The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-18
Political NOtes.

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Never In the history Of the politics OIL
Maryland was a campaign 50 badly man
aged by the Republicans as the one JUS
ended. The Baltimore american was luke
warm, and worse than lame, and the chair
man of the State Central Committee, who
is bosom friend of Mr.. Fulton's and ha.
always tried to run the party in the inter
est Of those two only, was about as useless
in his position as paste-board man would
have been. As long as party must be
managed by this class of men, who have
no other aspirations or thoughts except to
get themselves in Office, and then stay
there, deserves to be beaten, and that
badly, as was the Republican party on
Tuesday. If the Republican party in this
State ever amounts to anything it will be
under the leadership Of other men than
John L. Thomas and Charles G. Fulton,
We have had enough Of em.-Baui-
more County Union, Nou. II.
| George Alfred Townsend, Republican
writing from Now York to the Philadel-
| phia Times, says There is universal
agreement among Republicans that the
policy Of Thaddeus Stevens to turn the
ignorant blacks into the pale of suffrage,
which was carried over Johnson's veto
was suicidal blunder. 1t increased the
South's representation and then solidifed
her, yet did not save the negro vote to aid
the Northern party. We gave the South
political socialism at the expense of our
consistency and her gratitude. Yet she
absorbed the poison and sentus back such
q garment of it as Ncssus bequeathed to
his conqueror, Hercules. DR.. Bellows
preached sermon on this subject yester-
day, admitting and lamenting the extent
of the blunder, the uncharity and the
retort. But he also alleged, what is good
sense, that having made the mistake, it
was safer to go ahead than to turn back.
We have fine physique, and can live
over even this black vomit.
In South Carolina Democratic counse
have applied to tho Supreme Court of the
State for writs Of prohibition and mandam
us to restrain the Returning Board from
throwing out the votes of any county OF
counties in counting the returns, and gen
orally restraining the Board from exercis-
ing judicial functions. The application is
also to prevent Dunn, Cardozo and Hayne,
who are State officers and candidates for
reelection, from sitting in the Board on
account of their having in such capacity
to pass upon their own claim. The Court
passed rule appointing the 10th for a
reply from the Board and discussion upon
the questions raised. No additional fig
ures have been reported from South
Carolina, and everything rests in suspense
pending the action of the Court in which
the legal issues have been joined
Henry N. Sollace, of Bridgeport, Vt, a
Republican Presidential Elector, whose
eligibility is questioned on account of his
holding the Office of postmaster, stated
that "his resignation as postmaster is
already in the hands of the Postmaster
General" It. has also been discovered
that a Republican Elcctor in Oregon is a
postmaster and disqualified under the
Constitution. A special dispatch to the
New York Post, speaking Of this case
says :-"Whether the two remaining cleo
tors can cast three electoral votes for the
State, or the difficulty can be remedied
and the disqualification removed from the
elector by his resigning the postmastership
before the official count is made and he il
officially declared elected, is an open ques
ton. '.N,, .Htf
New Orleans remained quiet yesterday
and the leading Democrats who are on the
spot for the purpose Of supervising the
count of the vote by the Returning Boart
united in request to the Republicans
appointed BY President Grant to the same
end for joint conference, with a view OF
determining the course to be pursued and
securing just aud satisfactory action. Nc
reply to the proposal has yet been made
many of the Republicans designated NOT
having yet arrived in New Orleans. The
contrary claims of each party to majoritie:
in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida
continue to be made, and the upshot Of il
is that the disputed States are still in dis
pute, and probably will be for week to
come.-Batttmore american, Wednesday
The difference between the claims of
the Democrats and the Republicans in the
disputed Southern States is that while the
former give the figures from the different
counties and parishes to support theirs,
the Republicans make only the general
claim that they have carried the State,
and talk Of frauds and outrages which they
fail to sustain by any evidence. This last
is very suspicious. The Republican des,
patches fail to indicate any honest conf
dence in success on fair count. Taking
the reports from the Democratic and Re-
publican sources, no man accustomed 10
weighing evidence can fail to sec that the
proof, so far as it has been presented, is
all on the Democratic side.--N Y Sun
On Thursday Kellogg autographed from
New Orleans :-"Louisiana is sure for
Hayes beyond all question" "Republi
can majorities are larger all over the State
and the Democratic majorities lighter than
we estimated" In another despatch he
said :-"Be easy so far as Louisiana i:
concerned" Yet on Saturday he tele.
graphed the Herald that he had no accu-
rate figures on which to base an estimate
His Drag and buster were based on his
confidence in his ability to count the State
for Hayes, not on any knowledge he had
that the majority of the votes cast were
for Hayes, for the reports all indicated Q
majority for Tilden.--M Y, Sun, Monday
Seth Kinman Of San Francisco, hunter
trapper, and Presidential chairmaker, has
finished the job and is waiting for tiding.
from the doubtful States before calling in
an expressman. In 1856 he presented
J Mr.. Buchanan with chair made of elk
horns and hoofs; in 1864 he sent Mr.
Lincoln one just like it; and Mr.. johnson
| wna favorad with N chair moda of ,,.;yyl,