The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30
FOSTERS MAJORITY, 1900.
REPUBLICAN MAI GRITTY IN THE GENERAL,
ASSEMBLY:

REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE GENERAL,
ASSEMBLY,:
HOUSE Is, SENATE 9, JOINT BALLOT IS.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON has kindly
explained to the Postmaster General
that that little affair of shooting at the
colored Postmaster at Blackville, S. c..
was merely personal. So, it will be re-
membered, on Southern authority, was
the assassination of Dixon at Yazoo
In fact, when the discussion is carried
on with pistols it is very liable to be-
come personal. The trouble is that
there is an uncommon prediction
among the ex-rebels for discussion of
such sort with the g niggers." It
is indeed very personal, as it were. es-
pecially to the negroes who get shot.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY has re-
celved personal letter from Senator
Wade Hampton attempting to explain
the attempted assassination of Post
master Nix at Blackville. He says that
it is all personal-simply personal
dificulty-and that Williams is some
what useless young man, and Nix bad
character. His statements as to Nix's
character do not tally with the actions
of the ladies of Blackville in presenting
Bible to Nix for his services to Dear
old Barnwell. and hoping that it would
lead him to better land" The depart
ment has written to Nix to stand to his
post, but to be respectful, and attend
strictly to the duties of his Office. In
all the complaints that have been made
about Nix, there are no charges of in
competency or dishonesty. His color
and politics constitute the objection.
Wdshi9aoto1a Cor. Inter OceG7a.
Mr.. HENDRICKS has invented new
way of lodging that everlasting ques-
tion about the second place on the Dem
ocratic ticket. At the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, Mr.. Blackburn asked
him: "Mr. Hendricks, would you &C.
cept the second position on the ticket
under certain circumstances? His
wife Immediately answered for him,
"Under no circumstances"
1Twould be difficult to scrape together
an unhappier collection of politicians
than the managers of the late unpleas-
antness in Ohio. AS if to get awfully
punished at the polls were not enough,
they must now sit and listen with what
patience they may to the curtain lect-
ure being read to them by Democratic
newspapers all over the country. So
much abuse has seldom been heaped
upon a parcel of vanquished campaign
managers as those in Ohio are COM
PEELED to endure, and it can be readily
believed that they are getting exasper-
ated to the point of declaring that
the Democratic party may 60 to the
dogs next year for all they'll do to save
Ohio for the Presidential candidate.
AS SOON as Ewing's friends have re-
covered from the stroke of temporary
paralysis with which they were smitten,
says the Chicago Tribune, it is to be
expected that there will be decidedly
interesting reckoning up of campaign
scores. There was nothing for it but
to take things with good grace while
the canvass was i'll progress, but low
that no harm can be done by speaking
right out, Messrs. Thurman, Thompson
and the rest of the crowd will probably
hear from the Ewing element on the
scoJec6 vi ZIG bTeacnery pracEced by |
them toward the candidate for Govern
or in their desperate attempts to secure
Democratic, majority in the Legis-
lature. That Ewing was shamefully |
betrayed by the Thurman clique is no
toriously true, and the Senator will find |
some enemies with long accounts to
settle when he undertakes to pack the
Ohio delegation in the National Demo
cratic Convention next year. The
troubles of the Ohio Democracy have
only Just begun.