Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-29
W orlc,ttr. Aug !. 1913.
POLITICAL.

Gen. Banks is mentioned in Democratic
circles as a probable candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts.
Names FOR the new party are still coming
in. \ Democratic party in Ohio calls It
the " "PizeriuktIm party. while the Dayton
J4tra1I thinks. under all the circumstances,
il might be called The Other Party. "
The Detroit Post probably hits the mark
more closely when it predicts that the e.ec-
tion VIII furnish It with name, the pros
poets being that il viii appear in the re-
tlrn- ss scattering
The Boston Irarelllr has report from
Washington. that corruption fund of
S3O0. eco has been raised to defeat Butler.
The New York ErHiHg Post says 80
far a> Ohio Is concerned, the new party i>a
fixed fact" Yes. fixed in death. in fact
lit died b1Tnin .'-Ldimqpoiis jon rHal
The Richmond State Journal says that it
is mistake to suppose that the Bepubli-
cans Of Virginia are made up wholly OF
negr1c, and the lower classes of whites.
1t asserts that many of the best white
people in the State are in the Republican
party, and there are is scarcely county in
the State in which there are not fifty TO n
hundred white Republicans.
The [ tica Herad remarked, with much
truth, some time ago, that one of the most
auspiciOus signs of the times, and highest
compliment to the eleyating influence Of
Republican administration i the fact that
the Democrats are compelled 10 incorporate
Republican doctrines into their platforms.
\ striking illustration of this truth appears
in the platform of the Maryland Democracy,
adopted on Tuesday, one article of which
fav0rs the extension of the free school sys-
TEN. Time was when Southern Democrats
burned school houses. and the revulsiOn of
feeling which has now compelled them to
endorse the free schoo! system is 50 strange
that it Is no wonder the Nasby and Pogram
order Of politicians standaghast.
The temperance question Is likely to enter
into the Maryland campaign for the cleo
tion Of Senators and members Of the House
of Delegates The Executive Committee of
the Temperance Alliance of Allegheny
county have publisheda formal address cali
ing on the friends of temperance to unite on
candidates. The object Is to secure a modi-
tication of the present license system.
1t is stated that Governor Wise has made
q bargain with the Virginia conservatives,
whereby, in consideration of his support of
their ticket he is to be elected to the United
States Senate.
United States Senator James l.. Alcorn
opposes United States Senator Adelbert
Ames, Gen. Buffers son-in-law, for Gov
ernor Of Mississippi.
The editor of Democratic paper in Wis
c0nsin, who wants to reap the benefit of the
farmers movement, has been paying con-
siderable attention to the subject ofagricul-
ture, and his researches in that direction
have led to the astonishing discovery which
he announces to the world in the following
paragraph
"When the cucumber is taken from the
vine let it be cut with a knife, leaving
about the eighth of an inch Of the cucum-
Der on the stem then slit the stem with n
knife from the end to the vine, leaving a
small portion Of the cucumber on each di-
vision, and on each separate slit there will
be a new cucumber as large as the first. "
This editor's name is Jones, and now some
saucy contemporary calls him Cucumber
Jones" while the Madison STATE Journal
makes few telling remarks as follows
''lf Jones could get Democratic votes
as fast as he thinks he can grow cucumbers,
he might make something by manipulating
farmers conventions. But that kind of
surgery does not work on the political vine.
Every Democratic cucumber likes to 20 to
seed on the old vine where he grew, and
Sitting the stem is death and Jones don't
carry knife keen enough to sever good
Republican from his party
The - farmers of Iowa. more or less Of
them, have finally broken loose from all po-
litical parties, met in convention, nominat-
ed and resolved. The nominees are mostly
unknown to fame, while the resolutions are
such as might have been expected. The
only significant thing about the convention
was the presence Of prominent Democrats,
who took particular pains to impress upon
all the fact that the Democratic party had
gone up.