The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
GEN. GARFIELD wants ex-Gov. Hayes
to run for Governor of Ohio this fall.
SENATOR BOOTH, of California, is visit
ing his parents in Terre Ha1lte, Ind.
The late Senator Revels, colored, has
given up politics and gone into preach
ing.
PHINEAs T. BARNUM, Mayor of Bridge
port, Connecticut. Admission to Bridge
port hereafter, fifty cents; children half
price.
CULVER says: He who causes a
blade of grass to grow where none grew
before is better than a whole race of pol
iticians."
VICE-PREsIDENT WILSON and Fred.
Douglass are present at the anti-slavery
peoples centennial celebration in Phila-
delphia.
Ex-GovERNoR CURTIN, it is said, will.
be induced to run for the Governorship
of Pennsylvania this fall, on the Demo
cratic ticket.
THE Salisbury (Md.) Advertiser NOM
mates Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, for
the next President, and Thomas +. Bay
ard, of Delaware, for Vice President
The Annapolis Gazette proposes James
G. Blaine, of Maine, for President, and
Alexander B. Hagner, of Annapolis, for
Vice President.
GEN. GARFIELD says the postage in
crease was all mistake, due mainly to
the bad practice of allowing important
legislation to be crowded into the last
hours of the session. That does not
agree with Senator Ramseys account,
nor with the one that Senator Hamlin is
reported to have made. Both of the lat
ter gentlemen place the blame upon the
committee.
Mr.. JOHN ROBINSON, the circus man
ager, who ran for Mayor, in Cincinnati,
the other day, does not seem to be
pleased with his first and only experience
in politics. On the night of his defeat an
audacious reporter had the temerity to
call upon him and ask what he thought
about it. When they brought the re-
porter to, and had cleared the birthstone
from his eyes and mouth, he said he did
not recollect exactly what Mr.. Robinson
said, but he judged by the energetic
manner of his speech and the size and
frequency of the oaths that he didn't
care to run for office any more.
FOURTEEN members of the House of
Representatives of the Forty-fourth Con
gress (Which meets for the first time on
Monday, December 6th) are still to be
elected, as follows: -Four in California,
which holds it's regular election on Sep
TENDER LIST; Six in Mississippi, which
holds it's regular election on November
I'd; and four at special elections to be
called hereafter to fill vacancies caused
by the death of members-elect: Garrett
Mcmillan Dem. in the Ninth Georgia
district, James Buffinton (Rep) in the
First Massachusetts, district; A. F. Allen
Oem.) in the Thirty-third New York
district; F. S. Hersey (Rep.) in the
Fourth Maine district. Of the 278 Rep
resentatives already chosen 1O2 are Re
publicans, 1877 are Democrats, and nine
are Independents.
GEN. BoYNToN in a long letter to the
Cincinnati Gazette explains the reasons
of Gen. Spinner's withdrawal from the
Treasury Department. He says Secreta-
ry Bristow, Immediately upon taking Of
fee, began thorough reorganization of
the department, making all of the di-
visions subordinate to and harmonious
with himself. The first trouble with
Gen. Spinner occurred when Mr.. Bris-
tow cut from his report disquisition on
the low rate bond theory, which, whatev-
er may have been its merits. did not CO.
incide with the views set forth by the
Secretary, and consequently would make
bad appearance in his report. "Fol-
lowing this in various ways" the cores
pondent continues, 60 the old General be-
gan to feel the force that was drawing
everything in the department. under the
control of one mind, and instead Of
4 yielding to this healthy return toward
/ first principles, the grating continued
and rather increased between the Treas
urer's Office and that of the Secretary.
It was this state of affairs, and not any
imputation upon the absolute honesty
and integrity, and the general efficiency
of Gen. Spinner, that led to requesting
his resignation. But a point had been
reached in Gen. Bristow's work of reor-
ganization where, in his opinion, it was
necessary to place a new man at the
head or the Treasurer's office, and, while
he had no unkindly feeling whatever
toward Gen. Spinner personally he de-
/ cidad upon the change"