The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-07-12
POINTS IN POLITICS.

Denis Kearney is ambitious to be United
States Senator from California, and at the
rate at which political affairs are degenerat-
ing there his ambition does not seem bold
ono.
LEO Miller, Greenback talker, said
last week in a speech in Lewiston, Me-: at
is great wrong to stamp one dollar ON a
piece of coin that is worth eighty-four cents,
when it can just as easily be stamped on a
piece of paper worth nothing"
"A Maine letter to the Boston Journal
says at is freely admitted by democrats
that if Governor Garcelon is nominated he
will not get over twelve thousand or fifteen
thousand votes. 1t is an open secret that if
the Grcenbnck- Democratic combination car
ries the Legislature it has agreed to drop
Garcelon and make Smith Governor"
The Charleston Is. C.) "News" (Deml
referring again to the Army bill, says: "We
do not know of single instance in South
Carolina where the presence of United States
troops at the polls has prevented any Demo.
crat from voting. We know of hundreds of
instances where, IN the absence of United
States troops, colored Democrats dared not
vote as they desired"
Mr.. Watterson's editorial expletives for
Mr., Conklingr in connection with the late
bout with Mr.. Lamsr. are Enthusiastically
liberal aud definite. The Senator from
New York is "a horse jockey" "a butcher,
an oratorical vender of wart cures" "a poor
coward" "a swaggerer" and "is as corrupt
hound as ever sat in Congress, for there
are dozens Of people who have more than
reason to suspect that he was willing to sell
himself TO the Democrats for a price in
'76-7." Mr.. Lamar, on the other hand, i:
"of sweet, gentle, womanly nature" /" q
dreamer and poet" and finally "a states
man and philosopher"
The Fayette (owa) Onion was an out.
and-out Democratic party organ. The edit
or went on trip to Manitoba, leaving the
newspaper in charge Of friend. The mex
number of the Union was Republican
throughout, and the following explanatory
paragraph was inserted; awe were request
cd by the editor of the Union to conduct it
columns in proper manner and we havt
conscentiously endeavored to do so."
The fact is, says the Springfield Mass,
Republican, the movement to make Gran
President, which Borie and Childs and al
Of Grants old cronies are working up will
all their might and cunning, is great BIZ
transparent fraud. We don't want Gran
again, any more than France wants a Ma
poleon dynasty. And we need to shake Of
all the Grant worshippers-the whole Bori
Robeson- Conkling .Chandler-Logan crowd
and we are doing it.
Secretary Sherman will leave Washing
ton next Monday for Maine, where he will
make several stump speeches He may ais
before his return, address the Boston Boar
Of Trade. A special correspondent of th
Boston Post says Mr.. Sherman, in converse
ton with a member Of the Ohio Legislator
who is on visit to Washington, has "franb
ly admitted that he is candidate for th
nomination" to the Presidency.
TO the already long list of aspirants f
the Republican nomination for State Trea
urer has been added the name of Speak,
Long. But he doesn't stand the ghost of
show, as Recorder Quay and the Cameron
have settled the matter among themselv
by deciding that Butler, of Chester count
shall have the nomination, and whatev
Quay and the Camerons say is law vii
the Republican party Of this State.
When Tilden was pressed recently
run for Governor Of New York he answer,
that he was now the rightful President
the United States, and that he could n
hold two oificee at the same time. WI
says he is paFalyzed2
Senator Ben Hill and Representati
Alexander IL Stephens, who had not spo
en- 10 each other for five years, shook han
the other day. Mr.. Stephens praises Of 4
Senator's recent speeches on political aila
lod 10 the reconciliation,