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

James L. Jones, Dem, was elected to Con-
gress on Wednesday from the first Alabama
district. In several of the counties no Re
publican tickets were voted.
Mr.. J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, says
that he will be elected Speaker, and that the
next Democratic Presidential ticket will be
Hoadley and Cleveland, while the Republ-
cans will nominate David Davis and not carry
seven states.
Hon. John G. Carlisle has announced him
self as a candidate for United States Senator
from Kentucky to succeed Mr.. Williams
| This announcement seems to indicate that
Mr.. Carlisle has abandoned the race for the
Speakership of the House.
Ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, predicts the cleo
ton of the Democratic ticket in that State,
but thinks the talk of large majority either
way is visionary. He predicts Democratic
majority of from 5000 to 5000 in Hamilton
county. He does not think the decision up
holding the constitutionality of the Scott law
will have any influence either way on the
canvass.
The Democratic primaries in Chicago for
members of the Cook county central com
mittee. resulted in an overwhelming vic
tory for the faction led by Mayor Carter Har-
rison This gentleman is pronounced Ill
den man, and the indications are that the
Democrats of Illinois in the national conven-
ton will declare unreServedly for Mr.. 1llden
for the Presidency Mayor Harrison de-
clares that the action Of the last Legislature
in declaring for high license Will make Hi
nois a Democratic state for the next twenty
years.
The Baltimore indicator, the organ of
the colored voters, says: 81. A. j. Creswell
has opposed the appointment of colored men
as clerks in the Federal departments, he has
throttled the idea of increasing their repre-
sentation in any form, he is entirely respon-
sibIe that there was no colored man appointed
by the President to q leading position here,
having opposed it after Secretary Folger re-
commentator. Arguing that colored men
had no standing in the party council, why is
it they haven't? One of his tavorite bench
men, Henry Lingenfelder, cheated them out
of it as secretary of a subcommittee of the
state central committee; he filled up their
credentials with white men S names, changed
the tickets to be voted at the primaries at the
very last moment, and every other infamous
trick The convention met at Cambridge
There were twenty delegates from Baltimore,
all white; twenty delegates elected to the
state central committee, all white. Mr.. Cres-
well presided over this convention. After his
| identity with all this and more, he has deep
and expects the colored people to assist him.
| How monstrously cheeky!
! The New York Herald, which has leaned
! to the Republican party whenever it could
| fashion an excuse for so doing, now declares
squarely against it. Read what it says: We
/ believe the Star-route verdict will leave a
profound and lasting impression on the public
mind. 1t ought to. The men declared not
/ guilty are Of no consequence, but the result
| of this trial will justly be held by all thought
| full citizens as proof that it is high time to
make changes that the party of great
moral ideas is no longer entitled to their
confidence and cannot be safely trusted with
the peoples money. The verdict is, to be
sure, but one of many evidences to the same
effect. The River and Harbor jobs, the Ro-
bosom navy jobs and impudent refusal to make
adequate reductions of taxation, the corrupt
determination to compel needless and surplus
taxes out of the peoples pockets, the pension
swindle, the unblushing alliance with ali sorts
of monopoles- these prove that the Re-
publican party has outlived not merely its
usefulness, but its moral sense. But it prob
ably needed this result of the Starroute trials
to break the back of the public's patience.
The Presidential campaign of 1884 will be a
battle between the people and the friends of
monopoly and iobbery.