Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-20
Political Facts and Fancies.

BriStow is solid on Louisiana. He tele-
graphs Kellogg:-''Let those who are charged
by law with the ascertainment of the vote OF
Louisiana do their duty under the Law fairly
and feailessly, and the country will sustain
them, whatever the result" wendell
Phillips says:-'I do not think there is any
certainty whatever who will succeed Grant
in that chair until the first day of March. No
or next month, the decision will not be
reached certainly before the middle of Feb
ruary:" The n. Y. Express says:-"The
scare the boys have got over the talk about
seiZing the money i'm the pool boxes, added to
the uncertainty of the result, has proved a
positive case of cruelty to animals A more
wandering about town it would be difficult to
imagine" '.''Charles Francis Adams wants
TO know If the back counties of Massachu-
sets are in yet.-B,Tii'agton Hd,ckeye. THE
ST Louis GLOBE Democrat, republican paper
suggests that il distinguished citizens of
both political parties" are TO go to New Or
leans TO ass list i'm the count, Mr.. Carl SchurZ
ought to 60 by all means, as he is ga distin-
guished citizen of both political parties" 80.
local poet dashed into the sanctum of the
Norwich Bulletin the other night with his
latest inspiration:-"And the star-spangled
banner in triumph still waves, DER the
land Of the free and President Hayes"
'''' Frederick Douglass says he pra we'd three
years to be delivered from bondage, but he
never got any answer till he prayed with his
legs. We fear Fred is becoming a material
ist.-BostOa Globe. '.-."The heaviest demo-
cratic gains in South Carolina were where
the soldiers We're the hickest. Worcester
Press 80. 1.-The democratic countenance was
exceedingly rosy the first day. 1t looks less
.nor-idy' now."-Chic. Inter Ocean when
IIlden came out of his breakfast room on
wednesday morning, and found waiting for
MIN 5S1 men who wanted To be collector of the
port of New York, and 7S3 who wanted to be
surveyor of the port, with a rear guard ex-
tending as far as the eye could reach, OF fell
lows who wanted embassies and consulships.
he turned sadly TO Hewitt and asked him IL
the yellow fever was still raging i'm Savan-
nah, and IL they hadn't better move the dem
ocratic headquarters down there?-Toyedo
Blade. 49, A little pleasantly from the Man
chester, N. H., Mirror: --latest election news
by the clothes-line telegraph ST. PAUL,
Mimi, November 15-T0 A. g. Hesoea, Neao
smith, who was chosen an elector on the re-
publican ticket last week, has q large car
buncle In such position that he cannot sit
This ensures the election of Tilden. Tom
BUCHANAN, Chairman Of Democratic State
Committee. -" H. b Hayes stands for Re
turn Board Hayes-M Y. Express.
INELIGIBLE ELECroRs-The Vermont
house on Saturday finally passed the bill for
hlling vacancy in the electoral college, I2s
to 10. The act is specially designed to meet
the case OF h N Sollace, said to be ineligible.
lican electors In Rhode Island, being United
States Centennial commissioner, the point
has been raised that he Is ineligible, and that
democratic elector was necessarily electai
In consequence Governor Lippitt, In q letter
to General Sickles, OF New York, says thai
Rhode Island laws provide for all contin.
gencies in case Of vacancies from any CAUSE
In the electoral college," and that the state
VIII give It's four votes for HayVP anil
Wheeler.