National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-03-31
POLITICdL, NOTES.

Mr.. Clerk Adams succeeds In getting his
name In the Washington dispatches with monotp.
nous punctualtty.
Four days have passed without a proclsma.
animals down theree
Eliza Pinkston Is getting ready tongue for
every one Of her wounds. She proposes to argue
the case with tho coming commission.
Gov. Nichols warrants rose fow cents on
a stampede from the Packard to tho Nichols
Legislature This fact might suggest solution
ofthe Louisiana problem to the President.
Take q calendar and check of the oven and
the uneven days. On the even days dispatches
nay be expected from Louisians, saying that the
%'1 and the Ms e..
Nichols men will be hopeful end the Packard
mon least down.
The following paragraph has been travelling
aMr as s1s PsesHTpeou Sc S6u,S.sS
eating Commission will probably have TO be given
~. No decent man win coniep. e serve upon
mission is really . Radical Outrage"
Tho Democratic Journals that have been
shrieting over the Foster. Matthews Letters all
as the woman who had pitched her voice Q
high key while converting with friend duriA
the playing OF the orchestra and was unable 20
ceased.
The Democratic organs have been good deal
.,hove down" as Capt. Cutie would say, over
would be published. They had industriousiy
blown II until Ia their ewes Il had assumed ~
dimensions Of huge balloon, and now, alasl Il
has been suddenly punotured. But diSappoint-
ments are as common to the Democracy those
days as cramps were to Betsey Jane, aud they
must be more shove down" than ever by this
tine.
The Chicago Times has made a calculation
on tho Speskership, and comes to tho conclusion
that the hrst ballot VIII stand about q. follow;
.Biactburn, 2li Cox, Is; Morrison, 50; Randall
downto Blackburn and Morrison, with chances
ut House. the Times says "At the lowest com.
mutation the Democratic majority In the next
House will be Is. II Clerk Adams Is so disposed
may be 3o-atleast for purposes OF Organization.
Judge Hoadly withdraws from the canvass
for the Democratic nomination for Governor Of
Ohio. He writes to tho Cincinnati Enquirer, say
ing: "Will you please state for me authorits-
lively that shall not be q candidate for tho
private life by the political efforts OF private
citizen to defeat the Robert Maoaire party1 shall
| do but shall DO In no mans way for public
| station" Tho Judge broke his heart, no doubt,
mine.
A correspondent OF Western paper, writing
from Washington concerning the Spesksrship,
says: "A prominent Western Democratic men.
q the new has st arrived
| Morrison's chances for the Speakership are much
better than many politicians now think. He has
been pledged the support Of the Democratic dele
CATION from Illinois, and will count several votes
from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio to start with.
The principal stock In trade OF all the candida los
is the formation Of committees and awarding Of
ohairmanshtps. 1t Is thought that Black burns
candidacy 10 more for the purpose Of giving him
| prestige Tor committee ohairmanship than any
| expectation that he will be elected. He 70 not
committed as between Cox, Sayler and Morri-
son, but will probably favor the strongest man In
| the caucus,n