Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-09-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AN4I w ~ Nv ASAASAAAAS -
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
jefferson Davis has written letter to the
editor of the BrOokhaven (Miss.) Ledger in
reply to the question whether he would per-
NIT his name to go before the next Legisla-
ture as a candidate for United States Sena-
tor. Mr.. Davis says no, and gives number
of reasons why. The vital issue before the
country, he thinks, is the contest between
State rights and consolidation; all other
questions he considers subordinate and easi
ly adjusted. He says: "In the Northern
mind there is an unreasoning opposition to
the doctrine of State rights; and my asser-
tiOn Of IL, with whatever conclusions were
necessarily deducible therefrom, has made
me the special object of sectional hostility.
1t has, therefore, followed that others could
say, without creating excitement, that, the
like Of which, il uttered by me, would be
swollen and distorted for uses in partisan
agitation. ."Did desire to return to
political life, the considerations herein pre-
sented would outweigh that desire. But the
fact is the reverse. To the public consider
ations given might be added private reasons
which, conformity, under the circumstances,
render me averse to public station. You are
authorized to announce that my name will
not be, with my consent, included among the
candidates for the United States Senate to
represent Mississippi in that body"
The Massachusetts Republican State Con-
vention was held at Worcester on the 18th.
The ticket chosen was as follows: For Gov
ernor, John ID. Long; Lieutenant Governor,
Byron Weston; Attorney General, G. w.
Marston; Auditor, Charles r. Ladd; Secre-
fary Of tate Il piarea. mr.
and Receiver, Charles Endicott. The platform
and that while local self-government in all
matters that belong to the States should
be fully recognized, the National
Government should secure to its
citizens, from whom it claims
allegiance, complete liberty and exact equal
ity in the exercise of their civil and political
rights" The Democratic party is taken to
task for its alleged "defiant declaration of a
purpose TO repeal laws made necessary by the
War and enacted to secure the results Of the
War" The Republican party is congratu-
lated upon the fulfillment of its promises
"to maintain national honor and to preserve
national credit" President Hayes is thanked
for "his firm and patriotic course in main
tanning the Constitutional prerogative of the
Executive" etc, etc.
General Sherman has written a letter de-
clining to attend n reunion of Confederate
and Federal soldiers at Salisbury, N. c. He
says: "There were a very few Union SOL
diers in North Carolina during the War
| (though we believe the people generally
| were opposed to secession and war), so that
your meeting, which is confined to the sur
viving soldiers Of North Carolina, will be, in
fact, n Confederate reunion, where 1 would
certainly be out Of place. Az soldiers in
| their social reunions glorify their deeds of
heroism, and this reunion will hardly be an
| exception, and it would be strange sight
| for General Sherman to cheer the victories of
his enemies and respond to the claim that,
| because the soldiers Of North Carolina were
| brave and true to their State and section,
| their cause was sacred as ours, which finally
| triumphed and made our Union more glOri-
Gus and more resplendent than before"
! More complete returns from the Fourth
Congressional District of California show the
election of Berry, Democrat, instead Of Me-
Kenna, Republican, rs heretofore reported.
The so-called Butler Democrats of Massa-
chusetts held a State Convention at Worces-
ter, ON the 18th, and indorsed the nomina-
ton of Gen. B. +. Butler for Governor. The
remainder of the ticket is as follows: For
Lieutenant Governor, A. G. Woodwork
Secretary of State, Michael j. DonOhue;
Treasurer, d. N. Stallings; Auditor, d. S.
King; Attorney General, VIM. ID. Northend.
The Chairman of the Convention, John X.
Tarbox, made an address, in which he
charged the Faneuil Hall Committee with
the responsibility of the present schism, by
| raf,,sina fo inip In N union call for N Conyan-
tion in which all Democrats of the State
should have an equal and just representation.
The platform adopted "reaffir1ns the time
hOnored principles of the Democratic par ty,
"deprecates the discussion in this cam
paign of national issues, as tending to create
divisions between men of different parties
who are in entire accord upon all questions
or issues which affect the administration OF
the affairs of our beloved Commonwealth .
and invites all to join i'm the sup
port of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler fol
Governor, "in confidence and i'm the
assurance Of his public pledge that II elected
he will, so far as he shall have official
strength, labor to bring back the Govern
ment Of the Commonwealth to that efficiency
economy and justice to the people of al
classes which characterized the earlier days
Of the Republic"
Hon. A. ii. stephens attended the Louis
vile Exposition on the 18th and was given a
grand reception, military and civic. He
made a speech, referring principally to the
industrial progress of the country, and not
| touching upon politics further than to eX-
press the hope that all partisan feeling
would be wiped out and the people Of the
whole Union united for promoting the com.
mon good.
The Massachusetts, Independent Conven-
ton, held at Worcester on the 18th, indorsed
| the nomination of Gen. Butler for Governor
and the remainder of the State ticket nomi-
mated by the Butler Democratic Convention
| Gen. Butler has now received the indorse-
ment of three distinct OrganiZations-the
Greenback- Labor party, the Butler Demo-
Gratis, so called, and the Independents.
President Hayes made an address al
Youngstown, o., on the 18th, the occasion
being reunion of his old regiment, the
Twenty ty-third Ohio. He spoke mainly re-
garding the political issues determined by
the War, chief among which, he said, was
the doctrine of State rights, which he con.
strued to mean that each State was SOW.
ereign and supreme and might nullify the
laws OF the Union or secede from
the Union at pleasure, and the re-
cent Constitutional amendments. These
questions, though generally regarded
as settled, he said, had been revived by re-
cent events, and there still remains in som,
communities a dangerous practical denial t.
the colored citizens Of the political right
guaranteed them by the Constitution as /
now is. "No man, he said, "can truth
fully claim that he faithfully accepts tn,
true settlements of the War, VIII,
sees with Indifference the Fifteenth
Amendment practically nulliied." In con
clrIsion he said: "All that is needed for tn
permanent pacification of the country is tn
| cordial co oDeratiOn of all we'll disposed cit