The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-18
Political Notes and Opinions.

bcihuup mas little certificate showing
that the president parted with him with re.
gret. There is no evidence that Brstow
has anything of the sort, and Jewell GER
tainly cannot show any such document -
Cincinnati Commercial.
If Mr.. Hayes could be elected, and then
do what he promises, every good citizen
would rejoice in the prospect of purging
the civil service of the wretched political
hacks and hangers-on thq, now render the
republican administration stencil in the
nostrils of all honest citizens. Indian0p0-
is Sentinel, Dem.
1t is proper to remark that
neither the republican party nor any man
or party of good sense is nowadays respon-
sible for President Grants actions. We
We doubt very much whether he himself is
responsible for his acts. The hot weather
has apparently turned his brains into sour
milk. -Chcdgo Ecening Journal
Hayes enlisted as private, was elected
major, turned his back upon his wife and
children, and marched forth to defend his
country. He was four times wounded
upon the battle field, had four horses shot
under him, and, singular coincidence, has
killed off three democratic governors, and
is going to kill off democratic president.
- hi[p0tric6's BiogrupAy.'
President Grant behaves asHif he in
tended 20 danredit h,e Gun, administration
and to elect MIR. Tilden. He seems to have
been much more eager to get rid of the
righteous Bristow and Jewell than to dis
miss the wicked BelklMp. So far as the
whisky thieves are concerned, we fear that
he will himself let some of the guilty es-
cape while Furnishing the innocents who
supposed him to real mean what he said
so well. Christian Register.
Tho man who spent a whole day in beat
ing the carcass of skunk, because she
proposed to teach the critter that there is
punishment after death" set bright ex
ample, which the democrats are following
| The enforcement act had the life knocked
out of IL by the decision of the supreme
court, but the democrats are making a
| prOdigious fuss because they are not al
lowed to repeal the dead act in an appro-
prialion bill. This, we suppose. is reform
craftsmanship. -Nao Yorh 7ai5uue.
The tour months before us will afford
time to canvass the financial question in
diligently and thoroughly, and, what is of
equal Importance, they will enable us to
demonstrate by an analysis of his public
acts that the democratic candidate for the
| presidency, instead OF being a reformer, as
| no I,a fnIl.ruora 10 -,
urgent need Of reform as the party which
has put him III nomination. Moreover, it
will enable us TO demonstrate, by indispu-
table facts, hat the government, for the
cnicf office in which he has been nomi-
mated would not now exist il his example
during the rebellion had been followed by
his countrymen. -H1- Goo. Dir.
Later and fuller accounts of the recen,
butchery in Edgefield county, South Car.
olina, only confirm the first impression. Ii
is gratifying 10 be assured by the leading
democratic papers of South Corolina and
Georgia that the best (white) people OF
these states disapprove and deplore; but
that is not enough. Unless they put an
| abrupt stop to crimes of this sort by hunt
ing down and bringing TO punishment the
| wretches of their own color who perpetrate
them, their dsapproval and regret will pass
for exactly what it ia worth. Once for all,
they cannot understand too distinctly that
the vast majority of the voters of these
| northern states-independent and demo-
Gratis as well rs republicans are as little
prepared to.look on with complaisant acqul-
escence at the oppression and murder of
| black citizens as at the oppression and rob