The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-08-20
f'0isflcaf Notes.


thinks that Governor Allen, Of Ohio
will be reelected by a large majority.
The effort to put third party ticke
in the field in Maryland has fzzlcd
The Democratic ticket is iavorably rc
ceived throughout the state, and viii
undoubtedly I've elected by good ma
jority.
TlfE Boston Post speaks very encourag
ingly Of the Democratic prospects IL
Massachusetts, but urges the prophet,
of thorough organization of the party
NoTwIrHsrANDISG the herculean ei
fort to make brilliant showing TO
Harlan, in Kentucky, the indication
are that he has not materially improyct
his vote of 1871.
ANDREW JOHNSON wis accused Of I
great many things in his lifetime; bu
during the time he was President of tn,
United States il could never I've said tha
he had not spirit or inclination to remove
a Cabinet official who was objectionabl,
to him. Does any one suppose such {
man as Delano could have hung ON to tn,
Interior Department with johnson il
the Presidential chair, or that johnson
could have been frightened into retain
ing him through threat of "revela
| tiOnsY'
CARPENTER agrees with Casey abou
Grants chance for denomination. To al
interviewer OF the Milwaukee Ncrs VIII,
caught him on the ears where he couldn'
escape, Carpenter said In my opinion
General Grant will be the candidate o
the Republican party for a third term
can see no possible way Of avoiding
it, He will undoubtedly be the can
didate of the Republicans next year OF
hard money platform. This situation
affords him the exact pretext he wanted
and to which he referred when he wrote
his third-term letter, as circumstance
not likely " occur"
ONE of the most honest satires of tn,
day was uttered by Fred. Douglass il
an address on the condition Of the col
ored race. lie said plainly and keenly
ave have been injured more than we
have been helped by men who have pro
fessed to be our friends. They are law
yers without clients, ministers without
churches, wandering teachers without
schools" Such men had gone begging
for the "poor black people" pretty much
on their own hook, and, for every one
hundred dollars they collected, the "pool
black people" got about one hundred
cents. These men, he said, must be
stopped begging for the colored people
In like vein he referred to the great
fraud in the Freedmen's Bank, and cx.
coriated the "white friends" having the
run of that ill.starred institution with
an unsparing hand. He concluded by
appealing to the colored people to be in.
dependent of the wandering mendicants
who have followed them simply for gain,
adding, And in the future, if we want
Moses, we will find him IN our own
tribes"
RUMORs are not wanting in Iowa that
the Harlan faction regard with alarm
the nomination by the Republicans ol
Governor Kirkwood, fearing that hi.
election may elevate him to the senator
ship, and that, therefore, it will not be
surprising to learn that Kirkwood has
been scratched" in the house of hi-
friends.
GENERAL CAssIUs NJ. CLAY has been
interviewed on political matters The
SchurI-diDner men and the Adams men,
he thinks, can no more reproduce the
Cincinnati movement than they can re-
animate the heroes of l776; and the
Democracy can not afford To trust men
who have once broken faith. He iayors,
as the nominee for 1876, "a straight-Out
Democrat-Bayard, Tilden, Trumbull,
Allen or llendricks-and would have Il
southern man on the ticket for Vice
President.
THE Democrats of Maryland have
nominated John Lee Carroll, grandson
of Charles Carroll, the last survivor OF
the >iguers of the Declaration of indie
pendence, a. their candidate for Govern
or.
HARD or soft money is the cry, but,
whether hard or soft, the democracy
will carry the Presidential election in
1876.
4" wHES nature all IN chaos lay,
Aud darkness held unboundei sway,
Then tod, great aud go'I aud wise
Iiade planets, suns aud systems rise.
The Devil saw the perfect man,
And thought 10 initiate the plan,
And, straightway starting III, did 90
luto the regions dosn below
And brought a lad that made her pant,
And shaped ii up and called il Grant"
CHICAGO TH,cs: The death of Andrew
johnson leaves no eN-president nor cX-
Vice President among the liying.--lIcs
Moines R,gstcr; Lets see. Coltax died
of an aggravated attack Of Credit Mo
biller, but what was llamlins disease
Oh yes; increased postage killed Ham
lin, and the Rsgster is quite right-they
are more dead than Andrew johnson.
THE Minnesota Republicans declare
that they favor that policy of finance
which shall steadily keep in view a re-
turn 10 specie payments but leave the
people in a state of delightful uncer-
tainty whether they want 10 keep il in
view for the purpose OF avoiding it, or
for the purpose of accomplishing it,
Kelly, Butler aud Logan also keep the
thing in view, but the desire To avoid
it As long as possible is cyinced by their
continued demand for the repeal of the
resumption act.
GALVESTON h-rs II Is evident that