The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

-MlnlSUer W aSnOuTne has positively re-
fused to have any thing to do with the
Presidency.
ooh" says Ben Butler, contemplating
the amnesty fight. cob. for just one
hour in Congress-"
The hotels Of Washington are crowded
with the baggage of disappointed Office
seekers who didn't have enough money
left to pay their bills.
The Democratic Executive Committee
is to meet at Washington on Washington's
birthday to select the time and place for
the meeting of the Democratic Convention
to nominate candidates for President and
Vice President.
The Southern papers appear to be con-
centrating and crystallizing upon Honora-
BILE Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, as
the Democratic candidate for President,
aud the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Della
ware, for Vice. President.
Many Democrats of the House declare
that a few more such speeches as Hills
would ruin the party north and south.
The Republican members of Congress have
had ten thousand copies of Hills speech
printed for circulation, as campaign doc
ument of rare value.
The Louisville Courier Journal says:
"In 1864 the Democrats put war candi-
date on peace platform. In 1868 they
put a hard money nominee on soft-money
platform. In 1872 they put high tariff
man on free-trade platform. They lost
all the way through"
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald has been studying the Pres
idential question, and comes to the conclu-
sion that the nomination on the Republi-
can side now lies between Mr.. Blaine and
Senator Morton" The correspondent adds:
"The two men to whom the Democratic
nomination to day is possible, are Hen
bricks and Thurman"
Somebody is engaged in a mean at
tempt to suppress the eloqnence of Sam
Cox. The Congressional Record will be
scanned in vain for those sudden and pun
gent utterance which thrilled the House
during the recent debate. Posterity will
know nothing of the Cicorian flights "Oh,
Blaine, dry up.' "Good for Hill, d" Well,
below away-you are hyena," etc, ex-
cept as they are handed down by tradition.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, extreme as it
is in its opinions, does not like the course
of the Democratic representatives in the
amnesty debate. 1t says: "The Demo
Gratis tumbled into the pit that was digged
for them--not inextricably, but foolishly.
They might have Numbered worse, but
they Numbered. Had Mr.. Blaine been an
swered with few uuvarnished facts or by
contemptuous silence, he would have been
dismissed to the scorn of the nation as a
demagogue. 1t will be especially becom-
ing in the Democratic members of Con-
gress from the Southern States to remem
Der that forbearance, not defiance, is their
path of prudence and patriotism"
The Louisville Courier Journal admits
that the Democratic party has by no means
a certain prospect of victory in the next
Presidential election. 1t says: "To sum
verse from the fair outlook Of this day
twelve months ago, and can be only i'm
proved by the Democrats themselves, who
need to go back to their principles and tradi-
tions, putting hard-money, free-trade and
home-rule candidate upon hard money,
home-rule and free trade platform. Moth
ing less will give us the ghost of chance
to beat the Republicans, because nothing
~
with the facts of contemporaneous his
tory"
The New York Tribune, in an article
telling both parties what they must do, to
place themselves in proper position before
the country, sums up in the subjoined ex-
tract, its opinion of the result of the COM
ing Presidential election: " Democrats con-
not elect the next President without New
York. Republicans can. These two facts
supply the key of the next election. The
Democrats must nominate a candidate, and
frame platform, and put their party into
a position that can secure New York.
Otherwise they are whipped before the
fight begius But the Republicans can
still make desperate struggle, with pos
sibility of success, even though the proba-
bilities in this Safe should be against them.
The Democrats can count, with almost alb
solute certainty, upon the votes of fifteen
former Slave States, and the Republicans,
! if they nominate candidate who unites
the party, can count with equal certainty
I upon the vote of South Carolina and all
the former non-slaveholding States except
New York, Connecticut New Jersey, In
diana, California, and Oregon. The DEM
ocrats then need "a more electoral votes
out of the "a considered debatable. The
Republicans however, need only 81, and
can lose New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut, or New York, Indiana and
Oregon, and still elect the President. Tie
Democrats cannot possibly get "a of the "a
debatable votes, without the 50 of New
York, and must therefore carry this State