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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1880
Page
2
It seems the former president has the delegates. If true his allies will mobilize them for support and influence in forthcoming events.
The Post Offices nationwide are being lighted on credit, resting on postmasters personal responsibility because Congress has failed to provide the department’s needed expenses.
Senator Kixawoop questions what rights a Ute Indian has to obstruct the U S government. Senator Ingalls answers with a blunt simile, comparing the right to a grizzly bear forcing an American citizen to climb a tree, calling it about the size of it.
The Faie Cou rant reports New Haven college first-rate students show 25 percent using todavivo while second rate reach 48 percent and third and fourth rates 70 and 85 percent respectively. The Independent remarks tobacco and brains appear in inverse ratio.
The article reports Horace Maynard as Postmaster General choice to replace Judge Key, seen by Southern Republicans as placing a Southern stalwart in the Cabinet. It notes Maynard’s radical Republican credentials, his Southern origins, and suggests confirmation is likely with no evident stain on his record.
The Grant faction argues for the unit rule and district represented Chicago delegates, while opposing a county level uniformity. They bolt the county convention and threaten to apply the same rule to state to national conventions, citing discipline over district preferences.
The President believes Congress may adjourn without a rule governing electoral vote counting. Four years ago a civil war crisis was averted by an Electoral Commission. Now with Democrats in control, enacting a joint rule risks granting the ruling party power to designate the next president.
A Des Mares letter to the Chicago Journal says the next Republican state convention will be called around August 25. Indications favor a ticket with Secretary of State J A T Hall renominated, State Auditor W V Lucas of Mason City, State Treasurer G W Bemis renominated on merit, and Attorney General J B Young of Linn County.
A historical summary outlines nine phases of Grant’s political bid, tracing shifts from strongman behavior to using the colored vote, reconstruction, and the bloody shirt, with diverse South and North reactions and rumors of third term support. The piece notes Southern brigadiers, church figures, and party dynamics shaping the campaign narrative.
The piece surveys 1800s party dynamics naming Tilden in Missouri and Maine figures, with references to third-term talk in California Arkansas and Tennessee. It notes conventions in Virginia and Chicago, mentions Washburne and Blaine, and cites editorials on party control and the dangers of a perpetual presidency.
Farmers are invited to Friday afternoon veterinary clinics at the Agricultural College hospital for diseased and male animals. Free advice and prescriptions. small charges for medicines and surgical operations. Also notice of tax land redemption in Story County Iowa with ninety days to redeem from service. W Foster, holder of certificate.
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