National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

SENATOR CoNKLNG is Mt Newport, II. L., the guest
Of the Hon. Levi p. Morton.
THE Maryland Democratic State Convention Is 10
be held in Baltimore on Thursday.
JOHN KELIY's tongue appears to have moro In.
huence at present among the faithful than Tildens
bar'l.
IT was n Jerseyman who asked why sankey was
always running for Vice-Presdent on the Moody
ticket
LARGE number of the colored refugees who re-
turned to st. Louis from Kansas have found work
In Illinois.
HOME RULE in the South means the influence
which defes the National authority and repudiates
State and municipal debts.
CHALMERS, the Brigadier hero of Fort Pillow. Is
small in stature, but he fully makes up in wind
what he lacks In substance.
b. GBATz BROWN, who was the card of the Greeley
campaign, aspires TO the Missouri Senatorship when
Cockrells term expires In 1881.
TELEGRAMs TO the New Orleans Times from North
ern Texas say that many negroes of that section
are preparing to enigrate to Kansas.
THURMAN claims to have discovered that the
rum0red Tilden-Ewing alliance Is O fixed fact, and
Is greatly depressed III consequence.
How do the hard-money Democrats In Maine
relish the bargain their party leaders have made
with Solon Chase's soft-money crew?
THE idea of the Post Dispatch that the Greenback
party Is dead and only refuses to be buried" is
reflection upon the Ohio Democracy.
SENATOR BLAINE has sent assurance to the Ohio
Republican committee that he Will spend ono
week in Ohio after the Maine canvass closes.
The Boston Hefdtu hOlQS tnc Democratic belief
that Grants chances for the nomination are greater
than all other mentioned candidates combined.
THE Nationalist, the organ of the Greenback-
Labor party in New York wants its organization TO
nominate DR.. Wieting, of Syracuse for Governor.
GENERALS STEWART l.. WooDFoRD and Joseph r.
Hawley have been added to the speakers who will
maintain the Republican cause in Ohio in Septcm.
Der.
CASEY YOUNG. Democratic Congressman from
Tennessee, is candid enough TO say the ostracism
of Republicans ut tho South is as universal as
ever
"a HUNT for hard times" is the way the Chicago
Times describes the operations OF the Congressional
Committee on Labor and Business, which Is sitting
In that city.
THEY are in the midst of an ld'mshoned cam
paign in Colombia, the account of which reads
| very much like the story OF Louisiana or Missis
| sppi election.
THERE is nothing small about Alex. H. Stephens
except his size Nine hundred million dollars is
| the amount of currency he wants tho country u
have right away. o
BUTLER will have to issue postscript to hi.
recent letter cOncliating the Greenbackers, whom
he forgot even 10 mention, and who are greatly in.
censed thereat,
THE Boston Post is gratned to learn from un
questioned authority that IN many OF Genera IItii
or no strength among Democrats,
| BLAEToS DUNCAN, Colonel Harper Solon Chase
and Moses Hun are doing tho heavy stumpinl
work for the Greenbackers in Maine. The paper
down East call them the steer team,
A MAN never knows what ho may come to- Her,
Is Charley Foster Republican candidate for GOV
ernor in OHIO, booked for debate with Don PiOtt
Talked to DEATH" will be the verdict
THE Chicago Tribune commences vigorous arti
Gle ON the next Presidency with the words, "Wtl
Grant out of the way" Joit Davis used to Contem
plate trips to Washington with the same proyiso.
WHILE the Democrats may continue to hold tn,
balance of power in the Senate after March, 1881
although by reduced majority, the Republican,
are almost certain 10 regain their ascendency in tn,
| House.
THE speeches which General Ewing makes from
hotel balconies and the speeches he prepares 70
the newspapers have u certain sorl of family re
semblanoe, but they are not the same speeches b!
any means,