The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-27
Political NOtes.

Senator Wade Hampton declares that
the reverses of last Tuesday, were Dem
ocrtstic blessings in disguise, and the
s.. Louis Republican think the disguise
was very nearly perfect.
The New York Herald is inve. tigat-
ing the corruptions practlced in Maine
in the last election IN that State. Sem
stor James G. Blaine is shown up in q
rather unfavorable light, as having had
an intimate connection with the buying
OF votes. And Mr.. Blaine is a reformer
candidate for the Presidency.
Gen. Butler has made four attempts
to be Governor of Massachusetts. He
has feiled four times. Next time, SO
his friends announce, he Is going to run
for Congress. He will be elected, and
will make it warm for both sides of the
House. Benjamin is "the great living
curiosity" as Mr.. Phiness B2rnum
would put it, of American politics.
The friends of Senator Bayard claim
that the following Southern Senators
will cordially favor his nomination as
the Democratic candidate for the Presi.
dency: Whyte and Groome, of Mary
land; Withers, of Virginia; Ransom
and Vance, of North Carolina; Hamp-
ton and Butler. of South Carolina; Hill
and Gordon. of Georgia; Bailey and
Harris, of Tennessee; and Jones, of
Florida.
The Richmond, Va, State Dem.
candidly says: president Hayes has
made good President throughout, and
has done more than appears upon the
surface to restore the country TO the
old methods and revive among US the
feeling of q common nationality. His
course, 1t appears to US, has been
steadily in this direction from the first,
and the only cause Of regret with US
now is that his time is too short to
complete the work. 1t is a broad
breasted, liberal man like him that the
country most needs now"
Gen. Butler proposes to avenge him.
self upon the people of Massachusetts,
because of their refusal to elect him
Governor if he can get Congress to aid
him. He says that fully 100, 600 voters
in Massachusetts are DISTINGUISHED by
''the educational and property quallfi-
cation clauses engrafted upon our laws
by the old Federal patty and kept there
by the Republican psrty;" that the
State gets credit IN her ratio of repre-
sentatives for these DISTINGUISHED citi-
zens, and thereby has three more n en-
bers of the House than it is legitimate
ly entitled to. He intends, he says, to
bring this matter to the attention of
Congress, with the view of having
Massachusetts, representation cut
down.
1t Is understood that Secretary Sher-
man will urgently recommend In his
annual report the repeal of the law
making it mandatory upon the Treasury
Department to coin the standard silver
dollars. He will show that not one
fourth of the amount already coined
has gone into circulation, and its accu-
mutation is not only becoming source
of annoyance to the Treasury, but cur
rencV Is being locked up in the most
unsatisfactory manner by the provisions
of the law requiring the monthly coin
age of not less than two millions of
standard silver dollars, besides the USE
less tax on the capacity of the mint.
The discontinuance of the coinage of
the silver would enable the mint at
Philadelphia to coin the lage amount OF
gold which has accumulated this fall.