The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1880-11-25
Political Points.

Chattanooga, Tenn, elected a Republican MAY
or, Thursday by lis majority.
The official vote of Massachusetts is: Garfield
100, 1913 Hancock, / 200 Weaver, .5is: Dow
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I Manning has been appointed United States
Senator from Louisiana, and Joseph E Brown
eee ed trom Georgia
There will be only ninetv-one members of the
next House of Representatives who have not sorv-
ed in that body before.
The Greenbackers of Hollis voted unanimously
at meeting Tuesday evening to have nothing TO
do IN the future with any Fusion ticket
Mr. Tilden's prophecy that if the Republicans
should succeed this year they will be in power an
other twenty years is remembered now
President Hayes thinks that the Morey forgery
cost the Republicans one thousand votes in Nevada
two thousand in Oregon and five thousand in Cali
tornia
E. Taylor is nominated by the Republicans
of the 18th District for the unexpred term in Con
gress OF Gen. Garfield. He was elected to Congress
in the October election
The Detroit Free Press, the leading Democratic
paper in Michigan, calls upon the National Demo
cratic Committee to right the grevous wrong done
by Barnum Philip, and Hewitt
The total vote of New York city at the Pres
Dental election was 20l 70l The total population
is 2O6 81 1t is usually calculated that the polls
amount to one-htth of the population On this
basis the number of voters in New York is over
240. 900, and PIG, 94l were registered
The official canvassers have completed the can
vass OF New York, which gives Garfield 20 923 ma
Jorty. Outside of New York CITY he has g. 2lS
No protest was presented against allowing the
count IN New Iork city Therefore it is now set
tied that it goes to Garfield without question
The bondsmen of the foyger Philip have surrep-
dered him to the sheriff; and the proprietors of
the Truth newspaper have discharged him from
their office. Philip isn't half as much to blame as
the Democratic National Commit ee which encour-
aged PhIlp IN his crime, and used his forged letter
1t is now believed that the Democratic frauds IN
Florida were so stupendous in their operations
and so lconcealed that quo warranto proceed
Ing must necessarily result in the election being
declared VOID. and that as a consequence two Re-
publican members of Congress will be elected and
one Democratic Senator deprived Of his seat
The Portland Press agrees with the Lewiston
journal that the gubernatorial returns should be
corrected by the records, and then whoever has a
plurality OF votes should be declared elected bv the
Legislature 1t says that the Governor and Coun-
ell take this view, and 1t hopes that the Republi-
cans of the Legislature will take the same view
according to Petroleum v Nasty the future of
the Democratic party is not full of announcement
''Ef the Democrisy of Kentucky" he says, "hev to
90 on four years more, subsistn on husks, and
glttin its lkker credit half its vottln strength
will hev passed in its chips and gone into the here
after We have tested our endurance to the last
pint and the strained bow won't hold out any
longer"
Specimens of the fraudulent tissue tickets used
in Charleston, Orangeberg and other counties,
to overcome Republican majorities in South Caro-
lima, have been sent North The tissue tickets
were printed very thin paper and folded into
the larger ballots on thick paper and pasteboard
By this means, Democratic voter could cast
twenty tissue ballots folded into his regular ballot
Only Democrats were allowed to inspect the boxes,
and they counted everything; and if too many
tissue ballots had been put ill., they threw out the
excess not required