The Russellville Democrat., 1892-02-11
Political Pointers.

Political Pointers.
 MT. Bland's free coinage bill may be reported to day.
 Editor Hull of the Boone Ban- ner IS mentioned for secretary of state.
 Tn ayer has stepped down and out and Boyd is now governor Of Nebraska.
 Mir. Blaine has written letter positively declining a nomination for the presidency.
 -Arizona and New Mexico are the only Territories likely to be ad mitted by thls congress.
 All democratic tickets in Louis jana will be printed to vote against the lottery amendment.
 -J. Nj. Weaver, associate editor of the Fort Smith Call, will be a can didate for the state senate.
 Having adopted code of rules the national house of representatives has gone to business in earnest.
 --Col. Fishback's friends count ffty-nine state papers that openly favor his nomination for governor.
 The last issue of the Pine Bluff Graphic had an excellent review of the political situation in this state.
 Ut is probable that the dissen. tion among Louisiana republicans will result in three tickets being put in the field.
 Editor Ludwig IS announced as a candidate for circuit clerk. No man in Johnson county could fill the place more worthily.
 Senator Hill is said to be get ting very nervous and badly scared at the opposition to his snap con. yention that is developing.
 It is stated authorItatiyely that Hon. H. A. Dinsmore will not be a candidate for governor, but he may be prevailed upon to run for con gress.
 Senator Hill has raised row in the New York democratic camp by forcing convention on the 22nd inst to select delegates to the na tional convention.
 Several republican clubs have been organized recently in different parts of the state indicating their intention to be in it when the cam paign opens up.
 An early conYention has been called in Georgia by the democrats in the hope of squelching threaten ing coalition between the peoples party and the republicans.
 A movement all along the line is being made upon congress to put a legal restraint of some kind upon the perniclous and disastrous bus mess of gambling in futures.
 The new re districting scheme by the Ohio legislature gives the republicans fourteen con gressional districts, the democrats five, and leaves two classed as doubt. ful.
 The selection of New York's seventy two delegates to the nation al democratic convention promises to be an exceedingly lively perform ance in which the Cleveland and Hill adherents will play conspicuous parts.
 Representative Crabtree of White county, an erstwhlle ardent and Joy al union laborite and mouth farmer, has gone over to the enemy and ar rayed himself on the side of the law vers. He was admitted to practice at Searcy last week.
 Thomas NJ. c. Birmingham, whose conspicuous figure in the of two years ago is well has bobbed up serenely md is heard occasionally on the hust ngs in Franklin county. Wonder \ hat office he is after now.
 -Jo r. Byers of Alma is spoken # as a probable candidate for con- ,ress in the fifth district. It will be that several years ago le was & candidate for congress in his district, Col. Cravens beating i'm for the nomination by one vote.
 The Little Rock Democrat .grees with Hon. J. E. Williams in he matter of giving the democratic tate convention to the city bidding be most for it. In other states this raetIce prevails and the wonder is hat 1t has not sooner been adopted ere,
 Charles B. Spahr, editor of re- gious paper in New York, who is lterestIng himself in the affairs Of le lottery campaign in Louisiana, ays there is danger that the lottery 'sy get charter by means of con atutional convention without a vote y the people.
 Editor Box of the Atkins Man