The New York herald., 1876-01-31
f. POLITICAL NOTES


1.-THE bill to make Jefferson Davis eligible to ths
Presidency" is, according the Utica Herald, the
title republican journals disposed TO give 10 Kan
dall's amnesty proposition.
Tho democratic party's slogan In the South-"Atten-
tion, battalion ''-BaGaio Erpress (rep.)
James Gillespie Blaine is his full name and it would
look very we'll attached 10 an annual message--St
Louis Globe Democrat trep)
The Troy Times states that 'Charleyn Wakes, Con.
gressman from the Twenty ninth district Of this State,
and who defended the citizens OF Emira against the
charges OF Hi of Georgia is the Charley Walker
who sitting hand truck in front OF the Dickinson
House in Corning in his shirt sleeves one hot day
last summer hailed porter by fat lady With
heavy carpetbag and asked to carry her pack 10 the
depot The Congressman accepted the job but de-
cined the reward offered remarkiug that the pleasure
OF walking with the lady sufficient compensation
Two have fooishly, fatally blundered, and his
tory will write their about in this wise:-James
G. Blaine, Jefferson Davis PliIadephia Times (tnd
There Is at least democrat in the United States
who congratulates himself on the fact that JEFF Davis
has not heretofore amnese1 and the ars etters
Of his name are l. Q c. Lamar. Had Davis been free
Lamar would have remained the Lower House
EuansviIIe I'd.) Journal
The Pittsburg Commercial says It is intmatcd that.
should Speaker Kerrs health prove poor permit
as Speaker pro tenn, and adds :-'Lamar is a great
man AS Speaker Henry Clay's overcoat wouldn't
make him peajacketn
The New Haven Palladium thinks that Wendell Phil
ps eppears to be losing his faith democracy Of
which he has been SO eloquent preacher when ho
afrms that Boston ought be governed by the state
at large and fer the State itself he would like to see
twenty thirty reform clubs organized to take charge
of IT,
The Indianapolis Sentinel dem that there care
three chief elements working with might and main 10
secure the denomination of Grant by the republican
party, and they may be briefly auumed I'D as gnor-
ance misguided religious zeal and official corruption
The Houston Texas Telegraph (dem.l says If tho
present Secretary the Treasury becomes President
integrity ability and decency will dignity the Presden-.
tial chair.
The Steubenyille (ohio Gazette says Governor Cur
tin If nominated for President could carry Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Hardly enough to win.
A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph AYERS that
Thurman will be President OF the United States
and that the Senate Cabinet is place for Pendle
ton.
The Newburg Journal is in favor OF sending un..
pledged delegates the National Republican Conven-
tion.
Says the Bath IN. " Courier rep :-"Thc time has
passed when nomination by the republican party
can be considered equivalent TO an election"
The Wilmington N C) Herald (dem) favors tho
nomination of Senator Bayard for the residency by
the democrats, rcmarking that cit looks if the Dar
winan theory in his operate in the political
order-the survival of the fttest"
The Washington Chronicle makes careful examina-
ton OF Southern almanac and discovers that the Con-
federates nearly always victorious in their battles
with the federal troops and yet the Stars and Stripes
still fly over the national Capitol
The Troy Times trep.), ndorsng the remarks of the
Buffalo Commercial (rep favoring the sending OF q
Conkling delegation to the Republican National Conven-
tion afrms that it may be set down as a 'ixed fact''
that New York will send such delegaton-the ball
having been set in motion not by Senator Conkling,
but by tie short tactics of some OF his envous
rivals"
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle calls attention to the
fact that Georgia is unrepresented the Democratic
National Executive Committee General A R. Wright,
who was appointed 1872, having died and tic VA
cancy remaining untitled
The Buffalo Commercial urges the immediate forma-
ton Of Conking clubs, " and the motion seconded
by that ubiquitous individual "a Well Known Citizen.
Philadelphia correspondent OF the jefferson.
(Texasl Leader insists George W. Childs OF the
Public Ledger, is General Grants first choice as his
successor in the Presidential chair.
The Troy Wing trep) is afraid to pledge the New
York delegation to the Republican National Convention
TO Conkling and prefers that It should 60 altogether
unpledged
General Charles W Roberts declines a denomination,
as the democratic candidate for Governor OF Name