Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-19
Political Dots.

Political Dots.
The situation in Ohio for the Repub-
licans IL critical.
Col. Forney has been studying at
Gettysburg for his life of Hancock.
No Indiana orator thinks of making
a speech less than three hours in
length.
What are we here-for-but-to-get-of.
fice-Flanigan is stumping Texas for
Garfield.
Garfield lives in the Western Re
serve but he displayed very little of it
in the East.
Garfield's tour through New York
shows all the marks of adroit party
management.
Negroes are pouring across the Ohio
river at Evansville into Indiana by
the hundreds.
The Cincinnati Enquire has made
up It's mind that the Demot :rats are go
ing to carry Ohio.
McDonald's revelations tt ,uching the
Whisky Ring have crea tee decided
sensation in the East.
It is said that Garfield was stronger
in Ohio on the day of his. n omination
than at any time since.
John Sherman would rath er let his
heart than his pocket bleed * u the Re-
pablicans of the South.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron I says be
doesn't know anything about 3arfield's
chances in Pennsylvania.
Senator Jones, of Florida, g. avs he is
at a loss to understand how tn g Repub-
licans can claim that State.
It is fashionable just now in the Re
publican papers to refer to tt ,e fierce
activity Of the "Irish Republic ms"
It is whispered abroad that Butler.
the perennial candidate for Gov ernor of
Massachusetts, will support Gal field.
Gen. Garfield and his manas ,ers in
dulge in the hallucinatlon that every
body is silly and no one else kno ws it.
Stanley Matthews hopes to ser We his
country in the Senate during the ter m
for which the Legislature elected GAR
field.
The indianapolis Telegraph, the
leading German paper in Ind jana,
filings out its banner for Hancock and
English.
Large numbers of Republican IS in
Massachusetts are expressing thei de-
termination to vote for Hancock and
English.
Garfield might have better given his
:$5, 1923 to his biographers than his 81 life"
when tn ey stopped him on the G 'hio
HIGHWAY.
Louis FL. Mayer, internal revel Tue
collector, f. -st district of Alabama, 'ho
was and ara 'ent Grant man, has b, zen
+. displaced.
a Hancock, club at Waynesbul g,
Greene count y, Pa, has twenty-t' vol
straight Repu 'blicans on the roll oil
membership.
Gen. Hancock says he will make no
speeches during the campaign, but W ill
remain on Cover nor's Island all SUI n
mer and fall.
Judge Stallo. for many years lea d.
J presided at Hancock meeting in th at
+, cityrecently.
Fertile first time in a President ial
canvass since 1856-when Fremont " as
doubtful State.
Ex-senator Pool, of North Carolil ia,
:anH ex-senator Fowler, of Tenness ee,
Republicans heretofore, have pronouI &c
led for Hancock.
The Republican papers are not as
anxious as they might be tor the put IL
cation of Gen. Sherman's letters to G' IN.
Hancock in 1876.
Garfield perhaps felt a certain shan e.
facedness when he was brought out 10
be looked at at Chautauqua Lake, at ter
Colfax had concluded an grafton.
Senator David Davis describes &c nj.
Hancock's civil administration in Il Is
to have marked him as one of the w is''
est, most upright patriots OF his time.
The 1000 Republicans in Garfield rs
district who have for the past TO ur
terms voted against him for Congre So.
will, it is said, vote against him for
President.
The affection for Hancock, as no.
BILE, patriotic and magnanimous col n
mander. who in times of peace has glv
en- such signal proofs of statesmanshlp,
is all but universal.
The New York Sun says: "Garf1eld
fancies, queerly enough, that he is a
second Alexander Hamilton. Yet Alex
ander Hamilton neither took blibes nor |
told lies under OATH"
Alexander Ramsey Secretary of War,
has been inspecting the Boston navy
yard, and Incidentally finding out
how many employees are going
to vote for Garfeld-or quit.
Gen. Garfield has ventnred upon the
experiment of showing himself to the
neople who are expected to vote for
him, despite the ill success Clay, Cass,
Scott and Greeley in just such roles.
Col. Fred. D. Grant, A. D. c., is stjn
of the opinion that father" should
have been nominated. he refuses 70
hetnma reconciled to Garfield, and to
work off his anger is junketing in New
Mexico.
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