The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-09-11
POLITICAL POINTS.

Chicago. Times. When Haye;
arrives here next month lie might
agree with the local slate-makres or
the candidates for Congress in the
Chicago districts.
-L New York Tribune: The absence
of the Potter committee furnishes
an uncommonly suspicious occasion
for card from Mr. Hewitt. The
public ear is wide open.
= philadelphia Inquirer: Potter S
cause and Buffers are Identical.
Each wishes to break down the Re-
publican party-Pottcr for his par,
ty's sake, and Butler for Butler s
sake. II ~
Q se>,-Baltimore Gazette: Hon. Alex.
, H Stephens has written an able let.
: tor accepting the Democratic nomi-
nation for Congress in the Eighth
Georgia district. 1t was feared at
one time that he wouldn't. III
~a-Utica. Herald: Ben Butler insists
$that Stanley Matthews shall be pun
ished for holding the Potter commit
tee in contempt. But he cannot
punish the forty millions of Ameri-
can citizens who share that con-
tempt.
.-.-.----Pbiladelphia Times: The letter
which Major Burke read to the Pot
ter committee is very interesting
and somewhat prophetic, but it
would be much more interesting if
IS Major Burke had given the prophets
name.
81 S<-Cincinnati Commercial: Thur
mans financial somersault will cost
him the support of nearly all the
Southern states in the next National
convention. Their representation
q, will be divided between Bayard and
Gen. Hancock.
m New York Tribune: Thurman
I, builded better than he knew. He
- has made the financial question the
- leading issue in Ohio and the ad
I: joining states, at the very time when
the people are ripe to profit by sound
instruction on that subject.
------ philadelphia Times: The news
that the bloody shirt is played out
as campaign document does not
- seem to have penetrated those por-
- lions of the country where Secretary
-. Sherman has been spending the
summer.
New York Tribune: The risk of
depending for Republican gains in
the next Congress upon Independent
or National movements in the South
and West is made clearer every day.
Hard work in the North will make
the gains, and that is about the only
way in which they can be made.
e. Chicago Times: The whole coun-
try, and every section and every par
ty seems DESTROYS of arranging for q
live President. The prospects in
1880 are everywhere discussed, and
Hayes has been but a year and a
half in office. He is like one of Rip
s Van Wrinkles drinks. He doesn't
count.
-Woonsocket { Rhode Island) Pa
triot: The people of the entire coun-
try now stand ready to give the old
parties-Democratic and Republican
% "a big wake, and a respectable and
becoming funeral. Let US place both
organizations tenderly "under the
daisies" there to sleep until politi-
q cal parties shall be no more.
Charleston News and Courier:
Our firm belief is that the Northern
rTFg Democracy will find it next to i'm
" possible to win in 1880 on any sort
of soft-money platform, particularly
the Ohio platform of which Mr..
Thurman is the champion. On the
other hand, the Democracy, with the
4, united South, can elect their candi-
dates on the platform of hard money
and home rule,
New York Sun: On the whole,
Ia the prospect is that the present par
III ty majority will be at least main.
tanned in the House, and if the De.
mocracy had not done 80 much to
condone the fraud and identify its
interests with those of Hayes and
his confederates, this prospect would
!. beimmensely improved and strength
a ened.
Detroit News: So far as we have
been enabled to observe, the Nation
al party seems everywhere to have
derived its strength from secessions
from the ranks of the party in pow
er. Minorities hang together for
= defensive purposes; the successful
masses split because there is never
enough in the political pot to reward
n all that think they have claim up.
( on the spoils.
New York Star: There is but
little probability that the Senate
will disturb Mr., Hayes custom
house appointees in this city. A
Democratic majority in the next
Legislature will consign Mr.. Conk,
ling to private life, and "the proud
spirit that could not brook defeat
will have to hold on to itself the
best way it can.
Burlington Hawkeye: The Iowa
Republican Congressional tickets are