The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-11-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

reScntatiycs viii ic"l at the next Gem
rral Assembly,: ONLY thirteen members
II Of a total OF ll6 are reported as
itrpuhlicanS. We vote that the Re !
publicanS resign in order to make the
thing unanimous.
Seventy thousand people are out
of employment i'll New York; the
World declares. But on the next
page it SAYS that The Democratic ma-
iorlty was largely caused by the
Beechcr scandal!
Did the scratching of tickets in the
late election cure the itch for Office !
No Democratic paper has yet seen
fit TO try to explain the Republican
gain of 2l,000 Republican votes III
Wisconsin owe 1873.
One town in Alabama, with a pop
ulatiOn of IS in 1870. is reported TO
have given a Democratic majority OF
100 at the recent election. They un-
doubleday voted early and often.
Again, in IlliaoiS, the Republican
stav-at-homes elected the Democratic
candidates. The number of Repubii-
cans who refused to vote, or voted
one or the other of the opposition
tickets, appears to be 63,4S4.
The Cleveland Leader says "Many
of the innocent voters have been per-
suadcd by dcmagogues that the sue
cess of the Democracy would iunme-
diatelv give them plenty of work at
GOOD wages, and are anXiOuSly inquir-
ing when they are TO be set TO work"
The War Claims Commission is i'll
session again, Is we predicted IT
would be before the election. and now
the good people of the State have a
chance to learn how much their votes
for Hardin and a Democratic LeglSia-
ture actually cost them. Neshail see
before long. OF curse, the COMMITS
sion will have before it, at this scS-
sion, a great maay claims that il was
not thought advisable % touch before
the election, but. with 20 emphatic an
instruction from the people III favor
of the most liberal allowance of these
/ claims. we presume it Will not he
ni""ardly. Seven or eight millions is
Il small matter. and the State can
easily be made to pay whatever the
amount MAY be. especial: as II Is re-
ported that many members have been
pledged before election on this ques-
ton. Go on. gentlemen. We Will
taxi orca-ion 10 vcmtilatc that opera
tium when the Legislature is III ses-
sion.- Democrat.
Sr"nkrr Blaine addressed n large
Republican meeting al E!nira during
the late canvass. Let, SAID he, 81
o. Democratic convention resolve that
these three amendments shall be Ell
|. forced TO the end, and the end is n
hand. | believe | could name fifty
men who. if they chose. could so inilu-
cucc the councils OF that party that
p, this bitter cup would pass from the
lips of The American people. Nay,
yruturc to 20 further. and a. III olucI
time. ten righteous men found in sod
p ON would have aycyicd Gods wrath
D from the cities Of the plain. ] ga
: an ten Democrats in dis country
and two OF them in New York, who
I Il they in GOOD faith. shall speak pcac,
on this question, there will be peace.
] Gen. Grant had 4 bad tooth drawn
the other day. and he howlcd SO tia
. me Iib1llt III NV tL' il'p'
thought he was having the 'Thir,
Term jcrkod out oil him.
t 4 letter from Richmond says tina
the Democratic jubiiarion there owe
= the elections reminds Southern PEG
! pie very much OF the excitement an,
e 10Y there after the Federal cat Il
Ball Ran" Cheerful, isn't II.
There wcrc seven test votes IN tn
salarr-~rab hill. Every time y. y
Banks. OF Massachusetts, voted 70
the hill. Four times Dan Voorhees,
of Indiana. voted for the bill: Ii,
Il other three times he did not vote {;
all. Three times Fernando Wood, o
New York. voted for the bill ; the +"
d manning foui times he lodged. 1heS
: are the three men that are mcn'lolict
i in connection with the S~pcakcrshiI
by the Democracy. What Il blessed
change this Democratic victory l. 20
Is Ing to be .-LCincinnaii Gazette.