Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-06-10

not q success rs was anticipated,
within reach, pennyless, living on u
meal q day, of bread and water,
supplied through the chance gifts
of friends, lightheaded with faint.
ness, and unable to keep his chill
dren from hunger. Farmers, who
gather your families round q pleqti.
full table daily, il it Is ever SO plain,
consider yourselves fortunate.
POLITICAL.
Governor Tilden's friends are in
hot water. About Ave hundred pa
pers, Democratic, of course, in the
West and South, received an offer
from an advertising agency in this
city, to publish as "quoted matter"
five notices urging Tilden for the
Presidency. The papers receiving
them who are opposed to the Gov.
ernor, Immediately raised the howl
that he was attempting to subside
the press, and a pretty little row it
raised. The anti.Tilden papers took
it up venOmOusly, and charged the
old fox with all sorts of corruption
and fraud, laying particular stress
upon the fact that the advertising
agents who sent out the proposition
were Republicans, and wanting to
know what Republicans had to do
with Democratic nominations. Now
the facts are these: Bates u Locke,
"a Park Row, New York, are adver
Using agents. Their business is to
place advertising in newspapers for
whOmsoever desires it, for which
they get a commission from the news.
papers. They advertise, just as a
shoemaker makes shoes, for who.
ever comes to them-Jew, Gentle,
Christian or Pagan.
1t happened one morning that a
customer of theirs who is Demo.
crat, came into their office, and want
ed five notices offered to five hun.
dred papers, urging the nomination
of the Governor. They did it, just
as they would have sent out five no.
tees Of a piano, or a sewing-ma-
chine. Probably Governor Tilden
knew nothing about it. Probably
it was the tribute a friend wished to
pay him. But be that as it may,
the people opposed to him have
made a terrible howl about it, and
it has made more talk than any one
incident of the campaign.
On the Republican side there is
a comparative calm. Blaine stock
is steadily going down, Conkling is
barely holding his own, Morton is
gaining, and Hayes and Bristow
are gaining rapidly. l am giving
of course, simply the talk in the
clubs and among business men.
The Republicans of New York want
new man, and the new man who
can carry the country, and they are
not very particular who he is. They
want the man who can beat the De.
mocracy, and give the country de-
cent administration, and that man
they will support. They have no
choice beyond this.
THE STEWART ESTATE.
My advice is, don't get rich. l
never will, for it isn't safe. One
never knows what is to come of his
money after he is gone. Alexander
L. Stewart died worth forty mil
lions; and he disposed of it all, as
we'll as it could be done, before lie
died. But now comes II dozen or
more of people who claim that they
are cousins of the old man and
they insist that the will by which
he disposed of his property was fore
ed out of him by his wife and Judge
Hilton; and, in short, that they are
entitled to their share as relatives.
And they have employed lawyers,
and have commenced suit to break
the will and there is prospect
ahead for lively business. The
probability is that others will get
their fingers in this very rich pie be-
fore it is done with. 1t is stated
that he has relatives which he never
publicly acknowledged and that
they and their friends are also after
their share of the dead merchants
money. He never had any children,
and cousins-first, second and third
ARE springing up all over the
world and if the will of the dead
merchant can be broken, there is
enough to make them all comfort
able. Lawyers have been found to
take hold of it on speculation, for
they have a double CHARGE. 1t is
probable that Mrs. Stewart and
Judge Hilton will pay very hand
somely to buy them off, for they
had better pay than submit to the
annoyance of legal worry. The law
yers will get handsome pickings.
The claimants may, or may not, get
something. But one thing is tOler-
ably certain the estate will be shorn
materially. The old man fought,
struggled and worried all his life to
have score Of people, of whose ex-
istence he was ignorant, pulling his
bones out of his grave and fighting
over them like so many hyenas.
Such is life.
THE DULL SEASON.
1t is not too much to say that the
social state of the city resembles
that of q mining town in the Sier-
ras. The clubs are well nigh desert.
ed, and business is-where, nobody
knows. People are going or gone
to the country; they went before
May day, indeed, and the newer
and cheaper the place that receives
them the better. Families are fond
of finding new country places that
in town knows of but them
selves, and the season after they
will be heard pluming themselves
on discovering haunt with all the
a country place was