The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-01
POLITICS..
at II o'clock

Blaine seems to be the favorite in Mime
sofa.
st. Louis Globe Democrat says the people
of Kansas are for Grant but the Dollticians
are for Blaine,
The Democrats In the South Carolina Leg
islature, being duly polled, give rs votes for
Bayard. Il for Tilden. IL for Seymour and IL
for Field.
Burdette says that q presidential vote was
| taken on a railway train out West re3entiy
and the result showed thirty-two more bal
lots than passengers. He sets this down as q
| s'straw."
| Nearly all the Democratic candidates for
the Presidency have Maryland blood In their
veins. Tilden, Bayard, Davis and Jewett
were all either born there Or are closely re-
lated to Maryland families.
A leading Democratic candidate for the
nomination for Governor of Missouri is said
to be down with the measles. He kissed a
Kansas City girl baby, whose father expects
to be delegate to the convention.
It was Washburne who said to Conkling,
"You lio." Eliclting no response, he re-
| sumed the conversation after few minutes,
and said: II don't know that you understood
what said, and I don't wish to have any
mistake made | said: You lie.'
Ex-Congressman Morton G. Hunter, who is
the leading Republican candidate for the
a thorough canvass of the State, says that
the delegation from Indiana to Chicago has
no Grant men In it. The delegates are divided
between Blaine and Sherman.
The Rhode Island Democratic delegates
are az a body unpledged. Individually q
Bayard, Jewett or Hendricks for second
choice. Some, however, are violently opposed
TO Tilden, aud his managers need not look
for solid support from Rhode Island.
Hancock In personal appearance Is tall, well
formed, and very handsome. His height can
no thon ci Fnat fyrr i,,alx L..
weighs fully 240 pounds. Gen. Hancock had
two children, Russell Hancock and Ada Eliza
beth Hancock. The latter died in New York.
OF typhoid fever, when eighteen years of age.
sell Hancock, the Generals only son. Is living
and is a planter In Mississippi. Among Gen.
Hancock's classmates at West Point we're u
s. Grant, George b. Mcclellan, j. F. Raw
nolds, j. l.. Reno, Burnside, Franklin, and W.
F. Smith.
with himself and tenderness for his wife
surround him. You feel that more than any
living man he Is the dean and senior Of the
Democratic party In America. During his
life he has hardly ever ,quarreled with any
body. You cannot tell at this moment wheth- |
er he believes 1ildan to be stoundrel a
genius Or q saint. Free In his Intercourse, |
especially DESTROYS to interest Republicans, |
close with money but hospitable, seldom I'm
proving his property In U tica, but proud of
the town, you rather feel, on the whole, that |
you are talking with man who has been
President instead Of one who may be-"
or Horatio Seymour ''Gath" gives this
picture In the Enquirer OF Cincinnati: "Sey-
mour, to look at, Is a yer large Yankee-type
OF man, six feet or over, wearing a suit of |
black cloth, with long frock coat and with
large country boots, we'll blackened, and a
high hat. He has benevolent face and a
pair OF rich dark eyes. When you go to see
Seymour they send you In some nice white
bread and glass of rich milk and small
cake Of delicious butter. Then the amiable,
keen old man will entertain you with the
most fatheriy and beautiful talk. He has a
temperament like womans, An atmos-
phere of consideration for you and satisfaction
Ex-Gov. Garceon has explained to O. re-
porter of the Lewiston Me- Journal what he
meant by a Judas" In his council. II mean
oy Judas" he said, "a man who is a traitor,
, man who was traitor, not SO much to NV
party as traitor In the matter of the re-
surns mean man who tamp ered with the
returns, provided they were tamp ered with"
de admitted that it looks as IL some of the
'eturns were tempered with, said that he re-
;ognized the present Legislature as legal,
Ind continued: when can get the Council
;ogether | intend to have raking OF this
Thola matter. | think 1t will be found that
his tampering with the returns was done by
me individuaI-but don't care now to name
Eho think that individual is. Some Of the
republican allegations may be doubtful, but
hat case In York can't get over. The time
Will come when the public will have full devel-
'pments on these matters. | might say more,
,ut the time has not Yet come. L want TO get
'e1ora my Council again and have this whole
uhJect thoroughly canvassed think some
lme snail make a more particular state
ment than l can now"