The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-24
Political Notes.

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the stump.
The Buffalo Erprcss heartlcsSly
charges the Democrats with "having
no principles of their own except to do
the other thing
indianapolis JOiUH0i:" IL. II. Dodd
of Sons of Liberty notoricty. is stump
ing Wisconsin for TildCn, Hendricks,
and Reform
The Bcrks-county Democrats show
Il determination to give Congressman
Clymcr third term, and return Scna-
tor Ermcntrout TO the State Senate.
Judge Culver, of New York, one of
GrCCiry's warmcst supporters i'll 1877,
will stump interior New York for the
Republican ticket. still they come.
The Republican State Convention
of Connecticut meets at New Haven
on the seth inst and the Democratic
Convention at Hartford on the 9Th Of
september.
The Omaha Republicans are al
ready in the field, and they propose to
make no defensive campaign. At II
mass mcCtng last week there were
more than Il thousand persons present.
Nothing shows better the two-faccd
position of Governor Tildcn on the
currency question than the fact that
both the hard and sott-mOnCy factions
claim that his latter agrees with their
views.
The Icruld's Boston correspondent
CNprCSsCs little doubt that il he will
accept, the Democrats will make
Charles Francis Adams their nominee
for Governor. They don't like him
but he's 80 handy, YOU know.
The National Democratic Committee
is short Of cash They have doubtless
drawn on Uncle Sammy, but are now
anNiously waiting another letter OfaC-
ccptamCC. The first one was all bum
cUubu, but the second Will mean bulsi-
ness.
Judge Settle is conducting Joint dis
cuSsUnS with his Democratic oppon-
| cnt, Vance, in the mountain counties
| of North Carolina, and the everlasting
| hills are turning out Overwhelmingly
! for the Republican candidates
The Republican canvass in Caliior-
MIA is being conducted with unprC-
cvdcntCu VigOr, The list of speakers
| containing more than Il hundred good
names and the rolls of the various
campaign clubs showing already II
membership of twenty thousand
workers.
General Banks announces TO Il re-
porter OF the Boston UcrUid that he is
| strongly in favor of Hayes and
| Wheeler. He j. not ready to soc the
country ruled again by the Southern
| Democracy, as he feels sure will be the
case ii 1Ildcn and Hendricks should
he elected.
The Alabama election has only
made il moro apparent, as the Albany
JOH}VW points out, that ''ff the 81.
Louis ticket is elected, Southern votes
must elect it. II successful, TildCn
would lie handed over to the South,
bound hand and foot, and compelled
10 60 it, bidding
Happy thought? il Tildcn had only
been President instead of Lincoln his
economy would have saved lis four
thousand million dollars of the "peo-
pics money! OF course the Union
would have been dcstrOycd-but
what's tritle Of that sort to your
truly economical statcSnan
Bcrlla~comty politics arc getting
more. and more mysterious The
GrCcnback party have organized "In-
dependent Clubs in all the most inn
portant townships, and the member
: ship is reported unexpectedly large.
{ Horrible thought that, flIaycs should
| happen 10 come i'll with plurality!
, Every Democrat in the country is
, in ruptUrcs with one word in Coy
! cnor TiidCn's letter OF acceptance. Ii
i. the word "UsutIuct.n They are all
| ready to swear it is good word, and
"llnocks the spots" OF Hayes letter.
They think it is the name of Il new
kind of whisky.-Erchan9e.
The Detroit Free Press having
: bOastcd that the Democrats of Michi-
, gan are thoroughly aroused and will
= be contcntcd with nothing less than i
clean sweep, the Post cruelty declares
that when Democrats are contented tC
5 be clean in any way they must indeed
= be wrought up to IL high pitch of en-
! thusiasnl,
. A Terre Haute 0nd.) despatch
, says the largest night rally but one
, ever held here was the Independent
II Grccnback mass meeting on Saturday
c Thirteen hundred torches were carried
Il in the procession, and Il large body o
. horsCmen participated, Speeches were
, made by James Buchanan and n. w
u Parker.
The Hon. Dewitt G. Littlcjohn
l whose declaration for Hayes ant
= Wheeler has created such intense
Il alarm among Oswcgo Democrats, ha
served eleven terms in the New 1orl
state Legislature, and during five o
= them as Speaker. He said at st
ii Louis that he couldn't and wOuldn'
If support Tilden, and he intends to tigh
= it out on that line.
Ie The Steubenvillc gazette, whicl
4, has heretofore supported Peter Coope
4 and his greenback platform, nov
comes over to lildcn because it intel
c prCts his letter to mean soft money
,e 1'ildcn's letters, so far as it relates t
D. the currency question, is very muc
90 like the durkey's coon-trap: 1t hab
. spring at bOfe ends so as To cotch d
% coon either a-gwine or a-coming.
= New York Commercial Adrcrtiscj
at was not Tilden and his Cana
lie Commission that stopped stealing o
II the canals. 1t was the adoption {
-, the amendments to the constitution
~ which TiIden had nothing to do Will
that shut down the gate on the cani
thieves. TiIdcn has been most sue
ccssful in obtaining popularity on falls
prctcnccs,"
n The kindest word OF the New Yor
ut Iribtusc for Mr.. Randall's economy
s. this: "Hhe people will be likely to il
OF quire whether, the record of the part
a warrants the belief that they will
III as Jealous ana efficient iii cuttil
ar down appropriations to an Admin
e. tration OF their own as they have bee
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