Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-10-04
POLITICAL NOTES.

ed on the stump in Indiana are Secretary
Boutwell,, General Hawley, Gov. Jewell OF
Connecticut and Gen. Butler.
There was a grand Republican demon
straton in Springfield Mass, Friday eve
ming, including torchlight procession and
n turn out of the local Grant clubs to well
come Hon. Henry l.. Dawes. Mr.. Dawes
made a brilliant and powerful speech at the
City Hall, devoting himself to review of
and answer to charges against the Admin
istraton.
The Chicago Tribune has broadly and |
unequivocally withdrawn the charge, |
brought forward by itself some weeks ago |
against President Grant and Mr.. Jones,
United States Minister to Belgium, accord
ing to which the latter had transferred to
the former, without due compensation,
some lots acquired in Chicago under sus-
piclous circumstances.
Hon. Geo. L. IIoar of Worcester, Mass,
has been renominated for Congress by the
Republicans of his district by reclamation
and his brother, Judge Il. lockwood lIoar,
has received a similar nomination from the
Seventh district, receiving SO votes, to 40
for DR.. j. c. Aver, the pill man.
Gerrt Smith says: 81 believe Mr.. Gree
ley was moved by pure and patriotic mo-
tives in going on the (Jen. Davis bail
bond" That is not very much for him to
say, as he was on the same bond, while so
truly loyal man rs Henry Wilson was in
favor of letting jeff Off on his own recog-
nizance.-B Boston Herald.
The Christian Union, which has been in
vestigating the subject with some care, re-
ports itself satisfied "that there has been
no general political assessment or enforced
levy upon the officials in the New York
custom house, since the establishment of
the civil service rules. In this instance,
and so fnr, we have definite proof that the
government has kept its promise and re-
formed an abuse
Speaking of the campaign ISLANDERS a.
gainst persons in Office, the Nation says IL
would not wonder if it became necessary
eventually TO compel all newspapers max
ing Charges against candidates for high
offices TO file them in the county clerks
office, and deposit sum, fixed by regular
legal tariff, to be forfeited in case of failure
to make them good, and relieve all candi-
dates from the necessity of answering any
charges not so filed.
The women of Rochester n. Y, had an
immense meeting on Friday evening, in
favor of Grant and Wilson, which is said TO
have exceeded in interest and enthusiasm
any political gathering of the campaign.
Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Miss Olympia Brown
were the speakers. They recognized the
republican party as the party of progress,
Grant and Wilson as men ready TO give en-
enlargement to woman in her efforts for
self-elevation and hence urged the impor-
lance of giving them cordial support.
| This they thought the true way of lifting
politics into the higher atmosphere of
morals and religion and educate the world
in the science of government.
Charles Francis Adams, the man who
was not nominated at Cincinnati, declines
TO fellowship with THAT crowd" Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., who has been labor
ing for nearly the whole Of Gen. Grants
administration, TO organize an opposition
to it on the basis of the Cincinnati platform,
with free trade added, deserts it, and goes
back to Grant, because free trade was omit
ted and Mr.. Greeley nominated Mr.. John
Quincy Adams, who has been laboring ev-
or since he joined the democratic party, 10
lead it into new pastures and break down
bourbonism, no sooner finds his work a
success, than he turns his back upon it,
embraces the petty residuum OF bourbon
ism, and proposes to vote for Mr.. O'COner
and himself At which the Springfield Re-
publican is disguised with the entire
Adams family, and thinks it fortunate for
them ior Greeley, rather,) that the two re-
manning members of the family are in
Europe and will remain there till after the
| presidential election.
The Republican women of Massachusetts
and their friends held n mass meeting in
fremont Temple Thursday evening to rat
| ify the nominations of Grant and Wilson,
| Washburn and Talbot, and TO rejoice over
the recognition of impartial suffrage and
| equal rights at Worcester and Philadelphia.
The hall was crowded to repleton. Lucy
Stone made a brief Introductory address,
after which Rev. James Freeman Clark c
took the chair, and spoke earnestly in fa-
vor of woman suffrage. Eloquent and APP
proprate addresses were also made by
Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore,
Margaret w. Campbell, Ada G. Bowles,
Frances f. w. Harper, and Mr.. II. Il.
Blackwell, and letters expressing hearty
sympathy with the cause and the meeting
were received from George William Curtis,
Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Hon. Geo. +.
lIoar. An address TO the women of the
country, recognizing most gratefully the
efforts Of the Republican party in behalf OF
| woman suffrage was presented.