The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-21
SOME POLITICAL POINTERS.
Interesting straws from the Political A re-
ma of American Politics.

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Minor election law, providing for
the election Of Presidential electors
by Congressional districts.
When asked about the effect df
Judge Gresham's bolt, member Of
the Republican National Commit
tee from Indiana shrugged his
shoulders and said: "He is an able
and popular,man, butyoulmust ex-
cuse me from expressing my opin-
ion as to what effect his action will
have in Indiana"
A sensation has been caused at
Parkersburgh, w. Va, by the pub
lication of charges against G. L.
Caldwell, Republican candidate for
Congress, to the effect that he-em-
bezzled several thousand dollars
pension money belonging to the
heirs of John W. Davis, a deceased
Union veteran. The charges have
beenrepeated specifically byanum-
Der Of Democratic and Alliance pa
pers in Caldwells district.
Secretary Of Elkins's decla-
ration that "the carrying~of West
Virginia is only "a matterof finance
is to be put to the test. Between
l 800 and2,000 negroes have been
sent.into the State by the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company
and the Southwestern Coal Compa-
ny, ,.and money in unlimited guam
titles is to be used in the back dis
tricts in trying to hire Democrats
to stay athome, and wherever itwiH
! dothe most good.
Messrs. Huston, Of Indiana, and
Long, of Florida, representing the
Republican National Committee,
who have been "frying fat out of
the federal office-holders in Louis
lana and Arkansas; are now busily
engaged in Mississippi. Mr,Hus-
} tonttells them fatty that the COM
, mittee wants money and they want
it atonce. He says that the party is
in great danger of. defeat, and cash
must be contributed by those who
live by means Of it.
Republican Ohio has chill, and
e there are manifestations of a dispo-
sition to climb out of the ice wagon.
S. M. Taylor, who heads the Re
y publican State ticket, is alarmed
l over prospects of defeat, and the
i Republican managers have been
V hurridly called together forconsul-
; tation on the threatening situation,
It Candidate Taylor is said to have
S warned the gathering that Ohio is
d lost unless something is done to
e change the trend of political senti-
It ment
+ The Southern Farmer, the off
e cial organ of the State Alliance Of
$ Georgia, has suspended publication,
S. Watson and the third party contin-
) gent have been running it as then
q organ forsome time, and it has been
"a steady money loser. The crisis
came last week when some Of the
MT employees brought suitSfor salaries
over due. This is very significant
le ,following,as it does on the heels O
c. the sweeping Democratic victory ii
O. tha6 State, and has broughtccnstel.
g. nation to the third party ranks.
X 2" No, ! won't preside at any Har
ct risonmeeting, and l won't have any
ct thing to do with Harrison" Thes,
m words were uttered on Thursday o
to last week byex-Senator Charles B
Id Farwell, of Illinois, and with then
Or fell cold, wet blanket upon th
So hopes of the Republican manager
10 in Chicago, who have beenplannini
"a for a great ratification meeting a
- the Auditorium, October "a, and
- was to have been a counterpart @
:" the New York meeting over whic
Tom Platt, the great plaeated, pre-
lie, sided. Charles b. Farwell was