The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
POLITICAL MEMORANDA.

POLITICAL MEMORANDA.
THE Mayor-elect of Springfield, Mass.
has two wooden legs.
DR.. LoR1NG maintains that suffrage
is natural right, and therefore women
are as much entitled to vote as men.
THIRTY. SIX Democratic papers in Mis-
souri have expressed their preference
for Gen. F. NJ. Cockren for Senator.
FERNANDO WooD counts ninety cup
porters of his pretensions to the
Speakership 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 rising
man in Texas politics. A Western pa
per thinks he tCometh up Asa Flow
err but may be ''cut down Like the
grass.
WILLIAM E. CHANDLER, Secretary of
the National Republican Committee,
was recently married at Dover, n. H.,
to Miss Lucy L. Hale, daughter of the
late John p. Hale.
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"
Y DRYoH, the Welsh paper, speaks
thus of Butler Ymddangosodd y
Cad Butler" That sounds as though
about Benjamin, but we could not
swear to it.
GEN. Tom WILLIAMS, of Nevada
Sharon's Democratic opponent for the
Senate-has made over $2,O00,00O, so
that when the next political fight comes
off the General will be about as well
J 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 pc aOALeO.
"THE gray haired, pot -bellied bufoor
, of the Cincinnati Commercial and
"the slanderous, foul -tongued, envious,
lying Ha1stead" are among the sounds
which reach us from Cincinnati. Are
those newspapers going at it again, and
! can't nothing be done about it
THE Springfield Republican says
eff the movement for a religious
amendment should ever assume formid
able propoFtions-which is among the
I possibilities might end by puttine
5 God in the Constitution, but it would
= begin by raising the devil In our poll
: tics.
TIE Memphis avalanche makes thi
unkind reference to the claimant of tn
Governorship of Arkansas i: 'Chicken
: come home to roost but Volney Vol
4 taire Smith, the Arkansas Charlie,
: Ross, doesn't. He roests in Washing
ton on the gable end of the ragged edg
> of despair.
+ TIE Senatorial fight in Minnesot
Q waxes warm. The st. Paul corrre
. spondent of the Chicago Times says
ssThe contest is considerably mixed
2 OF late Gov. Davis has been galnin,
. strength, and the best informed pollti
clans claim that he stands as coed
chance as any prominent candidat
. named but whatever the result, the
say, Ramsey is beaten"
A New .YoRK. correspondent of
\ Western journal says ;" Charlie
/ O'Conor for United States Senator
= the latest card. Thus far, since tn
, positive refusal of ex.Gov. Seymour
be q candidate, the chances have ar
J peared to lie between Francis KernaI
l. of Utica, and Henry 9. Murphy, c
/ Brooklyn. It is thought that if MI
O'Conor consents to run he can
= elected more easily than either of thes
= Rentlemen-in fact, at once, withou
7. any contest whatever.
le Born Republican candidates fc
d Congress in Florida were elected at th
late election. The vote has just bee
!, declared by the canvassers, and is 9
: follows:
P'@ i,;s S S;; e: Sc
l. Il Is stated, By Democrats pape
. that the Legislature is politically con
= posed as follows
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Republicans. y -
{. DemocrAts. .......A1 20
democratic majority.
'e ArDnEw JOHNSON says he is going |
le be the next Senator from Tennessee,
s.T have been over the field, he said 1
- a CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Con
: s7sercSuE. ss and know pretty well whi
{, 70 calcuIata on. I believe that nu
i'd worst enemies now acknowledge tn.
m INV chances are growing better evel
a. day. a few weeks ago they tried
: convince the country that I had I
20 chance. Since the election they ha,
Of c5anred their minds. Gen. John {
n 3rr.wn now Governor of Tennessee,
10 A r = v,,t,ak formidable cOmpetitOr