The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-03-17
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Washington. dispatch Of the 18th inst. an.
nounces that Senator Blaine, in view Of
the possibility that the President may not
recognise Packard or Chamberlain, is very
earnestly 10 favor Of having (by consent
Of all partics) new election 10 Louisiana
and South Carolina, and has so expressed
himself to the President This, Mr..
Blaine believes, could now be had by
common consent Of all political organiEa-
tions, and could be conducted 10 peace
full manner, free from she ENHANCEMENT
Of the Presidential contest. The result
of the election whichever party might
PREVAIL would, in Mr.. Blaine's judgment
bring peace and contentment to those
States more certainly, perhaps, than any
other mode of adjustment which Is now
practicable under the peculiar surround
ings of the case This policy, Mr., Blaine
thinks, would harmonic all the elements
Of the Republican party and secure at the
same time the cooperation of all the Dem
ocrats in the South who desire peaceful
adjustment Of existing difficulties on an
honorable basis.
A good many supplemented persons are
inclined to believe that the millennium Of
Civil Service Reform is about 20 come 10
under the auspices of the new Admins
tration. We would not advise such peo-
pie to be too precipitate-the very first
appointment which Hayes sent to the
Senate was that Of VIM. NJ. Stone, late
Attorney General of South Carolina aud
er-o6icio and actively n member of the
Returning Board which counted the vote
of that State for Hayes. Mr.. Stone was
one of the distinguished persons put in
jail by the Supreme Court Of South Car
olina and released on habeas corpus by
the notorious Judge Bond-Baltimore
EreaiRg Bulletin
The Philadelphia press all take the last
OVERLOOKING dose Of Camerouism with the
worst possible grace. Forneys Press
mourns the humiliation of the State; the
North american is in desperate revolt
the Ledger has been driven from its staid
ways into violent protest the Inquirer
fearlessly reproaches the party for tolera.
ting such domination the Record has
its say against the family barter the Ttie-
graph is in open rebellion, and the Day, the
Herald and the Chronicle, all swell the
chorous Of opposition The Bulletin is
alone, of all the journals of Philadelphia,
in approving the election Times.
The question Of the conflicting claims
Of Hampton aud Chamberlain TO the gov.
ernorship of South Carolina came up in
the Circuit Court at Charleston Tuesday
rs involved in the validity of commit
ment by trial justice appointed by Gov.
Hampton Judge Reed decided that the
authority of the trial justice must be re-
spected as that of a de facto aud de jure
officer of the State. This decision estab
fishes the legality Of the Hampton govern
ment as to the Charleston Circuit. The
other circuit judges throughout the State
had already made similar decisions.
Frank Bird remarks a would saw to
every Democrat, "Never recognize politi-
cally, officially or judicially the President
who comes into power by such manifest
fraud. Never accept an Office under the
incoming administration, from the Cabi. |
net downwards. If could get the ear of |
our Southern brethren would pray them
beware Of the Greeks bearing presents"
The United States soldier who was ar.
rested in New Orleans Monday charged |
with killing a fellow.soldier, was turned |
over to the Nichols police by Gen. De !
Irobriand. This is not considered at
Washington, however, an official recogni. |
ton of the Nichols government. Gen.
Augers orders remain unchanged, aud he
still preserves the status quo.
The Cameron clan is indignant al the
treatment received by the late Secretary |
of War, and the honor is to be conferred |
on him as rebuke to President Hayes, |
and to enable Don to bear up better under
his MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch to
". Y. Telegram, Ind.
A petition, which is circulating ia some
OF the colored churches of New Orleans.
asks Congress to take away from the col. |
ored people 10 Louisiana the right of
suffrage for some time to come, and to |
place them under military protection.
The differences among Maryland re.
publieaus about the Baltimore postmaster. |
ship heads the Washington Star to suggest
that the President better appoint au hon.
est democrat and settle the trouble.
President Hayes has refused to remove
the Postmaster at Springfield, Ill.,, because
he is Democrat. He Informed Dick
oslesby that no officc-holder will be re. |
moved solely on party grounds.
II. B. Bell, the regular Democratic
candidate, has been elected to Congress
from the Ninth District of Georgia, to
succeed Benjamin II. Hill.
Mr.. Frederick W. Seward has been of.
fered the position of Assistant Secretary
OF State, and will accept
81. Louis T'mes.-Shall we set down