The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-19

are offering bets that if neither are seated
during the next thirty days, Pinchback
will resign.
If we are TO choose between bloody
shirts, in determining who shall be next
president, we prefer Baine's to Mortons.
There ia genuine gore on the garment OF
the former, while that of the latter Is only
saturated with q solution Of brick DUST
Globe Democrat
Washburne's letter to friend, declining
to consider himself candidate for the
presidency, is a modesty self-appreciating
document, which will do more to make
him candidate than If he worked himself
bald.hcaded seeking the nomination--O Ohio
State Journal
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks the choice
of that city for the republican convention
places Messrs. Blaine, Morton, Bristow and
Hayes on an equal footing, and says "there
will be no local or sectional power to Gre
ate an external pressure 10 bias the deliber-
atoms Of the convention"
Considering all the first class notices he
got from tho administration organs, ii must
be owned that Belknap's canvass for the
Iowa senatorship petered out rather funni-
ly. Jack Chandler is unkind enough to
say 1t reminds him of shesrlng a hog-"a
ID SIGHT more noise than wool. Spring
feld Republican.
When the house committee on foreign
affairs called at the white house, recently,
Mr.. Grant talked to them in such way
that Chairman Swami and the others went
away quite convinced he didn't expect
another term. All but Banks. Banks bad
his double A shrewd fellow, Banks -
Springfield Republican.
According to the Washington correspon-
dencc of the New York Herald, "Tele-
grams and letters have been received from
all parts OF the country deploring his ben
Hill's) speech. Among those from the
south il one from Arkansas worded in the
following emphatic language "For Gods
sake keep still. We can never carry the
state again if this goes on"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, speaking Of
the choice of that city by the republicans,
SAYS "We believe it to be highly impor-
tant for the national democratic committee
to trump that trick. We, too, need little
enthusiasm in Ohio We, too, must use
every exertion to carry this state in Octo.
ber." 1t would be curious If both conven.
tons should be held in the same building.
Hills defense of Davis very much re
sembles the forensic effort of the lawyer
who argued for three hours the case of hlt
client accused of horse stealing, and wal
afterwards told by one of the jury that i
he had spoken an hour longer they wonlC
have found the man guilty OF murder in thu
first degree - Globe Democrat.
Some Of the newspapers are talking abou
Mr.. Washburne's "letter of declination.
This Is too thin or, as John Stuart Mil
would put il, it is " contrary to complete
induction, and is therefore Incredible
The presidential tarantula bit Washburn
on the calf of his leg, four years ago, ant
the wound has not healed yet. GIobe- Dem
0crdt.
What the convention does ia the vita
thing, il is to be hoped that it will choos
| WIN itPitSNht, hVt az
Spencers, the Claytons and the Packards
who are conspicuous in these preparatory
proceedings, but the honest and indepcnd
ent members of the party and that it vii
nominate ticket for which good republi
cans, who are also GOOD citizens, may hon
cstly vote.-NeN Iorh Port.
The most serious difficulty encountered
by Morton's missionaries in their work il
the stolld refusal of the southern repubi
cans to be convinced that Grant is really
out of the field. Citations from the Harry
White letter, energetcsl explanations. ar
guments, ontreaties, all are as good a
thrown away upon them. Their answer Il
all is that, when Grant says he won't TAX
it, they will believe it; not before Spring
.feld Repub'tcdn.
We cannot conceive how any person o
sense can see danger to the republic in III
election OF one man. The revolution
which they anticipate would follow Gen
Grants denomination would be bloodles
one, they all agree-for they know that i
they were to predict violent and blood
one, in which the new government wOul
be upheld by bayone,s. they would writ
themselves down asses before the country
No more absurd question than this of
third term ever entered into our politics, ~
Ne,r York Commercial AdUertiser.