The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-05-15
Political Notes.

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BENJAMIN Hill has been elected to Con-
0ress for the North District Of Georgia, to
succeed Mcmillan, deceased
The Democratic Convention Of Ken
lucky, has nominated james b. McCreory
of Madison county, for Governor.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention
will meet in Columbus on the 18th Of
june The State Committee have decid-
ed to hold grand ratification meeting on
the evening Of the Convention, and invite
prominent Democrats from other States to
address it.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour is re-
ported as having expressed the opinion
that the Democratic nomination for the
presidency will hardly go outside group
of four gentlemen-Samuel j. Tilden,
Sanford b. Church, Thomas A. Hendricks,
aud Allen G. Thurman.
There are many slips between the cup
and the lip, but we do not think we will
be far mistaken in our prediction that If
things get no worse for Grant than they
are he will receive the nomination Of the
ofice-holders Convention and be beaten
by the electoral vote and the people,
Wilmington (N. O. Star Dem.
The contested senatorial election cases
in the New Hampshire Legislature, upon
which hinges the political supremacy of
either party in the State, have been refer.
red BY the Governor and Council to the
judges Of the Superior Court for their
opinions, provided such can be obtained
before Monday next otherwise the Gov
ernor will get such sdyice as the circum-
stances may admit
Senator Thurman seems to have a gem
crous estimate of the Presidents influence
in the South. When asked recently by
reporter Of The Cincinnati Enquirer
whether he thought the Republicans would
succeed in getting declaration from Gen,
Grant against the third term, he replied:
"Grant is hard man to squeeze, and they
will get nothing out Of him. As sure as
you are in existence he is candidate for
reelection. He can 20 into the Conven-
ton with all the South at his back, and it
only requires 46 votes in addition to the
Southern States to nominate"
The patriotic and fraternal revival which
Senator Sehurz invoked is upon US. The
rebellion is giving place in our affections to
the revolution; Sumter and Gettysburg
have yielded to Concord and Yorktown;
Lincoln to Hancock; Grant, Sherman, and
Sheridan to Washington, Moultrie, Warren,
Putnam and Morgan; Wendell Phillips to
Patrick Henry, and enlargement to re-
union. The governing party of the last
fourteen years appears at disadvantage
in the transformation. The centennial
spirit causes Il to dwindle and shrink into
silence unusal to it, and it would not be
surprising If, before the centennial obser.
vances are over, Il will be found to have
perished.-[&. Louis Republican { Ind.)
JUDGE KELLEY's OBSERVATIONS IN
THE SoUTH.-Judge VIM. ID. Kelly, a
Republican member of Congress from
Pennsylvania, who has just returned from
six weeks tour in the South, according
to the Washington correspondence of the
New York Tribune, bears most emphatic
testimony against the Southern policy Of
his own party in the last Congress. "When
asked what he thought Of the political
condition Of the South, he used these
words 1.-The vote most regret, during
my fourteen years service in Congress, is
that which cast last winter in favor of
the force bill" He further said that 80
far as his observation went, during his
extended tour, there was no more neces-
sity for the use of federal military force
than there is in Pennsylvania or Ohio
He talked with Confederate soldiers, with
Northern men, negroes, carpet-baggers,
and travellers, and he was surprised at the
good feeling existing. He said he should
hereafter take little stock 10 Southern out.
RACES, especially If they are reported as
occurring in the sections he visited He
says, so far as he saw-and he went with
his eyes and ears open--there was no feel
ing of fear or distrust on the part Of the
colored people, and he could not for the
life or him see what use there was for
force bills. He was very glad to have
made the trip, for it has enabled him to
understand the condition of the South
better than he has ever understood it be.
fore. He said il was not the Kuklux that
was running the South, nor was their un-
happy condition TO be attributed to the
hatred by the Southern people Of the peo-
pie Of the North, nor was any political
question involved; he thinks the whole
trouble in the South arises from financial
and industrial causes, and he believes that
the South win not improve and advance
until the Forty-fourth Congress repeats the
financial legislation Of the Forty-third
until the industries Of the country are
revived, and we are forced to live within
our income, the South will grow worse
instead of better.