eye (Pllcartv. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28. 1889 OUR NEXT STATE CONVENTION There are, many good and suit:lent reasons to be advanced in support of what seems to be the general wish of the Democ racy of the State, that the next Convention slut]] be iior,tponed till,Septemlier, and prow•, Irma Intong these we would remark that the 4th of March is entirely too early to ripen a campaign. It most he clear to every person of retleCtion, that nothing is to be lost,but, on the contrary, everything to be gaitied, by waiting until the people wilj hare an oppor• tunity of observing tbecouraewbieh will be purmed by the incoming administration, and thus , eatable us to shape our polidy so d.s to conduct the eatondiza to a successful i*ne. There can be little-doubt but that the MAI, cal .programme we be a more tlestruotive one even ,than it has been, and, by ealotlY waiting until this Policy develops, itself, we .will be enabled I to observe the direction of the current, aid thus take ash•aistage of cir cuit:is-tat:lces. which - - uost assuredly wOrk to our advantage, Again, there i _eided apathy Maui tested at the prit . lime in polities,• which will preclude - that interest in the.elections for delegates hys:which only the very best men will he selected to properly represent us in Conveution.w Too iv/gauntly it occurs that a few' men congregate in a hack parlor and appoint al delegates persons who have . personal 'ends to'suiocrve instead of the pub lic good. By postponing the.Conventiou and awaiting the result of events, whichWe have oo much reason to fear will be no improve ment on the past, the Old unconquerable spirit of the Democracy wilt he ttroued, our delegate eleetiims will be full and animated, anti the delibelations of the State Conven tion will be conducted with a dignity and harmony . that m;ill ensure the hearty ac• quiteenee of 411-t Democracy in all portions of the State.< . i • The public press in diderqut ittetions of the State have already expres.:sed their pre ference for various candidates, and f tiou4l a • we recognize the gentlemen avlin;e. names , are mentioned in connection with Mitt:gullet . - Etatoiial nomination as aniong the abut and ,most popular uteri in the State, yth , we do not - think it is good Fate to so persistOtly sate the claims of their Tavorites: The nom " Mee must be onii who'v,ill.nuost iluironghly command the undivided s,upporttot the Dem ocratic masses in p4rrions or the State, and the only way to,secure 0318,111ne1 - 1 desired .en'l will he to inftise a ti.gree of interest in delegite elections that„ will result in. the eixeice.of . experienced and intelligent' ;nen, Who will, in turn, advanco The interests of the party ntittige. by ,naminatinu ad available candidate. 1 the, einvention is to he hold at ad early - date, we would only ezittt a" wrangle about eantliates,anal instead of the best ittteresti of the party being sabgervett we will And that political scitemerilmve occoi» plished •our vertain defiat. Let the Convention be postponed until the f Tenth of /6eptember, (the attniversayy of Perrv'e'victory,) and witty a popular'Citmli:. date, and corre6t`platfurin of ;principle ,'our, SUCCeSS Will Le as el. MRS. LINCOLN WANTS A PANSION. Only a few brief years hare elapsed sitt ? ce Lincoln "was coasted and • flattered, by the, Radial)' .press and pozsple.. Her praises' *were chanted in the snot extntvagant terms, and gall:int, troubador ne'er sang in more be witching strains the loveliness of his Xis trces than did these Ilatteiing tylritirera of the •••Queen of the White liouse."• But alas! how changed the scene. The counterpart of all thal.was good, and noble,4ittd grand then has been . dethroned, in 'foreign land a lonely woman cherishes The 'memory oilier "martyred" husband. gtately S,enators once basked hide sunshine of her presence; costly articles of jewelry and clothing were presented to her; and her ihflitence with her husliand. was evoketfin behalf of plai:e and contract hunters; now there -ate none so poor as MA° her reverence. Firm_ticnus the ocean conies,..a sad wail from the heart broken widow, yet the Its. als who once extolled herbeauty and ne, now laugh at her misery. ttion 'appeals:to the `sympathies of a Radical Ccuttress. Will it be heeded ? Tile. telegraph .inS'inn.s us that. on Monday the hillawhig petition, Which. was wrifien on note paper with a heaCl mourning border, wits read in the Senate: _ To the Ifoaorahte lim ill-side/a II the rnited Sin: 1 herewith most respectfully - present to the honorable Senate ot the United Stated an application - for a pension - . I amtbe wi low of a President ot the 'United States, whOse life ; ISMS sacrificed in his cotknlty's service. That sad caleinity ha's ,Greatly itupaired:my health ; end, by the advice of my physician, I have come over to Germany to try the min im' waters of the eoutitry, and (luring the winter go to Italy ; but my financial means tie not permit mean take advantiige of the virgilit advice given, nor do I live in a style becoming the widow of 'the Chief Magistrate of a great nation, althMigh I live as economi cally its I can. ,In, couifideration a the great services which my deeply lamented_hw-band has.renderial to the United States, anal of the fearful loss, I have sustained lay his until** death—liis martyrdom. I may say—l resli.ct fully submit tri your lionorabln,lxhiv tl t is. peti tion, Hoping that an early pension may be e ranteirme, ;so that. I may have hiss. pecuniary pares, I remain, most tesPectfully, (Signed] . . Etna. A. LINCOLN% Frankfort, Germany. • __, It was refetTed to . the Committee on Pensions, U. ,S. SENATOR to our absence hat week; notice pas far „gotteri do be made of the eleetioa otis ULtifetl : t.tates , Senator by'tli..l...etn.l,sr,tore, on Tties tiny, the 19th Inst. .is before mentionvi, Iten. Jobb Sotto, 44; Huntingdon, was the Radical caucus nominee, and ot course ,e - cured an election, that party- hhving a majt . w- . ity in both ifouses, The Democrats . of _the Legislature held it;caucus un Tuesday - mom ing,-aad,l4l.er a lively efutiotasaoininated Hon. W. A. Wallace as their candidate, by a Vote of Si to 18 fox noll. (Us. It fluchalew, the' pregeot incumbent. We Alli > ;:iUrry• to learn that sane feeling grew out of the 'Con test .betvviart the friinuls 'of !heae two coil vent gentlemen, ,which did not, however, prevent'Cimanimous support of Mr. %vat lace Ort s. the tinal .ballot in the Legislature 'Mr. Suclialew's friend 'claimed that c his record in `the Senate bad been satisfactory to the party he Hay madded to the nomina tion its an ortdoremert,tcifitis coarse, in which, 'With. entire . respoet for the tsbaits and valu able services of Mr. Wallace, we fully accord. to certain partickhave taken occasion to un justly criticise his 4 acts as Chairman of the State Committee, it was no more lle=Mr :al that Mr. Wallace shoal(' desire to . , ve his: i official character justified, but the jiroper place for that. is the State Converdion, a n d not the Legislature, anti we will iptarantee that the result will be satisfactory•to hint and his'friends. :With all our warm admiration for Mr. - Wallace, us a Man and a statesman. we cannot 'withhold. an expression of regret that Mr. Buckalew did IHM TCC6VII the coat , plimem of a re-nomination; as he richly' entitled to by the ability, Jiatriotism and in: tegrity with which he is everywhere recog nized to have served the State in the Senate. .4. 7. --- (At: Hann. , love for th° soldier Is aptly ilins trated,by the manner In which the recent appointment. 0f..-"palter and folder" to the , house was made. George Schindler, a sol dier who costa limb in the irray, and a Re publican, was an applicant for that position, but was defe.ated by an ex-member of the glslature who- rejoices in the scriptural apt , pellation of Lott.'• Schindler was recommen.,