The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-19
POLITICAL.


Delaware Legislature.
Georgia Is said to have twenty thousand
cOlOred Democratic voters
Twelve greenback papers have died In
Iowa since the fall elections.
The Augusta Chronicle says Georgia Is not
In favor OF Tilden and will not vote for him.
The Alabama Democratic State Committee
Is to hold meeting In Montgomery on the
22d nst.
State Democratic Convention, which as
sembles on May day.
It is said OF Hon. Edward t. Pierce that he
has filled more Offices than any other man OF
his age In Massachusetts.
Tissue paper ballots, according to the In
dianapolis Sentinel, were first used by the Re-
publicans OF Indiana in 1864
The Columbus Dispatch notifies Thurman
that his refusal to run for Governor OF Ohio
loses for him his only chance to become
President.
Mr.. Dezendorff, Republican, has concluded
not to contest the seat of Mr.. Goode, Demo-
crat, for the Second Congressional District OF
Virginia.
The New York G1tholic Herald says that II
Grant is candidate In 1880, the Catholic
voters OF the United States must vote against
him and work hard to defeat him.
There is possibility that the Illinois sena-
torial toga may settle upon the noble shoul-
ders OF Lyman Trumbull, such are the d.
visions among the Sucker Republicans.
A reformer In the new Maine Legislature
has "investigated' the salary paid to the
find that the rate is So go for each prayer.
The Washington Republic, a Greenback
organ, curiousIy enough, had an editorial
Sunday morning practically advocating John
Sherman, Secretary OF the Treasury, for
President
One hundred Northern men residing In the
South have already expressed their intention
to attend Mr. Dumonts conference In Char
lotte, N. G. All the railroads are to carry
such persons at half fare.
The reform movement has struck the
Georgia Legislature. The Governors salary
has been reduced from $4,000 to $4,000; Supe-
rior Court judges from $25O0 to $1,000, and
other State officials in the same proportion.
One Democrat and one National were elect
ed to clerkships In the Minnesota Senate; a
combination to secure four offices being de-
feated by the perversity OF couple OF Demo-
Gratis, who preferred the regular nominees.
There are 48 farmers, % merchants, 19
lawyers and IL manufacturers In the new
Maine Legislature. AS regards religious de-
| 28 Universalists and ID MethOdists while 10
| have no religious preference.
Mr.. Washburn, Rep, has responded to Mr..
DOnnelly's notice OF contest In the Third Con-
gressional District Of Minnesota, denying all
the charges made by that gentleman. and In
turn charging fraudulent practices, promises
| OF reward, etc.
Senator Bayard no longer conceals the
| fact Of bis aspirations concerning the Presi-
| dency In 1880. Already his headquarters are
established at his home In Wilmington, Del,
| at q convenient distance from the real center
OF operations, New York city, where the
hard money Democrats of the Middle and
New England States will concentrate their
forces.
Mr. N. Dumont, of Charlotte, N. c., an ex-
resident OF Springfield, Mass, believing that
the Northern men who have settled In fhe
South have 1t in their power to do their
adopted home great good by making public
their experience, has called a convention Of
Northern men, especially ex-UniOn soldiers,
to meet at that city and deliberate. It Is de-
sired in the convention to prepare "a state
ment for publication In the Northern papers,
setting forth the soil, climate, prices, ease OF
making living and social treatment Of the
Northern man. It Is not desired to cover any
question Of politics or extreme views OF any
kind"
The recount OF the votes Of Cook county,
ILL.,, reveal mutitudinous irregularities, due
to the imbecilty of the judges, and some
strong Indications OF fraud. In one precinct
OF the Seventh Ward eighty-three straight
Democratic tickets with paster attachment
giving three votes to Taylor, the Republican
candidate for Representative, were found ar
ranged In one bunch on string tits thought
to be not little strange that so many Demo
Gratis should have become SO remarkably
unanimous for the Republican candidate In
that particular place on the cord, and the
matter is still more suspicious In view OF the
fact that the returns from this particular
precinct were not received until long after the
others were all In. II the eighty three Dem
ocrsts who deposited these tickets-if indeed
they were ever regularly deposited by Dem
ocrats at all-had voted for the Democratic
candidate he would have been elected by
small majority.