The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-05
PoLITIcAL NOTES.

P0LlTIcAL NOTES.
TIE inansur.dan OF Gov Blaekburn. Of Ky.
took place Tuesday. q
The Miami county Greensackess refuse 10 join
with rps Dsmocrsosapd WIN "ee . alone.
Mr.. Watterson. Of tAe Louisville Cosrier-Josr.
nal, pryfsrs Grant IS Alsident 1.-THE ofacs must
go to 8 Republican.
Mosby wants new party formed IN the South,
which, taking in the friends Of good government
will rally around Grant in 1850.
The X. c. Times thinks that il Kalloch dies and
DeYoung Is hung it will be = Democratic victory
both being strong Republicans.
The Democrats are passionately fond of de-
claiming against Capitalization. Why, their own
party is centralized in one man. Which it ID
SIT.
The Democrats see the handwriting on the wall
Their papers are beginning to demonstrate why q
defeat in Maine won't hurt the prospects of the
party any.
The PEOPLES Journal ut Jackson. Miss, edited
by u colOred man heads q recent editorial with
ga fair count of the ballots next November, OIL
Kansas -
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal thinks 1t is not nee
essary for Republicans to wave the ''bloOdy
shirt. Mississippi Democrats wave it enough to
suit everybody.
The Baltimore Sun is responsible for the state
ment that Secretary scburz will oppose Grant fol
President, but will enthusiastically espouse the
cause of sherman.
When the Negro learns that he can shoot "
well as be shot, his prosecutors will begin to
respect and accord him his rights-thus says the
Richmond Palladium.
The Democratic Congressional Committee is
not sending out any of the speeches made by
Southerncrs in Congress during the last reg
ular and extra session.
4 reporter asked Mr.. Blaine what he thought
OfGrant' chances for the nomination, and Blaine
replied that he thought the waterinelons this
year were the finest he had ever seen.
1t is reported that three fifths of the members
Of the Georgia Legislature are in favor of the re-
nomination of Tilden. They don't like him, but
they argue that to not nominate him will be the
same rs II backdown. .---
The Republicans of Anderson county have
nominated the following: Clerk, J. w. Goltra;
Treasurer, j. II. spic.r; Register, Moore john
son; Sheriff, o. w. Wyatt; Surveyor, Robert
Railey; Coroner. S. II. Whitfore.
While the Yahoos of Mississippi are engaged in
the most cowardly bull-dozing, and have been
for months, a Congressional Committee is
searching for evidence Of intimidation away up
in quiet old New England.
The election in Maine will be held week from
tomorrow, and there is every promise Of q Re-
publican victory. The canvass has been unusu-
ally animated, several Of the most distinguished
speakers in the country having taken part in it.
Dan voorhees, is about to take the stump in Ohio
and the Ohio papers are about to publish his
speech at Terrc Haute in April, 1861, wherein he
declared his open hostility to the war, and ayow-
ed his earnest sympathy for the rebels and the
South.
The State Central Committee, of the National
Labor Greenback party meet in Lawrence
September Ii, and the editors of Greenback pa
pers meet ut the same place and hold convention
on the same day. DE Ia Matyr and other prom
inent members of the party are expected TO be in
attendance.
Senator Beck. of Kentucky, made one of his
remarkable speeches at the close of the canvass
in that State, in which lie declared it the purpose
Of the Democrats to refuse to make appropria-
tons to enforce laws which they cannot repeal.
1t is well understood that the Democracy means
to rule or ruin.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth, OF La, frankly says that
the Republicans cannot expect single electoral
vote from the South And he as scnsibly says
that as the Southern Republicans cannot assist in
electing the next Republican candidate, they
ought to be modest about urging their preferences
in the nominating convention.
Congressman o. Il Singleton, candidate for
United States Senator in Mississippi, made u
speech at Starkyile last week There was no
mention nor condemnation Of the shooting of DIX
on, which occurred in his district, but he did say
estate Rights must be maintained. We are a
solid South and must remain solid South
Politicians may talk as they please, and declare
that the great contest of 1880 will be wholly upon
financial topics. The thinking people look deeper
than that, and when the leaders ignore the ques-
items of human rights guaranteed by the COnsti-
tuition, and yet tramped ruthlessly under foot by
great party, they will lind themselves shorn OF
their strength and helpless, -hter-Ocean
The Atlanta Constitution, which is one of the
half dozen papers in the South that clearly COM
prenends the gravity of the situation, says the
Governor of Mississippi should convene the leg
slature and call upon the general government for
military to suppress the mobs if he cannot do it,
and further says: cit cannot be denied that the
wsest, most just, and easiest solution of ruflan-
ism that has outgrown the powers Of the State,
is the bayonet."
Mrs. ChisOlm will not want for brave cham
piOns in her heroic resolve to have justice done
her husbands murderers. Assistant District
Attorney Ware pledges his services to her in
words which show that the true spirit of chivalry
still exists even in Mississippi. There is little
danger of violence either to her or to him, how
ever, as the eyes Of the whole country will be
on kemper county during the trial,
with gaze so stern that even the bulldozer will
be held in cteck.-N 7. Tribune.
II, according to the Democratic press, the Kate
Sprsgue scandal is such terrible crime, and
must result in eliminating Conklins from public
life, why was it that they endorsed Gov. Phelps,
of Missouri, after that steamboat scandal? An
attempt to rape y woman in q public place by
Democratic candidate for Governor of . great
State did not seem to touch the tender Democratic
conscience to any alarming extent. at that time.
and he was elected by over a, 900 majority! Per-
haps there has been aquickening of the mossback
conscience since then on this queer subject Of
women scrapes.-Pdola Citizen.
The Lawrence Journal in discussing the South
ern question says 'the question arises in view of
the condition Of society in some of the Southern
States, what is Republican form of govern