Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-10-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

| POLITICAL NOTES.
| AT the local election in Connecticut,
on the 7.h, the Republicans carried a
mojority of the towns This is another
evidence of the direction in which the
popular tide is setting. The proposition
for biennial sessions of the legislature
was defeated by over q 900 majority.
REPUBLICAN farmers, in this fine
weather, should get their fall work so
far along before election day that they
can go to the polls, every one of them,
and deposit sheir votes, to the end that
the ticket may be elected by such a
rousing majority that it will be a rebuke
to the states rights, bull-dozing Democ-
racy which they will hear and heed.
QUITE full election returns in Con-
necticut make it certain that the consti-
tutional amendments providing for
biennial elections for the legislature and
extending the term of Offices of judges of
the superior courts to the age of rs years
are overwhelmingly defeated. The
towns generally elected town officers.
Returns as far as received are encourag
ing to the Republicans.
DIR. LUKE P. BLACKBURN, Democrat
ic governor of Kentucky, laid his plans
for injecting the northern army and
Lincoln and his cabinet with yellow
fever before Gen. Beauregard, who ap-
proved them, and gave the appalling
monster pass to get through the lines.
That black-hearted wretch is now the
Democratic governor of Kentucky. Has
a single Democratic paper in Wisconsin
the manhood to publish an opinion on
these facts ?-Fond du Lac Commonwealth.
The Tammany Democracy of New
York have issued an address to the
! Democrats of the state, in which they
arraign Gov. Robinson for his relations
to Tilden and for perverting his office
to crafty personal ambitions. For once
il appears that Tammany will surely bolt
the regular Democratic nominee. The
quarrel is an interesting one, and is
likely to shake the Democracy of the
Empire State from center to circumfer-
ence.
In recent speech at Oxford, Miss,
the senator fcT that dominion, Mr..
Lamar, bad good deal to say about
reputation, and, among other surprising
things, said that the character and his
tory Of the south had ever been unfair.
nished, honorable, faithful" Consider.
ing that every southern commonwealth,
with one exception, has deliberately
repudiated its debts, it would seem that
the character and history of "the south"
must be of sort that is easily kept in an
untarnished, honorable, faithful cordi-
tion.-Chicaqo Times.
The people of Virginia are stirring in
regard to their state debt. This is the
issue at the coming election in that state
Republication on an honorable settle
ment. A gentleman who has had ample
opportunity to ascertain the situation
says the indications are that the anti
repudiationists will carry over two
thirds of the legislature. They are
gaining rapidly, and the canvass in
creases in warmth and interest. The
white Republicans, including General
Wickham and Judge Hughes, are for
an honorable settlement, and number
of leading colored Republicans have
taken the stump on the same side.-
Chicago Journal.
THE regular Democracy which nomi-
mated John Quincy Adams for governor,
has stolen march upon the Butler wing
of the Democracy, by selecting four
delegates to represent the state at large,
to the national Democratic convention
which meets in 1880. The object OF this
movement is to proclaim the John
Quincy Adams section as the regular
Democracy in the estimation of
the great Sanhedrim of their
party. The persons selected are
j. G. Abbott, P. A. Collins, George
Gill and Reuben Noble. These delegates
are friends of Gov. Tilden, and their
admission will exclude the Butler wing
from recognition by the candidate of the
national Democracy, whomsoever that
may be, unless it be Butler himself.
This will be the more noticeable because
the Adams wing does not poll more than
one-tenth as many votes as the Butler
wing.
ONE of the pretensions upon which
Democratic speakers lay the greatest
stress is that their party has always
shown itself to be the friend of the
workingman. The claim, however, has
no foundation except the false assertions
of Democratic demagogues. Before the
war the Democracy used all its influence
TO keep 900, 900 black laboring men in