Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-09
POLITICAL NOTES.


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POLITICAL NOTES.
Representatives will recommend that Gen.
Grant be placed on the retired list OF the
army with the rank of general.
A BILL has been introduced in the Arkan-
sss Senate TO make a county by taking from
Independence, White and Van Buren,. 1t is
TO be hoped the bill will not pass.
SENATOR HARRISON, in an interview in
New York, says Indiana will be Republican
without doubt in 1884, il the temperance
question is disposed of between now and
then.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that the law passed by the New York
| Legislature, taxing the steamship companies
IL for each alien passenger brought to New
York City, is invalid.
In Connecticut there is a great clamor
against the mischief done by the too free
| use of the free railroad pass. The people
and press of the "ouimeg" State are raising
their voices for reform in this matter.
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The House OF Delegates Of West Virginia
has indefinitely postponed the bill prohibit.
! ing railroad companies giving passes to
public officials. But, this will moi prohibit
| the fsgislaiofs from returning the passes they
have received from the railroads.
Gov BEN BUTLER has caused the colored
men of Boston to .subt his professions of
| friendship for their race BY removing. Mr..
| james Fl. WOLF from his clerkship in the
adiutant- generals Office. Mr.. Wolf was the
only coIored man holding cIerkahip at the
statehouse.
Il The great political straddle act which the
Republican party has projected on the tariff
is bright enough in conception but promises
10 be still more SO in execution. A deter
mined ffJrt to ride two horses going in OPP
| posite directions is sure 10 be brilliant but
when the Republican party is split wide
open by the strain it will realize that it has
coruscated at great expense.
THERE is danger of the total disappear.
ance OF Rhode Island. By the adoption of
The neW border line between Massachusetts,
snd the honored footprint of Roger Viii
liams, little Rhody loses forty five acres of
her territory. Should Connecticut now take
a similar slice there is no telling, says the
Philadelphia Times, what hungry clam
might do with the remainder. atat
The Little Rock Democrat says thai she
| consolidation of elections in. Arkansas
means the immediate delivery OF nearly
half the counties of the State to the Repub-
| lican party. 1t means the delivery of The
State to the same party in two or Tour years.
i II means the restoration of the rulers of the
reconstruction period. Gentlemen of the
General Assembly, are you ready for the
issueE
They have good jokeon Tabor, the new
senator from Colorado. 1t is said that he
and Bowen, the other nswly-elected senator,
made bargain that Tabor was to have the
long term and Bowen The short term-the
| condition being that Tabor was to pay all
bills, but when the Legislature came to vote
Bowen and Tabor get mixed, and Bowen was
elected for the long term, and Tabor for the
short term. qsas .,s -ze.,
Nh. d. NJ. SABIN, who was elected by the
Minnesota Legislature, Thursday, to succeed
Mr.. Window in che Senate, is thirty-nine
years of age, and has been a very successful
business man. He is a native of Connecti-
J cut, and has resided in Minnesota about fl.
teen years. He has served three terms as
7 Republcsn-in the lower house of the Mime.
| sofa legislature. He is described as a man
who can answer a dozen questions at one
Time without confusion.
SOCIETY" has good deal of influence
over the success OF public men, as il is very
apparent at Washington this winter. Half
l dozen conspicuous figures in national poll
tics might be named whose money opened to
| them a career at the capital, and whose pop
MI rff in oh Of
due TO their giving fine dinners or to the at.
tractiveness of their wives receplious 1t is
seriously declared to be an obstacle 10 the
advancement of prominent Democratic as
pirant for the presidential nomination that
Washington society frowns on him. Miss
Grundy is by no means to be despised.7
DURING the convention OF 1880 there was
a critical time when the nomination OF Mr..
Mcdonald was possible. If Mr.. Hendricks
had quickly cousen' ed to appeals made by
his personal and political friends on the eve
of the nomination Mr., Mcdonald would in
all probability have carried off the prize.
Fortune was against him. Mr.. Hendricks
hesitaied and the opportunity was Loaf. That
hesitation cooled the friendship which had
strengthened with increasing years. 1t will
never be warmed again. From that time
| forward Mr.. McDonald's friends have re-
| garded him as an available candidate for
1 the Democracy. He himself is possessed of
that idea, and govern himself upon it.
| SAID Gen. d. H. Reynolds, of Chicot, to
| Little Rock Gazette reporter Monday, when
asked if he believed consolidating the cleo
| lions would endapger the success OF the
| Democracy: "Very much. II turns many Of
the counties over to the Republicans, aud
puts Us in the way of losing one or more
| Cougre ssmen. 1 trust that the d .mocrats of
| the House will see this bill in the light that
| we OF the river counties view it. 1t means
| ruin 10 US; il means that our counties shall
| be governed by negroes, who own no proper
| ty,pay no taxes, and in many cases are
utterly irresponsible. 1t places our lives
and properly at the mercy Of our old polil-
| ical oppressors. The measure, most earn,
estly pray, will not be passed."
THE appearances of ex-Congressman and
ex-senator Thomas J. Cramer, who was ar
rested on Saturday night in New York for
breaking the windows of coach, is described
as shocking to the friends who knew him ten
or twelve years ago. His hair is white, al
though he is bat forty years of age. A dozen
| years ago he was worth about $500, 900, .
! portion OF which was lost in the great real
estate crash. He was handsome man, noted
| alike for his genius as 4 lawyer and poll
ticisn and his generosity. He paid $1,000 .
month for 4 suite Of rooms In Delmonico's,
| where he royalty entertained his friends.
Now he is seeking position in ihe Excise
Board, of which be once was counsel.
| JUDGE ROBERT COLLIN CLARK, says the
Louisville Cowier-Journal, who died at
Sacramento, Cal, on January 9th, was
born at Winchester, KY. In 1914, and went
to California in 1852. He was the son of
Judge james Clark, prominent citizen of
this State. Mr.. Clark, ar, served Kentucky
as supreme Judge, State senator and Con-
gresham from the Ashland district, and
finally as governor. His son Robert was
educated for the bar, and in California he
had good reputation as iurist. He
served four terms As county judge at Sacra-
mento. and was, at the time of ibis death,
one Of the Judges OF the Superior Court Of
the State, and only three Of his decisions
were reversed by the Supreme Cou.t.. He
leaves two daughters and son. ~