The Portland daily press., 1876-03-17
Political News.

The Mississippi Republican state conven-
ton will be held at Jackson, March 81, aud
the colored men will meet on the same day
to choose delegates to their national conven- :
tion at Nashville. The Louisiana Republi-
cans meet May 80 to elect delegates to Gin
cinnati, and will nominate their state ticket
June 27.
1t is suggested that the bill for the admis-
son of New Mexico should properly be en-
titled "A bill TO enable Roman Catholic
bishop to elect two United States senator's"
Don't imagine that ordering ''bummers
to the rear'' will send them there. They've
got to be driven and they mean to make a
good fight before they co. too.
People in New Hampshire feel well to-day,
cecause the Republicans would not "Have
Marcy Ou 'em."
Score another rat caught at the treasury
crib. This time it was Democrat, and
Pendleton is shelved.
The Detroit Post draws this unique par
allel: 1.-THE people of the United States are
paying interest to-day on bonds stolen by
Buchanan's Secretary of the Interior, amount.
ing in value to over $4,000. Yet the Dem
ocrats in Congress and on the press declare,
with ridiculous solemnity, that Belknap's
crime is unprecedented in the history of this
or any other country"
The Chicago Tribune insists, notwithstand-
ing Mr.. Storey's donial, that the Times of
that city is TO become a Democratic organ
1t is said that two-thirds interest is to be
transferred for 100000, of which sum Sam
uel j. Tilden and Fernando Wood of New
York, Samuel Randall OF Philadelphia, and
James 81. Hopkins of Pittsburg, are to guar
antee one half, the remainder to be raised
among the Democrats of the Northwest.
Henry G.. Robinson, the Republican cand-
date for governor in Connecticut, is invited
to address the citizens of New Haven on "the
political issues of the day. by number OF
citizens, including Henry B. Harrison, The
| odore Woolsey, Leonard Bacon, Francis
Wayland, Simon E. Baldwin. W. G. Sumner
and George P. Fisher, who say that they cor
daily endorse the Republican ticket for state
That is a pretty strong list, ard gives one the
impression that "the scholar in politics" is
reality in Connecticut and not a myth.
This sort of thing is very discouragng to
poor Hester Clymer and those Democratic
investigating committees at Washington.
They had held back the evidence against Bel
knap all winter for use in the New Hamp-
shire campaign, and that is all the good it has
done.
Senator Thurman's friends have been do.
ing large amount of silent work for lin
lately, and claim now that the Ohio delega-
ton TO the National convention will be in his
| favor.
The Chicago Times, it is said, is to become
an ardent supporter of what it has hitherto
felicitousy described as ''the putrid reminis-
cence," to wit, the Democratic party.
A Washington special in the Providencs
Journal says: "The Democrats seem to be
taking the side of Lawrence in this fight
against Dana, and are really making the
| opposition turn upon the fact that the State
| Department in the early part of the war
threw out Lawrence's work from diplomatic
service because it held too strongly TO the
| doctrine of state rights"
The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal quietly