Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

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1t is the Philadelphia Bulletin
which suggests that Cabinet officers
ought to carry bell punch.
The Hon. George II. Pendleton is
no longer prominent as Presiden-
tial candidate.
The Connecticut election will take
place April 18th. The Democrats car
ried the State last year by near 5000
majority.
Later returns from New Hamp-
shire increase the Republican major
ity. 1t is now claimed that they have
carried the State by over 5000
and have decided majority in both
branches of the legislature.
Judge Taft, the new Secretary of
War, was chairman of the conven-
ton which nominated Greeley for
President in 1872.
Secretary Taft resigned his office
as Trustee of the Cincinnati South
ern Railway before his departure
for Washington.
Mr.. Steward, the independent cam
didate for Governor of Illinois, is
said to be a lineal descendant, on his
mothers side, of John Rogers, the
Smithfield martyr.
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Enquirercries for a presidential ticket
made up of 'shonest Ex-Governor
VIM. Allen, of Ross county, Ohio,
and Hon. Hester Clymer, from hon.
est old Berks county, Pa
The Cincinnati Commercial says
the Belknap combustion will not in
jure the Republican party. On the
contrary it will be of service to that
party. Grantism is no longer a power.
The Republican party had not to fear
the Democratic party but the Grant
party.
Governor Rice, of Massachusetts,
refuses to issue licenses to compan-
les of temperance cadets to carry
arms on st. Patrick's Day, and will
follow the example set by Gov. Gas
ton last year, and refuse to review
such bodies, on the ground OF Illegal
ity.
1t is reported that arrangements
have been made by which Senator
Thurman will receive the vote Of
Ohio in the st. Louis Convention. -
There is no doubt Thurman is gain
ing strength rapidly, and the indica-
tions now point to his nomination.
If the Democratic party is seeking
for honesty and ability in their can
didate they can do no better than
take Thurman.
The Springfield Republican thinks
that it would be " suicidal" folly
for Blaine to accept the United
States Senatorship. 1t thinks that
he will be the Republican leader so
long as he remains in the House of
Representatives, and adds. s'For
some reason, Senators are not in de-
mand in this country as Presidential
candidates.
Senator Morton Is friends are losing
hope. One of them informed the ed
itOr of the Cincinnati Commercial,
recently, with tears in his eyes, that
he believed it was all over. Between
the soft-money plank in the Indiana
platform and the betrayal of Pinch
back in the house of his friends, Mr..
Morton's prospects have been sadly
damaged.
The Springfield Republican says:
at has probably occurred to a good
many voters during the last few
months that Carl Schurz would have
been a rather useful man to have in
the United States Senate in these
days of investigation and exposure
of party disintegration and popular
perplexity. But The unterrified Mis-
souri, backwoodsmen preferred Cock
relI.
David A. Wells says of the finan-
cial bill reported by the Democratic
caucus. The bill will when exam
ined and analysed, be found to be
nothing but the Ohio rag-baby, be-
smeared with a little new paint, and
bedecked with gaudy new dress
and il ever seriously brought before
Congress, all the infiationists of
both parties who closely examine it
will recognize the original brat adopt
it, and speedily learn to love it,"
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