The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-17

| Senator Dawes IL III aud seems 70 DO over.
worked
Grant AMI Wilson IL the lrst choice Of Iowa
| Repusllcans.
Oh. Farney admits that the Grant wei
come In Philadrlpha was largely assisted ny
politicians.
The Nav York Times haa bccome 10 San
puue that H. apaaks IT Republican SUCCESS ~
| lennnRsts being possible.
GOV. Simpson, ~ South Caroline. refuses 70
| consider tho question of etllinR AL extra seb-
| sion Of this General Aassmbly.
DEN Manson In said not to he n candidate
for Governor OF indiana. but will accept u re-
nomination to tho Stat" authorship.
The new senator, German, Of Maryland.
,iseh 10 ~ president III ths National Bta"
ball Club ~ Washington, aud is renowned 80
good Catcher
Gov. aarcnIon proudly says: II was where
th. BULLETS whlstlsd through tho treas,' md
Jim Blaine chimes in with: "Poohf ana 80
was--my substitute.
The friends of OK. Representative Wilson. OF
Iowa say thrt " they cnn ho assured ~ hia
nomination M Vica President, delegates Will
| be- oIacted from Iowa to this Chicago convnn-
tlon pledged to vnto for Blaine and Wilson.
The leading Republican politicians Mt Co
| lumhua, o., regard the unanimous honlha-
| tion of Gen. Garfield for Quilted States SsIi,,-
| tor 40 conclusive evidence of tho prsdoml-
Tho House Of Representatives ordered q
| special committee Of seven to Investigate tho
| methods of examining pension claims, with
| Instructions 10 recommend Legislation That
| will obvinto delays and Irregularities that
| now exist.
| The Cincinnati Enquirer has 1t from New
Yuk that Cen. Grant will 70 10 Australia
| ard New Xaand before hlA return to the
| United Stats he will not bs back before
tho Republican national convention shall
| have met and decided.
| Tho New York Herald says Democrats who
| aro writing NJ tho presidential slate should
put IIpratto seymour somewhere near the
! top. The old man la making cheese on MS
| farm, but no could find tline Ia DO President
| II he were cnaxed juet II mite.
| Gov Van u lndt, of Rhode Island. ~ q can
didnts fer reelection. and Mt tho proper time
| h- friends Will present hls nnma MA United
| States Senator, In place Of Gen. burnside,
| whoAs term Ia about 10 expire Ills noinlua
| ttou for Governor ls for,gono conclusion.
Tho Newark IN J } Register booms for Joel
| Parker IA u presidential y ndidate with un-
| nbnted yi1or. 1t says We would not only
| hartnoniZs the Democratic party. but draw to
| hts support thousands Of Republicans and In
dependents, who, Tired OF party machinery,
vote only for tho best man.
Ifnrper's Weekly has at last come to the
| point III attacking Grant'R nomination na un-
1 wise. because many independent Republicans
will vote agninst him, but + ittor Curtis ON
| phntically dselnes To Ray whether ~ VIII
| support Grant or not II the nomination Is
made "Wo shall not. says Harpsr's Wcehfy,
| cross tho river Till we come 10 IT,
| REPRESENTATIVE Bland. tho author OF the
| Bland dollar, told ~ reporter Mt ~. Louis q
| day or two ago that he Ind hoped OpnRress
would pnss bills for unlimited coinage Of sill
yer and the Improvement OF tho Miftissippl
| river. He said that most OF the western
| Democrats favored the noninatiun for Pfesi-
dent IT ex.Gov. Horatio Seymour. win" said
Mr.. Bland, ia sound on The silver question.
| Cincinnati Enquirer: During the late civil
1 war. hul after tue late civil war. several ~ THIS
/ United States Were not represented In either
branch Of Congress. What, then. was the rec
| oRiliHsd theory M 10 what constitutes quo
| rum2 Was IL tho ~ cept.d doctrine that II
| quorum must DO n majority ot Ill the mem
bers TO which each house was entitled, or did
u majority ~ tue actual members eonstitut q
quorum? This theory Ia pertinent To tho de-
ciston or tho question or u quorum IN the
House Of Representatives, IN Maine.
| Senator Mcdonald says TINT the black refu-
gees who have made their appearance IL IL
| diana come from n district IN North Carolina
which gave twelve or fifteen thousand kepub'
| lIcan majority and the senator asks why
they should leave for political reasons and
why they should come 70 Indiana Were
| not the States b. tween full OF vacant lands
| homes for tho milon2 -Pennsy lvanta and
| OHIO What should make Indiana the land
OF promise To ihs modern exodus
Charleston Netps. Gen. Grant In coming tc
the South brings with him Gen Sheridan. Il
man as different from tins ideal soldier as
Gen Grant Is from the idsal President OF u
constitutional republic. The chosen compan.
ion OF Gen. Grant In his Southern tour is the
barn burner OF the valley OF Virginia, thu
bully who branded tho people of Louisiana
and Mississippi as "bandtt," and invited the
President to 50 proclaim them, and leave tht
rest to him Tneae Grant receptions, " they
continue, will convince the whole country
that tho Southern people arc disinRe.
nuous, or arc wanting In u nice sense OF what
Is duo to honorable self-rcspect.
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