Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-25
Political Notes.

on Monday November 9th
TnE Indiana democrats lost clever thou
sand votes from their last election. They
lost the legislature and five members Of
Congress, and yet they call it victory
EN-ArroRNEY-GENERAL WILLIAMS, who
has just returned from Oregon, says that
there is no possible doubt that the electoral
vote of that state will be cas-. for Hayes and
Wheeler.
A REPORT comes from Putnam county,
Ga, that there are seven thousand more
Republicans than democrats in that county,
and that only three Of the former dared to
vote at the late election.
TnE Hartford Post asks "If the democ-
racy fire one hundred guns to celebrate the
loss of ten Congressman in two states, how
many guns will they fire TO celebrate the
loss Of fifty Congressman in twenty states ?"
By their attempts to prove that Mr.. TiIden
was loyal during the war, the democratic
papers practically admit that loyalty is es-
sential in Presidential candidate Cover
nor Hayes loyalty is admitted by every body
A SINGLE fact should be sufficient TO ena-
BILE every loyal man TO decide between Til
den and Hayes; namely, if all men had
acted as Tilden talked, the rebel South would
have met with no resistance and the Union
would have been destroyed. 1t was because
million brave patriots did as Hayes did,
that the rebellion was crushed and the Union
saved
THE election in Georgia was fair sample
of the " freedom that would prevail in
every Southern State, did the same men OBJ
tain control. -Four counties in which not a
Republican vote was cast But four years
ago the state went Republican by eight
thousand majority. And yet we are told
there is no such thing as intimidation Of the
negro voter
A PRIVATE letter from Florida, printed
by Lowell (Niich.) Journal, says "You
cannot imagine the luminosity felt toward US
Northern men by the Southemers. We
have in our employ eolored men who, when
on the plantations, say they are required to
vote the democratic or none. Should they
vote the Republican ticket or try to, they
are run from the plantation by their en-
ployers, and shot guns are often used
MR- BRsrow made good point in a re-
cent speech when he said that there had
been defaulting pension agents and land
agents and collectors of customs all over the
country under democratic administrations,
but can any one point to an instance where
any one of these democratic thieves had the
key Of a penitentary turned upon him ?
But not so with Republicans. 1t Furnishes
its thieves, and intends to do so. That is
the difference between democratic promise
and Republican practice.
TnE Tribune takes the following views Of
prospects in New York with the aid Of
many thousand liberals and independents,
Mr.. Tilden polled four hundred and sixteen
thousand votes in 1874, while in spite of the
opposition of the liberals four hundred aud
forty thousand votes were polled for Presi-
dent Grant in 1872. In this contest the en-
tire Republican strength will be polled; it
will be reinforced by thousands of democrats
who distrust the position of their party with
respect to the finances and the public honors.'
/ SAYS Carl Schurz al shall certainly be
the last man to forget or justify the mis-
| takes which have been made by the Repub-
lican administration in its treatment of
some Of the late rebel states. have fire.
quently expressed my opinion on that point,
and have nothing to retract. But upon a
sober and careful survey Of the whole field,
/ / have formed the conscientious conclusion
that nothing will be more beneficial to the
South itself, and nothing better calculated
to give to the reform problem and other kin
dred questions free field, than the firm
aud liberal execution of the policy an
nounced in Governor Hayes letter of accep-
lance"
FoRrY-Two members Of the next Congress
have now been chosen-Vermont, three
Maine, FIVE Colorado, one-all Republicans.
Ohio and Indiana chose thirty-three, in
which there was Republican gain of ten
So the Republicans have elected thirty and
the democrats twelve OF the number thus
far chosen. These states have only twenty
Republicans in the present Congress. Here
then is gain of fifty per cent. Applying
this percentage of gain to the one hundred
and eight Republican members in the Forty
fourth Congress, would give one hundred
aud sixtytwo in the new body, or Repub
lican majority of thirty-one. And as there
are now only seventeen Republican mem
bers FROM the entire solid South" this
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