National Republican., 1878-07-27
POLITIC1L NOTES,

JOHN q. THOMPSON hints that Congress-
man Sayler will handle the gavel in the House
at the next session.
GENERAL W. II. LEE son of General Robert
Lee is spoken Of rs compromise candidate
in General Eppa Hunton's district.
SESAToR-DocroR K. V. PIERCE is talked of
as the Republican candidate for Congress in the
Buffalo district at the coming election.
JUDGE j. I. l.. SSEED declines a call to run
for Governor of Tennessee, but will offer for
the position of Attorney General and Reporter.
HENRY A. WHITE, editor of tho Clinton
Ind.) Lndidnidn, was nominated for Congress
by the National Greenback party Of his dis
trict.
THE Farmount West Tirginian Is In favor
of Thomas II. Logan as the Republican cand
date for Congress in the first district OF West
Virginia.
| WHY don't the Republicans Of Toledo send
| Editor Locke to Congress, now that Charlie
Foster has declined2 Who will set the ball
rolling for Nasby?
| FARMER SEITZ, of Seneca, Is talked of rs the
| National candidate for Congress in the eighth
Ohio district. 1t would be- rood-b Finley
with Foster and Seitz in the ncld against him
THE Democrats of the fifteenth Illinois dis.
trict nominated for Congress Judge Hiram b
Decius, on the one hundred and eighty second
ballot. This is the district hitherto represented
by Eden.
GOVERNOR PALMER and ex-senator Trum.
bull are wanted before the Potter committee
at Atlantic City. We fear they will find II
dull, however, rs the "octOroon ball" does not
flourish there.
In the Fifth Congressional district of Michi.
gan the Nationals balloted nine times before u
nomination was made. They finally put uI
Thomas X. Sherwood, II Kalamazoo lawyer o.
mildly Democratic antecedents.
DoNSELLY will go into the campaign in til,
Minneapolis district against Washburn, which
will be a good thing for Washburn. There II
q strong suspicion in the district that DOnnclly
has been hired by Washburn to do it.
The Washington Post is more afraid Of "Til
den In 1880" than Grant In 1850" aud evi
IDENTIFY would almost as soon have the latter al
the former. The Democrats appear to be get
ting into tight fx.--NeW Hdren Journal dnt
| Courier.
WILLIAM Ii. PINN, colOred, has announced
himself Us an independent Conservative can
didate for Congress in the first district of Vir
gina Pnu was one of the cOlOred men wht
made Conservative speeches there during tn,
Presidential campaign.
COSGREssMAN Ii. l.. DICKEY, Of the eleventh
Ohio district, will not have u walk.over In hi
race for Congress this fall. Hon. W. w. Nc
knight, the Republican nominee, has carried
his own county Brown, which is Democrats
from 800 to 200, by 800 majority.
CHAIRMAN FITZGERALD expresses the opin
ion that il General Butler runs for Governo
this fall, twenty thousand Democrats will
vote for him. Will he turn all of them out Of
the party, or Is 1t only "tkose people" VIII
refuse to vote partisan ticket for municipa
officers who are to be disciplined t-BostOa
TrdreiItr
TIE unexpected withdrawal of Hon, Hcnr.
W, Blair irOm the contest for reelection b
Congress In the third New Hampshire dis
trict will cause regret among those who know
him. lie Is serving his second term, and /
was almost universally expected that he wOul,
accept denomination. His withdrawal sur
prses aud disappOints many of his friends.
WESLEY &. HoBBs the Democratic candi
date ior Congress in the first district of Iowa