The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-06
Presidential Talk.

| favor OF having the National Convention
held at Philadelphia, in Independence
Hall, on July 4. The State Committee
passed resolution to that effect at then
recent meeting, when it was decided to
| hold the State Convention at Lancaster
on March 22.-N Y. Tribune.
| The Kennebec Journal suggests that
| the Democratic National Convention be
held at Andersonville. That of the Re
publicans might be held in the Missouri
| Penitentiary, and find good many
leaders of the party already there, Bel
fast journal.
General Sherman writes II never
have been. am not now and never shall
be a candidate for the high Office of
President of the United States, before
any convention of the people.
He alludes favorably to Gov. Hayes.
He says: "My wife and family are
strong Catholics, but l am not; that,
however, is nobody's business"
dent that Senator Sherman's letter will
make the former President. To say
they are jubilant family expresses their
state of mind. N. Y. Tribune.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has broken
out anew upon Tilden. This is a good
sign for Tilden.- COm'aer-.JonpM
Senator Conkling, it is said, "has
formally announced that he will become
a candidate for the Presidency" Become
a candidatel Why, he has been a candi-
date for the last ten years. Courier
Journal.
It is long time since William Allen
has been heard from. The prevalent
opinion has been that his friends have
concluded that he had risen up for the
last time. This seems to have been q
mistake, however, for the Cincinnati
Enquirer takes occasion to remark
THE Uncle still has more strength than
the Nephew lin his own country and
may yet prove very troublesome. The
Democratic party owes him a debt OF
him by supporting him for the Presi-
doncy. "-NeW York Tribune.
One Of the members of tho National
Democratic Committee, who took the
trouble to canvass the other members
Of the committee, personally and by let
ter, as to their choice Of the place at
which to hold the Presidential nominal
ing convention, says that he found
them almost unanimously in favor of
st. Louis. NJ Y. Herald.
Senator Morton's health is undoubt-
eddy one of the greatest stumbling
blocks in his road to the Presidency.
This opinion having been generally ex-
pressed, the indianapolis Journal feels
moved to say: There is a good deal Of
misunderstanding and misrcpresenta-
ton in regard to Senator Morton's
health The Journal has no object in
misstating the facts, and it can assure
the country that Senator Morton's gen
eral health is not intirm, but good, and
steadily improving. He is fifty-one years
old and hale and hearty. except as to his
lower limbs. This difficulty puts him at
n disadvantage in getting about, but
does not affect any vital organ nor his
general health. During the last three
years he has been steadily improving in
this regard, and walks now with more
ease than at any time during the last
six or eight years.-N. ]. Tribune.
A Tilden Club has been organized at
Auburn, and gave its first annual sup
per on Thursday evening.
Carl Schurz seems to think Mr.
Blaine's prospects are dubious, for he
writes: "Mr. Blaine is a man of great
talent, and has many Jealous friends
but party will be very slow in the Cen
the Presidency who has made himself
the first violent disturber of the ma
tional jubilee. The third term is not
the only evil against which patriotic
people revolt. What is now demanded
is to conciliate enmity, not to goad it,
and no candidate can prove himself
strong, who, in the contest Of opinions,
introduces the bitterness of personal
passion by the reckless challenge ofthe
opponent
Men of character and brains like
Washburne stand no chance. The
handwriting on the wall is Grant for a
4 irI t<,t-/ \
Since John Sherman took the field
Hayes stock is quoted little steadier.
IT looks now as though Hayes would go
into the convention with about twenty
five votes, all told. Cincinnati Enquirer
(Dem.)
There will be a lively connection in
Indiana, and especially in Indianapo-
lis, when this paragraph from the
Nation reaches there: ave presume
that there is nobody in the country who
now has the smallest belief in Mr.. Nor
tons honesty rs q politician, or sup
poses that there is any sincerity in any
thing he says. He makes speeches.
everybody knows, on whatever side of
any question he supposes most likely to
be popular, and he has no hesitation in
fatty and publicly contradicting in Jan
uary what he said in July. Nobody, in
IatU, CTculLS MN WIFI ally CouNlCtlOIlS Vi
his own. In pure and healthy state
of politics and Of public opinion, he
would be living in close retirement and
taking his exercise after dark. IN Y.
Tribune.
The Richmond Dispatch thinks there
is too much swell and strut about the
Conkling ticket for solidity.
eff Mississippi was only safe for Nor
ton" says the Vicksburg Herald, che
wouldn't SANDER her as he did in his
speech"
The very radical Pittsburg CONNER
cidl remarks: 80 it appears the report
that President Grant had concluded to
abandon his third term ambition as
hopeless was canard. Better for him
had it been true"
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PRO
GRAMME. When the company OF United
States troops arrived at McComb City,
their ostensible purpose was to assist a
Revenue officer who alleged that he was
prevented from discharging his duties
by armed bodies who resisted his au-
thority. The committee sent here by
the Legislature have ascertained the
charge to be untrue, and that the neces-
sity for troops never had an existence;
they will likely so report, and memo
rial will be forwarded to Congress ask
ing their withdrawal. We suspect
ed the real object of their being
sent here and recent develODmentS have