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.POLITIoAE NOTES.

Butler, sis an autocrat."
The. Democrats have their oyes
"sot" OIL Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Twelfth district of Ohio Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress-Gco.
l.. Converse. II..,
If Charles Francis Adams Adams
were to be in the coming campaign nc
would surely melt.
The Hancock mon claim that the
entire cost Of their canvass at Cincin-
matt was only $50.
Mark l.. DeMotte is the Republi-
can Congressional candidate in tho
Tenth District of Indiana.
"A "Grant club" in st. Louis,
numbering siXty-fvc members, has
transferred its allegiance to Hancock
On account of the new census the
city of Cleveland expects to have q
member Of Congress all to herself.
The New Orleans Times Dcm. }
does not think that Hancock is the
strongest candidate that could have
been named,
William Mckinley, Of Stark coun-
ty, is the Republican Congressional
candidate IN the Seventh district of
Ohio.
The Democratic press is making
frantic but vain efforts to prevent the
"fiaud issue" from slipping out Of it's
grasp.
-lfochcstcr EIpress (Rcp.): cit
is not known that General Hancock
has any political opinions or the qucs-
tons of the day"
The indianapolis Uou,wo1 SAYS
that Hancock S manly beauty is about
thcsnm total of his qualification for
the Presidency.
The Republican press will try to
make the campaign assume the form
OF contest between TN aristocratic
and plcbcian ticket. .
Erie Dispatch (Rcp.): "In the
career of General Hancock there is not
Recommendation for the Presidency
not found in General Garfield"
Kansas City Times (Dem.):
"Wilh Hancock as Il candidate the
doubtful States arc not New York or
Indiana, but Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
California and Illinois"
The Republicans of Boston arc to
ratify the presidential nominations in
Fanucil Hall on Wednesday evening,
and the Democrats in the same place
on Thursday evening.
st. Louis Times (Dcm.): ga long
pull, q strong pull and a pull altogcth-
CT will fetch Illinois TO the Democrat
cy with majority Of 10000 for Han
cock and for Trumbull in November"
Republican papers insist, almost
pitcously, that sit is the same old
cause to be fought over" Before the
end ofthc campaign they will honestly
believe that Hancock is a "rcbcl briga-
dicr."
Nashville Amcricon Dcm. }: "Ac-
tive work, Il sharp, aggressive canvass
and determined resistance to fraud
will place Pennsylvania back along
with New York in the Democratic
column"
Boston He1WM Ond.N: cit seems
TO us that the Democrats, by .nominat-
ing General Hancock, have signilicd
their abandonment of extreme and
untcnablc views inimical to the war
settlements"
observation-disclosures r.. II. Lath-
rop, Ole Of the leading Butler men in
Massachusetts, has written q letter
resigning his membership of. the
!sniler State central committee. He
fights with Hancock.
milwaukee, Sentinel (Rcp.) "Thc
Democratic party did well TO nominate
some other than Til(lcn, Seymour or
Bayard, because Of internal discords.
1t was fortunate in nominating q man
ofllancock's personal clcanncss and
military record"
-"Gcncral b. +. Butler character
ICES Garfield and Hancock as "polti-
cal accidents" ''Each candidate"
says he, will carry the full vote of his
party. Both arc my friends; both have
qualities to admire, and both are rep
rescntatiyc men.
New York Herald (ndO: "if
the Garfield boom cannot be held to-
gcthcr except by assessing the poorly
paid women clerks in the departments
at Washington, and limiting at dismis-
sal i'll case of non-paymcnt, the said
boom is not worth saving"
Omaha Hcraid Dem.) "Against
the charges of corruption preferred
against Garfield and the violation of
civil service orders by Arthur, the
Republicans can find no refuge in re-
taliation. Tho case looks HOPELESS for
them. For the Democracy it looks
very, very bright"
Philadelphia Ieicgyuph (Rcp.):
owe hold General Garfield the martial
equal of General Hancock, and we
deny that General Hancock has a sin
gle civil attribute to fit him for Chief
Magistrate; while all the country
knows that James Il Garfield is ono Of
the fittest among all our statesmen for
the honors and the responsibilities of
the Office"
THE Anti-Third Term League, of
Philadelphia has passed resolutions
heartily indorsing the nomination of
Garfield and Arthur, and dcprccating
the nomination by the Democrats of"a
man whose only training has bccii
that OF the army, and whose rcputa-
ton, solely military, is the prime
measure Of his unitncss for the high
est civil position in the gift of the peo-
ple."
Ono of the kcencst of political OBJ
servers suggests that IIancock's chief
n hn cIn ~,