Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-04-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

lanuers Is goou DeWocraI
The Steubenville Gazette insists that
Ohio cannot be carried for the Democrats
upon a bullion platform.
No startling disclosure" has been
made by the investigating committees at
Washington for some days.
Somebody down in Maine writes to a
Boston paper to advise the nomination of
Hannibal Hamlin for President.
1t is SAID that Gen. Butler has CON-
menced a thorough canvass of his dis
trict, with view of entering the Con-
gressional contest next fall.
John I. Hoffman, a statesman, once
a Governor of New York, and supposed
to be deceased, has aspirations" which
he has declared con6dentially. q
Col. John S. Mosby denies that Pres
ident Grant has recently expressed him.
self to him against a third term, as
stated in some of the newspapers.
A San Francisco paper of recent date
prints the speech made ex-Gov. Seymour
at a mass-meetlng of working men in |
Utica, November 3, 1870. This may be
without significance.
At National COlored Convention re-
Gently held at Nashville, the Blacks
passed resolutions declaring themselves
the allies of the Republican party. and
thanked Gen. Grant for his efforts in
their behalf.
There was not little sententious WIS.,
dom in the remark of Horatio Seymour,
the other day, that 1.-The Republicans
have lost the confidence of their country,
and the Democrats have not gained ii"
Many people see that in their minds
eve, Horatio.
The Manchester. \. H., Nirrorsays:
in New Hampshire convention htld to-
day would, We are sure. select more
Bristow than Blaine delegates. though
many who support BristOw would prefer
Blaine if they believed he was as strong
a candidate.
The Presidential candidates are very
busy, but nothing new has transpTed to
. the apparent advantage of any one of
them. Some fellow out III lnlianna
pretends TO have discovered something
against Blaine, but his report has gained
no credence.
The New York Times is publishing
! extracts from BristSw's speeches in the
E Kentucky campaign IN 1871, to ofset
: the slurs of the household organ a
Washington which affects to doubt the
sOundness of the sturdy Seeretary's re
!. pnblicanism, and the intent of the Wash
ington organ is well understood
+ The Meadville Penn Journal call
i attention to the fact that the Democrat
!, of Pennsylvania have selected as th
h Chairman of their State Committee a
Y ex-Congressman who was salary-grat
Der to the extent of pocketing the mon
- :! ey, after declaring by his vote agains
! the bill that he had no right to it
ie Col. Mead is talked # as the Farm
a ers' candidate for governor. Don't d
anything so silly as to base his merit
IL on the fact that he is farmer, grange
De temperance man, religious man. or otht
- thing in particular; just trot him OF
n. as being a good, intelligent. potriOt
citizen of Vermont, and be will have
1y generous support.
ne In Philadelphia, on the publication
ly the shut-Of- the gas-water-and-fre orde
as a company of merchants offered to
l responsible for the expenses of the Pc
- Office for week. and business went
he without serious interruption or inconve
CO. fence. Let US see: We didn't hear
lP- any such action here by Boston me
al chants Globe.
lid Blaine is about the busiest man
SO the country these days, running sing
o. handed the minority in the House, ma
ii. ging the majority, looking after lit
to chores at home in Maine, watching |
af- competitors in the Presidential race a
au chucking obstacles in their path. CT
- templating his work the Springfield
nal publican questions, in the homely
re- expressive Kentucky metaphor, hasn't
Who this time, "bit off a little more than
YES can ehaw ?''
ms. c. Horace Hubbard. agrieultu
editor Of the Farmer. attended the 1
Republican State Convention, and
INC following paragraph would seem to in
81 cate that be was somewhat DISCUS
par with the thing:
ions As new remedy for parasites on
the nestle animals, We would advise I
;an- they be sent to state political cow
Etv ton If every louise. tick or other
~ sect together with the poor creature
LIZ whose blood they pray is not smother
'ect- then set the editor of the Farmer Dc
heir as no judge of the virtue Of toba
TO smoke.
'loh Senator Hamlin Of Maine, in a spe
on post Office matters EXPLAINED 8.