Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-07-19
Republican County nominations.
THE People Aroused.

There IL an cb7oas mora, to the splendid
Republican demonstration in this Gig on Mon
dty eyeains A. very shot; notice and Will
comparatively li;t5 e. blowing" in the pspc.i
or eG5rt CT The part q any body, multitude
v,-ioutly estimated At from seven thousand 10
ten thousand 10 number, assembled to give their
res2oase % tie a5=.iultioas Of Grant and vii
ron, 70 give their hes-:y greeting 90 one whom
they recognized Re one Of the most garrett aud
Eble defenders Of the President against his de-
fsmers in the U. S. Senate and to lis.e2 with
era;fel attention to Lis yiadic.tioa Of he re-
publican party and Of it chosen standard
bearer. We have said the mseting took place
with little preconeerte1 effort In fact the party
maohiaery commonly relied on to circulate the
notices OF such gatherings ssl 70 CAL cat the
voters, vas not available. For two years we
have had no elections in Vermont The old
Siste and County and Town COMMITTEES have
gone out Of existence. The new Safe Commit
tee met to orgslize. for the first time, after the
public meeting in the Park. The new County
and Town Committees have no. get got into
working order, as = general thing. Yet without
prpconcert and without urging, the people turned
out in numbers which revive the old memories
Of 1910. The msrks Of interest sad approval
on the part Of cur citizens were IS notable.
Without suggestion Of the kind from any one,
.nG without expectation Of snythi ng Of the tort
on the part Of those mott Sctive in getting up
the meeting, grea; many private houses were
illuminated Flsgs and ;rsasparencies were es-
peoially abundant Oh and young Of both
sexes turned out to witness and to cheer the long
torchlisht procession With lie gsil Ct Ugh; three
quarters Of = mile long,
These things Indicate unmis,tksbly ttrorg
arou.ing Of the people upon the irsue1 Of ih'
c,mpaiga. 1t has been sad thst it ia impossible
10 get up sDy enthu,i ssm f.r Gen. Grant The
Philadelphia Convention, composed not Of flee
holders bu: Of men fresh from the people showed
the fal,ty OF the statement. Dgt if the.e Is less
personal magnetism in our inpsrturbsbe Prss-
iient, and less enthusiastic personal attachment
TO him Individually, than TO come ciEi-
dsier Of former yeArs, there ia smother feeling
now strongly excited. whioh goei far TO turpy
the place Of that continent; and that is in1sns-
ten at the traitors who ere striving to overthrow
the party to which they hAye hitherto belonged,
by uamessured personal abuse OF its nominee
The periiy Of the Greeleyites Snd the shameless
ness aud corruption Of their ;rsds with the dem
oc-,ts s 50 enormous, that il stirs to the depths
the horcst resentment Of honest men. I; would
have been impossible, four years ago, to set W
a; this stage Of the campaign, sud with no wider
notice aud effort such = meeting az thst Of Mon
day evening We believe that the spirit which
animated the demonstration is destined to keep
rising-unless it ia sllsyei By the obvious Ger
t.inty Of the failure OF the Chappaqusck coali-
ton II is doubtless stronger in the more clote-
ly contested States than in Vermont, and We
doubt not that ii betok7ns bigger republican
mrjcrities than We have Sc yet seen