Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-06-05
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Ohio friends of Gov. Hayes are
about to organize Hayes clubs through
out the State.
Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, is a can
didate for the United States Senate, as
successor to Mr.. Ferry.
The Cleveland Herald remarks that
Blaine seems to have been at the bat in
last Wednesdays Republican conven-
tions and made fair score.
The Washington correspondent, "Sol'
of the Vt. Watchma,a is sanguine that
Blaine will receive the Republican nom-
inatiOn at Cincinnati upon the second
ballot at the convention.
Congressman Levi Maish, of Pennsyl-
vania, favors the nomination of Mr..
Bayard at st. Louis, and expresses the
opinion that he would poll larger vote
in the country than any other candidate.
One of Mr.. Hendricks friends claims
that if the South will give Hendricks
their united vote on the first ballot, he
will certainly be nominated, and that,
with Curtin for Vice President, the
ticket would be the strongest that could
possibly be chosen.
Another Democratic doorkeeper has
! come to grief. Shell, the hurly Assist
ant doorkeeper of the House from Kerr'i
district, Indiana, yesterday pummellet
a grocer, small man, who suggested tt
e him the payment of his grocery bill
II Shell had no other legal tender. H,
: will be removed
: The Cincinnati Inquirer goes on witt
J, its accommodations. Last Friday
n said +: Northern Illinois, Minnesota
0 and Nebraska were settled BY Yankees
d as the inhabitants of the New Englan
IS States are popularity termed. Will
e they live in the West, their hearts ar
IS with the old folks at home. They al
really Eastern colonies.
e Speaker Kerr's turn has come, an
/; they are now throwing mud at him. On
IT A. b. Green of New York, testified b,
IL fore Clymer's committee in Washingto
f. the other day, that he paid $500 for
lieutenant's commission, which was Of
Ill tanned through the influence of Micha
c. Kerr, who received the money. The
~ is probably as little truth in this, as
y the average political scandals that a
r started to lnjure the reputation of lea
We ing men.
xt The committe who investigated
70 Gen. Schenck recomend the passage
en- the following resolution by the Hou
n of Representative ReSolced, That t
y. House of Representatives condemns t
d. action of General Robert G. Scheme
n United States minister at the court
" st. James, in becoming a director of L
OF Emma Silver Mining Company. of Lo
un don, and his operations in connecti
Its with the shares of said company, a
Its the vendors thereof. as i'll advised a
Tor unfortunate. and inconsistent with /
I'd obligations and dignity of his ofic
SIS. position.
he A Washington special says that
rs prominent Republican Office hold
OF who has recently returned from Oh
cry reports that during his visit in t
ent State be dined with Governor HAY
IN who said he believed that Blaine wo,
be nominated at Cincinnati. and Il
tn he hoped for such result He '
OF not anxious himself for the nominatI,
I'M He had been approached by Blaiu
Viil friends with proposition that he t;
on the second place on the ticket, and
the indicated that be would accept the pI
OF He favors Blaine in preference to q
the other candidate named.