The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-11
POLITICAL NOTES.


Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati
Gazette, asserts that the Germans ale
opposed to Gen Grant for President.
Tilden, according to the New York
Herald, declares through a friend that
if he is not nominated be will dictate
the nomination; and it will not be
Hendricks, Thurman, Bayard, or
David Davis, or any other who ia
vored the electoral commission.
Secretary Schurz informs the coun-
try that there are only 100000 In
dians in the country-all ages, sexes
and conditions-and yet it takes a
standing army of 5000 men to keep
them in order, and the army ring is
now prophesying that the country
is on the eve of an Indian war more
sanguinary than any that has taken
place since the war with the Seminoles.
Wanted-A situation by handy
man at something that will enable
him to make living for his family;
has had experience at tanning, hauls
ing cord.wood, running machine,
and can whip any son-Of-a-gun that
puts his head above water and wants
to secede. Would like to be boss on
a railroad or canal. Address two
weeks. Us S-n Ct, care
postmaster of Galena, Ill.-[Cincin-
natl Star.
Mr. Mcmillan, of Tennessee, is pre-
pairing aspeech in support of his bill,
introduced last session, to reduce the
Presidents salary to $50, 900 after
March 4, 1881. He is getting up
bills of the White House expenses for
a series of years, to show how very
more expensive it is now than twenty
years ago. He thinks from the facts
he has gathered that if the Republi-
cans vote against his proposition the
Democrats will get the benefit of some
campaign capital.
Discussing the proposed establish
ment in South Carolina of an educa'
tional qualification for voters, the New
York Evening Post says that perhaps
the time is coming when an educa>
tional test will be applied by all the
States. Certainly we in this city
would not suffer from it. Free edu-
cation at the expense of the State
rests upon the theory that education
is necessary to fit men to perfoim m the
duties of citizenship. The logical
conclusion Is that men without the
education which is freely furnished
should not be permitted to exercise
the highest function of citizenship.
Washington special to the New
York Herald: The politics Of South
Carolina and Mississippi will be care.
fully. watched here by the Republicans,
who will protest against the electoral
votes of these two States being receiv-
ed next winter if the negroes are pre-
vented from voting, and they mean to
cause the public at large to understand
plainly what is going on in those
States, so as to create public opinion
which will require their exclusion
from the Presidential contest unless
there is a fair and full vote. The
proposal for an educational qualifca'
ton has the cordial approval of infu
en!ial Northern Republicans.
Nashville Banner: When General
Grant was elected President, in 1868
the people of the South thought he
would show the same magnanimity he
exhibited in the surrender of Gen Lee
They relied OF his expressions Of
friendly interests, when on his visit tt
the South he expressed himself as be
ing so well satisfied with our loyalty
But they soon found out that Genera
Grant at the head of his army, the
bluff old soldier, with generous impuls
es, and surrounded with high-minded
honorable and chivalrous soldiers, wa
one thing, and President, Grant sur
rounded by set of hungry politicians
thirsting for Office, and imbued with
political hatred of the south, was an
other. He was the willing instru
ment in their hands-the plastic clay
in the hands of the jobbing dema
gogue. Will you repeat the expert
ment and entrust yourselves in th'
hands of man who has been weigh
ed 10 the balance and found wanting
Forewarned is forearmed.
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the fact is cited that the piles of ,