The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-14
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.


culturally, has not proved paying In
vestrnent posisicatly.
The Union League Club of New York
City do not favor Mr.. Conkling's NOM
ination to the Presidency at the Gin
cinnati Conventions; but quite the re-
verse.
Since the Belknap fasco there have
been heard some pretty loud calls for
the organization OF a 'third party" But
there do not appear to have been any
very encouraging responses as yet.
MIR. Washburne was prominent
candidate for the Presidential nomina-
tion OF the Republican party, but has
now signitied his willingness to accept a
nomination for Governor Of Illinois.
Sour grapes, eh?
"A Democratic paper In West Vir-
ginia disrespectlully speaks OF the Dem
ocratic State Committee as the ''ring-
streaked, striped, and Radical-mixed
seli-perpetuating body"
Both parties say that the opposite
party is buying votes in New Hamp-
shire, and quote the ruling prices on
the market, about the same as they do
the rates OF fancy stocks. What every
body says must be true.
The two names most spoken OF by
Republican papers now, as Presidential
candidates, are Blaine, and Bristow.
The element known as "Liberaw among
Republicans mostly favor Bristow.
The Democratic majority in the
House and their leaders in the Senate
have been unable as yet to agree upon
the financial, policy to be. adopted by
| their party in the coming campaign. At
their last caucus meeting considerable
bitterness broke out; and the probability
now is that the settlemen MT Of this family
feud will be referred to open debate in
the House.
The animation comes from Indiana
that Gov. Hendricks will oppose the
nomination of Landers by the Demo-
cratic Convention of that State for Cow
ernor, and that the man selected is very
likely to be Congressman Holman. The
platform that either of them would
stand on will not be Of kind to help
Hendricks as Presidential candidate.
The Republican press generally is
scolding Grant for his blind devotion to
his personal friends, and the appoint
ment of unknown aud untried men to
office, regardless Of the best interests of
his administration and the good of the
Republican party. The party organs
are now speaking right out with no tear
OF third.termism before their eyes.
The Erie County IN. " Greenback
Club has elected delegates to the Syra-
cuse Convention, and they are instructed
to urge an independent national organ
ization upon a greenbaek platform, and
to present the name'of Senator Newton
Booth, of California; as the choice OF the
friends OF "honest money, honest legis-
lation, and honest administration" in
Western New York, with Francis e.
Spinner, OF New York, for Vice Presi-
dent.
| The Atlanta Courier is warmly in
favor of Thurman as the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. The Cou
rter gives the reasons for the faith that
is in it after this wise:
"It is our deliberate opinion that, with Blaine
/ and Thurman in the field, Thurman would get
1 a rousing majority Of the electoral votes. But
/ Thurman is, in our opinion, the only man who
can be sure Of carrying the flag to victory
1 Hendricks is strong IN the West, but could not
/ control the Eastern vote. Tilden and BayarC
are strong in the East, but can not control the
/ Western vote. Thurman can control OHIO, and
is as strong In the East as any Eastern mar
could be. His nomination is, in our opinion
the only key to the situation"
-'As goes New Castle so goes the
State" has long been the cry in New
Hampshire, that being the only town IL
i the State to hold its local election tn,
week before the general one. Las
Tuesday the Republicans carried it, ant
the Democratic paper in the neighborin,
town OF Portsmouth lays it all to til,
weather, not the stormy weather, how
ever, for it says: 'sHad the day beel
anything but the warm, bright, pieasan
day that 1t was, the fishermen woui,
have remained at home and the Repuh
lican majority been knocked higher thai
cooked hat"
"A little cloud, no bigger than man
hand, has sprung up to darken Mr.. r. II
! Dana's horizon. 1t seems that charge
were laid before the Senate Committe
ION Foreign Relations, indicating that il
1869 he was found guilty of some crook
edness in appropriating thecopyrighte
notes ofLawrence's edition Of Wheaton,
! "Law OF Nations.n It is quite impor
ant that our foreign Ministers shoul
be well up In the Law Of Nations. PEI
!, haps this showed Mr.. Dana's special Il
! ness for the English Mission and led t
his appointment. But the confirmatio
lingers.
The N. 7. tribune Of the 10th says:
ssThe astonishingIy rapid advance Of ii
Blaine movement has come to an abrupt an
complete standstilL The Belknap exposur
. has fallen upouitlike a mammoth extinguisi
3 Ter. Whether the arrest is to be permanent {
I not Is q question on which there are differel
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