Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-03
Political Notes.

The difference between the position of the two
candidates in their letters of acceptance Is that
while Garfield would hurt himself only by dis.
appointing popular expectation. Hancock could
help himself only by surprising it. This Han
crck has not dOne.-SprtnG'teld Republican.
The democratic. Congressional primlr in
the Sd Missouri district Saturday secured the
denomination OF Hon. r. Graham Frost, Sitting
member.
Senator Pryor, of Alabama who was appoint
ed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Houston, publicly announces that he
Will not be candidate for reelection, and that
Ger. Hancock, should he be elected President.
will not have within his gift any Office that he
would accept.
Elk. Gov. Jewell, chairman of the republican
national committee, with Col Hooker and Levi
P. Morton, left New York last night for Buffalo
to meet Gen. Garfield and escort him to New
York to attend the republican conference in that
city on Thursday, which promises to be one
OF the most Influential and important assem-
blageS Of the kind ever held in this country.
Hon. John r. Thomas has been nominated for
re- election to Congress by the republicans of the
18th Illinois district.
Senator Conklipg has arrived In New York
from his Canada fishing trip, to attend the re-
publican conference to be held there on the 5th
inst.
Mr. Frank B. hatton, editor of the Burlington
Haorkeye and likewise postmaster at Burling-
ton, Iowa, is at the Ebbitt House. He says he
wanted Grant nominated at Chicago, but that
Garfield is going to be elected and that the
Grant men will be the ones who Will pull him
through.
The following extract from Senator Wade
Hampton's appeal to the Virginia democrats at
StauntOn last week to stand firm for Hancock
and English. now being widely published in the
republican papers. is not calculated to very
much aid their cause In the north =" Consider
what Lee and jackson would do were they alive
These are the same principles for which they
fought for four years. Remember the men
who poured forth their life blood on vfrglnia's 5
soil, and do not abandon them how.'
Gen. Hancock'S letter, as we happen to know,
is entirely the work of his own brain and hands
Distinguished friends may have seen it after II
was written, but the letter has met with their
unanimous approval without alteration.-N
Y. Express, Td1t1ldnY dem.
Robert Miller. secretary of the democratic
state executive committee OF Minnesota, reports
as follows: "Our canvass shows wonderful
gains; in some counties from 10 to 80 per cent.
Hancock is very popular here
Not over sanguine Ohio republicans predict
that the next Congressional delegation from
that state will stand thirteen republicans to
seven democrats. The delegation now contains
thirteen democrats and seven republicans.
Congressman Berry, OF California, writes to
the democratic national committee that the
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MIA.
Representatives Of the Irish republican party
In Illinois have been invited to meet the ma
tional republican committee in New York on
the 5th inst.
Ex-Secretary of the Senate Geo. C. Gorham is
at Orkney Springs, Va, in conference with the
leading Virginia readJusters.
Chicago correspondent OF the New York
Times says: "The nomination OF Judge Trum.
bull for governor of Illinois is dead weight on
democratic party of that state. OF the Con
gress1onal districts this year thirteen are
claimed by the republicans, and only six con.
ceded to the democrats"
The New York Sun calls for the publication
of Gen. Sherman's letters Of the 5th and 17tl
of December to Gen. Hancock, upon which tn,
letter OF that gentleman In regard tC
the electoral commission, dated Dec. 2Sth wa
based. The Sun holds that the history of tina
critical period will be imperfect without thes.
important contributions