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Congressman Ellis, OF Loui sana on the
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Political Situation.
CINc1NNAr1, November 25, 1875
q. John Ellis, member Of Congress
from the New Orleans district, pass
cd through this city to-day ON route
Tor Washington. In conversation
with a NeU York Herald repre-
sentative he said :-"With good
nomination and good platform I
see no reason why we, the Demo-
cracy, should not carry the entire
South, with Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin in the
next Presidential contest" Mr..
Ellis favors u conservative platform
one that will unite all the wings of
the Democratic and greenback par~
ties. He believes that either Thur
man, Hancock or Hendricks will be
the next nominee of the Democracy
for the Presidency. When asked
which of the three he preferred he
answered that that depended on cir
cumstances. If Grant was nomina-
ted by the Republicans he favored
the taking up of Hancock by the
Democracy if the Republicans
nominated civilian his choice
would be Thurman. Hendricks he
thought to be the least available of
the three. Tilden he thinks entire
ly out of the question as a candidate.
''Sam Randall is his residuary
legatee, and the succession will be
solved by the coming Congress.
WHO WILL BE SPEAKER
Speaking of the organization of
the next House of Represents tativee,
Mr.. Ellis said :-"I have ALWAYS
heretofore been III favor of North
ern or Western man for the Speak
ership. My reasons were that the
South was not then prepared to go
that far to the front that if we of
the South, seized by the accident
of having q majority in the lowor
house should insist upon appropria-
ting the organization of the House
and it's control it would be consid
cred by the people of the North as
too soon evincing desire to be-.
come a controlling element in
national politics. Hence I votet. for
Kerr, of Indiana and supported
Sayler, of Ohio, for the speakorship
of the forty-fourth and forty-ffth
Congresses.
SOUTHERN CANDIDATE PROBABLY TO BE
CHOSEN.
observe that modesty is a COM
modify which does not sell we'll in
the market of the Republican party.
We of the South have boon blamed
and held responsible for the line of
policy pursued by the Forty-sixth
Congress II am now in favor of
accepting that responsibility in the
fullest. favor the election of a
Southern man for Speaker, and /
believe that we should officer tho
principal committees OF the House
with Southern men. Then, with
the cooperation of De nocratic
Senate, we will be enab ed 10 give
to the country wise, broad, patrio-
TIC, national and economical admlu-
istration of affairs. If Mr.. Hayes
chooses to veto measures adopted
for the relief of the people and f,r
the public good, the responsibility
Will not rest with us."
When asked whom he thou ,nt
would be presented by the south
ern Representatives as candidate
for the spcakership he answered -
81 think that the names Of House,
of Tennessee Carlisle and Black
burn, of Kentucky Goode and
Randolph, of Virginia, and Reagan,
of Texas, will be earnestly ca1l vassed
by the representative of the South,
and that one of these will be select.
ed for the spoakership.
Vermont is, by law, the most
barbarous State in the Union.
When she finds one of her citizens
guilty of murder she docs not exc.
cute him at once rs in other civilized
communities, but sends him to the
penitentiary for two years, and at
the expiration o. that time hangs
him. It has always beon thought
that the death penalty was the most
severe that could be inflicted, but
Vermont adds to this two years in
tho penitentiary at hard labor The
state of mind Of the wretcs during
the two years preceding the
conclusion of their punishment may
be imagined.
By an incendiary fire which oc-
CURED on his plantation at Suluda,
T~1 Ia,