The true northerner., 1880-03-12

A Republican United States Senator,
Who has gone into the prophet business, names
nlAine and Logan ~ the ticket thatwill be nom-
insted at Chicago.
The Washington Post, in an Sin
spired" editorial, double-leadsd. announces
that Samuel J. Tilden will, without doubt be .
candidate for the Presidential nomination be-
fore the Cincinnati Convention.
The Maine delegates to the Chicago
Convention have been instructed for Blaine.
The Greenbackers of the Seventh
Indiana district have renominated Rev. De
La Ma.yr for Congress.
OF the four Indiana delegates-at-
large to the Chicago Convention, which was
chosen by the State Republican Committee,
last week. three are known to be for Blaine.
A Greenback National Convention, ,un-
der the auspices of Brick Pomeroy, met at st.
Louis last week and nominated Stephen ID.
Dillaye, OF New Hampshire, and b. ]. Cham
bers. of Texas, for President and Vice Presi-
dent
A" John M. Palmer Club" the object
of which is TO give the Ex-Governor boom for
President has been organized at Springfield,
ILL.,
A State Convention of the Iowa Dem
ocracy has been called to meet at Burlington,
April z, for the choosing of delegates to the Ma
tional Democratic Convention.
The Kansas Democrats will hold their
State Convention at Topeka, on the 26tl. Of May.
The Kentucky Democratic Central
Committee has called State Convention of the
party to meet at Lexington, June II
The Ohio Prohibitionists met in con-
vention at Columbus, last week, and nominated
candidates for State officers and Presidential
electors.
Representative Fort, of Illinois, is
confident that majority of the delegates to
the Chicago Convention from illinois will be
for Grant.
A State convention of "Young Repub-
licans" of Massachusetts, was held at Boston
the other day. Resolutions were adopted dep
recating the nomination OF either Grant or
Blaine, irdorsing Hayes, congratulating the In
dependent Republicans of New York and Penn
sylvsnia, calling for civil-servioe reform, and
recommending that greenbacks be deprived of
their legal-tender function.
The House special committee on the
inter-oceanic canal has unanimously voted to
report to the House resolutions reaffirming the
Monroe doctrine, and declaring that the United
States must control any canal that may be cut
through the American isthmus.
Speaker Randall has expressed the
opinion that Congress will adjourn by the 18th
of May.
The Louisiana Democrats will meet
in convention April IL, to select delegates to
Cincinnati.
The cases coming up from Ohio and
Maryland, involving the constitutonality of
the Federal Election law, have been decided
by the Supreme Court Of the United States.
State Judges of Election, having inter cred
with National Supervisors and Marshals,
were sentenced by Federal courts to fine and
imprisonment The Republican members of
the Supreme Court affirmed the regularity Of
the proceedings and the constitutionality OF
the law under which they were had. Justices
Clifford and Field dlssented, holding that it ia
not competent for Congress TO punish State
officer for the manner in which he performs
the duties imposed on him by the laws of the
State, and that the Federal Election law is
clearly unconstitutional