Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14
POLITICAL MEMORANDA.

THE Mayor elect of Springfield, Mass
has two wooden legs.
DIR. LoRING maintains that sufrag
is natural right, and therefore womel
are as much entitled to vote as men.
THIRTY. 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
Speakership of the Forty fourth Con
gress.
Gov. PARKER, of New Jersey, declined
to review a military organization
d" 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 a rising
man in Texas politics. A Western pa
per thinks he "Cometh 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 DRYCH, the Welsh paper, speaks
thus of Butler: Ymddangosodd V
Cad Butler" That sounds as though
it might be the worst thing yet said
about Benjamin, but We could not
swear to 1T.
GEN. Tom WILLIAMS, of Nevada
Sharon's Democratic opponent for the
made over S2,000,000, so
that whom tho next political faht comes
off the General Will be about as well
d" qualified for the Senate as anybody.
THESE are dark days indeed for Jour-
nalism when Ben Butler says that ''the
are Of no utility anyhow"
and the debating society of Salem, Ore,
resolves that 1.-THE public press of the
United States is nuisance, and ought
to be abated."
"THE haired, pot-bellied buffoon
of the Cincinnati Commercial and
+" the slanderous, foul-tongued, envious,
lying Halstead" 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 religious
amendment should ever assume formid-
able roportions-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 Avalanchc 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 roests 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
6 The contest is considerably mixed.
Of late Gov. Davis has been gaming
strength, and the best informed pollti-
clans claim that he stands as good a
chance as any prominent candidate
named but whatever the result, they
say, Ramsey is beaten"
A New YORK correspondent of
Western journal says "Charles
O'Conor for United States Senator is
the latest card. Thus far, since the
positive refusal of exGov. Seymour to
be candidate, the chances have ap-
peared to lie between Francis Herman,
OF Utica, and Henry G. Murphy, of
Brooklyn. 1t is thought that if Mr..
OConor consents to run he can be
elected more easily than either of these
TACT, at once, without
any contest whatever"
BOTH Republican candidates for
Congress in Florida were elected at the
late election. The vote has Just been
declared by the canvassers, and is as
follows:
I p's' w,,,,,r Elected, Rsgp; Dem; Scat;
= Josiah L. Wal $40 SITS =.
1t is stated by a Democratic paper
that the Legislature is politically COM
posed as follows
Joint
Senate. HOUSE. Ballot.
hepuoncans. "a IS
DemocrAts- II % 40
Democratic majority. 7
ANDREW JOHNSON says he is going to
be the next Senator from Tennessee.
:" have been over the field" he said to
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
naercial, "and know pretty well what
to calculate on. / believe that my
worst enemies now acknowledge that
my chances are growing better every
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