Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

Charles o'Conor has accepted the NOM
ination for the presidency by the Louis
willie democratic conven tiou.
A movement to make A. r. Stewart Ma
yor of New York has been started in the
metropolis by parties, who claim that his
election would be in the interel Is of NUM-
cipal reform.
Public sentiment in New York is rapid
ly turning in favor of having the judges
appointed, and not elected.
Ben Wood, who had bet $4,000 with
John Morrissey that Horace Greeley would
be elected, has withdrawn from the wager
and paid a forfeit of $1,000.
Whitelaw Reid, the present manager of
the New York Tribune, it is said, was for
merly a Buchanan aud Mcclellan Demo
crat and an apologist of Andrew Johnson.
The republican women of Massachusetts
will hold a mass meeting at fremont Tenn
pie, Boston, on the evening of the Goth, TO
endorse the progressive platforms adopted
at Philadelphia and Worcester, and ratify
tho nominations of Grant and Wilson and
washburn and Talbot. Mrs. Livermore,
Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone will be
among the speakers.
The Richmond Enquirer Is disappointed
at the news from Vermont and Maine, but
says in closing a Ieremiad against New
England: ave must gain political power
through the peaceful means of the ballot
before we can bring these naughty saints
to terms, and TO do this we must work"
The Columbia Is. CD Phoenix doesn't
like Vermont. In commenting upon our
recent election, it says "Vcrmont is The
State of New England. In its scraggy
mountains are the ninety dens and holes of
Radicalism. The spirit of reconciliation,
reunion and friendship, which pervades
the movement that Greeley leads and a.
dorns, can find no resting place in the bos-
oms of those icy headed Puritans who
comprise the ruling elements of Vermont.
They are so imbued with a sense of their
self-righteousness that they can never see
their own errors, or have aught but con-
domination for those who differ from Them"
Some men won't sec any point to the
following: "Scene, a village post-oficc.
Gallo (of the legal persuasion,) loquitur:''
Well, 1 suppose that both these men are
pretty bad, but if Greeley had been NOM
mated at Philadelphia and Grant at Balti-
more, l ha We not the least doubt we should
be calling Greeley a saint and Grant a
mean cuss."
Chief Justice Chase, in a recently pub
lished letter, says 81 make no secret of
my conviction that the highest interests of
our country require the election of Mr..
Greeley, or of my intention to vote for him.
At the same time, 1 cheerfully acknowl-
edge our Indebtedness to Gen. Grant for
his services in the war, and for much of
his administration as president. My thanks
are due and gratefully given to my coun-
trymen who felt toward me the sentiments
you express. My health was and is too
precarious to allow a wish for the nomin a.
ton. Everything, and more han could be
hoped from me, may be expected from Mr..
Greeley"
Attorney General Williams says "What
Grants enemies call good luck 1 call good
sense. Sumner is a great rhetorician I;
Schurz is a brilliant word-monger, and
Greeley writes well for newspapers but
Grant has more good hard sense than all
three OF them put together. Clear, strong,
practical common sense, without show or
parade or noise, is what carried him sue
cesslully through the war, and has made
him a safe and good President. Let the
cry of the opposition be what it may, Grant
and good luck will do for the Republicans
in this campaign.
Referring to the women suffrage plank
in the platform recently adopted by the
Massachusetts Republicans, the st. Adams
Messenger says st is generally conceded
that whatever the Republicans of Massa-
chusetts do may be safely followed by the
Republicans of other States. Well, they
have taken up a cause which it has been
fashionable to laugh at and made it a poll
tical plank. Are they, the leaders Of the
nation, a pack of fools, or is it just possible
that those who have ridiculed are not SC
wise as they might bel Two things are
certain LIST, we can sec now which Is the
party of progress End, the day has gone
by when good republicans can speak of Z
man as 'crotchety" because he believes il
the Declaration of Independence