The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-03-24
Political Notes.

The latest Washington rumor is that there
will be coalition Of the Republicans and
some Southern Democrats to elect n Southern
Democrat with Hayes variations, Speaker of
Congress, and Mr.. Mcpherson Clerk. We re.
gard the story as one of the many absurdites
which Washington oilers and gossips are com.
PEELED to invent from day to day. Assuming
that Mr., Adams will follow the rulings Of Mr..
Mcpherson, the roll for the election of
Speaker will contain about lj2 Democrats to
iii Republicans, and as the Senate will be
Republican under any circumstances, the
Southern men will doubtless feel the necessity
of having Democratic organization in the
| House to maintain the equilibrium of power
in dealing with the administration. 1t is eyi
dent that President Hayes will have the
rather more cordial support of the House
than Of the Senate in his general policy, but
the Democrats will have to go to in the name
of Democracy, and not as wrestcd from them.
1t was Dogberry, we believe, to whom it oc.
Cured rather forcibly that when two ride one
horse, one must ride behind. -Phiid. Times.
Judge Gibbs, eolored, who was Elector at
large on the Republican ticket in Arkansas,
| had an interview with the President on Sat
urday. He told Mr. Hayes that the nomina.
ton Of Mr.. Key as Postmaster General had
alarmed the colored people of the country
but they we're reassurcd by the nomination OF
Mr.. Douglass as Marshal of the District of
| Columbia The colored people, said the
Judge, would support the Presidents policy
of reconciliation. In reply the President is
credited with having said that ''hc was sin.
| cere in his policy and would adhere to it, un.
less it should prove to be impractcabe. For
eight years the policy of force and Of the
musket had been tried in the South, but it
had failed, and public sentiment now deman-
ded a change"
The Senate adjourned without voting for a
President pro tempore, to be prepared for the
contingency of the Vice Presidents death
during the recess Senator Ferry, who had
been reelected to the position, vacated it by
/ his absence from Washington, and, even had
he returned before the adjournment, new
election would have been necessary. As
there is neither President pro tempore of
the Senate nor Speaker of the House, the
office of President Of the Unit States would
become absolutely vacant for time, if both
President Hayes and Vice President Wheeler
should die before Congress could be convened.
The NJ !. Sun says The Republican
papers suggest that now that Mr.. Hayes is
President L would only be generous and de-
cent for the Democratic journals to ''let up"
on him. Why should we? The fraud which
seated him in stolen chair has not been i'm.
proved in its character because Of its success,
and is abhorrent TO all honest men as it ever
was When Mr.. Hayes retires or is retired
from the Presidency it will be time to "let
up" on him and consign him in mercy to his
own place. Till the 4th of March, 1881, he
must expect to be reminded that he was only
President de tdcto and the representative OF
minority of the people, pitchtorked into
power by a knot OF desperate thieves and
tricksters.
The filing of the petition for writ of eject.
ment against IS. b. Packard, claiming to be
governor" by the Nichols attorney general
is step in the right direction, and IL rests
with our great delaying President to say
whether it must be followed up by the action
of the courts. 1t is evident that the patient
people of Louisiana are DESTROYS of giving
Mr.. Hayes all the time he actually requires
in which to shape his ideas into orders, but
they are not going to wait till the crack Of
doom.
Jones the Democratic candidate, has been
returned TO Congress from the first New
Hampshire district by As plurality. Thii
makes the Forty. fifth Congress entire stant
IA Republican to l49 Democrats, allowing
the Republicans all they claim in Louisiana
South Carolina and Florida.
In the Circuit Court at Charleston, Soutl
Carolina, Tuesday, Judge Reed decided tina
Chamberlain was not the lawful Governor o
that State. All the judges in the State hay
now decided in favor of Gov. Hampton.
WHAT We SmP ABROAD. -Four Steamship
left New York on Saturday for Europe
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