Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-06
POLITICAL.

ColoreI persons are excluded from ths
grange movement IN Maryland and Nir-
GINA.
The Democratic Governor Alien Of Ono
j. euphoni0us but indefinite on the finance.
In The prOdlgality Of the past. says ne
90 you viii find abundant reason for frugat /.
ity II the future
Connecticut correspondent 70 the New
York ImieS, discussing the political pros
poets ~ hi- State. says there mas not been
a. time IN i've years, when there WIS more
favorable opportunity t. elect a Republi-
can Governor than Is now approaching .
provided. OF course, that the party wlll
pat up q good ticket throughout and vii
support Il with something Of the old
fashioned zealand there IS no earthly
f reason why there should not be perfect
harmony in the ranks.
The Hartford Posi- learns from various
sources that ten. Hawley viii not be a can
didale for the pext United States Senator
ship. His present position a. 3 Represen-
tatiye Of the people IN the popular branch
o. the National Legislature is more con
genial to his feeling
General Howard. the Christian soldier
and statesman, ma been accused of a pro-
pensity to hold Offices. Il is mistake. At
the time when he was being abused bv an
INSCRIPTIONS and hcentiOus press for hold
ing an unseemly number of Offices. he was
merely major general United States army.
commissioner bureau OF refugees. freedmen
and abandoned lands, president OF How ard
University, director Of building block com
pany, treasurer and trustee Of Barry IA I'm
fund, president Of Young Mems Christi al
Association, treasurer OF First Congrega-
iional Church building fund. and yice-presi-
dent OF Freedmen savings hank.-CincIy-
siGti Commercial.
Ex-Goy Padelford Is DESTROYS Of succeed
ing Gov. Spragne A. Senator from Rhode
Island.
Il Is stated that the veteran Thurlow
eed : hand Is seen IN the nomination and
election OF the Speaker OF the New York
Assembly. lac having defeated therein Mr..
Conkiing and other leaders.
Lieut. Gov Robert +. Withers. the victor
in the United States Senatorial struggle in
Virginia. l. from Wythe county. in the
southwestern part Of the State He was
colonel IN the Confederate service sub
Sequently became ed itOr of The Lunch5uro
NelrS, and was the conservative candidate
Tor Governor In 1865. Last Fall. he hotly
contested the nomination for Governor with
ten. hemper, and when the Conservatives
hnally nominated that gentleman. took the
second place on the ticket, and received the
largest number of votes cast Ifor any candi-
date Gov. Withers has reputation an
honest and capable Legislator is a fair
speaker, and Is expected 10 make first-rate
impression in the United States Senate.
The Milwaukee SenfInel announces that
Senator Carpenter does not own one cents
worth OF interest in this paper. and thai he
will have just as much influence with IT,
management; as any other Republican o.
equal prominence, and no more"
John Lee Carroll, recently elected Pre-i-
dent OF the Maryland Senate, Is the great
grandson of Charles Carroll. the last sur
yiyor OF the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. lie il the hope of the Demo-
cratic party OF that State, 3s years old.
highly educated and with political spira-
tiOns.