The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-28
ST. LOUIS POLITICS.
FIVE TICKETS IN THE FIELD FOR u,D-
CAL OFFICES.


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| Especial Correspondence of the Demoorat1
| ST. LOUIS, October q, 1878.
| THE POLITICAL CAULDRoN
| Is almost boiling over In St. Louis The main
Interest centres on the city ticket, and princi-
pally from the fact that none OF the candidates
| for city offices are certain Of being elected
| There will be from four to six candidates for
every office to be filled, and there will be more
scratching done than was ever before known
In st. Louis. The first city convention held
was that OF the Greenbackers and National
| ists under the name Of the Greenback- Labor
party. They nominated full city ticket,
comprising the offices Of sheriff,
coroner, recorder Of deeds. three judges.
three court clerks, two prosecuting attorneys
and q member of the city council. The Dem
ocratio convention next met. and was fol-
lowed In g. couple Of days by the Republican
convention, bOth Of course, nominating full
tickets. The Socialists had already held g.
sort of convention, but the work was after
wards re0onsidered, and no nominations
| were Fmade until last Tuesday night. The
convention then nominated coroner
and prosecuting attorney of the Court
Of Criminal Correction and indorsed candl-
dates on other tickets for the remaining Of
fees. Their three judges were taken from
the Republican ticket. us was also their
circuit clerk For sheriff, recorder of deeds
clerk Of the Criminal Court and assistant
prosecuting attorney of the Court Of Criminal
Correction they indorsed the Greenback nom
inees, and forsGlerk Of the Court of Criminal
Correction the Democratic nominee. No can
ddate WAS nominated or indorsed for public
administrator or member of the city council.
This is what the Socialists convention did
Tuesday night, but as everything done by
representatives of the party must be submit
ted to the whole party Tor for approval, This list
OF candidates had to be likewise submitted.
It would be supposed that the conventions
work would have been indorsed by the party,
but the result was quite different. The So
as were also two of the Labor party candidates,
but the balance Of the ticket were summariIy
rejected and no nominations were
made at all for the places, except the office Of
are to hold q city convention this afternoon,
and it Is their intention to put up full ticket
OF their own. A call has also been made for
an Independent Workingmen's convention to-
nation of the best candidates in the field ire
spective of their parry affiliations. Two or
three of the Greenback candidates have with
drawn and their places are not yet filled, but
probably will be tomorrow night by the ac-
ceptance Of two Of the Socialist candidates. In
return for the Endorsement given two Of the
Greenback men by the Socialists. You see
what muddle we are all in here. A score or
more Of constables and Justices Of the peace,
besides about as many members Of the Leg
islature and three Congressmen. The Green
hackers and Socialists have agreed to pool |
issues on
THE LEGISLATIVE TICKET
Their candidates are taken half OF them
from the one party and half from the other.
In speaking Of the GreenbaCkers the Labor
party is always included, for the Nationalist
or Labor party men are nearly all Green
hackers as well. The city tickets are all very
weak, or at least not very strong, and per-
sonal preferences will probably govern more
voters OF, election day than will party feeling
John Finn, the present incum-
bent, for sheriff, when he was under a cloud
for gross mismanagement of his office, and
the cloud is still over him. The Republican
candidate has also Q bad record, resulting
misslOners several years ago. The candidate
of the Socialists and Greenbackers is a police
man by the name Of Andy Brown, For re-
eorder Of deeds the Democrats nominated the
the fee fiends,' BECAUSE he claims the
ees OF his office in addition to his
salary, $4,000, in direct opposition to one Of
,he provisions of the new city charter. The
fee fiends' are all In bad OdOr in the city, but
MacAdam, the Democratic nominee, has made
| good recorder, and as his principal opponent
,he Republican nominee, has q very bad repu-
alton as q political wrepuller, the present
clttnbent may retain his place. Three more
If ae Democratic nominees are now in office
md serious objections are made to all Of them,
)ut cannot see that their competitors are
my stronger. One of the Republican candi-
lates is q negro, and whether elected Or not,
le will enjoy the honor Of being
THE FIRST Co1oRBD CANDIDATE
II the Republican party in st. Louis. He has /
he lowest place on the ticket, assistant pros {
cuting attorney of the Court of Criminal Cor
ection. If the Democrats had nominated
rood men all through, their entire ticket {
would be elected without doubt, for the party
5 stronger in the city by at least 1000 votes
han the Republican party is, but under the {
/ think the successful ticket
will be a mixed one, politically speaking. 1t &
; very difficult to tell tho strength Of either
= the new parties, but believel am overesti
mating their numbers when / say that the t
treenbackers Nationalists, Socialists and .
1emperance party will poll 10, 900 votes in the {
Whole city. The test will be on
THE VOTE FOR goNGREssMEN.
The city elects three Congressman, and 6
very district will have Socialist candidate, ;
Greenback- Ok Lab9r party eand[date, and
ides the regular Democratic and Republican !
andidates. The third district will also have :
n Independent Dem oceratc candidate,'
AS you have probably been informed by
we have had frost in st. Louis sew
raj times within the last two weeks. The
quarantine hospital is, however, still kept
pen, and new patients are received there al t
1ost daily. The quarantine-boat-a old I
3rryboat charteredby the health department (
It the commencement of the yellow fever epi- /
emic in the South, for the transportation Of 1
atients, and also provisions and stores gen. 8
rally, between the city and quarantine, some 8
fteen miles below the courthouse and five I
L six miles below the southern boundary of /
he city-became infected last week and b
as been tied up for the winter, and patients
'om the city are now taken to quarantine by
mbuance. Four Of the bOat's creW-the
Rptain, engineer nurse and one OF the deck
ands-died last week Of yellow fever, and |
elieve one or two more are sick at quaran- f
ne hospital. The head physician at the Ii
ospital and the daughter of the hospital p
teward are also dead and the engineer is b
ck: One or two others employed at the hos