Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-07-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

Representative Wright, the great de
nouncer OF corporations, has asked the
railroads for free passes for his commit
tee while investigating the labor question.
Mr.. Mullett, once the potent Supervis-
ing Architect of the Government, is one OF
those Ohio Greenbackers who desire to
sell out Ewing. Out of office, out of the
party.
| When Judge Estill OF Holmes county,
Ohio, was listening 10 the speeches in the
Democratic Convention declaring that the
Democrats in Ohio supported the war for
the Union, he remarked .'The Democrats
of Columbus may have supported the war;
but I'll be hanged if we did in Holmes
county or do yet"
The Boston Herald pertinently sug-
gestS that at is singular fact that some
of the Southern philanthropists who now
express grave doubts about the fitness of
the Kansas climate for negroes, believed
twenty years ago that IL was very suitable
for them. We cannot understand it, UNI
less freedom has made the negro sensitive
| to the cold"
Recently 200 men were advertised for
in Maine TO work on railroad that is
building. In the course of ten days twenty
responded. This is rather against the
Grccnback proclamation that millions Of
labOrerS cannot get employment. Ii be-
gins to look us If the Grecnback campaign
liar will need more than an ordinary
amount of cheek this year.
Those Republican Representatives who
voted 10 retain the grant of Sl2J 10 each
4 H.
TO be looked after by their constituents,
AMI the truSttul persons who elected
McsSrS. De La Matyr, Ford, Gillette, Murch
and Jones rs special advocates of the
claims of the "laboring man" may possibly
infer that proposal 10 bleed the Treasury
TO the amount of SIS, 600 for mere personal
perqui>teS is not exactly the kind of legis-
lation fitted TO promote the welfare of 1.-THE
down troddcn masses. ". Y. Times.
Mr.. Nordhofr. the Washington manag-
or of the y. Y. Herald, has tried very hard
for some time past to find excuses for the
Democrats, and especially for the South
ernerS hut the extra session has been too
much for him and h. recently wrote The
vote of the solid South has been shown in
the last three or four months To be 4 pow
crful and obedicnt and almost abject in
| strumcnt for serious mischief in the hands
of the worst, the most turbulent, reckless
aud ignorant part of the Democratic poll
| ticianS, and while il remains thus the
sensible conclusion of many candid OBJ
servers here is that the country does well
| To guard itself against its prcdominance.
When the rebel States undertook TO
Secede from the Union, most of them went
through the process of electing delegates
to State conventions 10 decide the matter;
and while it is quite probable that the
masses of the southern people were for the
Union, those elections were ovcrawed by
the secession bands. Any state i'm the
south might repeat the experiment If the
National government be prohibited from
using either civil or military force to pro-
tect the voters II Is quite clear that Sc
ceSSion might be carried in South Carolina,
Mississippi and Louisiana, with decided
majority In each state against II. In the
State Of Virginia the people actually voted
against secession, and yet their delegates
were dragooncd into voting for 1t. Genl
Mcclellan arrested the whole Legislature
OF MARYLAND, which was preparing - Sc
cedc Yet the rubbish about "bayonet
rule" ILLS the columns OF profesSedly indie
pendent journals, 10 swell the rebel yell
against uphodiug the national sovereignty.
Phil. North Americdn