The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-29
NOTES.

the 4th of next March.
The fact that Mr.. Tilden did not receive
the Cincinnati nomination is a bitter disap-
pointrnent to the republicans.
Mayor Kalloch has appointed his son, aged
sixteen, to a clerkship Of which the pay is
$3.50 per month. This is sand lot reform
reduced to practice.
: General Garfeld's mother, Il venerable lady
of nearly 50 years, and a real type OF the
American mother, resides with her son at his
Washington city home.
Chill claims only S200,00O,00 as indemnity
from Peru. valquished IN the war about
drawn to a close. Chill is doing It's best to
deserve the title sometimes given it, j
Prussia of America
Picked Up is the heading Of a column
in that much vaunted paper the Courier
Journal. The column and its title convince
us that very few ideas are ever lost at Louis
Vile.
During sucl. a spell of weather as we have
lately enjoyed, or perhaps it would be better
to saw suffered, it may be interesting to learn
shat ice can be manufactured artifciaily at
he cost Of about two dollars per ton.
The Arthur Of old was a Knight of the
Round Table, as is also our Arthur OF to-
day. The round table of the modern Arthur
has an opening towards the centre leading to
a receptacle for contributions from Jack
pots ~ and "threes.H
TNr-, N,,,arnu hos ysSjunpl tho NOSjjnn OF
chairman of The Republican National COM
mittee. The Duke of Pennsylvania having
Just returned from the political Donnybrook
Fair, wishes it distinctly understood that he
neither forgets nor forgives the terrible
trouucing he received there. One sorehead,
at least, has been heard from.
The whole number of electoral votes TO be
east in the election Of president is 800. The
South, which we presume even the most
.'claiming of republicans will admit to be
solid for the Cincinnati ticket. will cast 133
votes. This leaves only so to be furnished
from the North, to insure the election OF a
democratic president, SINCE 1S5 is the number
of votes necessary to u choice. New York
has 80 electoral votes and Indiana -. If the
democracy carry those Two states they carry
the election
How to vote for Garfield straight up while
coppeying Arthur, is the problem upon which
many amateurs in the game Of politics have
lately exercised tLeir ingenuity. No ~sattstac'
tory solution having been reached, the appear
ance of a strictly square layout at Cinciil1 at
is the signal for q general stampede from tie
locging game OF republicanism to the up an(
up play Of the democrats, where every turn
is OIL the square, ard where every man is
promised the benefit Of his vote: 40 deputy
marshal being authorized to stand between
him and the polls.
The Philadelphia Times says Genera
Garfield will make a grave mistakeif he shall
affect to ignore the serious charges which
meet him at the very outset of his campaign
for the presidency Yes, but illuminated a:
he is by the calcium light of the press, Gen
eral Garfield will make a very much grave
mistake by attempting to refute those charges
There are things of an ullsavoiy odor which
The more they are stirred, the more pro
nourced the odor becomes. OF such is Gar
fields Credit Mobilier and his De Collie
record.
The Philadelphia Times says: "Genera
Gariield's nomination was not premeditated
for reconciliation would have been fatal to it
Il was born of a crisis in the convention
There was no time to think, and probably nO
one of the 800 delegates who in the hurry c
the moment cast their votes for him as tn
only way of escape from the third tenn
recoilected that this was the Garfield who va
involved in the Credit Mobilior scandal.
they had so recollected they would have re
ected the Garfield movement as a sugsestio
Of suicide" This is the cooler, second jud:
ment pronounced By all independent republ
can journal upon the choice of " Providentii
Deliverance - Garfield.
A New York independent paper, upc
being taunLed with Inconsistency III hayiI
supported Grant, the pink of republicalisr
until the Chicago convention met, and Tho
coming out in savage opposition to CARTEL
retorts in the following fashion -
But because Grant is defeated must v
stand by the nominations OF the republic;
party, good or bad, and stuitify ourselves
do the Times and Tribune which called ia
field a corrupt fraud in 1878 and now ur
his election as president? No, we are me
consistent. We have said and We repeat IL
any man who has been publicly convicted
perjury and bribe-taking is unfit to direct t
affairs OF this nation.
Yes, and a large majority of the Americ
people will ]proneunce the same opinion
next Noyember's polls.