National Republican., 1878-08-26
POLITICIL NOTES.

cru btnOSlatss
Political matters are getting active all
over the country.
THE New York Republicans. are likely to
have n convention after all.
The number of Cinnamon In this country Is
less than It was five years ago.
Ex.SEcRETARy OF STATE JOHN BIGELow,
Is anxious TO occupy Mr.. Beebe's scat in the
next Congress.
No INDEPENDENT candidate for Congress
has appeared yet in the South who promises to
oppose Southern claims.
T. II. NICHOLS, secretary Of the Homes
Money League of the Northwest, Is stumping
Mr. Hales Maine) district.
Ex.GovERSoR STEVENSON has been nomi.
mated for the West Virginia House of Dele.
gates, much against his will.
The Greenbackers of Alabama are to hold a
meeting for conference In birmingham, that
State, on Monday, September 2.
The Connecticut Democratic convention will
be held September II. The present State Of
fcers will likely be renominated.
INDIANA papers state that the hard money
Democrat, ". II. English, has formidable
chance OF crowding voorhees, out Of the race.
SENATOR COKE reports that the Green
hackers are aliiliating with the Republicans IN
Texas, and fears that it BODIES no good to the
Democrats.
The Prohibitionists Of Ohio have nominated
candidates for Congress in FIVE districts, and
threaten to pursue the same foolish course in
several Others.
MEssRs. MASroN MARBLE and Clarkson n.
Potter ere two about rs unhappy men as can
be found at the present. writing In this land Of
the free aud home Of tine blest.
GENEPAL JAMES JoURDAN, Of Brooklyn,
who was reported among the abettors of the
Hayes gathering at Saratoga, says he knows
nothing OF such movement and condemns it.
DEMOCRATIC Congressman of Indiana
Evans-says the Nationals are so demoralizng
the Democratic party that the Republicans
will capture both branches of the State Legis-
lature.
SENATOR THURMAN doesn't take" Ia the
South. Among the newspapers repudiating
his lead on the financial question are the Rich
mond State and the Charleston News and
Courier.
CONGRESSMAN WHrrTHoRSE, (Dem.) of
Tennessee, is not to be returned TO Congress
without opposition. Two formidable competi-
tors have come forward TO throw doubt upon his
success.
THE Republicans Of Illinois have already v
made twelve of their nineteen nominations
for Congress. In only one district, now repre-.
sented by Republican, has q new man been
chosen.
ihE VI tHc Dunh Ills uaIl-
aged the popularity of Governor Phelps OF
Missouri, the people holding him responsible
for depositing State funds in bank Of doubt.
full sOlvency.
SINCE General Butler has left the Repub-
lican party he reminds the indianapolis Jour.
nal of that chrome, Out in the Cold World"
"a jackass standing in tho snow before u
closed stable-doOr.
The Republican Congressional Committee
has examined all Of Thurman's speeches Ia
Congress, aud Is going to print the most salient
passages In parallel columns with some extracts
OF his recent Ohio speech.
The retirement of William II. Young from
the Maine Grceuback State Committee and his
renunciatiOn of the platform and abandonment
| OF the party, to work aud vote for honest
money, Is looked upon as important In that
State.
THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle expressts the
belief that Senator Gordon will be reelected
without opposition, and says that many Of his
constituents confidently expect him to be the
next Democratic nominee for tho Vice -Presi.
dency.
GOVERNOR HARTRANFT, of PENNSYLVANIA
has appointed b. 5. Bentley, Of Williainsport
to the judgeship created by the formation o
Lackawauna County. Judge Bentley was the
Grcenback. Labor candidate for the Supreme
bench last year.
THE Rochester Democrat has 1t upon unques
tionable authority that Hon. George q. Hos
kus will not be "A candidate for the Republi,
can nomination for Congress in the thirty.
first district OF that state this fall aud that
the reports to the contrary effect are pure in
vcntiOns,
SENATOR CHAFPEE, of Colorado, says that
having declined a reelection, he was hoping
that he would be able 10 Withdraw entirely
from politics but as the Democrats Of hi.
State persist in dragging him into the new
contest, he hopes In II few days to 20 home "tl
do battle rs well us u dead duck can"
CHAIRMAN GEORGE II. SHIELDS, of III,
Missouri Republican State Committee, ex
presses the opinion quite cOnfdentially thai
the Republicans can carry the election in st
Louis If they act in harmony and with a
united purpose. AS to the Congressional con
test, he is positive the third district can b,
carried by the Republicans, who will carry the
second also if they put forward man o
ability, representing adequately the CONNER
cial interests of St..Louis; and u victory in th,
third Is by no means impossible IL man
known ability aud integrity, popular with al
classes, Is nominated.
The Congressional ticket In Ohio so far q
nominations have yet been made, stands a
follows:
Dist Republican Democratic
lst-Ben Bullerworth..... Milton Saylcr.
2d-Thomas L. NUung.....Len W. GNss.
3d-Emmanuei schulz.....John 4. McMahon.
iGh-J. Warren Keler....."w. V. Marquis.
Mh-ilcnry Wilson. Ben Lcfcyrr
6th-James l.. Pricc.........W. D. Ilill,
, Th-Jaues u. Luckey y....."Emmk iiurd.
sth-tharlcs fuscr......,..E Finley.
Wh-l:. English tlnd........George l., converse.
lnh-W. W. Mcknight, l.. Dickey.
lgh-ll"nTyS :. Neal ...,JaIncs Emmitt.
lWh-N. ii. VOORHEES,. .,Gencfnl \. j. Warner
ljth-tIencTal q. \, JOnes....G. W. icddes.