Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1875-11-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

UHANT isSopSt TO Sank all oil Ihe
Mormon faith out OF Federal Offices.
Ir Is anaosneed on good aptlor.s
ty that the Indiana delegation is
solid for Kerr for Speake7
You can also consider Hon. Gil,
bert G. Walker; OF Virginia, in the
race for Speaker of the House.
IT 10 Skinned that the recent
e~lectionsyin Virginia sealed the
doom of the color-line in politics.
THERE IS one Southern paper
which favors Sam. Randoll's de
signs on the Speakership, the Rich
mond Wing.
KNow-N OTmNG, lodges are said
10 be again sprinsing into exist
ence IN Maryland, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE is a late
Presidential possibility. Legal
minds are too heavy for this per
verse generation.
BRICK PoMFRoY advocates the re
pudiation of the national debt in
full. As q statesman Brick has few
If any equals, and the Lord be
praised for the same,
JOAQUIN MILLER dominates Henry
Wordsworth Longfellow and James
Lathrop Motley for rival Presiden-
fal candidates noxt year.
Ex SENATOR GwIN, OF California.
IL is said. will soon visit the South
in order to urge his his old Demo
cratic friends to fight Imitation,
Tue Freedman's Bank has paved.
- dividend of 20 Rer cent, which is
nearly 100000. Total liabilities
s3,000,000. This is a chapter OF
imitation for you.
WITHIN the next few week We
may expect to see some respecta-
bile member OF Grants Cabinet step
down and out To give place to some
one who can conseie9Goasly keep
company with Chandler.
THE Nov York Tribune thinks
that an in aationist or dodger ON
the currency question has no more
chance OF a nomination for the
Presidency thap Andrew jackson
has.
EEECTIoS day In New York is
said to have been remarkably quiet
and orderly. and Sfree drinks" few
and far between. Gov, Tilden's
vigorous preparations to preserve
order amt prevent fraud doubtless
had no little to do with il.
AFTER the election the N. Y.
Tribune thus facetiously summed
up the situation: Against imitation,
Ohio, PennsS !vnnia, Massachusetts
New York. For imitation, Samuel
+. Carey, Judge Kelley, Wendell
= Phillips, and Richard Schell
The Washington Chronicle thinks
sit may be unfortunate for the coun-
try that the Democracy have con
troll Of the House OF Representa-
%tives,' ~ ii may hold Us two wears
lack in the path of progress" Yes,
it will hold third term, civil rights,
Capitalization progress back a
number of years Some people
who profess TO be such devoted adj
mirers Of the old government do not
seem to realize that progress and
the fixed Uuion are incompatible.
THE Washington Chronicle says,
The Government Departments
need a thorough sweeping out pre-
vious to- the Presidential election.
A big Sibly tent would not hold all
the Democrats in office under Re
publican rale." Just hold mp for n
year and yOn will be saved the
trouble. We shall then witness
the biggest house-cleaning spree
this blessed eoantry ever expert
enced.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is as
modest ss the Nashville American
but, hSld-a thoughts the
American but a disciple? The En-
quirer requests Gov Hayes to de-
cline the Goyernorship of Ohio
s'because he knows William Allen
is the choice Of the people of Ohio
on an honest voter' II would be
dangerous for a mule to rub his
h0of against that mans cheek.
THr Republican party was beat.
en- 1874 by Grantism. The Demo
cratic party has been beaten in
1874 by imitation The elections
of the two years. taken together,
prove b existence OF an lndeHend-
ent vote which has both the power
and intelligence 70 dictate the re-
suit in 1876 and to secure the tri-
umph OF sound principles.[N. Y.
Tribune. 4th-
VIZ have IS a party suffered not
q little during the past few months.
buthave nOs by any means been
kefeated, and have no occasion to
be down hearted over the prospect
for '76. There are st present nine
teen Democratic States, only three
of which cannot be counted on
positively for next year, with 1S8
alacfarui Yofaa ~. the nthar aila