The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

In tho Socialist convention at Pitts
burg, Pa. on Saturday, report was
adopted recommending that the Social
Democracy put candidate in tho field
for President, i'll opposition to the cau-
tiidatcs of the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties.
Mr.. Blaine says that in fifty-nino
years during which annual elections
have been held III Maine, there have
not been rs many fatal defects in the
returns as this one year. The Atlanta
Constitution remarks that this shows
at what lively rate the Republicans
went about their frauds in 1879.
The Democratic members Of the
Senate Committee Of Privileges and
Elections have privately decided to re-
port i'll favor Of unsenting Senator
Kellogg. As yet there has bccn no for
NAL action i'll full committee, but a
prominent Democratic member of tho
committee is authority for tho state
mSnt TINT Mr.. Kellogg would undoubt-
edly be out ofthc Senate before t 10
end Of February.
"A Bayard club was organized III
st. Louis last week, already numbers
several hundred Democrats, including
prominent merchants, attorneys and
politicians. The preamble Of the con-
stitution Of this club urges upon the
Democrats of the Nation the policy of
nominating Senator Bayard for tho
Presidency, and, when nominated, of
elccting him.
--Shcrmnn's friends claim that he
will havo several of the State delcya-
tions from the South in the Rcpubli-
can Convention, despite anything that
the friends of Grant and other candi-
dates can do. Mr.. Sherman has put
into office nearly all Of the Rcpubli-
cans in the South, black and white, who
are most noted for working the politi-
cal wires. Three, if not four, of tho
cX-colorcd Congressman from South
Carolina are now in office, and thcy
are hard workers for him.
The latest expressions of cx-Gov-
ernor Seymour contained in the New
York Times interview in regard to his
possible nomination for the presidency
by the Democrats next year, indicate Il
willingness to accept the nomination, il
rendered to him with unaMimity. lie
avoided any declaration to the effect
that he would not accept tho nomina-
ton, though he did say he would not
be candidate. This is tho position
Gen. Grant is said to occupy III rela-
ton to the Republican party, and thus
wc are presented with tho possibility
that tho MON who made the presidcn-
tial race in 1868 will once more con-
front each other, next year.
A Washington dispatch to tho
New York Herald, says two gentle
men ofthat city, both Republicans, one
a strong friend of Gen. Grant and the
other by no means avcrse to his nomi-
nation, went over to philadelphia early
ast week for tho special purpose Of as
certaining the real feeling Of the prom
inent Republicans who were to be
thcrc, regarding tho nomination Of tho
General. They report TINT they were
surprised to find strong undcr-cur-
rent against his nomination, even
among many who are supposed by the
country to be unconditionally for il.
Of these, some were privately oppos-
ing tho idea Of bringing Gcn. Grant
out, on tho ground that it involved
real risk to the pnrty OH account of the
uncertainty of tho old Liberal vote,
which once deserted the party because
ofGrant. 1t was found that serious
fears were entertained Of Ohio by the
Gonoraps friends, based upon tho
known feeling among the Germans and
tho strong opposition among tho largo
body Of independent Republicans of
that State against third term.