The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-17
POLITICAL POINTS.

cago Tribune says: "There are numerous |
printed statements to the effect that number
of members are coming back, determined to
revise the electoral count, and to have an in
vestgation of the Presidential election. SEN
ator Conkling is credited with being the prime
mover, and 1t is asserted that while no attempt
will be made to inplicate President Hayes,
efforts will be made to involve Stanley Mat
thews, Secretary Sherman, and Gen. Garfield
in an alleged Presidential bargain. The
name of Senator Howe, of Wisconsin. is quoted
as the person who will consent to introduce the
resolution in the Senate in behalf of Senator
Conkling, while to Gen. Butler is attributed
the leadership of the movement in the House.
Democrats claim that there are affidavits in
existence from Cassanave and Kenner, mem
bers of the Returning Board, in which these
two worthless assert that there was bargain
for the Louisiana electoral vote. to which they
were parties as members of the board, and that
the bargain made with them has not been full
filed. The name of Gen. Grant is also used
as party to this understanding"
The Republican State Convention Of New
Hampshire met at Concord last week, and
nominated B. F. Prescott for Governor Reso-
lutions were adopted denouncing nylegislation
tending to repudiate the public debt, disapprov-
ing the remonetizing of silver, opposing money
| subsidies and land grants to private corpora
tons, condemning as factious and mischievous
any attempt to reopen the Presidential contro-
versy, and the following in relation to the ma
tional administration:
/ ReS0Zved, That the Republicans of New Hamp-
shire reafirm and readopt the Cincinnati platform
which pledged the party to these declarations and
principles to-wit That the United States of Ameri-
is nation; the full protection of all citizens in
the full enjoyment of all their rights; the perma-
nent pacfcation of the Southern section of the I'm
ion; redemption of the United States notes in coin
by continuous and steady progress to specie pay
ments; that Senators and Representatives who may
be judges and accusers should not dictate appoint
ments to Office the invariable rule for appointment
to have reference to the honesty, fidel-
ity, and capabiity of the appointees leaving to the
! party in power those places where the harmony
and vigor of the administration requires its policy
to be represented the depreciation of all sectional
feelings and tendencies; the speedy. thorough
and unsparing prosecution and punishment of all
| who betray official trusts; opposition to urther
land grants to corporations and monopohes the
adjustment of duties on imports for revenue so as
to promote the interest of American labor and ad-
vance the prosperity of the whole people.
ResoIved, That we recognize the paramount duty
of President Hayes to render these high and SOL
emn professions actual and living realities; and,
while we admit honest difference of opinion in re-
spect to past acts we welcome and approve his pa
triotic and sincere efforts to keep faith with the
people and secure to the whole country the bless
ings of just, efficient and honest Republican ma
tional administration.
call is issued for a National Convention of
the National party, to be held in Toledo, Ohio,
on the 22d of February next. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
The undersigned believing the present financial
policy of those in control of the Federal Govern
ment is destructive Of the best interests of the
pie, and that if continued it will bring general ruin
and unprecedented suffering on the industrial
classes and also believing that thorough organiza-
ton and unity of action may induce those in power
to take such steps as will avert such caamtous re-
suits, call upon those, regardless of political afa-
tons who will unite for independent action to select
one delegate in each Congressional district, and
afterwards, by proper authority two delegates for
each State at large to meet in national convention
in the city of Toledo on the 22d day of February,
1878 there to take such action as wisdom may die
tate.
Upward of 100 names are appended to the call,
prominent among them being those of Wendell
Phillips, of Massachusetts,; Peter Cooper, OF
New York; Thomas D. Hoxey, of New jersey
Alexander Campbell, of Illinois; Blanton Dun
Michigan.
The Democrats and Greenbackers in the
lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature
formed coalition and captured all the offices
the Greenbackers taking the speakership,
and the Democrats the remainder.
In the lower house of the Maryland Legisla-
ture, LIST week, Montgomery Blair introduced
memorial asking Congress to investigate the
title of Rutherford B. Hayes to the office of
President. He made an elaborate speech, in
which he charged that President Hayes OBJ
tanned his title to Office through cor
rupt bargaining with the Louisiana Return
ing Board and his political opponents, and
urged the Importance to the country of obtain
ing a rightful solution of the question in
volved. Mr.. Lieb, Republican, moved to lay
the memorial on the table, and called for the
ayes and noes, which resulted-ayes 49, noes
81. 1t was then referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations.
George FL. Pendleton will be elected United
States Senator from Ohio, to succeed Stanley
Matthews, whose term expires March 9, 1879,
he having been nominated by Democratic
caucus.
Senator Edmunds has embodied in letter
to the President, at the request of the latter.
his views Of the relations which should exist
between the Executive and the Senators and
Representatives in the matter of nominations
and appointments to Office. The right or the
propriety of dictation by members of the
legislative branch of the Government is
distinctly denied by Mr.. Edmunds, who holds
the belief that a custom which was of it