The National tribune., 1895-11-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

IL Is reported THAT ten. Michener has in
formed ex-President Harrison that he must at
once announce himself as either in the field or
positively out of it.
Col. A. L. Conger. of Akron. o., says Mex in
ley is pivotal candidate. If the East cannot
agree upon candidate they will not go
farther west than Ohio for one. The West is
in the Dne fix. IF Western man is not nomi-
mated, they will not want any man who is east
of Ohio. So all the chances are in McKinIey's
favor.
New York City Democrats are already at
work to secure the National Democratic Con-
vention. 1t certainly ought to be held either
there or in Mississippi.
Senator Quay gives an explicit denial to the
published report that he assisted Senators
German and Brice during the recent cam
paign.
Hon. Warner Miller entertained ex-Presi-
dent Morrison at lunch in New York Nov. 10,
and set all the politicians TO gossiping. Mil
Ter and Platt were both candidates for appoint.
ment as Secretary OF the Treasury in 1888 g.
and Harrison turned them both down by the
appointment of Window. Miller afterward
strongly opposed Harrison's denomination.
1t will take &c votes in the Republican Ma
tioEal Executive Committee to determine the
place of holding the next National Convention
and San Francisco claims to have already Sc
cured 10 which includes nearly all the States
and Territories west of the Mississippi River.
LATE Pence, Representative from Colorado
says that he is definitely out of politics and will
attend strictly 10 business in the interest Of the
Pence family in the future. He is now in the
collars and cuffs trade at Undertook, N. Y.
with ex Representative Haines.
Senator Warren, of Wyoming says that
though Reed and Mckinley are frequently
spoken OF out in his section. Allison has very
strong following, and the free coinage move
ment is as strongly intrenched as ever through
out the whole Northwest.
Senator Chandler writes in his paper. the Con.
C ord n. H. Monitor that the Republican Ma
tionai Convention will declare against single
gold standard, and advocate bimetalism as soon
as free coinage OF both metals can proceed with
safety. On this platform Reed will be nomi-
mated. and get as big majority as Grant had
over Greeley.
The Virginia Republican Executive Commit
tee meets at Petersburg to-day to choose n sue
cessor TO Gen. Malone. and the choice is almost
sure to be Col. VIM. Lamb of Norfolk. He
served with credit in the rebel army. but Ia as
been leading Republican for years, and is
more prominently identified with the indus
trial development of Virginia than any other
man in the State. He has brought in more
outside capital for railroads, coal mines, and fac
tories than any other 80 men. He has qualities
Of leader and his friends feel confident that
he will land Virginia in the Republican col
umn ia 1896.
They are having a red hot tenn perance fight i'm
Georgia over the adoption of revised form of
the South Carolina Dispensary Law. 1 hey have
had Local Option, with the result OF making
40 out of the l37 Counties dry" and the
new law, while IL provides for the establish
ment OF "Dispensaries." makes conditions
which will practically prevent them.
Romulus Il. Linney, Republican Representa-
tive from North Carolina. was rebel soldier
through the entire war, and badly wounded at
Charlottesville. He was a Democrat until
four or five years ago, when his Protection
views took him over to the Republican side.
He says that the Fusion in his State is bound
TO continue. They united with the Populists
TO gain honest elections and fair count, which
they have secured and will maintain. The
Populists will stay with the Republicans, be-
cause they are nearly all strong Protectionists,
and they know also that the return Of the
Democrats to power means restoration of the
old bad order of things. He thinks that North
Carolina is as certain to 60 Republican next year
as Pennsylvania
Gen. Chas. II. Grosvenor is strongly opposed
to the Republican Conventions going to San
Francisco. He says that it will cost the dele
gates 81 100000 more to go there than to any
point east of the Rockies, and that it will be an
advantage to but SO Pacific coast delegates out
Of the whole number of 720.
The official count in Pennsylvania gives
the vote for State Treasurer as follows: Hay
wood Republican,, 456,754; Meyers Demo
crstic). 2.451; Berry (Prohibition), 90 T78;
Dawson Peoples, 1902; Anton tSocial-L Labor
l.529, and scattering, 81. Hayward's plurality
174, 284.