The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-23
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
GEN. GARFIELD wants ex-Gov. Hayes
to run for Governor of Ohio this fall.
SENATOR BOOTH, of California, is visit
ing his parents in Terre Haute, Ind.
The late Senator Revels, colored, has
given up politics and gone into preach
ing.
PHINEAs L. BARNUM, Mayor of Bridge
port, Connecticut. Admission to Bridge
port hereafter, fifty cents; children half
price.
GUILIvER says: He who causes a
blade of grass to grow where none grew
before is better than whole race of pol
iticians.
VICR-PREsIDBNT WILSON and Fred.
Douglass are present at the anti-slavery
peoples centennial celebration in Phila-
delphia.
Ex-Governor CURTIN, it is said, will
be induced TO run for the Governorship
OF Pennsylvania this fall, on the Demo
cratic ticket.
THE Salisbury CMd.) advertiser NOM
mates Allen q. Thurman, of Ohio, for
the next President, and Thomas +. Bay
ard, of Delaware, for Vice President.
The Annapolis Gazette proposes James
G. Blaine, of Maine, for President, and
Alexander b. Hagner, of Annapolis, for
Vice President.
GEN. GARFIELD says the postage in
crease was all mistake, due mainly to
the bad practice of allowing important
legislation TO be crowded into the last
hours of the session. That does not
agree with Senator Ramseys account,
nor with the one that Senator Hamlin is
reported to have made. Both of the lat
ter gentlemen place the blame upon the
committee.
Mr.. JOHN ROBINSON, the circus man
ager, who ran for Mayor, III Cincinnati,
the other day, does not seem to be
pleased with his first and only experience
in politics. On the night of his defeat an
audacious reporter had the temerity to
call upon him and ask what he thought
about it. When they brought the re-
porter to, and had cleared the birthstone
from his eyes and mouth, he said he did
not recollect exactly what Mr. Robinson
said, but he judged by the energetic
manner of his speech and the size and
frequency of the Oaths that he didnt
care to run for Office any more.
FOURTEEN members of the House o.
Representative of the Forty-fourth Con
gress (which meets for the first time Oh
Monday, December 9TH are still to b,
elected, as follows: Four in California
which holds its regular election on Sep
TENDER LIST; Six in Mississippi, which
holds its regular election on Novembe
J I'd; and four at special elections to b
+ called hereafter to fill vacancies cause,
, by the death of members-elect: Carrot
Mcmillan Oem.) in the Ninth Georgi
district, James Bufiinton (Rep.) in TIN
I First Massachusetts, district; A. +. ALE
Dem.) in the Thirty-third New Yor
district; Z. S. Hersey (Rep.) in tn
q Fourth Maine district OF the 278 Rel
resentatives already chosen 102 are RI
u publicans, 167 are Democrats, and min
y are Independents.
GEN BoYNToN in long letter to til
. Cincinnati Gazette explains the reason
n of Gen. Spinner's withdrawal from I'll
It Treasury Department. He says Secret
a nv Bristow, Immediately upon taking o
:, flee, began thorough reorganization
Il the department, making all of the
3 visions subordinate to and harmoniol
e with himself. The first trouble wit
v Gen. Spinner occurred when Mr.. Bri
:. tow cut from his report disquisitiOn c
:" the low rate bond theory, which, whate
re er may have been its merits. did not C
l. incide with the views set forth by Il
p Secretary, and consequently would MAJ
a bad appearance in his report. FL
lowing this in various ways" the CORE
! pendent continues, the old General h
q" gan to feel the force that was drawn
IL everything in the department under q
J: control of one mind, and instead
10 yielding to this healthy return iowa
70 first principles, the grating continu
and rather increased between the Tres
oi urer's Office and that of the Secretar
lg 1t was this state of affairs, and not NJ
IN imputation upon the absolute homes
:, and integrity, and the general efficien
of Gen. Spinner, that led to requesti
his resignation. But a point had be
il reached in Gen. Bristow's work of re,
at ganization where, in his opinion, it "
n necessary to place new man at t
head or the Treasurers office, and, VIII
ie he had no uhkindly feeling whatey
ig toward Gen. Spinner personally he
81 cided upon the change.