Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-09-28
GOING THE ROUNDS.

MASSACHUSETTS iEPlBLlCANS say we
want Ben Butler ir jim Baines place to
Wallop Ben Hill.
CoURIER-JoURNAL: Through the gossamer
web of a bunged eye the battered pugilist
gratefully gazes upon the model community.
WATTEEsoS' pickets are SO thick along
the Kentucky Indiana front that from the
river the shore resembles an inverted cross
cut saw.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS declines 70 jointly
canvass Indiana with Senator Morton or any
other man. lie proposes to ''go it alone,
just as he Gid during the war.
ONO state JourHdl: The New York Dem
ocrats select their candidate for Governor
by a new principle Of evolution, which re-
suits in the survival of the unfttest.
TIE Republican ma jority on the Congress
sional ticket in Vermont is 27,0C0, gain on
the vote Of 1874 OF Is, 1913. This point has
escaped Democratic mathematicians.
The New York Evening" Pest says Of the
Democrats: \ party which never learns
anyhilg las little chance Of serving i'll this
country, even as a respectable opposition.
Mr.. BLAKE viii make his first speech in
indiana, at he Tippecanoe battle-ground,
Sept. 2Gth General Harrison will also be
present, and this will be the grand rally OF
the campaign.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR was described 10y 1t dis
custed New York Democrat as the man who,
by accepting a nomination in 1868, shook the
Democratic party, and, declining one in 1876,
shattered il.
ALECK STEPHENS is reported as having
risen from lis sick bed, shaken the wrinkles
out of lis jaW-bone, and announced his in
ten:ion cf making stump speech fer Tiiden
next month.
CHICAGO I7iJune: "Albany dispatches
state that a sculptEess is at work Ga bust
of 'Iiltlen. The Republican party is at work
upon q bust of Tilden that will be more as
tonishirg than hers.
TIE sum of S23, 900 has been allotted to
Dakota Territory for surveying purposes by
the general land Office out OF the $3OO,G0
appropriated for surveys III the H1teen 0ls-
tricts in the United States.
Now that the desperate invention in regard
! to HAYES tax returns has been laid forever
at rest Mr. Tlden's silence becomes intensely
conspicuous. His situation is very awkward;
will he explain or withdraw
TIE Chicago Inter- Ocean says the Louis
vile Couier-J0urnaJ calls Sitting Bull and
his followers the northern Sioux, to distln-
cush them, it is presumed. from the south
ern Sioux under Hamburg Butler.
ST. paul. Pioneer-Pfess: ii any one thing
has been demonstrated by the Indian war
now IN progress, it is the supreme need OF
the government that the Northern Pacific
railway be completed into Montana.
eve are having." says the Vicksburg
Herald, Dem "too much of Judge Lynch
and the pistol in the State OF late. The
authorities Inust repress these dark and
bloody stains and disgraceful crimes
4 CORRESPONDENT of the Baltimore G0zette,
after making a thorough canvass Of all that
part of North Carolina where the Democrats
are strongest, gives it as his reluctant concu-
sion that the State will so Republican.
IF Iil1en will only see to it that Boss
Tweed, upon his return to New York, is
allowed his liberty instead Of being hustled
inside Of Ludlow street Jail, the Democrts
will sweep the city 'by large majority.
The Denver Times says Governor Routt
the Republican candidat for Governor in
Colorado, is so popular in Denver that a
Democratic club stopped business when they
heard of his nomination to give three cheers.
PooR old Uncle Daniel Drew hadn't the
faintest intention Of joking when, in response
to reporters query as to his opinion OF
Vanderbits chances of life, he replied: 81
have no hope Of his recovery. I know his
physician very wel.'
IN his speech at Warren Ohio, General
Garfield bit it exactly when he spoke or
Tilden's conduct as the most tremendous as
saut upon the Presidency ever made by any
man. It certainly is not a case ia when 'he
Office seeks the man.
PROF. WI. EVERETT, son OF Edward
Everett. has written long letter explaining
whv he rode out of the Republican party On
the Greeley wave, and why ne now prelers
to come back again and work and vote Tor
Hayes and Wheeler.
NEw YORK 7156uae: Congressman Hen[y
2 PayDe declared at Saratoga, the day W..
Sev,nour was nominated, that his noinlnau:li
~, ,r.h < O00 votes to the Democrats IN
CL;o w; New will Mr.. Payne tell US now many
.l.no oi.t"' ~, withdrawal will be worth to the
Republicans?
Trr Times. the Independent Sunday paper
- Rnston declares for Hayes. 1t says:
.,,,7a oo,,not hesitate longer to declare our
oaa1;ot;ou that the welfare of the nation and
~ ,,aoceful progress towards prosperous
.;,,,ds -, nl be far better entrusted to him and
tte men who are likely to surround him than
o Mr. Tilden and the men with whom he
would be associated.
THE Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado is model reformer.
1t is charged against him, not by Republicans
but by fellow Democrats, that he stole 1900
sheep, the case being still pending that he
forged deeds to 5000 acres of land; that he
mutilated the court record, and that he
bought Mexican proxies to the convention at
5000 EACH But he is spared the crowning
misery Of being charged with falsifylng his
income.