Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29
Political Points.

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Ingersoll says that he is still fol
Blaine.
The Denver Neus estimates that thu
number of voters In Colorado has in
creased by q, 900 since last fall.
Representative George B. Loring, o
Massachusetts,. has written letter ia
voring the nomination Of Grant.
Albany Mirror's ticket-t1od, Grant
Victory. Binghampton Leader's tick
et-Heaven, Hancock, Hallelujah.
Ex-Gov. Fayette McMullen. of vir
ginia. has called q Greenback State
Convention, to meet in Salem OF Mon
day, May 10.
The Knoxville Chronicle thinks the
Tennessee delegation to Chicagowill be
divided between Grant and Blaine,
with Sherman at the tail end.
The Indiana Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will hold its twentieth annual
meeting I'm Indianapolis on Tuesday
and Wednesday,, twenty-seventh and
twenty-eighth instant.
Mr.. Abraham s. Hewitt is reported
as saying that if any body imagines Mr..
Tilden to be infirm he would get thor
oughly undeceived were he to try the
| ex-candidate at bargain.
Gen. Manson, State Auditor, refuses
to be candidate for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination in Indiana,
and will doubtless be renominated for
the Office now held by him.
Massachusetts has instructed for Ed
munds. This is regarded as good new
by the Blaine people. who think that
any delegation not instructed for Grant
is nearly as good as an instruction for
Blaine.
Prof. Seelye, elected delegate at large
to the Chicago Convention in Massa-
chusetts, is on the record that Hayes
gobbled the Presidency by fraud. AS
a member of the House in 1877 he vot-
ed to reject the vote OF Louisiana.
Arrangements are being made for a
great Democratic mass meeting at Win
chester, Va, Mays. Senators Voorhees,,
Vance and Gordon and Representatives
Blackburn and Cox are among those
asked to speak, and it is announced
that the speeches will be upon national
topics.
The leading Chicago hotel-keepers
deny, with much warmth, the story of
the Cincinnati Commercial that they
intend to multiply rates during the
time of the Natianal Republican Con-
vention. They say they intend to ac-
commodate all who come at the custo-
mary figures.
A dispatch from Washington City
announces the arrival there of Mr..
Halstead, editor Of the Cincinnati Com
mercial. He reports that the Anti
Third Termers have got Grant busted,
and the Presidential contest is now be-
tween Sherman and Blaine, with the
chances in favor of Sherman.
It is now asserted that the delegates
to the National Republican Conven-
ton from Rhode Island are not for
Blaine, first, last and all the time.
They have been instructed to vote for
the strongest man before the conven-
ton, and will support Grant if his
strength comes up to the number
claimed by him.
A New York special furnishes the
following interesting information:
Should Grant or Blaine he the Repub-
lican candidate for President, Tilden
will be the Democratic nominee. He
will not run against Hayes, Sherman,
Washburne or Edn,unds. He relies
upon the Germans refusing to vote for
either Grant or Blaine.
Representative Belford. of Colorado,
writes home that he regards Gen.
Grants nomination az foregone con-
and he urges that, as Colorado !
was the first State to take position au-
through the action of the
State convention in December last lin
favor Of Grant, it shall indorse that ac-
ton at its coming convention.
Mr.. William Groesbeck, of Cincin-
n att, is n reasonably wealthy mamie
is worth probably three or four million
dollars. He owns quantities of stocks
and bonds, butnever indulges in any
speculative ventures, though he is
fond of watching and studying the fiuc-
ltations of the market. He..has no bus
ness which might be injured by his be-
,oming q Democratic candidate for the
Presidency.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Tribune states that q Vermont +,
having volunteered to Z
Senator Edmnnds to head the delega- !
ion from that State to press his nomi-
'ation for the Presidency. the Senator {
by saying that his only wish I
Uaa that if tha (!ouUrosauoav !, did m [! q