The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-16
Political Notes.

J. A. Taylor, of Fluvanna county, formerly
r. ,adjuster sergeant alarms of the Virginia
H ouse of Delegates, has repudiated Malone.
At the Republican primaries in New York
ci ty and Brooklyn on Tuesday night, delegates
te, the State convention opposed to the renom-
i1lation of Governor Cornell were chosen.
T he convention meets at Sara+ ga september
%. 'r"
At a meeting of independent Republicans
o. Wilkosbarre, Pa, on Tuesday, committee
was appointed to make arrangements for the
calling of convention to nominate an indie
pendent Republican candidate for Congress
in the twelfth district.
A circular has been issued by the various
civil service reform associations in Boston and
vicinity calling upon the citizens of Massachu-
sets not to vote for any candidate for Con-
gress who does not sympathize with the cause
of civil service reform. 1t is signed by Pres
ident Eliot, of Harvard University, Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., Edward Atkinson, and
many other distinguished citizens of Massa-
chusetts.
Pittsburg, Pa, is the home of some of SEN
ator Don Cameron's most able and indefati-
gable lieutenants, and yet at the Republican
primary election in that city recently, Con-
gresham Thomas M. Bayne, one of the most
pronounced independent and anti Cameron
men in the State, was nominated by an over
whelming vote. The stalwarts were very much
chagrined over the result, as they confidently
expected to relegate Mr.. Bayne to private life
because of his refusal to wear the collar OF
the boss. ..
A mass meeting was held in Library Hall !,
Newark, New Jersey, Monday evening, and
was addressed by Judge Frank Fort, Re
publican, in criticism of the financial manage
&c +Ia Dayphlina,, cItu
The most of the audience were Republican
taxpayers. The speaker said that the official
statements of the public debt were erroneous,
and that the total funded and temporary debt
was close to $12, 00O, 900, with about So, 200,-
600 in sinking funds, making a net debt of
over So, 500, 600. The debt had Increased
nearly So, 100000 since 1875, period when it
has been claimed large reductions of debt
were made. For this there was nothing to
show in the way of public improvements.
Governor elect Z. A. O'Neal, of Alabama,
who was in ST. Louis recently, was asked,
HAS the South any hope of representation
| on the presidential ticket of 1884 ~ ''None, J"
said the Governor, land no desire to be rep
| resented on it. The people of the South re-
cognize that it is too early for that yet. In
| ten years or so we will think of it. The South
wants Samuel j. Tilden for 1884, and it would
| give him its solid support, as it did before
when he was chosen to the Office, of which he
was afterwards defrauded. The old gentle
mans health is the only thing that can be
urged against him, and [ notice that he is
never considered in any serious danger of a
paralytic stroke except when national con-
vention is approaching .,.-...
! Speaking of the twothirds rule, Hon. A.
H Stephens in recent speech said II have
warred against it for years, even i'll Federal
\ conventions. 1t will burst up any party in the
world in twelve years, because under that sys-
tenn there will always be tied-ont houses.
/ What is the effect Of it? The leading public
men who. are the choice of the people will be
beaten, and the tied out third-rate horses will
be brought In And that is what crippled the
Democratic party in the beginning and burst
! it up in 1860 at Charleston. If the majority
rule had been adopted then there never would
have been disruption of the Democratic
party, there never would have been this war,
there never would have been any secession,
and the good old ship of State would have
sailed on under the guidance of the gallant
and noble Douglas, for | will maintain his
honor and craftsmanship, now that he is dead,
as did when he was living.