Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-05-20

INC iHSNH 70 DiiStOW--INC DCiNOCTdti
Troubles -Beccher and Bo,Uen Ca
Elevator Accident-Ne Centennial =
Business.
THE INSULT TO DRIsrow.
"A parcel Of shyster politician
seem determined to nominate Bris
tow, whether or no. The Uniol
League Club is an aristocrtic al
fair, made up entirely of Republi
cans, ana is supposed to represen
Republican sentiment in the city
A number of admirers of the Sccre
tary put up his name for member
ship, expecting, rs matter o
course, that II gentleman so wei
known and so high, socially, politi
cally, and in every other way, wOult
be accepted without question. Ii
short, Bristow's becoming q mem
Der would honor the club II thouS
and times more than the club woul(
honor him. Now by the laws of tn,
club, one vote in ten adverse to /
candidate, kills, and when the bal
lot was taken it was found tina
there were twelve black balls-twt
more than enough to defeat him
There was the widest excitement
when the result was made known
The black balling Of the Secretary
was denounced by the oldest and
best members as an outrage, and
anxious inquiries were made for the
men who did it, but of course they
could not be found. The matter
would possess no Significance, were
it not for the manner in which il
was done. 1t was evident that the
party doing it could have command
ed fifty votes it it had been neceS.
sary, and it is also evident that it
was intended as Il stab at his presi-
dental prospects. The next morn
ing in Albany, as soon as it became
known, certain politicians were talk
ing that it would be of no use to
nominate n man who could not be
elected to the Union League Club,
showing that the programme had
been arranged beforehand, and that
the black balling was the begin.
ming of a very dirty raid upon Bris-
tow. The effect has not been, how
ever, what the conspirators intend
ed. The Republicans of New York,
the best members of the club includ
ed, are indignant at the outrage.
there are thousands Of Bristow men
to-day where there were hundreds
yesterday. 1t is only justice to
Senator Conkling to say that nei'
ther he nor any of his trusted friends
had anything to do with the matter.
THE DEMOCRACY
Are in a dilemma. They want Til.
den. but they see if they nominate
him they lose the West-that is, the
soft money part Of the West. On
the other hand, if they nominate a
soft-money candidate, they are GER
tain to lose New York, and they
can't dodge so as to satisfy both.
The business world, Republican as
well as Democratic, want Il square
expression this year, and glittering
generalities will not satisfy them.
Tilden will undertake to carry the
convention by the use of money,
and trust to the same agency to Sc.
cure his election, but he is not in
very cheerful frame of mind. His
prospects are by no means rose.col.
ored, either for the nomination or
election, and the old bachelor looks
care-worn and troubled.
BEECHEK AND BOWEN,
The Reecher trouble has broken
out afresh, and this time more viru-
lent than ever. Bowen has knOwl-
edge, so he claims. which will set,
tie the whole matter. But he will
not divulge, unless he is permitted
to do it in the way that he wants to.
He says that the knowledge he has
involves great many other people,
and that he will go before a com.
mittee of disinterested men and tel
it all, they pledging themselves to
secresy, simply making public their
verdict as to the guilt of Beecher.
This Mr.. Beecher declines. At the
last meeting of Plymouth Church
there was spicy time. Bowen and
Beecher got by the ears, the lie was
passed as Sweetly as at a t0wnmeet-
ing, members were ordered to ''get
out" and the proceedings would
have done no discrodit to nomi-
mating convention in a Democratic
ward in New York. In the mean-
line Moulton is pressing his suit,
Bowen is getting ready to find some
way to get ut Beecher without in
Iolving others, and there is a pros
'ect for a Kilkenney fight of the
highest dimentiOns. How it will
I'll result, no one knows. But the
whole world wishes that it was over
II one way or another. TiltOn is
occurring in the West, and his wife
md her mother are keeping board
rs.
THE BERGEN EXPLOSION.
Last Saturday night, just as the
lonest burghers of New York were
utting on their nisht-caps, after
II unusually hot evening, they were
fairfield by very,loud and sharp ex-
i sion, apparently in the next block ;
o everybody. 1t was louder than !
ny fourth of July cannon, and rang /.
Ike the crack Of a rifle. People t
oked their heads out of the win +
ows, concluded that their next \
eighbor had committed suicide, or !
illed a rat with large charge OF u
owder, or there was soda fOun- 7
iin explosion, or something. The d
liter guess, as usual, was right. t
he next morning all the city was S
CULVER over the explosion of the S
nwder magazine on the crest of p
ergen hill, three-quarters of "A mile a
om Hoboken ferry, in which the f