National Republican., 1874-07-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Fourth Maine district Republican con.
vsntion yesterday renominated General Samuel
F. Hersey for Congress by acclamation.
| Western Democratic papers are calling upon
D. W. Voorhees, to reconsider his determination
to decline another nomination for Congress.
The Anti-Monopolists' Congressional couvenI
ton of the Eighth Illinois district met Tuesday
and nominated J. e. Boyne, a farmer, of Wood
ford county.
Congressman Freeman Clarke, Of the Twenty
ninth New York district, announces that the
condition of his health will not permit him to
accept renomiuation.
There is little remnant of the old-time De-
mocracy in Vermont. 1t consists of one of the
twelve candidates for Governor. The eleven
who failed are Independents now.
The competitors for Mr.. Dawes place are
growing less numerous just at present. Messrs.
E. B. Gillett, of Westfeld, and n. A. Leonard
and Henry Alexander, of Springfield, desire to
be counted out"
As Mr.. George William Curtis lives for part
of the year in Ashfeld, Franklin county, Mass.
is has been suggested that he may be an avail
able candidate for Congress from the Ninth
district, (Mr. G. F. Hoar's.)
The Cincinnati Gazette says that 'sitis lucky
thing for some of the Senators that they have
not to pass the ordeal that the members of the
House are now to stand, for there are Senators
who could not confidently count upon verdict
of approval"
The Democratic press Of Alabama is divided
as to the expediency Of precipitating the "race
issue" in State politics, some Of the journals
charging the Democratic leaders with the de-
sign of making Alabama "the home of one
race and the grave of the otherW
The bill to define gross of matches did not
pass both Houses after all. Mr.. Stanard has
another session left, however, in which he can
boost +. through the Senate. We look also for
q strict definition of a box of wooden tooth
picks before the expiration Of the Forty-third
Congress.-BOstOH Globe.
The Democratic majority of the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, apprehensive that its party
could not carry the State again under ordinary
circumstances, is now at work gerrymandering
the election districts, removing Republican
county officers by address, recognizing. the
courts go as to displace the present judges, and
removing all restrictions on the naturalization
of foreigners.
The st. Louis Democrat says: The Grangers
have concluded to take a hand in the political
game in Missouri this year. This is departure
from the generally-underssoodp principles of the
order, but the ring rule, which prevails in
nearly all the counties of the State, has forced
the farmers to come to the front and assist in
the work of breaking up the system of official
spOilation which is impoverishing the tax-pay-
ers of the rural districts"
Candidates for Senator Fenton's seat in the
United States Senate are already getting nu-
merous, If the Albany Express is rightly in
formed. That journal finds on the Democratic
side ex-Gov. Seymour, ek-Go7. Hoffman, Sam
usl J. Tilden, Clarkson N. Potter and Sanford
z. Church; and on the Republican side Gov.
Dix, ex-Gov. Morgan, Judge Robertson, Hon.
A. r. Cornell and Hon. Lyman Tremain. The
Express prefers the latter gentleman.
Concerning the next Congressional delegu-
ton from New York, the Troy Times says:
awe cannot expect to improve upon our
present delegation as whole, and in making
changes it is to be hoped great care will be ex-
ercised TO find equally good men as the
present Representatives. First Of all, the
finances remain to be considered, and only