The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-08
POLITICAL MEMORANDA.

DIR. LoRING maintains that suffrag,
is natural right, and therefore womer
are as much entitled to vote as men.
THrRrY.sIx Democratic papers in Mis-
souri, have expressed their preference
for Gen. F. NJ. Cockrell for Senator.
FERNANDO WooD counts ninety sup
porters of his pretensions to the
Spealership of the Forty-fourth Con
gress.
Gov. PARKER, of New Jersey, declined
to review a military organization
from desire to save expenses for the
State"
THE election of Mr.. Dawes to the
United States Senatorship by the Leg.
islature of Massachusetts is deemed
probable.
Six women of Ellsworth, Maine,
have made formal protest to the tax
collector against being taxed without
representation.
ASA FLOWER is said to be q rising
man in Texas politics. A Western pa
per thinks he "Cometh up Asa Flow
er," but may be "cut down like the
grass.
WILLIAM r. CHANDLER, Secretary of
the National Republican Committee,
was recently married at Dover, N. II. 4,
to Miss Lucy l.. Hale, daughter of the
late John p. Hall.
THE Oakland (Cal.) Transcript says
"the finger of fortune seems to be
pointing toward Speaker Blaine as the
next Republican candidate for Presi
dent of the United States"
DBYoH, the Welsh paper. speaks
thus of Butler "Ymddangosodd y
Cad Butler" Tha. sounds as though
it might be the worst thing get said
about Benjamin, but we could not
swear to 1t.
GEN. TON WILLIAMS, of Nevada
Sharon's Democratic opponent for the
Senate-has made over 81 900, eco, 80
that when the next political fight comes
off the General VIII be about as we'll
QUALIFIED " for the Senate as anybody.
THESE are dark DAYS indeed for Jour
nalism when Ben Butler says that "the
newspapers are of no utility anyhow, ="
and the debating society of Salem, Ore,
resolves that the public press of the
United States is nuisance, and ought
to be abated."
"THE gray haired, pot bellied buffoon
of the Cincinnati Commercial and
6" the slanderous, foul-tongued, envious,
living Halstead" are among the sounds
which reach us from Cincinnati. Are
those newspapers going at 1t again, and
can't nothing be done about it?
The Springfield Republican says
eff the movement for q religious
amendment should ever assume formid-
able proportions-which is among the
possibilities-it might end by putting
God in the Constitution, but it would
begin by raising the devil IN our poll
tics"
THE Memphis AUalanche makes this
unkind reference to the claimant of the
Governorship OF Arkansas "Chickens
come home to roost but Volney Vol.
taire Smith, the Arkansas Charley
Ross, doesn't. He roosts in Washing
ton on the gable end of the ragged edge
of despair.
The Senatorial fight in Minnesota
wakes warm. The st. Paul corrre'
spondent of the Chicago Times says
"Tbe contest is considerably mixed.
OF lace Gov. Davis has been gaming
strength, and the best informed pollti
clans claim that he stands as good 9
chance as any prominent candidate
named but whatever the result, they
say, Ramsey is beaten"
A New YORK correspondent of {
Western journal says "Charle!
O'Conor for United States Senator ii
the latest card. Thus far, since tn,
positive refusal of ex Gov. Seymour t.
be a candidate, the chances have APP
peared to lie between Francis Herman
of Utica, and Henry Q. Murphy, o
Brooklyn. 1t is thought that if Mr.
O'Conor consents to run he can b.
elected more easily than either of thes
gentlemen-in fact, at once, withou
any contest whatever. /,
Born Republican candidates TO
Congress in Florida were elected at tn
late election. The vote has just bee
declared by the canvassers, and is a
follows
Dist. Elected. Rep. Dcm. sea
l. william J. Purman BIO s,Gl8
q Josiah T. Wals........ ..s,5i9 S,l7S
1t is stated by II Democratic paps
that the Legislature is politically con
posed as follows
Senate House. BditC
Republicans. ..............lZ -
| Democrats. ...............lZ ~
7 Democratic majority.
ANDREW JOHNSON says he is going t
! be the next Senator from TENNESSEE
81 have been over the field, he said
O correspondent of the Cincinnati Con
, n,ercial, sand know pretty. well wha
to calculate on. 1 believe that m
3 worst enemies now acknowledge this
: my chances are growing better ever
2 day. A few weeks ago they tried t
convince the country that l had n
chance. Since the election they hay
. changed their minds" Gen. John {
y Brown, now Governor of Tennessee,
n | A Il % ,,,oaf form, lilo b1a copopatitor