The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

PHILADELPHIA Press To all candidates for
President who insist upon retiring from the con-
test Go early and avoid the rush.
THE starting of seven Republican papers in
North Carolina during the past two months
shows that the people of the old North State are
waking up.
Mr.. BUCK, the chairman of the Georgia Re-
publican State committee, is Maine man and
favors Blaine. The impression seems to bethat
the delegation to the national convention will
be instructed for Sherman.
GOVERNOR HILL Of New York, is being criti-
cised for spending $500 of public money for
new piano for the executive mansion at Albany.
The opinion seems to be that he would have
been wiser had he bought an organ.
IT lie told of ex-senator Mcpherson, of New
Jersey, that he was consulted by the President
before the great free-trade message was promul-
gated, and after protesting against it for an
hour. said well, Mr.. President if you send
that message. you can count New Jersey out
We can't hold the State in support of that pol
ICY"
p I. BARNUM says he has been asked to be-
come the Prohibition candidate for the presi-
dency. but declined because the party hasn't the
ghost of a show. He adds: IT am hot for pro-
hibition, anyway. / go in for the Conn ectcut
idea-high license and local option. They are
the best things for temperance that we can ever
get"
IdE students OF Amherst College held mock
Republican presidential convention last Monday
evening. The affair great success and
the result of the balloting ma be of some inter-
est. It was as follows: Blaine. 131; Hawley.
81; Sherman, "a; Lincoln, So AS there were
3I5 delegates voting no, candidate obtained a.
majority, aud the convention adjourned to
await the action OF the Chicago convention in
June.
PROF. JOHN NJ. LANGsToN. of Howard Uni
VIII will ho for
gress in the Fourth Virginia district, says:
There will be no buying int1midatipg of
gro voters in the Fourth district this year: the
men who attempt to do either will have prose-
cufed to the full extent of the law. The election
there shall be a fair one, and the count will
show the result of the election and not the
manlpu atlons of any election officer" Professor
Langston is confident of Republican success in
Virginia
ATTICA Ledger AS speaker Mr.. Butler has
few equals anywhere, and certainly none in the
opposition party in this State. For years he
has gladly responded to the call for assistance
in State and national campaigns giving his
services freely as duty to his party. He has
never hold Office and has never asked for one
though he has always bsen found in the front
rank OF every battle. With Mr.. Butler its
candidate the Republican party would have no
apologies to make, no defense for it's leader In
the gubernatorial chair he would be credit TO
the State and an honor to his party. The name
of John NJ. Butler is worth considering.
ANDREW D. WHITE. ex-president of Cornell
University, thinks Senator Hawley stands a
good chance for tho Republican nomination for
President He says: 81 met his wife recently
AND found her a most charming woman don't
wonder that Philadelphians feel proud of her
Itseems to me ridiculous that the fact that she
Isl English should initiate againt her husbands
nomin alton election. To be sure, il Mr.
n at m IN vOfa vcIll hA
cast for Mrs Cleveland, but Mrs. HawIey ought
topolf as many if her husband should receive
the nomination. Her heroic and successful
work the battle-fields of the old world should
insure her popularity in this country"