Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-06
Political.

Fraud is henceforth a local issue concen-
trated under Barnum's hat.
General Grant will not accept an election
as Senator, or Senator at-largc.
A Washington letter says President Hayes
has saved three-fourths of his salary.
The Rev. G. De La Matyr at the end of
his Congressional term is going to live in
Florida.
Congressman Hewitt has just invested half
q million of dollars in real estate in New
York.
There is a republican majority of "a on
joint ballot in the Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania.
Senator Conkling has not crossed the
threshold of the White House since Hayes
became President.
The Portland Oregonian asserts that the
forged Morey letter furnished the rallying
cry for a nonresident rabble who put in
some 800 or 400 illegal votes in that city.
At the recent election the total vote of
Georgia, which has nine Representatives
was forty-fve thousand less than Kansas,
which sends only three.
1t is reported that the greenbackers hold
the balance of power in the West Virginia
legislature, and may control the election Of
United States Senator.
Hewitt's explanations have as little influ-
ence on the public as Barnum's silence.
They show, however, that his hide is not as
thick as that of the mule-buyer.
A reporter of the New York Truth says
that PCS, 900 copies of that paper containing
the forged Morey letter were printed. OF
these the democratic national committee took
20 1000, and Gen. Hancock bought Is. OOC
copies for his own use.
| Mr. Carl Schurz evidently does hot intend
remaining in the Cabinet, even if asked tc
do so by President Garfield. When giving
his report to the press he characterized it a.
his "last will and testament" while in the
document itself he announced it as his s'las
annual report"
The Boston Herald says ''the independent
voters Of New York elected Garfield L
draws from this the conclusion that his Ad
ministra,ion will be of like kidney. Doe,
the Herald suppose that the very diminutiv.
"independeut tall is going to wag the stall
wart republican dog, particularly after it ha.
been chopped off, and then stuck on '.but
end foremost With Tilden- and Reform ce
ment?-C Concord Monitor.
/ The talk of making Levi =. Morton Sec
rotary of the Treasury under Gen. Garfield
has come to u sudden end since the discovery
that he is Ineligible, or rather disqualified, by
section 243 of the Revised Statutes. which
says that no person appointed to the Office d
Secretary "shall directly or indirectly b.
concerned or interested in carrying on the
business of trade and commerce, or be con
cerned in the purchase or disposal of any
public securities of any State or of the United
States"
Atalanta, Georgia, came very near having
Yankee and a republican for Mayor. Hen.
~ I. Kimball lacked only fifty-four votes Of
an election, in spite of the opposition Of the
entire press of the city, and the overwhelm.
ingly democratic tendencies of the communi-
MI. hlu1OdiA ooS VVCu uItC Va tue StiSi
agents in starting the new life of Georgia.
He built for Atlanta the largest hotel south
of Washington, and the Capitol; got their
Fair Grounds, and led in the introduction OF
water into the city. His excuse for running
for Mayor was that he wanted to clean and
pave the streets.
The Senatorial contest in Tennessee is
likely to be very exciting one. The result
is doubtful. The democrats win have in the
legislature majority of three to five on joint
ballot. This majority is made up Of men Of
discordant views, and the party newspapers
concede that il will be difIlcult to unite the
democratic members on any one man. The
dsmocratic aspirants for the place are neith-
er Of then stroag or popular. On the other