The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-25
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

Ia, POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
IT seems to be settled in Ohio that the
Hon. B. f. Wade is to be the Repub-
hcan candidate for Governor.
The first number of a Democratic
journal, with the aggressive title of the
Rip-Saa0, has appeared at Brook Haven,
Miss.
JOSEPH Brooks, one of the numerous
claimants to the Governorship of Arkan-
sas, has been appointed Postmaster at
Little Rock.
The Republicans have a majority on
joint ballot in the New Hampshire Leg
islature, which insures the choice of
Republican Governor.
EX-SENATOR HARLAN, it is said, will
be a candidate for the United States
Senate from Iowa, to succeed Mr..
Wright, who declines q re- election.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN SMALL, of New
Hampshire, who failed to receive a re-
nomination for Congress, accepted a
nomination as candidate for Representa-
tive in the State Legislature. NH.
Our President and our only ex-Presi-
dent "met by chance" on the streets of
the national capital the other day, face to
face, eye to eye, but neither showed any
sign OF recognition.
Hon. DAVID P. LOWE, formerly mem
Der Of Congress from Kansas, has been
appointed Commissioner of Pensions, in
place Of J. II. Baker, who has been ap-
| pointed to the position Of United States
Marshal for the Western District of Ar
kansas.
The vagaries and varieties under the
! Civil-Rights law are abundant. Two
negroes got drinks at the bar of Wizards
Hotel in Washington from white man,
and, going afterward to the barber-shop,
were refused shave by a man of their
own color.
WHEN the oath of office was admins
tered in the United States Senate, on the
9TH inst, Messrs. Andrew Johnson and
Hannibal Hamlin we're sworn in together
by Henry Wilson, presiding officer of
that body. Thus the spectacle was af-
forded of three Vice-P Presidents, two Of
them out OF office, standing at the bar of
the Senate together.
THE social amenities Of the Nevada
legislature 1 are shown boz, up by San Fran
to speak on the Virginia and Umatilla
Railroad bill, when Van Hagen rose and
said that he hoped Hogan would be de-
cent. Hogan made some reply, when
Van Hagen took up a book which was
lying upon his desk and threw it at the
head of Hogan"
GEN. ScHENoK is not the first poker
playing representative we have had at
the Court of St. James When Henry
Clay was there he negotiated with my
Lord Castlereagh by day and played
poker with Lord Castlereagh by night.
Indeed, it is related that he was lucky
enough to win ten thousand dollars of
my lord one evening. Men are shocked
at Gen. Schenck who regard Mr.. Clay
with just veneration.
Gov. BOOTH, of California, having re-
signed his office, In order to take his
seat in the United State Senate, Lieut..
Gov. Romualdo Pacheco, native Cali
fornian, becomes Governor. He is A.
years old, was educated in Europe,
while yet a young man was elected
County Judge of Santa Barbara county,
where he was born, has been in both
branches of the Legislature, and has
been Treasurer of the State.
The official vote of New Hampshire
foots up Governor-Cheney (Rep, !,
1925 !; Roberts dem. J, 80, 1853; White
Pro.), 754 total vote, 70, 202 Cheney
over Roberts, l22. congressman
First District Whitehouse rep. J,
ID, 1853; Jones dem. J, 14,O04 scatter
ing, 1876 Jones plurality, 1856. Second
DlstT3ct--Pike (Rep.), 1896; Bell
(Dem.), 1908 scattering, 2O2 Bells
plurality, lat. Third District-Blair
(Rep,), 1888 Kent Dem.), 12,181
scattering, 1853 Blair's plurality, 2O7.
Hon. NEWTON BOOTH, the Independent
Senator from California, of whom great
expectations have been INDUCED by his
friends, has delivered his maiden speech
in the Senate, the subject being the
Hawaiian treaty. Of the man and the
speech, the Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Times says: "He cap
tured the Senate as an orator, and de
monstrated how he had made such sue
cess upon the stump in his State. He is
a very fluent speaker, and reminds one,
in his ei.se Of expression and tendency to
earnestness, of Matt. Carpenter in his
palmy days. His voice is clear and mu-
steal, and his action is very graceful.
One Republican Senator, in speaking OF
him tonight, says he will be the success
sOr OF Matt. Carpenter in capturing the