Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-05-05
Political lettings.

WARMOrH is announced rs democratic
candidate for Governor of Louisiana.
rur democratic press is much relieved to
learn that Senator Gordon declines to run
for President.
MASSACHUSETTS, is becoming stirred up
OH its gubernatorial election next fall. OF
course good Republican will be chosen
when the time comes.
Is the last New Hampshire election nearly
one vot. to every four of the population of
the state was pollsd, while Connecticut
polled only one to five and a half.
THE Springfield Republican dominates
Gen. Bartlett for next governor, which is
one of the best reasons in tha world why he
won't get nomination from anybody else.
SAID Alexander II. Stevens in recent
speech at Sparta, Ga: General Grant is
the best man toward the South that ever
drew a sword against US better than Gene
raj Blair"
The seat of Daniel Sanbom, of Orange,
New Hampshire, in the legislature, is to be
contested, on the ground that his election by
one majority was due 10 a vote cast by a
town pauper.
The Patrons Of lIusbandry have a remark
able predominance in the legislature of
Oregon, seventeen OF the thirty Senators and
forty-four of the sixty Representatives be-
longing TO the order.
SENATOR MORTON is credited with an
ambition to occupy the White House at the
close of President Grants term of Office, and
is said to be working earnestly to secure the
Republican nomination.
| NOTICES have been served on about twenty
members elect of the New Hampshire house
of representatives that their seats will be
contested, on the ground Of illegalities, fraud,
or want of sufficient ratable polls.
The Pennsylvania prohibitionsts are in.
dignant at the substitution of the license
law for the local option system, aud have
called convention at Harrisburg, June
10th, to nominate an independent candidate
for governor.
ALEXANDER G. murray, federal office
holder in Georgia, has got an idea. He ad-
vocates the denomination of President Grant,
the " issue TO be the question Of transport
ing the negroes to Africa He thinks that
this plan for getting rid Of the bone Of con-
tention" would be so popular in the South
as to insure heavy Republican vote.
Tur official majority Of Governor Ingersoll,
of Connecticut, is nine thousand five hundred
and twenty-one, or about one thousand more
than the average majority Of the democratic
state ticket. The total vote for governor was
one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three.
There is a considerable falling off of demo-
cratic majorities on candidates other than
the state officers.
A GEORGIA correspondent of the New
York Times says 1T Is undoubtedly true
that majority of our educated aud wealthy
citizens still believe in slayery-that capital
should control labor, aud they intend that il
shall. 1t is an error TO suppose that because
the war is over the contest has ended. Repub-
lican leaders in the South must boldly meet
and oppose, step by step, the able and desper
ate men who inaugurated the rebellion and
fought to establish government built upon
slavery"
THE Republican majority at the recent
judicial election in Michigan, will stand
somewhere between twenty-five thousand and
twenty-six thousand. The vote cast is III,
largest ever polled at a spring election in tn,
state of Michigan, and one Of the larges
ever polled in the State at any election
The lansing Republican says; at is evi
dent that the tidal wave has taken back
ward course in Michigan, and she bids fail
TO stand as nearly at the head of the column
Of Republican states In 1876 as she did il
1872"
A CORRESPONDENT in Texas writes to til,
Boston Commonwealth that political progress
is stopped in that state, free school
crushed out" and more penitentiaries OF
dered." JIG adds, after dwelling upon tn
growth of disloyal tendencies 4" And to thi
Northern elections have as a whole sal,
Amen Do Republicans at the Nortl
think Of the many noble lives sacrificed II
the South since the war, through their fool
ish side-issues ? Better be sure we have
country at all. first. Republicans in tn
! South fael WE have none"