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Show POLITICAL ITEMS. ! Tne Detroit 'J'-i -to. - claims the , ' credit of beating Chandler. I i The New York Wurtd calls Wen- ' , dfll Phiilips' opinions "more stale than the ejgi ol an invalid hen." 1 J. i). Ward has given up his contest con-test of tiio Cuir.tgo congressional seat, and Mr. Carter H. Harrison, the member el.H-:, will have no further fur-ther trouble. B. U. Can! field was elected in , Cihcago to rill the vaeaurv occasioned ; by the death of J. B. Rice. Caul-i Caul-i field is also the menihur-elect to the 44 in Conjire-M. ! The report about iho world being 1 precipitated into the sun and burned . up in 1,4-10 years froia now, -turns out to be a democratic lie, got up to i irlhieiice the next election in New Jerrey. Vhia Sta!e Journal. j Dunn Piatt asr rts that he can I point out to the ways aud means com-I com-I initii.e 52 nieiubers of congress who each hot vl.UvOot Pacific Mail corruption cor-ruption fund, and three of thciu are members of the ways and means committee. A corres; undent ot tho Chicago 'ii Ounc says that a large majority of tiie republican party of Wisconsin are booth to Senator Carpenter's reelection; re-election; but the olfice-holding ring ot the state has manipulated the cau-j cau-j ens in his behalf. It is claimed that unproper inilueucei secured hia nomination. nom-ination. Tho annual clectiou in New Hampshire Hamp-shire for state officers and members of congress will occur March 9th. There are three complete tickets put in the field by the democrats, republicans and prohibitionists. At tho election last spring the vote stood: democrats, 115,573; republicans, 31,131; prohibitionists, prohib-itionists, 2, 135. A correspondent of tho Chicago Times says, iu reference to the proposed pro-posed change in the rules of the house of representatives: It has been suggestfd that it would be a good Idea to fuither amend tho rules so that, whenever a republican member gets on his legs to mako a motion, it be declared carried without the distressing dis-tressing formality of a vote. To influence the democrats of the Nebraska legislature against voting for Thayer as senator, a letter from that gentleman written in lSbT was circulated among the democrats of the legislature in which Thayer proposed pro-posed tho disfranchisement of all citizens of Nebraska who served in the rebel armies, or in c.uy way gave aid and comfort to the enemy. It is said to have determined them to support sup-port any republican iu order to defeat de-feat Thayer. |