The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-07-27
Points i'm Politics,


some wild land be set apart for the tromps.
Tho candidate of the nationalists in the
Sixth district of Illinois is Methodist
parson.
The Burlington Hackeye SAYS that
"Greenbacksm' is "nothing but brevet
Communism
The power and vitality of the national
lists and grcenbackers is to undergo the first
general test this fall.
Political conversion may assume the
strength of moral tidal wave before the
next Congress is organized.
Of jefferson Davis recent utterances the
Savannah Netcs says: "The truly brave
can only see in them words of manliness,
truth and WISDOM"
The New Hampshire Republican Con-
vention will take place on the 10th of Sep
tcmber. The democrats will hold theirs two
days later. Both at Concord.
The Little Rock Post emblazons the
name of" "H. NJ. Rector, of Garland county"
in connection with the Governorship of
Arkansas. The Post is greenbacll organ.
An Ohio man who has made a study Of
domestic entomology is convinced that civil
service reform is home bug and to the
manor born. 1t Hayes that appearance.
Henry Clay Dean declares that he is
not averse to going to Congress from the
Twelfth district of Missouri, but he will not
sacrifice his dignity in a scramble for the
nomination.
Atlanta CoaStitution;-"Republicans,
both at the North and in the South, are
looking to and relying on independency as
the sole hope of breaking into solid South
in 1880"
General Garfield is reported as saying:
-"The critics of Hayes are usually the ad-
mirers of Grant, but they are singularly in
consistent in attacking the former for acting
on the advice of the latter"
Charleston Journal Of Commerce (dem.)
Of General Grant should live till 1880
his chance becoming the republican homi-
nee for President is much the best of any
person now named for that position"
The editor of the Washington Star
thinks the nationalist party is the tail OF
some other dog, or words of like import. It
is a self-evident truth, acknowledged with
out scientific demonstration, that said tail
would fail in attempting to wag said dog.
indianapolis journal rep):-"The prop
er place for every honest greenback man is
in the republican party. 1t created the
greenbaci and has maintained and defended
it against the attacks ofrebels, pudiationist:
and democrats"
The Cincinnati Gazette publishes the
following despatch from Iowa:-"L. Q, c.
Haygott, of Boone county, was nominated
by the Greenback Central Committee in the
District for Congress, after everybody else
had refused"
The Columbia IN. C,) Register (dem.
does not think the Independent movement
in the South will amount to much. "II
South Carolina" it says, sat least during tn,
present year, there can be only one issue,
square, open fight between democrats ant
republicans.
-Pottsville Miners journal 1.-THE work
ingmen may not be able to see through {
brick wall, but they are sufficiently sharp 0
sight to penetrate the very thin mask o
sympathy with which the greenback portion
of the party veil their political aspirations
Hence they are at loggerheads."
St Louis Times (dem);-" If there is
Northern man in the South fool enough o
coward enough to be driven out by tn
speech of jeff Davis or anybody else's speech
the South may thank itself for the riddance
1t would only be misfortune that h
} couldn't be scared clean out of the country.
The Charleston journal Of Commcrc
, says IF the South could leave the Uniol
without firing a shot she would not do il
The Union now means to her profit an
domination beyond her hopes and at the eN
pense of her bitterest foes, who have bee
blown up by their own torpedo"
> Providence journal ut is not tn
time when General Butler will be electe
Governor of Massachusetts by the aid
mobs, and although he may be watchin
: the labor tumoil with hope, we give him IL
credit of knowing the efforts of such a ma
as Kearney would only be an injury to h
cause"
!, Speaking of the general result this fal
: the New Orleans Times (dem.) says =
"There is not much chance for the repul
lieans to beat the vote of 1876, while Il
democrats have every chance. The charg
o of fraud against Hayes, and the open dislil
G to him in many republican States like low
II Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinoi
/. will tell seriously in the coming canvass
l. Atlanta ConStitution:-"Let no OF
Y think that because the party machinery h
i broken down that republicanislu is dead
= the South. 1t is as rampant as ever and t,
times shrewder. 1t has turned from the II
of bayonets to tricks that are dark and da
RS gerous Its new name is independency
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