Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-03-21
POLITICAL.

: theodore Hilton cauStlcally writes that,
the other day, solemn Yankee, kind of
g nasal Polonius, said to him Never send
: to Congress q man who neither drinks nor
swears, for he will be certain to either steal
: or lie."
The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks
Blaine the coming man of the republican
party. All the old leaders having been
! knocked over by the Credit Mobilier ten-pin
ball, why not? - All down but the boy in
the Speaker chair.
The Richmond Wing opposes the county
! court system as Yankee innovation and
sighs for the " old gentry with rubicund
countenances and big bellies, blue coats and
brass buttons, buff vests and white cravatS,
with red silk bandanna handkerchiefs about
the size of modern table cloth" who used
to conduct the peoples courts.
! The Kentucky treasury is empty and the
organic law forbids any loans or other fnan-
cial relief till the Spring taxes are col
lected.
, The New York Constitutional Commits
sion will adjourn on the l4th. 1t is discus
sing the question of prohibiting eonsolida-
tions of parallel and competing railroads.
The election of State Treasurer and Legis-
lature in Kentucky occurs August 4. The
Democrats hold their State Convention in
Frankfort, May l.
Wisconsin will elect on the lst of April
Justice of the Supreme Court for six years,
and Chief Justice, vice Luther 5. Dixon,
if he shall resign meantime, ms expected.
Orsamus Cole, the present incumbent, will
probably be the only candidate for the first
named position.
1t is proposed to double the number of
Senators and representatives in the Penn
sylyania Legislature, in order to provide
against the possibility Of wholesale corrup-
tion by purchase.
The Congressional Investigations this
winter have cost, in the House about $780,
900, and in the Senate about 500, 600.
The Montreal Witness fayors the abolition
of public nominations at elections a - use
less and only giving an unnecessary oppor-
tunity for violence and party hatred ," 1t
also says
81 The restriction of the polling to one
day should be universal, and, if possible.
that day should be the same all over the
| Provinces. -
The new temperance law in Indiana seems
to be working we'll Urbana gave the sa-
loon keepers ten days to get rid of their
stock, and at the expiration of that time the
indianapolis Journal says - it would puzzle
politician to get any spiritual refresh
ments.
Iowa papers say it is quite clear that the
control OF railroad fares and freight will be
the issue on which the next Legislature of
| Iowa will be chosen. The law is bound to 20
on the statute book year hence.
There were eighty-two delegates to the
| Democratic Convention in Hartford, Conn,
| the other day, and it is said that there were
/ eightytwo letters in their pockets from
/ eighty-tw0 different men, all declining the
nomination on account Of business engage
ments.
The Hartford Coirant relates this anec-
/ dote Of the democratic candidate for Con-
/ gress in the New London district Mr.. Bill
/ is known as an agricultural gentleman, and
fish commissioner. lie attended the Phila-
I delphia- Johnson convention, and a long re-
port was published of his sympathetic de- |
/ m0nstrati0ns over the appearance of South !
| Carolina and Massachusetts marching arm |
in-arm. After the scene had taken place he \
| told his associates of a southern delegate /
/ whose acquaintance he had formed how |
the fellow almost shed tears over the affect |
ing sight, and leaned upon him sympathet |
ically, etc. Just then some one asked Mr. |
Bill what time it was, and he discovered |
that his watch was gone and nearly all his |
money.
Nearly everybody at Washington Is q on |
the make. - The peculiarly odioGs feature 1
Of the salary bill is that the extra pay is to 1
date back two years. The Peoples Day of |
Judgment viii come. some time. Hartford /
C0rd1f.
We quite agree with the Nashua Telegraph, |
that when the people realize that this shame |
less Congress has opened wide the treasury /
door ard stolen outright one million and a |
half Of dollars for distribution among its /
own members, they will be long suffering /
indeed if they do not resent the outrage /
with burst Of Indignation and firm de- /
termination that no American Congress shall /
ever dare repeat the theft.-Conc0rd Nom
tor.
There is swarm Of seedy ex-coniederates
who renOunced the lost cause and took the
stump for Grant during the late campaign
camoring for Office, and to these some Of the
most unhealthy consulates will undoubtedly
fall
The report Of the committee of the SEN
ate touching the contest for a seat in that /
body gave great encouragement to the Nc
Emery party. inasmuch as the majority
plainly declared that they were lawfully en-
titled to control the state. We believe from
the evidence that the committee were right
in saying that the Kellogg government IS an
outrageous sU-pGfi0n-B0siOn AdrcrfiSer.
The action Of the House of Representa-
tives on Judge Poland's Credit Mobilier re-
port, in substituting vote Of censure and
condemnation for the resolution expelling
Ames and Brooks and passing over the other
nculpated members without notice, fell
far short Of the Just expectations Of the coun-
try. IL was clear case of moral coward
ice, an unmanly shirking of responsibility.
" Absolute condemnation must be the YER
diet of the country on such a lamentableex-
hibition of moral pusilanimity.- -Harpsr'S
Weekly.
The people of this country have worked
long and hard to build up the republican
party. They love it for its principles and
for Its great achievements, and they send
men to Congress to represent those princi-
piles and to advance the glory of the coun-
try and the party. How unspeakably cruel,
therefore, iOr them, in the last hours of an
expiring Congress, to dishonor the party
and their constituents by voting themselves
this pile of money out of the public treas
ury We have no patience with such con-
duct t-fediaHapohs Journal.
The republican party is not strong enough
to carry this load of fraud it is not strong
enough to whitewash its participants. If
there is not wisdom and pluck enough in
Congress to DO Its duty, the republican par
~ may as WE'LL set its house in order and
face the popular storm that is sure to burst
upon it. The people will not endure this
robbery Of the public money and lands
they viii not endure this peculation, false
hood and corruption by leading men, and
they will not endure this attempt to disgrace
a democrat and whitewash republicans
Adams (Mdss.,) Transcript.
We make no indiscriminate attack on
Congress. 1t has many good and noble men,
we trust the majority are above any cor
rnptiOn. But when a speech 50 utterly low
in tone, 50 wanting in common political
morality, rs that of Mr. Butler in defense of
Mr.. Ames, can be made in the House. and
not make an earthquake of disgust in it,
the House must not be surprised ifthe eoun-
try takes it at its own estimate of itself.
The people a any rate, are quite tired of it.
tired of the exhibition Of self-seeking and
iobbery, of the dominion of grasp;ng cor
porations over Congress, and they will have
different sort Of political morality Hart
ford COurGRf
The Springfield Republican says that Mr..
James Brooks's sudden transformation from
a prosecutor into an apostle of equal rights |
and fair play for the negro reminds a neigh |
Dor of ours of the prayer of the western |
preacher that more rattlesnakes might bite |
a certain family, since nothing else seemed |
to bring them within Gospel influence.
satirical western paper suggests that, |
in this perplexing choice between the fnan
cial necrOnanoer Of Groton and the honey |
Tipped commOner of Pittsfield, Massachu-
setts can't do better than to fall back upon
the honest shovel-maker of North Easton |
1t argues with much force that no other pos
sible selection would be so popular with the
Hon. B. F. Butler and the Boston Adrerfi-
ser.
The BOSTOS LANcERs IN WAsHINGroN.-
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, in speaking of the process
sion on inaurura finn dax-