The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-04-29

| The question in the South n, "Shall
We raise cotton. or continue to raise
Cainp"
Gov. Stone and prominent citizens Of
Mississippi and Louisiana have issued
call for convention TO be held in
Vicksburg, May Q, to consider the pres
ent agitation OF the labor question and
negro exodus.
The Wisconsin Legislature offered
suffrage to the Chippewa Indians il
they would renounce their tribal Or
ganization. but they wouldn't; and as
they voted, all the same, there is de-
mand that they be brought TO account.
The Greenbsck- Democratic warden
OF the State prison OF Maine, Just APP
pointed, has engineered another grand
Democratic triumph, finding that Of
the 220 gentlemen under his keys 2lS
are Democrats, ] National and Re
publican.
The New York Times records the OBJ
seryation OF prominent Democratic
Congressman from the middle States
TO Secretary Sherman, that unless
there is a speedy change in the Demo
cratic attitude the party could not car
ry half dozen districts in all the
Northern States.
A Warrington dispatch to the New
York Herald says IL is an open secret
that the rebel brigadiers have had se-
rious notions Of resigning in body
and going home. unless some way
could be found to curb the hesdstrong
ferocity Of Conger.
The Hartford Post thinks that, with
his cipher villisny, his tax lodging. his
Wholesale engineering OF election
frauds, and his recently discovered
cheating in stamps. Tilden surpasses
all others yet named in his qualihca-
tions as Democratic candidate for
1890.
The Syracuse Courier having said
that JEFF. Davis could never be elected
to the United States Senate, the Cor
inth, Miss, Record rays il would cost
any Mississippi legislator his political
life TO vote against him for that posi-
tion. These Democratic doctors do
not agree.
The New York Sun says the only
conspicuous Republican who now
makes any show as competitor with
Gen. Grant for the Republican Presi-
Dental nomination in 1880 is John
Sherman, aud OF the two il prefers the
Secretary to the General.
General Logan met the rebel brga-
dier in the Senate last Tuesday, and IA
on the tented field in the days that
tired American nerve, he "waxed 'em. :"
The gallant General well and nobly
represents the Union army in it's cause,
and we'll and nobly represents it's in
terest in Congress. II is pity the
North had not a dozen more Union
Generals in the Senate TO aid him.
Des Moines Register.
The Senate has had 80 presidents
pro tenn. before Thurman, and only
one, John Tyler OF Virginia, ever be-
came President. and not one passed
from the Senate to the White House.
The last president pro tenn. the Demo
Gratis elected was Jesse d. Bright, OF
Indiana, who was expelled for treas
enable letter TO Jefferson Davis.
The reason why the Democratic par
ty are so stringent for the repeal Of the
national election laws, is because they
well know that unless they are repeal
ed, they can be prevented from re-
stricting voters in 1880, and they are
bound to carry the next presidential
election at ali hazards. They know
that with the knowledge the President
has Of the fearful outrages committed
at the last election he will be inclined
to enforce the law, hence their unseen
ly action.