Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-14
Political J0ttings.

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six thousand.
INoERsoLL's plurality in Connecticut IS
eight thousand nine hundred and ninety, and
his majority over all, six thousand three hun
dred and ffty-eight.
Mn. YuSG WING, the Chinese commits
sioher Of education at Hartford, Connecti-
cut, has been made voter. lie is said TO
be the first Chinaman naturalized in this
country.
IIEScrroRrn, in the state of Illinois wo-
men will be eligible for appointment as no
taries public The Legislature has pa ssed
and the governor has approved an act to
this effect.
The colorcd members of the Virginia leg
islature have issued call for a convention
OF colored men in Richmond on the 10Th OF
August next. Nearly half the population OF
the state is colored.
A CIRCULAR advising colored men not
vote for the Republican candidates, and to
which the forged signature of Fred Douglass
was attached, was circulated by the Connec-
ticut democrats before the election.
GEORGE DRuRY, member Of the Louisi-
ana Legislature, has enindicted for forging
the general appropriation bill which was
signed and promulgated by Gov. Kellogg, in
stead Of the one passed by the assembly.
The New York Daily Graphic describes
Andy johnson as "a coarse, brawlug word
whanger who kept a whole nation in a atate
of disturbance for four years, and who now
fills his state with the vaporings of his
egotism.'
SENATOR JOHNSON has at last, to the sur
prise Of every one, taken counsel from expe-
rience, and decided to have no reception at
Cincinnati on his way home, and 10 make no
more speeches until Congress meets again,
next winter.
Ir is charged that forty-seven members Of
the over house of the Indiana legislature
have been guilty Of carrying of volumes Of
state statutes, to the value Of sSiG, which
were placed in their hands for use during
the recent session.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Tunes has made the important
discovery that Postmaster General Jewell
favors General IIawley for the next Presi-
dent, and is likely to lose his official head on
that account. Cesarism, you see.
TnE democratic governor and legislature
Of Alabama have accepted an invitation to
attend the Philadelphia centennial, and are
bitterly denounced therefor by Raphael Sem
mes, who declares that no man Of honor
would consent TO such humiliation.
SENATOR BRowNLow predicts that the
Republican party will not only be victorious
in 1876, but that it will soon redeem and re-
generate Tennessee. As that state has just
sent Andy johnson to the Senate, the latter
task may bq regarded as the hardest one.
The Republican tidal wave which failed
TO put in an appearance in Connecticut,
pleads a satisfactory excuse. TWAS engaged
in Michigan rollingup that fifteen thousand
Republican majodty for the judges Next
time we shall have to arrange for two waves.
RHODE ISLAND is so thoroughly Republi.
can that the party can divide, and still leave
the democracy far behind. In the election
Of last week, the Republicans were split on
the temperance question, and the temperance
Republican candidate for governor had a
small plurality, though there is no choice by
the people.
In pleasing contrast to the news from Con.
necticut is that from Michigan. The most
strenuous efforts have been brought 70 beaI
by the democrats upon that state, to make
an emphatic showing TO affect elections fol
lowing. But the state has gone Republican
by fifteen thousand majority, against plu
rality of six thousand last year. Decided
Republican gains are reported from all part
of the state.
The total vote for Governor in Conneoti
cut was one hundred thousand eight hundred
and eighty-six, the largest ever polled in the
state, excepting that Of 1868, by one thou
sand FIVE hundred and sixty-one. The tota
vote for Congressman is one hundred thou
sand two hundred and fourteen, or eight
hundred aud eigbty-seyen larger than any
previous vote in the state, and on this vot,
the democratic majority is only two thousand
and twelve.
The Cincinnati Commercial, an independ
ent paper, discourages the democrats by THU
statement The chances are now that the
state of Ohio will wheel into the Republican
ranks in October next with a rousing major
ity. If that party is controlled by judicioui
counsels, and is sagacious in the selection o.
candidates and wiser in the enunciation o.
principles, it certainly has a fairer prospec
OF putting the democracy in the background
again than was anticipated six months ago.
The Washington correspondent of th'
Boston Adrertiser says the impression ha
got out that the postoffce department il
getting up two-cent newspaper wrappers
with a portrait of Senator Hamlin on tn,
stamp, but such is not he case. Within {
few days past requisitions have been re
ceived at the department from several post
masters for Hanlirowrappers," and, upon
inquiry, it was found that these postmaster
\ had got the idea that twocent wrappe
4 with portrait of Senator Ilamlin had beer
prepared since the passage of the act doub
ling postage on third-class matter.
'TnE New York Tribune has labored har,
to infuse little practical sense into modern
democracy, but evidently it is about read,
to admit its failure. There is much signifi
canoe in the following reference by it to TN
speech of Speaker Blaine, at New Haven
Speaker Blaine presents in his New TIaver
speech, in compact and moderate form, tn,
one argument which viii keep Republican
in power, If they are so kept. 1t is not So
much an apology for Republican short-com
ings as an appeal to a general feeling tina
the democrats cannot be trusted. 1t is tn
democratic misfortune that their extraordin
airy gift of doing foolish things at the mos
foolish time, strongly confirms this fear. Mr.
Blaine knows the people WELL and he ha
made no mistake in taking this as the strong
point for the Republican canvass"