The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-14
Political Notes.

says that he Will not SuppOII inc 1lepupIlcsah
nominee for supreme judge in that State.
The PENNSYLVANIA Republicans on Wednes-
day nominated William Livsey, of Pittsburg,
for State Treasurer, and Jerome b. Niles, OF
Tioga county, for Auditor General.
Judge Rives, of Virginia, who signs him
self "more of Republican than coalition
ist.'' saws he can support Malone no longer,
and that the latter's course will soon give the
Democrats control of the State.
A telegram from Little Rock, Ark, to the
Memphis AppeaL claims that the congressman
from Arkansas are all in favor of Mr.. Carlisle
for Speaker. "Mr Jones, it says, lis open
ly opposed to Randall OF the tariff and favors
Carlisle. Breckenridge, Peel and Rogers are
all free traders and opposed to any protec
tonist.'
Hon. Richard T. Merrick, describing the
jury that acquitted the star routepeople, said:
''Oh. | had a beautiful jury, an unparalleled
Jury There were four negroes, a crank,
man with mania -potu, Il Welshman, who
can neither speak, read nor understand Eng
lish, and one who can neither read nor write
any language, on 1t.
The coalition city council Of Danville, Va,
has removed policemen Morriset and Lowrie,
two of the most experienced and efficient
members of the force, and substituted in their
places Enoch Taylor, a white readiuster, and
a colored man named Bob Adams. Several
of the Democratic councilmen, disappearing
of these removals, have resigned.
Senator German, of Maryland, and Senator
Isham G.. Harris, of Tennessee, arrived at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, last Sunday.
They awaited the arrival of Senator John
Sherman and Sergeant at arms Bright. These
Senators are members of the committee on
rules of the United States Senate, which will
meet this summer at Bar Harbor, Me-, and
consider the proposed amendments of the
rules.
Philadelphia Press (Rep.): Attorney Gem
eral Brewster has won the approval OF all
candid men by his Jealous endeavors to purify
Southern offices subordinate to his depart
ment; but he will fall in public estimation as
Just and fearless Secretary if he does not
learn, in the first place, if District Attorney
Lewis has been slandered by the reports OF
his share in the Elam- Beirne duel and, II he
has not been maligned by statement he has
not denied, remove him.
The people should remember that the trade
dollar is the work of a Republican Congress-;
that Republican administration first depre-
ciated that currency; that Democratic effort
to have the trade dollar legalized failed in a
Republican House, and that the poor man
has now for the second time been shaved 10
cents on the dollar Remember these things
when you come to the polls this fall, and IN
the language of the New York Times, turn
the scoundrels out"
Louisville Courier Journal, (Dem.): From
Michigan comes an inquiry to the COURIER
Journal concerning our views OF absolute tree
trade: Do we believe that absolute free trade
is consistent with stability and prosperity sin
all kinds of business?' Free trade is simply
the natural, unrestricted interchange OF pro
duets in accordance with ones own personal
wishes. 1t is most desirable, even if it is
unattainable. Any interference with 1t is an
evil of greater or of less magnitude. tariff
does interfere with it, and any tariff is, there
fore. Objectionable, whether it is laid for pro-
lection or simply for revenue.
A convention of colored men, consisting OF
three delegates from each of the twenty-five
districts in the District of Columbia, was held
Tuesday night. Frederick Douglass, Rev:
r. S. Laws and j. NJ. Gregory were declared
to be elected delegates to the convention OF
colored men to be held soon in Louisville.
1t was claimed that Fl. c. Quincy, who was
declared to be elected an alternate, received
more votes than any of the delegates who
were declared elected, but the convention ad-
iourned as soon as the result was announced.
Quincy friends stated that they would hold
another convention. OF the delegates de-
clared elected Douglass received the smallest
vote.
Brooklyn Eagle Dem): The fact that the
Democrats carried the municipal election at
Annapolis, Md, Monday, thereby scoring
their first local success in many years; is
only noteworthy in the disposition shown by
the voters the country over to make matters
Unanimous so far as the opportunity is
afforded them. With Democratic mayors IN
such former Republican strongholds as Cleve-
land, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, it is not
surprising that the Maryland municipality
should wheel into line. The incidents of
this off year in politics thus far indicate mat
the tidal wave Of last year is still rolling on
ward If it so easily overcome Republican
bulkheads at Annapolis, what are we to eX-
pect except practical Democratic unanimlty
in the coming autumn?
Chicago Herald, Und.): When the heat
of fanatical enthusiasm with which the Pro-
hibitionists carried their point in the Iowa
Republican convention has cooled, when its
members come to move around among the
voters and begin their Sunday school and
blue ribbon campaign, they are likely to real
ize that they have made no ordinary blunder
in coupling protection with prohibition IN
their platform. If there is any State IN the
Union which has a strong and well-organlZed
body of Independent thinkers who believe in
free-trade principles that State is Iowa. No
other State was more largely and influentlally
represented at the Detroit conference. There
are many free trade clubs throughout the State.
And yet in purely State election the man.
ayers of the party have been guilty of the co.
lossal folly of making an issue on point of
national policy probably contrary to the views
of large majority of the party. A year ago
LON ha1 of wi
spoke of the possibility of Iowa going Demo
cratic this year. To-day such thing is more
than possible it is probable. The Germans
and low tariff Republicans have been driven
from the party without its gaining single ac-
cession from any direction.
St. Louis Republican (Dem.) In Fourth
of July speech Judge Foraker deliberately
declared that whenever a man was heard
talking about the reserved rights of the States,
he must be set down as "a man no soldier can
listen to- He added that this much was
due to "the brave soldiers we left behind
when we marched home in victorious trl-
umph." All this, and more to the same
point, is reported as said by the man the Re
publicans of Ohio want to elect governor of
that State, and they call him Judge, too.
| Assuredly this new Daniel who has come to
Judgment has not read the very emphatic
utterances of the Republican judges of the
| United States Supreme Court in regard to
certain reserved rights Of the States, they
have found it necessary to reiterate and en-
force in recent decisions He is evidently
Judge who has never happened to hear of
article 10 of the amendments to the United
States constitution, in which it is declared
that ''the powers not delegated to the United
States by the constitution, nor prohibited by
it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively or to the people Let Judge
from some Ohio Democrat and read up on
that instrument before his next indulgence in
spread eagle oratory. -----=-