The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-20

Brents is Delegate in Congress from Wash
ington Territory, and he and his colleague are
Blaine men through thick and thin.
It is stated from Washington that the
Democratic majority of the subcommittee Of
the House Committee on Elections have agreed
to recommend to the committee the unseatipg
Of William ID. Washburn, the Republican Rep
resentative Of the Third District of Minnesota,
and the seating of Ignatius Donnelly, his Demo-
cratic opponent
The Chicago Tribune states that
@upon his return from trip to New York on
business Mr.. w. @. Cloudy, q member Of the
Democratic National Committee, reports the
feeling in Democratic circles ut the East as
strongly tending toward Horatio Seymour as
the Presidential candidate, providing he will
accept Tilden is very generally regarded as
out of the race, though still capable of exercis-
ing powerful influence in the choice Of can
didate."
Gov. Cornell, of New York, has signed
the bill passed by the Legislature of that State
permitting women to vote for school officers,
and it is now a law.
Col. William Z. Villas, the silver
torgued Wisconsin Democrat, thinks Seymour
il the united choice of the Democracy for
President
The New Hampshire Republicans will
hold their State Convention, TO choose delegates
to Chicago, on the 9Th Of May.
The Wisconsin Republican State
Convention will meet at Madison on May s.
Beecher is out for Grant for Presi-
dent.
A Washington telegram says: There
was conference at the house of Mr.. Blaine,
last night, of some of his declared adherents,
the purpose of which is understood in part TO
have been TO determine what position it would
be proper for Blaine to take with respect to the
Presidential nomination. The result of this
conference is said to be that Blaine has de-
termined that he will Immediately begin an
earnest campaign, it being admitted on all
hands that Grant himself is an aggressive,
active candidate"
Senator Wallace thinks the delegates
from Pennsylvania to the Democratic National
Convention will support Hancock for Presi-
dent.
The Chicago journal announces,
"authortatively, that i b. Washburne de-
sires the nomination of Gen. Grant by the Re-
publican National Convention, and that he
| (Washburne) will under no circumstances be a
candidate for the nomination 80 long as Grant
is on the track.
Mr.. Cameron is a candidate for re-
election to the Senate from Wisconsin.
Blaine's banner has been flung to
the breeze, and the headquarters of the Ma
tional Blaine Club have been opened at Wash
ington.
A Sherman club has been organized
in New York.
Blaine authorizes the statement that
he will under no circumstances accept NOM
ination for the Vice Presidency. He will have
first place or none.
The Harvard University students
have recorded their preferences for
President as follows: Bayard, 233;
Grant, 146; Sherman, 1870; Blaine,
7G; Washburne, %; Hayes, %; Edmunds, 20;
Garfield, Is; Tilden, II: Evarts. 8; anti-Grant,
g; scattering, A. Total, 760.
There was a somewhat notable polit-
icai gathering in New York the other evening.
1t first took the shape of banquet, in honor
of Senator John p. Jones, of Nevada, given
at Delmonico's by Senator S. W. Dorsey, of
Arkansas. Fifty-one prominent Republicans,
including Senators Conkliug, Don Cameron,
Booth, Window, and Allison, were present
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after the dinner, when it was found that forty
were for Grant and eleven for Blaine for Presi-
| dent.