National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-09

Senator SchurE will take the stump in Missouri
as the advocate Of the Peoples party.
The Republicans Of the Third district of Ohio
yesterday nominated J. q. Smith for Congress.
Montgomery Blair was defeated in his effort to
secure the nomination to Congress In the Hagers-
town (Md.) district.
The Baltimore Gazette is urging Hon. Reverdy
johnson as q candidate for Congress from the
Fifth Maryland district.
Charles H. Hardin, the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Missouri, has announced that If
elected he will not resign nor accept the office of
United States Senator.
President P. A. ChadbOurne, OF Williams. Col.
lege, is now mentioned as a desirable man for the
Republicans to nominate to succeed Mr.. Dawes in
the Eleventh Massachusetts district.
Edward S. Dana, ESQ.,, assistant clerk Of the
United States House of Representatives from 1855
to 1871, was elected member Of the Legislature
of Vermont at the State election on the LIST in
slant,
A, correspondent writing from WATERFOWL, N.
Y, says: 1--WE are having quite an exciting can
vass for Congress. Hon. Clinton L. Merriam is
now here and should be returned, as he has been
q faithful representative"
1t is reported in the First Massachusetts, dis
trict that Congressman Bufinton will decline a
denomination, and that his constituents are look
ing about for q successor. They won't have to
tire themselves much to find a more desirable
man than the present incumbent.
The Ohio Democrats will open their campai On
at Columbus on September 10. Governor Allen,
General Ewing, George H. Pendleton and Sena-
tor Thurman are announced as speakers. 1t will
be interesting to see PendletOn and Thurman
''harmonizng" on the financial plank Of the Dem
ocratic platform.
Six political conventions will assemble to-day
the Minnesota Republicans, at Minneapolis: the
Michigan RefOrmers, at Jackson; the New York
Liberals, at Albany; the Massachusetts Demo-
Gratis, at Worcester; the Nebraska Prohibition
lists, at Lincoln, and the Nevada Independents
On Thursday there will be three-the Michigan
Democrats, at Kalamazoo; the Nebraska Demo-
Gratis, at Lincoln, and the Nevada Democrats.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Central
Committee has been appointed for the ensuing
fall campaign. Among the members at large we
notice the names of Prot. VIM. Howard Day, of
Harrisburg, and VIM. O. Foster, esq, of Phila-
delphiR. These gentlemen are highly respected
and leading colored citizens OF the State and the
Republican party. Prof. Day ably manages the
National Progress, an influential weekly RepUbli-
journal printed at Harrisburg, now In its nth
year.
The St. Paul (Minnesota) Press says "The
curse Of its evil destiny is upon the Democratic
party II has blundered on from one disastrous
defeat to another by dOggedly adhering to obsO-
lete traditions and principles that ought to have
been utterly repudiated fourteen years ago, and
in 1868, again in lsT4 1t is perpetrating the
still more prodgous and disastrous mistake of re-
pudiating the one sound and living principle of
the Democratic faith to which it should have
steadfastly adhered
rather ominous thing happened to two Presi-
Dental sspirants in Cincinnati the other day. The
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