The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-02-08
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rs S.so party as the party uoes TO
wag the President.
The Rochester Democrat says: Such
movement (thc nomination Of Grant)
would be tho shserest nonsenos. Gen
eral urants time has come and zone.
lie viii never be President again.
just as soon as Ben Butler got back
70 Washington he found that the New
Hampshire Republicans wero throwing
better article Of brick than he could
afford, remarks the Philadelphia Times.
The Baltimor Gasetse says: Il is
great mistake to imagine that Mr..
schurz Is going to resign. His heart
has bowed down so long while out of
oiiioe, that he hasn't got all the curves
out Of il yet
Since the New Hampshire Conven-
tion, the Cincinnati Commercial thinks
that William u. Chandler probably
feels about as Alex. Stephens would
feel If David Davis should accidentally
sit down on him.
The Chicago Post says. Stanley
Matthews only got two votes in the
Republican csucus at Columbus, for the
complimentary vote of tho minority.
The "friend Of the President" seems to
be losing ground.
A movement against public high
school education Is foretOld in the Log
islature of Massachusetts,, as many of
the members Of that body believe that
grammar school education Is as high a
grade of instruction as the people
should be taxed for.
The Augusta Chronicle says. While
Mr.. Pcndleton's friends in Ohio may be
pleased with bis victory their pleasure
cannot be more sincere than that with
which the people Of the South were
thrilled by the tidings Of his triumph.
Upon their affections he has peculiar
claims.
The Committee on Federal Relations
ef the Maryland House Of Delegates
to which Col. Montgomery Blair's
memorial was referred, viii report adj
versely upon the memorial, but adopt a
resolution sinilar to one adopted by the
House Of Representatives, declaring
Tilaen to have been legally elected.
OF the men in the Senate who have
been up in the past for nomination to
the White House, the Pittsburg Dis
patch alleges that only Davis seems
likely TO bo mentioned seriously here
after in the party Conventions. Davis
occupies a sort Of neutral ground, and
is eneumbered by no tradition or rec
erd worth speaking of
The Phpiladelphia Chronicle publish
es these paragraphs; In Georgia it is
now quite fashionable to fight duels at
ten PAGES. Go to Georgia Messrs
Hayes and CoAkling. Please 90 i'm
mediately. England succeeds in
getting int q wF with Russia the
United States will love her as n brother
jast as long as she has cash to pay for
provisions and arms
If good Republicans dread the Dem
ocratic doctrine of State rights, remarks
the New Orleans Picaytne, let them
consider how much Republican New
England is interested in the prsserva-
tion Of that doctrine New England,
whose entire popular vote at she last
Presidential election was only two or
three thousand greater than that of the
single state Of Ohio, while the Senator
ial representation is twelve to Ohio's
two.
Last Winter during the excitement
preceding and attending the Electoral
count, rumors were circulated that for
chile attempts to seize the box contain
ing tho Electoral votes would be made.
The SergsantatArms armed some Of
his force and detailed them to guard
the box. Tho statement of the expen-
ditures on this account has just been
made, and it indicates the Sergeant-at-
Arms must have thought Wattersonis
100000 Democrats wSto coming sure
enough. Twenty two frst-class revol-
vers and twenty-eight boxes of car
tridges were purchased. It does not
appear that this formidable armament
was put to any more terrible use than
the killing of cats.
The Louisville Couyier-.Jong7sal pub
fishes these paragraphs: They still
mako light of Chandler. Chicago
hates the South with all her rude Wes-
tern capacity.-Should Grant die, STAN
ley is to be the Republican candidate
in 1880. Party necessity demands
man who will boil the African VOTE
The weman-suffrage women thunder in
their names, and are more terrible than
the college graduate. There is Ma
tilda Jecelyn Gage, Elizabeth Boynton
Harbert, Lille Devereaux Blake, the
Rov. Olympia Brown, Theresa Juan
Lewis, and, lastly Mrs. DundOrc, who
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