Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-21
Political lettings.

ARBITRATION is the noblest work of man,
when a majority of the arbitrator are on
your side. If you don't believe it, ask
Tilden.
The House committee on the election in
South Carolina find that Hayes and Wheeler
carried the state by a majority of seven hun
dred to eight hundred.
ATcHIsoN (KANsAs) Champion "The trou-
BILE with Tilden's case is that it has at last
been transferred to tribunal the barl
Of money won't affect"
QUERY. Is it more partisan for eight
to vote together on one side of
a question than it is for seven democrats TO
vote together on the other
HENDRICKS gave his heartiest support of
the electoral bill when he said at would
be good thing if it worked all right" He
is a statesman of the first water.
GOVERNOR HAYES made little speech
Saturday, which contained not the slightest
alusion to politics. lie is just the kind of
orator the tired people want TO hear.
IT is astonishing aud lamentable--the
stubborn obstinacy of seven intelligent men
in sticking to party through thick and thin,
in spite of the law and of the facts.
IT must be a comforting thought to the
reforming democrat that Mr.. Tilden's only
hope for the Presidency rests upon the Ore
gon plot, the rottenness of which has been
so thoroughly exposed.
The Young Mems Republican Club of the
District of Columbia is already making ar
rangements for quartering and assigning
visiting Republican organizations on the &C.
casion of the EMANCIPATION of Hayes"
ALBANY Evening Journal poor little Mr..
Tilden He seems to be approaching the
Presidency by the process of getting up one
step and falling back three. He is a sue.
cess as a claimant, but failure as a can
didate."
A DEMOCRATIC journalist in Washington
has expressed his entire Indifference to the
result of the struggle, which he says is sim
ply fight between eighty thousand office
holders and five hundred thousand office
seekers.
WE thought it would be so. The Tilden
organs, which week or two ago were laud
ing Senator Edmunds as patriot and states
man, now denounce him as a traitor. And
yet Senator Edmunds hasn't changed &
particle
CINCINNATI Commercial: d" The beautiful
discretion of the democracy appears in the
heat and fury with which they abuse judge
Bradley, because he did not show his non
partisan character by becoming democratic
partisan"
WASHINGTON Republican: "When thu
democratic leaders find that the application
of the doctrine which they have uniforml,
maintained is fatal to Mr. Tildens chances
they are as ready to discard that as they arr
any other principle
Mr.. NoRpHoFF says, in the New Yorl
Herald, that Governor Hayes means to pur
sue a liberal policy toward the South, which
the Southern people understand so well tina
there is not the least danger of factious op
position from that section.
THE New York Sun advises the democrat
in Congress to disregard their obligation t.
be governed by the decision of the Electora
Commission. and declare Hayes and Wheele
not elected. But this little game of revolu
ton is already played out.
CLEVELAND Herald: "Justices Clitfor,
and Field should not have been so partisan
1t was very wrong of them. If they ha'
voted with the majority of the members o
the judiciary on the Commission, it woul'
have had a much better look"
THAT eminent democratic authority, Judg
Church, of New York, says: 81 have ais
expressed the opinion that the authentici
ton of the election of Presidential elector,
according to the laws of each state, is fna
and conclusive and that there exists II
power to go behind it,"
CHICAGO Tribune: "The party that file
from the decision of the arbitrator or pr,
vents them from deciding who is legal
| elected President, will be crushed like a
egg-shel in the hands of the people.
would be better for those responsible for
that they never had been born
GENERAL KERsHAw, of South Carolin
who fought Governor Hayes at Cedar Moul
tain and voted for Tilden last fall says b
believes Hayes as President will do justic
"throughout the whole land, and glory an
honor and peace will crown our countr
through his wise and benign adminstratio
of its government"
THE political ledger foots up in this wa
in the opinion of the Springfield Union
"The democrats have gained Senator al
lost President the Republicans vice vers
1t wasn't an even swap, and it is no wond'
that the mention of Judge Davis name eli
its copious profanity in democratic circle
and exceedingly unhattering illusions to Il
stupidity of the Illinois democrats, wi
might have known that the democrats
Congress would never have voted for IL
compromise if they hadn't expected tn
Davis would be the fifteenth man."
Mr.. BowLEs writes to his paper, Il
Springfield Republican "Clifford and File
have certainly made known their democrat
partisanship quite as stoutly as the othe
their Republican sympathies. Bradley al
Strong, indeed, have the reputation of
careful, conscientious spassionateness b
Miller looks as if he was in the habit
throwing his heft on one side, and tn
with will" In the same letter he observe
"Ths Presidential dead lock has one goo
result among its many mischievous accol
paniments. Neither set of office-seekers y
comes to the capital, and the town is mo
quiet and the hotels more barren than tn
have ever been before, during the mon
preceding Presidential Inauguration, sin
the spois doctrine came in and politics
came profession"
Partisan RAWLINGS.