Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Political.


place on April 18th, two days after that
in Connecticut.
1t is said that fifty-One members of the
last Congress have applied to the Presi-
dent for office since the 4th of March.
The New York World has come to
the sober conclusion in its ''final COM
ment" that the New Hampshire election
cannot be claimed as a Democratic tri-
umph : We are glad the question is
settled.
The Manchester Mirror says: "When
a Democrat takes to figuring we know
he is beaten" We have often observed
the same thing, and have called the at
tentiOn of the New York World to it
Boston Journal.
General n. B. Forrest writes at is
united in feeling and interest, and the
Constitution held sacred above every
thing else" Good sentiment, if he only
lives up to if.
The Nashua IN. H. Telegraph says
that in large town in that State, where
both sides spent money freely in the late
election, the managing men have agreed,
it is said, to refrain from vote buying
hereafter. If there is no other way 10
reach this growing evil, it would be
well for both parties elsewhere to come
to similar agreement.
So it is Senator Cameron who is to de-
eide who the next Republican candidate
for the Presidency shall be. What's the
use then of the fuss of a convention
He is said to be disgusted-at the hostility
bet, Iummssayae Blaine and C0nkling wings,
99 e 9dafdr to th sEmns 9sa m-i that
MOI ,gss@'n't be the successful man.
The reports from Pennsylvania are
that the republicans throughout the state
are almost unanimously in favor of re-
nominating Gov. Hartranft as standard
bearer next fall, and that those who
were most bitter in trying to defeat him
in 1878 now admit that he has proved
himself one of the very best and most
efficient Executives the state has ever
had.
The democratic party has got no surer
hold on the people OF Connecticut than
they had in New Hampshire. Last
year Gov. Ingersolls majority was only
1909 his majority the year before was
double these figures. We begin this
week the active canvass of the state, and
there is every encouragement for our
friends in all parts of the state, but es-
pecially in New London and Windham
counties, to take hold and work.-Nor
aO5ch (Ct,) Bulletin.
In the State Constitution of New
Hampshire is a clause which disqualifies
Catholics from holding the office of gov
ernor or from performing the functions
of a legislator, and the Catholics are
moving to secure its repeal. This move
ment the Concord Monitor applauds, and
hopes to see the Republican majority in
the Legislature take steps towards this
end. Though the clause has been prac-
tically dead letter for years, the M02ei-
tor says truly that it is none the less
"a stigma on the fair name of the State.
The editor of the Utica Herald, whose
experience in Congress has given him an
excellent opportunity to judge, expresses
his belief that the Speakership of the
of the next House of Representatives
lies between Messrs. Randall and Wood ;
that Mr.. Kerr, of Indiana, will become
chairman of the committee on ways and
means, and Mr. Cox Of the committee
on foreign affairs, while the chairman
ship of the committee on appropriations
will lie between Swami, of Maryland,
Hancock, of Texas. and Lamar, of Mis-
sissippi.
The practical question for the country
is, whether peace and equal rights and
respect for the settlements are more |
likely to be maintained by those who
have always favored them or by those |
who have not. A Republican defeat in |
1876 would mean the restoration of the |
old Democratic party under the old
Southern leadership, not with the inten-
ton of rebellion or disunion, but, as An
drew johnson said in his Herald inter
view, of putting ''the negro in his prop
er place" Whether such policy would
promote peace, friendly union and the
national millennium, is for the Republi-
cans of So, of go and of GA to consider,
for it cannot be carried out without
their consent. -H0rper's Weekly.
Senator Edmunds is the last Republi-
can Senator in whom the independent"
papers see hopeful signs, and for the
next week or two he will be dosed with
flattery, rubbed down, and gen.
orally toadied too by the papers which,
two months ago, could find no language
severe enough to condemn his defense
If the Presidents policy in Louisiana.
These papers think nothing of eating
heir own words, but the Senator, we
presume, doesn't care to make meal of
ais, merely to please them. No more
vigorous language in defense of the Re-
publican policy in Louisiana has been
heard in the Senate Chamber than Ed
nunds's speeches directly after the De
Trobriand business. In opposing Pinch
packs admission he takes position held
~ the majority of Republicans, and in
10 sense inconsistent with the most I'M
Republicanism.
The Tribune takes column to prove
~ labored argument that the Republi-
an party of Connecticut is not arrayed
gainst the Rpnuhlican administration I .