The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-11-21
Political Notes.

RADICAL BlcKERIsGs.-The outgivings
of the President and the Indifference mani
tested by him to the comments of Senators
on the third-term issue show quite con-
cusively that there viii be want of
harmony between the President and many
of the leading Republicans in Congress at
the coming session. The President re-
CARDS the party as represented in Congress
as more responsible for the late defeat than
the Administration, while leading Radical
Senators and members do not hesitate to
quietly declare that the course Of the
President on the third-term question and
the Louisiana troubles and his absence
from Washington and some Of his appoint
ments have all contributed to the overthrow
of the Republican party. This crimina-
tion and recrimination cannot be smothered
in the House of Representatives, nor in the
Senate, for leading Republicans, who feel
that their party has been imperilled for
the succession in 1876, do not intend to
be held entirely responsible for the late
disaster.
AN EXPLANATION ncighbors of
Washington find the colored element in
that city too big an elephant for their COM
fort. The Star of Monday thus philos-
ophises We have the immense eeon-
traband' army brought upon US by the
war, and who have been kept aaoat here
by our local politicians for voting material
To-day thousands who should be at work
on the farms of Virginia and Maryland,
where their labor is sorely needed, are
loafng about Washington, subsisting on
stray jobs, charity or worse; and for whose
support through the winter mouths Con-
gress will be called upon for an appropria-
ton this session Gas it has regularly in past
sessions) to enable them to pull through
until the political strikers can utilize them
at the polls again-in case the ge-lorious
right Of eleeting Legislative assemblies"
is restored to the District.
THE SITUATION IN THE SouTH-
There is u complete lull in the ferment Of
national politics. The South, which, for
some time before the elections, seemed to
be in a most perturbed condition, has sud.
denly become slngularly, aud perhaps some
would say, omiously quiet. Not a whisper
is heard of further ontragcs or persecu-
tions, and It looks as though the predic-
tons of the Democratic press, that the
Attorney Generals mill would cease to
grind when the elections We're over, had
been fulfilled. So far as can be learned
everything down there now is lovely and
serene. In many places the negroes at
first went about begging the best-natured
white men to become their masters, having
been persuaded that their reinstatement
would necessarily follow Democratic
victory, but that they would be permitted
to choose their own masters.
Samuel J. Tilden, the lately elected
Governor Of New York, is the prospective
Democratic candidate for President in
1876 They had Seymour in 1868 and
''honest" Horace Greeley in 1872. They
have bad luck with their New York candi.
dates.
A SINGULAR OCCURRENCE. The Bal
timore Gazette of "Wednesday Gays: "a
| few days ago store ~ miles on the
Philadelphia road was robbed Of quantity
ofmorehandise, and though every search was
made IN the ueighborhood no clue to the
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