Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-03-06
Political Notes.

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they have created. Still, it is a
Democratic Congress which must
decide whether or not they shall
be justified in their extravaganza,
and permitted to continue it.
Mr.. Watterson observes in the
Louisville Courier-JOurnaL that,
with single exception, the
Democratic party can elect no in
dividual President of the United
States this year but Mr.. Tilden.
The single exception sis the candi-
date named by Mr.. Tilden.' This
is a dictatorship unsurpassed by
anything ever predicted of the
third term regime.
The Chicago Tribune publishes
interviews with a great number of
| leading Wisconsin Democrats, and
it appears that Mr. Tilden is no
longer favorite candidate with
them. Nine-tenths of them are
outsDoken for Senator Bayard.
Neither Hendricks nor Judge Da.
Wis can rally many supporters.
at now looks" says the Tribune,
las if Mr.. Bayard may safely cal
culate on twenty votes from Wis
consin."
The Cleveland Anzeiger, Ger
man Republican paper, makes
proclamation that under no cir
cumstances will it support General
Grant for The presidency. If he is
nominated it would reLudiate
him, but support the Republican
local tickets. 1t further states
that no effort has been made to OBJ
tain signatures to the German
anti-Grant third term petition put
in circulation in Cleveland few
days ago, but that over thirteen
hundred signatures have already
been obtained.
The Washington correspondent
Of the Boston HeraM says that
the presidential cOntes: has reviv-
ed all the old personal bitterness
between Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Conk-
ling. Mr.. Blaine was in New
York city for several days prev
| i0u5 to the Utica convention. He
made his headquarters at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, and from
there communicated with his
friends in all parts of the state,
encouraging and organizing them
against Conkling and Grant. 1t
was largely owing to his efforts
that the anti-Grant feeling in the
convention showed so much
strength and enthusiasm as it did.
Boston Herald: GAS to the third
term question, the fact that a term
has interviewed does not materially
alter its significance. Once break
down the custom, and the division
will no longer be an obstacle that
need interfere with an unbroken
succession Of terms. If a man
firmly believes that it is advisa-
BILE to cling to the theories of our
forefatherS, he will not permit
himself to be moved by what is
nothing more than shallow soph-
istry. Either we are to have ro-
tation in the Office of our chief
magistrate, Or else. in no remote
future, the incumbent will be vir-
tuaily selected for life"
The Indiana elections for dele
gates to Chicago suggest some re-
Elections to the Pittsburgh Dis
| patch that ought 10 be shared by
Republicans generally. tits sig
nificent Of the difference in the
popularity of Grant ana Blaine,
that while the entire strength Of
the machine has to ho employed
to force the cause OF the former,
the movement in favor Of the lat
ter is entirely spontaneous. While
Conkling was moving heaven and
earth to secure New York for
Grant, Indiana voted for Blaine
without a struggle.
In Saturdays issue of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer are printed two
double-leaded editorials that APP
pear significant. The first states
that a Democratic politician Of
national reputation has been all
over Ohio, having met three
fourths Of the party leaders, and
says Tildens supporters number
nine to one over those Of any 9TH
! er Democrat, Just below the
above article, aud equally con-
| spicuous. is published an inter-
view with Mr.. Hassaureck, the
eminent German editor WHO con-
trolls the V0lkSbldlt. Hassaureck
is just from Washington. and an
noances his belief that Grant will
| be dominated by the Republicans
! aud elected. Hassaureck was a
leader in the Greeley movement,
and has always been rs bitter an
| opponent Of Grant a. the Enquirer
has been Of Tildeu. Further evil
/ dence o. the Tilden boom in Ohio
is furnished By the Cleveland
/ Press, which reports a conference
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