Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-09
Political Jottings.

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As beautiful but as empty as a soap bul-
Die, is the way the Brooklyn Argts, demo.
cratic paper, characterizcs Tildens letter
" is announced that General Banks has
determined TO support Hayes aud Wheeler,
and will run for reelection on that platform.
Tnr latest novelty is the democratic pen
Gil The pencil combines two degrees Of
softuess. One end labelled 'rilden being
hard while the other, or Hendricks end, is
soft.
"YorNG man. you need not come 10 me
for any such letter of recommendation his
car Is a perfect outrage aud | viii lend no
assistance 10 its prosecution. - Samuel j.
7Hi,n
Tnf northern democracy are begging their
southern friends TO lay away their shot guns
till after election. To ask southerner not
to shoot niger when so disposed Is a little
too much.
THr difference The last democratic Pres.
idential nominee said that ,the way 10 re-
sumo is to resume ;" the present democratic
Presidential nominee, on the other hand
says the way 10 resume is to postpone.
BOWS in Virginia, Tildeu orator, at
democratic meeting, exclaimed in derison
"Who is Governor Hayes Who knows
him ?" 4 Johnny sitting in a tree near by
yelled out d" ! TO. / shot at him during the
war"
Hos. w NJ EvAR1s, Ex-Governor +. D.
Morgan and George William Curtis are the
men most prominently named by the New
York Republicans as candidate for Governor.
Curtis, however, wishes 10 be- "counted out
and it seems likely that Evarts will be
| the man.
Live Within your means" says Governor
Tilden. II is much easier for man to " live
within his income who charges ten thou
sand dollars, twenty Thousand dollars and
thirty thousand dollars fees in a railroad
suit, than for poor man who finds it hard
work to get dollar day for his labor.
/ SENATOR MERRMoN, of North Carolina,
says the Republican party has accomplished
all its measures by force. Aud ter the very
good reason that the democratic party has
resisted every effort TO save the Union, to
pacify the South, to give protection to every
citizen, to purify the ballot box, 10 restore a
sound financial policy, etc
EN-MiNIsrER SCHENcK has written let
ter saying that it is his intention, at least for
the present to remain in private life and de
vote himself to the improvement OF his pri-
yate fortunes and that the mention Of his
name in connection with the Congressional
nomination for his district in Ohio is with
out his consent.
TnE st. Louis IyeSiiche Post says Never,
since Lincon's first election. have the Lib
eral Germans been as true Republicans, as
unanimous, as resolved aud ready for the
combat rs at this moment. The strength of
the German vote of st. Louis to be cast for
Rutherford b. Hayes will exceed by far the
late dreams of the reactionary party
81 Loufs Giobe Democrat. 1t is sad to
think OF genuine refomer being inter
rupted in the composition of his letter of
acceptance of a Presidential nomination, hy
a suit asking him to refund three hundred
and eighty-four thousand dollars aud interest
conveyed for a railroad corporation but
this is the misfortune which has happened
to Mr.. Tlden, and the organs are silent.
WHAT do the American people think Of a
man who Withdrew from the church because
the pastor preached a sermon in favor of up
holding the government against traitors in
arms That is what Hendricks did, and
now he wants the loyal nias-r, OF the coun
try to make him Nice-Pr'sideut of the
United States. The people will tell hin
what they think of such fellow, next Noycm
ber--AbdDy Jo'0nH
CoNGWE>~ has passed Law at this session
forbiddug, under the heavy penalty OF on,
a hundred to live hundred dollars fine, an,
, person sending through the mails any adyer
tisement of or any ticket in any lottery gif
1 concert or similar enterprise. This law
which the President has signed, will prove ;
: eral, which have hitherto thrived ON accoun
Of the lack of the harmony in the Legislation
! OF states on the subject, aud the want Of an,
a federal law ~ 10 the mul-.
4 Horace WmrE, one Ut tn leading lber
b., ais, and formerly editor of the Chicag,
Tribune, writes a. follows to that paper
Surprising that Governor 'Iiden is equal,
the friend OF civil service reform it woul,
= be practically impossible for him, if elected
e to carry it into effect. The demands of hi
A party will override and break down hi
4 strongest resolutions. lie will he forced t,
4 yield to the clamor Of his partisans ELSE h
+ will be left without any strength in Congress
j. or any organized support III the country"
+. TnERE is talk in Washington of passing
G a bill comforting upon President Grant OF
y his retirement the office of Permanent Pres
l. ident of the Smithsonian Institution, with
c salary of ten thousand dollars or twelve thou
!. sand dollars per annum. The principal OF
) iect OF this measure is apparent from the re
S ported fact that the President will retir
e from his present office a comparatively poo
p man. The scheme is attributed to Genera
p Banks, and it is said that it meets with muc
d favor, not only on the Republican side of tn
II House, but among the democrats.
+ TnE APPROPRIATIONS BILL.-presiden
e Grant sent q message to the House Nionda
e OF last week, announcing that he had signe,
l. the civil appropriation bin, but feels it nee
3 essary to remind Congress that the bill i
D. wholly inadequate and seriously cripple
L. many important interests of the government
ic lie cites as illustrations the small provision
s. made for the signal service and the lack O
IS any appropriation for the District of Colum
/. bia, and also the failure OF Congress TO pre-
r, vide for the payment of judgments of tn
Y, court Of claims, many of which have bee
4 affirmed by the supreme court. lie mel
y tions the trouble that claimants against tn
n government have 10 get such judgments, a