The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-05-14

During the exciting and importan
campaign we arc about TO enter, th'
INTERIOR Journal will give th'
latest and most reliable news Of thI
progress Of events, and to the enc
that everybody may keep abreast will
them, we have decided TO send
from now till January LIST, 1881
fJr ONE DOLLAR, to all cAsu subscrl
bers. Send in your dollar now an'
get the full benefit of il.
From all points Of the countr,
there arises a genera, and Determines
kick against Grant the machine can
didate for third term, and the pros
pect for that individual to become thu
"Duke OF America" is far from being
as rosy to him and his friends as erst
while. The Chicago County Conven
ton resulted in the defeat Of Grant,
but his rule or ruin friends, seeing
their weakness, withdrew and held .
little convention Of its own. In New
York and Pennsylvania. both OF
which instructed for him, there ha:
been bolt among the delegates, while
in Ohio the opposition to Grant is bold
and outspoken, hundreds OF prominent
Republicans having, over their own
signatures, said that they will in no
event support him for the Presidency.
The fact Of the business is, Grant is
not the popular choice of his party.
The machine men, COnkling, Cameron
and such, have used their utmost en-
deavors to to foist him upon the coun-
try again, and for time il appeared
that they were likely to secure his
nomination, but his corrupt admins.
trations and the manner in which he
congregatel thieves around him, and
when they were found out, how he re.
GREETED to accept their resignation, as
in the case of Belknap, are too fresh
in the minds of the people, who are
rapidly coming forward to protest
against his return TO power
WHILE never 80 wild and rampant
in our devotion to Mr.. Tilden, as to
think, much less TO say, that he is the
only Democrat that can be elected
President Of these United States, OF
to imagine that without him the Dem
ocratic party had no issue, we have
all along hoped that he could so ar
range affairs in his own State as to
leave no doubt of his ability TO carry
it by an overwhelming majority.
This he has signally failed to do, not
being able even to get the instructions
of New York in convention, in
which John Kelley had no hand, to
say nothing of the bitter OPPOSITION to
him expressed by the convention Of
which Kelley was the head centre. 1t
would be a most fitting rebuke to that
INSCRIPTIONS party which perpetrated
the great fraud on the Democracy, to
have vindicated both 1t and him by a
reelection, but unless the delegates
from New York can, at the Cincin-
natl Convention, count, without the
shadow of doubt, on the Electoral
vote of that State for him, Tilden can
not and will not be the nominee.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Somerset
Reporter from Woodstock writes that
J. W. Alcorn, Esq, made a most IA
'orable impression there and adds that
he travels on his merits, and not
stride whisky bottle. Can this be
IN insinuation that the other candi.
late depends on the whisky bottle to
AIRY him through! Perish such
bought. Why, the mans an enthu-
iasiie Murphy, and sports gold
'eaded cane presented by the loving
aides OF Lancaster for bis devotion to
he temperance cause
Mr.. WHITTHoRNE, of Tennessee, {
hered bill Tuesday to reduce the
'ay Of Senators and Legislators TO q
$50 per month, with pay only during I
he sessions, but when il came to a
ote the "no' that followed was loud
nd deep enough to shake the Capital 7
rom centre TO circumference. An q
Their proposition to reduce the pay G
'om s., 900 to $4,000 met a similar !
lie, showing that the members had I
Iuch rather "grab" than to give up. Q
TnE general rise after the long de.
ression, which followed last year in d
'ery thing, seem to have came to an {
,rupt termination, and nearly every e
isiness is now being worked ON a 4
,clining market Grain, wool, and is
pecially iron have tumbled, the card C
tie for nails having been reduced
ring the last week from s. per keg Il
1925, and il is said that the bottom n
IS not been reached. "
Miss MARY ANDERSON, the beauii- Ii
! Louisville Star, gave 23S perior-
ances during her season just closed, "
alizing a gross amount of s2i2, 900. Il
hs net profit Was 100000, of which Il
iss Anderson gets $4,000. No e q
,nder she has offers of marriage by