cause the east wanted to keep some
thing in hand to divide the south
and west.
At the Mclean county, ILL.,, Anti
Monopoly Convention, Monday, the
politicians succeeding i'm outvoting
the farmers, much to the disgust of
the latter, and the following ticket
was nominated For State Legisla-
ture, T. p. Rogers !; for Sheriff, John
Hickey for Coroner, Michael Saltz-
man.
The ranks of the Massachusetts,
Congressman are fast thinning out.
Besides Dawes, Hooper, and the
brothers Hoar, who have annouced
their own withdrawal, the Wor>
cester Spy, opines that Croker,
GOOch, and some others will be
dropped, and it is hoped Butler will
be beaten.
A Western paper is of the opinion
that the more ambitious Congress
men of that section who desire to
be reelected will not go junketing
around the country during the heat
ed term, but remain with their con-
stituents and learn to hold calves,
turn grindstOnes, toss hay, and
sleep in a clover field-in other
words, becomes Granger.
The Cincinnati commercial re-
fuses to admit the probability of
a third term. 1t says: "Gen. Grant
will not be renOminated, because
the politicians understand that he
would not be reelected. No party
is strong enough to carry him
through the storm of opposition to
s third term. Influential men and
newspapers in the Republican party
would revolt, as they have already
revolted at the mere sug, estion Of a
third term"
Candidates for Senator FentOn's
seat in the United States Senate are
already getting numerous, if the
Albany Express is rightly informed.
That journal finds on the Demo-
cratic side Ex-Governor Seymour,
Ex-Governor Hoffman. Samuel j,
Tilden, Clarkson n. Potter, and
Sanford E. Church ; and on the Re-
publican side Governor Dix, ex-
Governor Morgan, Judge Robert
son, the Hon. A. F. Cornell, and
the Hon. Lyman Tremain. The
Express prefers the latter gentle
man.
Almost entertaining "scrimmage"
has begun in Missouri. 1t is three
cornered fight between the Repub-
licans, Democrats, and Changers, or
rather it is a tussle to see which
Of the former organizations shall
get hold Of the latter. The
chances now seem to favor the
Republicans. The Democrats
several weeks ago announced that
they proposed to fight all future
battles on the old issues of 20 years
ago. and that their chief aim and
desire was to secure revenge for
past defeats. As they Were largely
i'm majority at the time, they were
confideC vf winning an easy vic
tory.
There are indications that the
adoption of the new Ohio COnstitu-
ton will be made a partisan ques-
ton. The Democratic committee
of Wayne county has declared
against it, and the Cincinnati En-
quirer calls upon the Democracy in
all of the other counties to follow
the example, adding: at has teen
clearly shown to be q partisan Con-
stitu:iOn-the design of which is to
give the Republicans the majority
in the General Assembly for all time
to come, even when they are large
ly in the minority. The Legisla-
tive Apportionment with its une-
quail system, no Democrat can sus-
tain either in policy or principle.
There are other things equally OBJ
jectionable In it. 1t will be a dark
Gay for the Democracy of Ohio
when the new Constitution. is put
upon them"
Andy johnson is making such
apparently successful strides toward
the United States Senate that
Henry S. Foote has thrown himself
in the way, bound to defeat him at
any hazard. Foote'S first prociama-
ton to the people of Tennessee has
been issued. A. j., according to
FOote, Is neither q statesman nor an
orator: has never originated q wise
state or national measure; has
no scientific or literary cul-
ture; doesn't know the history
of his own or any other coun-
try; never delivered a speech that
would bear rigid criticism, has but
one speech on hand; and that by
frequentrepetition, has become stale
and disgusting; that his lauded
speech in Memphis was, from the
beginning to the end, crude and
shallow In thought; grossly errone-
Gus in most of its statements of
fact; feeble and inconsequental
in its reasOnings; awkward and
bungling in its diction, and replete
with dangerous dOctrinal sugges-
tons and recommendations, both In
reference to our present national, in
debtedness and to that of the State
of Tennessee. Foote makes some
palpable hits, but Moses has as good
as crossed the Red sea, and Pha-
raOh, in following, can hardly es-
cape being swallowed.
We find an extraordinary state
ment in one of the most recent and
most authentic biographies of the
famous Jones of Nevada. We would
hardly believe it but for the fact
that it appears in the Welsh paper