The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

SENATOR JOHN A. LOGAN has bad at
tack of neuralgia.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel denies that
Senator Carpenter is going East to live.
HAIsTEAD, of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, dominates William Cullen Bryant
for President in 1876.
IT is said Senator Thurman, of Ohio,
the leader of the Democrats in the United
States Senate, looks very much like Rev.
Robert Collyer, of Chicago.
FERNANDO WooD complains that his
chances of being elected Speaker of the
next House are much injured by the
Republican support he is receiving.
Hon. WILLIAM W. EATON, Senator
elect from Connecticut, has been APP
pointed by Gov. Ingersoll to fill the late
Senator Buckingham unexpired term.
GALLArIN Tenn Examiner :" From
every quarter comes n denomination of
Andrew Johnson for the Presidency.
We regard his nomination highly prob
able"
SAYS Washington correspondent
Alexander Mitchell, who has just re-
turned to Washington, is quite generally
credited with having defeated Carpenter
in his late Senatorial contest.
THE Republicans of Michigan will
hold State convention ut Jackson on
March 3, to nominate two Justices of the
Supreme Court III place of Judge Chris
tiancy, u. S. Senator elect, and Judge b.
+. Graves, and two Regents of the State
University.
SENATOR GORDON, of Georgia, has adj
dressed letter To Wendell Philips, ask
ing him to take tour through the South
and report on the real political conditions
there. Gordon says that he thinks
Phillips IN honest man, and that he
would be quite content TO abide by the
decision Phillips could but arrive ut in
his tour through the South az to its real
condition.
CHICAGO Journal: at now comes
out that Hon. j. r. Doolittle was the
manipulation by whose magic power the
contest for United States Senator III Wis
consin terminated in the choice Of Angus
Cameron AZ Matt. Carpenters successor.
Judge Doohttle spent day or two at
Madison rs n peace-maker and compro-
miser, and it was he who consolidated
the opposition element on Mr.. Cam
eron."
A DISTINGUISHED member Of the United
States Senate sticks to old clothes from
policy. He owes an election to them,
he says. One of his friends stumped a
/ district for him in which he was unpop-
ular because they said he was an aristo-
crat. "Aristocrat, indeed" said the
speaker, with great enthusiasm, "you
ought to see him. Why, every rag of
clothes he has in the world isn't worth
$40"
Is a recent letter to a personal friend,
Judge Christiancy, the new Senator from
Michigan, il credited with saying :
"The manner Of my election leaves me
at liberty to support or oppose measures
upon their merits, according to my con-
victions of right, and with refe eehce Ito
the interests of the whole country,
rather than for any partisan ends and L
propose to avail myself OF that liberty on
all proper occasions.
The members of the United States
Senate whose terms expire March 3,
1875, and who took the back-pay and
refused to refund it, were the following /:
Foreman, West Virginia ; Brownlow,
Tennessee Carpenter, Wisconsin I;
Flanagan, Texas Gilbert, Florida I;
Lewis, Virginia Stockton, New Jersey ;
Stewart, Nevada; Sprague, Rhode
Island Upton, Nebraska. This is the
March, 1873, and not one of them has
been reelected.
As THERE is some controversy regard
ing the political creed of Mr.. Carpenter
successor in the Senate from Wisconsin,
we present the opinions respectively of
the Republican and Democratic organs
at the new Senator's home, Lacrosse.
The Republican regards the efforts of
the Democracy to claim Mr.. Cameron as
4" simply malignant" and says he hearth
" indorses the policy pursued by Presi-
dent Grant and his subordinates. The
Democrat thus defines the status of the
new Senator
I'VE notice that various papers, especially
Democratic and Reform papers, are speaking Of
Mr.. Cameron as War Democrat" a Liberal
Republican," an Independent Republican, Z"
etc, with much other Of such and similar flap
doodle great and surprising mistake. Mr.
Cameron has always been a Republican he il
now Republican he has always been consist
ent and square Republican, never pretending
under any circumstances to be anything but a
Republican rigid partisan withal, never per-
hitting himself TO break the rules Of party dis
cipline for any cause or any offense no matter
how great. In short, if the State of Wisconsin
had been raked with fine-tooth comb, it would
have been utterly impossible to catch more
perfect specimen Of the extreme radical Repub-
lcan partisan"
MORE than a hundred murders have