The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-08
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Harrisburg Patriot thinks "the bulge
is with the Democracy"
The Seneca county News warns Reeubli.
cans that they will "smel birthstone in the
Pine Tree state in November"
The editor of the Washington Post gives
the principal credit for the Fusion success in
Maine to Ben Butler and Sam Cary.
The Philadelphia Cronicle announces that
"af!er November there will be no balm in
GilNad for the Republican party"
The New York World reports serious
quarrel in the Republican national commit.
tee, growing out of dissatisfaction with Mr..
Jewels methods.
Several negro residents of Niles, Mich,
have gone away for a few weeks, and the
Democrats suspect that they are in Indiana,
preparing to vote.
Democrats are obtaining evidence from
negroes in Indiana that they have come into
the state for no purpose except to vote the
| Republican ticket.
The New York Star thinks Mr.. Garfield
can be congratulated on one thing. His
prospects in New York have had the finest
funeral ever witnessed.
General Fitzpatrick is goingto run for con
gress in district which always whSles his
side by over 5000 msiorty. Republicans
always get rid of their bores by having en-
killed off.
The New York World gave the great
Iammuny meeting fifteen columns of space,
the Times gave it seven, while the Tribune
said all 1t had to say about itin three-quarters
of Il column.
The Elmira Free Press says: "The news
from Maine is that the Republicans will have
very hard work to hold Ohio and that they
are moro likely to suffer defeat there than to
win success"
The Danvile Express SAYS: "The fact ia,
upon the Republican party of the entire
country rests burden which it cannot shake
of, We need hardly say that that burden is
In the shape of james A, Garfield, their can
didate for the presidency"
Mr.. English is accused of another shock.
ing ohense. Republican journals say that he
has contributed only $1,000 thus far to the
Democratic campaign fund. But why grum,
BILE at this g! Are the Indiana Republicans
mad because Mr.. English will carry the state
without buying them?
One Of the devices exhibited in q great
Democratic procession in Jerseyvlle was
miniature Now Orleans custom-housc, in
which Garfield, Amy Mitchell, Eliza Pinks-
ton, and other bright and shining lights, were
represented in the act of manufacturing bull
doing testimony.
Tho lndlanians are warming up for the
fray AS yet the Democrats have tho call
in betting, odds of 500 to $50 being offered,
with no takers. The Democrats are more
confident than ever before OF the success of
their ticket, and arc willing to back their
opinions in substantial manner.
Another terrible threat comes from Wash
ington. All southern clerks in the depart.
menls who are refusing to contribute to the
Garfield cause and who ARE understood to be
secretly in favor of the election of Hancock
are to be branded in a public circular and
dismissed Thus do we continue 20 gather
the truiLion otcivil service reform.
Tho Baltimore News says; "Tho bushes.
men, the workingmon, and every man who
Is capable OF remembering five years back,
all know that 1t has been since the Demo-
cratic party has had majority in congress
lhat trade has improved and industry found
employment and no amount of naked living
Will contradict or change the fact"
The estimates made by the two parties in
Indiana, after what they claim to have been
careful canvasses, vary about $4,000 on a
vote of nearly 100000. The Republican poll
makes the state Republican in October by
about 1000; the Democratic poll makes il
Democratic by about 400, and an independ.
ent poll of the state by the Cincinnati En-
quirer gives n Democratic plurality of
1900.