The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-08-02
SENATOR BECK.
What He Thinks Of the Political Situation.
The Democracy will Retain Their Hold On
Congress Grant Sure to be the Re o.
publican Nominee The National
Leaders Playing into Grants
Hands,
Cincinnati Enquirer.

. cincinnati Enquirer.
} Senator James b. Beck, of Ken
tucky, having some legal business to
, transact in Covington, came to this
: city yesterday and became the guest
: of the Grand Hotel. In the evening a
representative of the ERg1tirer met
him and had little chat with him on
the political situation. The Senator is
of the opinion that the Republicans
will bend their every effort to capture
the next House of Representatives. if
possible, and with that object in view
they will make the wickedest kinds of
tights i'll all the close and doubtful
Congressional districts in the country.
| Nevertheless he is confident that the
present Democratic supremacy in the
House may be maintained in the next
one. "We may lose three members
ia the Pacific StateS,n - said he, "but we
will gain three in Missouri, and that
will equalize matters there. In Ohio
and Indiana we will make large gains,
and we will hold our own in Illinois,
and, perhaps, make gains in New
York and Pennsylvania. We may
| lose one member in Mississippi, but
we will gain two in South Carolina,
one in Florida, and several others in
the South, so that any gain the Re- |
publicanS may make in New Hamp- |
shire, Massachusetts and Connecticut |
will be overcome by them" Alto |
gether the Congressional prospect for |
the lower House was tirst-class, while |
after the 4th of March the Senate will |
be Democratic 10y ten majority, and |
perhaps by eleven, "for | am in favor |
of unseating Kellogg" said MIR. Beck, |
'and giving the seat to the rightful |
owner, SpOffOrd. Kellogg holds the |
seat by virtue of election by q legiSla-
ture that never was Il legal body, and
his commission is signed by Il man
who was never Governor of Louisiana,
and who is now Consul at Liverpool"
MIR. Beck does not seem to he overly
enamOred of the Potter Investigating
Committee, as he regards it as being
part Of-the scheme to make q martyr
of Sam Tilden, and to keep him PROM
inently before the Democratic party
as its next candidate for the Presiden-
cy perforce. NIr. Beck is not Tilden
man by a iugful, and he says if the
conventions Of the two great parties
were to meet tomorrow the Demo-
Gratis would nominate Thurman and
the Republicans Grant. Speaking of
Grant, the Senator said: 'If any man
takes him for Il fool he is mistaken.
He knows what he is about. His tarry
in Europe, where his expenses are, |
have no doubt, paid by the bOndholdcr
and capitalists of the country, and,
where he is being Iionized and feted by
the royalty and nobility, keeps him
out of political combinations at home
and still fresh in the minds of the peO-
pie as great man. Next year, said
he 'When he returns home by way of
San! Francisco, he will have such Il
reception through the country from
California to Philadelphia as never
man ever got before him. Why,
George Pullman is building now, Pm
told, tWeve of the finest coaches ever
placed on wheels especially to convey
him and his friends Oh this trip. A
tremendous fictitious enthusiasm will
be worked up for him ut every station,
and then the cry will be raised that he
must accept the nomination in defer
ence to the will of the people thus
expressed, and nominated he will be.
1t will be the duty of the honest press
of the land to discount the effect of the
reception by exposing the means hy
which It Will ne caused. and thus open
the eS6s of the people to} It's frauduiept
leaders of the<QNatiOu3I party -Sam
Cary, BlantOn Duncan, Ben Butler,
etc.-are playing into the hands of the
Grant movement, and that they will
be rewarded therefor i'll due time
The Republicans will have them make
infendiarF sHeeGhes against the rights
of property, and then they will use ;
these utterances as evidence that the
country requires the services of
strong man at its head to protect the
interests of all capitalists and land
owners, of whatever degree. Thus
they hope to bind together all the mon
etary and landed interests of the coun-
try in favor of Grant, and by thus de-
ing they hope to sweep him into pow
er by resistless majority.