National Republican., 1880-08-12
POLITICAL NOTES.


THE democratic party welcomes David
Davis. II was evidently in want of ballast.
CoLQUrTT set \ trap in the Georgia convcn-
tion for the nomination after the thrty.second
ballot, and caught it. 1t was q very cunning
contrivance to overtun the two-thirds rule,
and 1t was very successful.
DID the Garcelon legislature meet August
in pursuance to their adjoummcnt2 If so the
public have not been advised of the fact Are
they frightened from that purpose by events
that have transpired since that adjournment ?
Perhaps that's what's the matter.
THE democrats now begin to manifest some
displeasure at what they term Wade Hamp-
toms indiscrctions. Take rebel and turn
him loose and he will ruin himself aud all
connected with him. Blackburn ruined tho
dcmocratic prospect in the extra session by his
wiping-out process.
CAPTAIN ALF. GLAscocK of London county,
Va, in letter to the Alexandria Gasette, thinks
1t is high time that those who served in confed.
erato politics with him for fifteen years and
in the confederate army for four years had
now their discharge. He says there is no use
of solid south unless n southern confederacy,
with Jefferson Davis at it's head and slavery at
its feet, is among the possibilities of the future
THE New York World lards its editorial col
umns with epgrammatic sentences of General
Hancock's letter of acceptance, but we fail to
discover any place where it tells its readers
that he was a union general during the rebel
lion and faxed tho rebels upon every possible
occasion, and that he has now put himself at
Al. 4, F.I. ~. \
ing to whip out tho a. Boys in Blue" This
chapter in his history is omitted, but somehow
tho people have got hold of it.
If General Hancock will take the advice of
the New York Sun and write letter week
from this time forth TO enlghten the people as
to his views on public affairs, his campaign
will be practically onded by the 1st of Oc-
tober and he will be laid away tenderly and
carefully as a relic of polti cal misfortune. He
will most thoroughly explode the idea that a
union general can successfully lead a rebel
party to victory, and the advice of the New
York Sun we'll followed will materially facil-
tate the work.
SENATOR CoNKLING has left New York for
his home. On his return to New York city
from Washington, where he was during the
late New York republican conference, at
which his absence was conspicuous, for the
reason that imperative private business de-
manded his presence at this place at that time
he was beset by the Bohemians of the press ms
Egypt was by tho locusts They showered
their cards upon him with requests for few
minutes conversation, and they were uni
formily returned with polite negative, with
tho accompanying explanation that the press.
ure of private business would not permit him
to see them.
THE Portland (Me.) Daily Press says: "The
political campaign in thisstate has fully opened
and its promise is of the fa rcst. Whether OF
not that promise shall be fulfilled rests with
the republicans. We have to face an enemy
audncious, unscru pulous and flushed with the
hope of success. The oppo siton will hesitate
at no expedieats, however foul, to effect theil
purposes. Tho forgery to which they rcsorted
last winter to count in men who were never
elected shows what crimes they will undertake
to gain power. 1t is not enough to beat these
men. We must put them to utter rout, And il
order to do this all republicans must work, worl
hard, work from now until election day. II
vote is not enough That isn't tho discharge
| of ones whole duty"