Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-06
Political Jottings.


TIM popular majority for Hayes In New
England is eighty-siS thousand nine hun
dred and nine.
ENNis county, Texas, cast over two thou
sand five hundred votes for Tilden, aud not
one for Hayes.
GOVERNOR HAYES popular majority in
Iowa alone is larger than Governor Tilden's
aggregate majority in every Northern state
carried by him
NoRrn CAROLINA gives Tildcn a major
ily of sixteen thousand one hundred aud
seyenty-eight, with three small counties not
yet heard from officially
Is the last New Hampshire election the
Republicans had majorties in all their Con
gressional districts varying from eight hun
dred to one thousand six hundred.
TnE official canvass Of New York state
shows that the Cooper electors received one
thousand nine hundred aud eighty-seven
votes, and the prohibition electors two thou
sand three hundred ifty.nine.
TnE democratic papers have lost their in
terest in the letters of Messrs White and
Red6eld- since these gentlemen have become
impressed with the fact that considerable
intimidation was practiced in Louisiana.
IT is clear that the elements of trouble
and conflict remain in the South In the
light Of these facts, with whom at Washing
ton do prudent and thinking men believe
the country would be Iayes or'rildeu?
Tnr official canvass of Minnesota gives
Hayes seyenty-four thousand nine hundred
aud sxty-two; Tilden, forty-eight thousand
seven hundred aud ninety-nine. Hayes
majority, twentyfour thousand one hundred
and sixty three.
THE official statement OF the vote of Mas
sachusetts shows that Hayes had one hundred
aud fifty thousand aud sixty-three votes to one
hundred aud eight thousand seven hundred
and seventyseyen. Hayes majority over
Tilden and scattering. fortyone thousand
one hundred and seventy-fye.
DIR. BrprrErp gives currency to the ru-
NOR that the vacancy in the Louisiana re-
turning board is not filled because it has
been learned that two of the present mem
bers, on consideration of one hundred thou
sand dollars each, have agreed to vote with
the democrat if one is appointed.
GrNFRNL JouN T. MoRGAN has been
elected United States Senator from Alabama
by the democrats, to succeed Senator Gold.
thwaite, whose term expires in March. This
makes no change politically, as Goldthwaite
is n democrat Morgan was a general in
the rebel army.
ITEREiss lme cool counsel from the Atlanta
! (Ga.) Constitution, for clustering Northern
democrats. It says Some of the Indiana
papers are talking war-talk. Very well
But do, dear Northern and Western demo
Gratis, confne the fighting to your side oil
the line. We have had enough Of it dowr
this way"
BUFFALO Commercial: "a All threatening
talk by copperheads Of the North might jas
as well be stopped at once. 1t won't hell
Mr.. Tilden's cause at all If Governor
Hayes is legally declared elected President
he will be inaugurated- Graut for that
II he is illegally declared elected he won
accept the false position--trnst Hayes fo
that"
The New York World, which iustifes tn,
supreme court of South Carolina in usurp
ing the functions of the legal returning
board, considers it "idiotic to talk of re
ferring the Presidential question to tn
United States supreme court. 1t would hol,
different views if the United States suprem
court was as subservient to democratic die
tation as the South Carolina court.
TIM democrats are taking a good deal o
comfort, unnecessarily, from a comparison 0
aggregate votes of 1872 and 1876, showing
diminished Republican majorities in North
m states. The edge is taken off this com
parison by the well known fact that Nj
Greeley did not draw out the democrati
vote in 1872, and the Republican maioritie
in that year were much larger than the,
would have been if the democracy had beel
united on their candidate
4 RESIDENT OF Escambia- county. Ala
bama, writes the New York Times an &C
count Of the rufhanly proceedings of tn
officers of that county, who went about tn
streets of the county town armed with qhn