The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-06-28
POINTS IN POLITICS.
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laJure. Inc cauNhss Two yeaTshBoOOseh hhH
40 cents.
The report Of the Auditor Of Kentucky
shows that negroes in that state own land
worth SO ,SOe,SS7, and personal property
worth $685. ,445.
jefferson Davis, in a speech before the
Mississippi Press Convention last week said:
al have never yet seen southern woman
who is reconstructed"
Vermont disputes with Massachusetts,
the claim to the origin of the Republican |
party, saying that her Republican party was
organized on the lS.h Of July, 1854.
"A victory for Ewing in Ohio, thinks the
Memphis (Tenn.) Araiancte (Ind. Dem.),
would place him in line for the Presidency
and render him more formidable in Ohio |
than Thurman.
1t is DOW regarded as certain that in
Maine the Democrats will not coalesce with
the Greenbaekers, but will re- nominate Gov
ernor Garcelon in the hope Of getting him
elected, as was the case last year, by the
votes of the Senate.
The original Anti-Slavery Society in
this country was organized in 1882, 2,and was
known as the New England Anti-Slovery
Society. Its officers were as follows: Presi-
dent, Arnold Bufi'um; vice presidents, james
C. 0dlorne, AlNnzo Lewis; treasurer, Michael
Simpson, corresponding secretary, William
Lloyd Garrison; recording secretary, Joshua
Coffin. All of these, it is said, are dead.
of Coke of Texas and his motion in be-
half of the silver bill the Richmond State
(Dem.) remarks: "COke lives in Texas, next
door to Mexico, and they use silver dollars
down there, but that is no reason we should
use them up here in a commercial country.
Texas could use cattle as the Romans did,
and not suffer by it. But New York and
Richmond don't want cattle dollars or sill
yer ones either"
Daniel o. Barr, Esq, of Pittsburg, seems
TO be taking the lead on the Democratic side
as candidate for State Treasurer. The
western counties are about solid for him and
he is making heavy gains in the east; The
Republicans seem to be hankering after
Judge Butler, of Chester county, in certain
localities, while others wish to try some one
or other of their defeated horses of former
years.
The prominent candidates in this county,
on the Democratic side for the office of Shcr-
if are Paul Kresge, of Towamensing j. S.
Keiser, of the Broadway House, Mauch
Chunk, and F. P. semmel, the present de-
putty sheriff, of this borough. The Repub-
licans are naming for the position W. Z.
Frisbie, of Mauch Chunk, and Capt. Min
mich, of Summit Hill. For Prothonotary,
Democrats, Elwin Bauer, of East Mauch
Chunk, and George Esser, of Mauch Chunk,
while the favorite on the Republican side is
R. Q. Butler, of Mauch Chunk.
AT the last electio in Galloway county,
Mo-, man was elected Probate Judge after
a canvass in which he ran on an independ-
ent ticket with the agreement that, ,ifchosen,
he would accept only specified amount Of
the fees pertaining to the Office and would
turn the rest over TO the school fund. His
defeated opponent instituted proceedings
against him, and the Supreme Court has de-
cided that "vote given for candidate for
public Office in consideration of his prom
Use in case he shall be elected to donate q
sum of money or other valuable thing to o
third party, whether such party be an in
dividual, a county or other corporation, is
void"
of the leading candidates for the Presi.
dency Grant is 81; Hayes, 81 Sherman, Sc
Conkling, 81 and Blaine, 4s. On the
Democratic side Thurman is 81; Tilden, G5
Davis, "a; Hendricks, so; Bayard, 81. Gram
and Hayes were born in the same year, S22
The average age Of the Republican candi
dates is "a years, and that Of the Democratic
f 81.
E "A prominent Republican of Augusta
Me-, when asked the other day what h.
r thought Of his party's outlook in the stat
5 said:
o 81 think we are going to get cleaned ou
4 unless our leaders show more wisdom thai
!. they have shown in the past. Here is
l clearly defined issue, and one of the hghes
e importance, prese nted to the people by thos
Il whom we profess to believe are entirely il
: the wrong, and yet, instead of meeting thes
|, Greenbackers, instead of arguing with then
y of reiuting them, ofshowing them their foil
n and what its consequences would inevitabl
f. be, VIC are told by our friends and adviser
v that we must dodge this whole financii
i question, and make our campaign upon th
st issues of 1861. Such stupidity as this d,
y serves punishment, and it is pretty likely
re get it. What we ought to do is to send il
d to every town and every school distr
ID speakers thoroughly familiar with the fac
Sc and able to stand up and talk the thin
in over"
n, "A correspondent Of the Boston Hera
Il writing from California of the political ou
N Look there says:
"The Republican party has at present Il
C. best standing for the election. 1t has Il
C. largest and most complete organization, il
w cluding every county in the state. 1t b.
~ the federal patronage; it has the hope of @
he fee strong within it; it has the encourag
n ment of division and Generalization amor
Ell its opponents and it has the highest chan
&C. of electing not only the state officers, but Il
four Congressman, and the fact that succc
b. now will ensure the state to the Republica
he in the Presidential election next year. Tn,
pit il will have the stimulus of General Grant
in presence and the great furore with whiC
lot he is TO be received on his arrival this sun
mer. The drawback under which it labo
he is in having its machinery in the hands
We men who have run it for years to its disgra
"a and undoing."
ire General Thomas Ewing, the Democr;
Ily ic candidate for Governor Of Ohio, in a ia
Ike with reporter said of the canvass in Oh
IN and its prospects "The party seems TO
Ily united and ready for hard work. The cal
ch paign will not fairly begin before the midC