The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-08-12
"A colored Cleveland club has been

"A colored Cleveland club has been
organized in New York City.
The Democrats of Liberty county
nave nominated NJ. J. Solomon, ESQ, for
ths Assembly
Col Villas is sure that " Wisconsin
is good for a majority Of 25,onO for
Cleveland this fall"
The three hundred aud nineteenth
anniversary of the founding of St. Angus
tine will be celebrated in that city.
S. Y. Finley, Esq, Of 'ianesyille.
has renounced 1ndependmtism y and
will support General Perry for Governor
The good people of DeLand ARE
happy in the possession of sheir rail,vad
to the river landing. 1t is SOW in regular
operation. !.
The Democrats of Portsmouth,, n
H., on the 5th, elected cits government
for the first time in seven years, secAlr ing
the mayor, thirteen out of nineteen coan-
cimen, and six out of nine aldermen
of the three hundred voters c1m-
prising the Cleveland anh Hendricks
Club that was organized at, Whitewater,
Wis, the other day, eighty five 'have
hitherto acted with the Republican party.
The friends of Captain 1phn Rourke,
of Messrs. Wiley j. Willis ans and j Ohm
Wilkinson, Jr., announce Them iu the
Santa Rosa Nc,cs as their ,:1oice fo4' the
Legislature, subject to the action o the
nominating convention. ~.
Both Mr.. Speaker keifer and Mr.
Converse, of Ohio, are rejected By their
constituents. Keifer is punished for bis
partisansbip and untruth. 1t vas CDn-
verse who moved to strike out the enact
ing clause of the Morrison biz, and he has
his reward.
The last issue of the daily Bee; says
that it will suspend publication. for ten .lays
and then re-appear. Some thank that this
is an end of the little nuisancd and that it
will appear no more This may be hoped
for, but scarcely expected. VIZ fear it will
come again-sure as caterpillS IS. +
Representative Keifer, whose reputs-
tation has become 40 unsavory that ev9u
his own constituents have been torced 10
cast him out, has announced his intentioh
to take the stump for Blaine. OF coar4 e
Mr.. Schuyler Colfax will follow suit.
This is natural and proper. These are
the last three Republican ex-Speakera,
and they are bound together by a com
mon tie. They are all tattooed men.
of fifty-fve conspicuous Union Gen
erals forty-nine were Democrats and six
were Republicans. The lattertwere Sen!
raj Banks, who was called Stonewall
Jackson's Commissary )" Gail Schurxs
now a vigorous independently" Frank
Blair, Franz Sigel, Thomas Ewing and II.
w. Slocum. Of these original Republi-'
cans Frank Blair died Democrat and The
others are now Democrats.
Hamilton county is safe. The Jasper
correspondent Of the Times Unioa says
that DR.. Bevill called a nominating "con-
ference of Independents on the 7th,
but could not control the elements he bad
raised. There was wran9le, three
straight-out Republicans were nominated
for the Legislature, and the Independent
Office seekers were Disguised. One Of
them nominated himself for the Senase.
on the spot, and two others will run for'
the Legislature. Through this disastrous
split in the mongrel ranks the Demo
Gratis will march in solid column !.
The only chance of the Republicans;
winning the national event seen ped TO be \
in making "hurrah campaign" but !
they are not doing it. They CART get up I
hurrah steam. The cold tattoo fact ch;lls 1
enthusiasm. They are overloaded by
the dead weight Of their candidate. He
is too heavy to be carried cheeFfuliy in
any State, and here in Florida he is q
frightful incubus on Pope and Greeley,
who cannot sustain themselves, much less
tote Blaine. Two bad records doh't make
q good one, and tattooed Pope no more
helps Blaine than tattooed Blame does
Pope.