Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

The fifth Judge on the Electoral Commis
sion, Judge Bradley, is acceptable to thu
Republicans because he is Republican, ant
to the Democrats, especially, because he ha'
held court in Louisiana, and because oil I'M
decision in the Grant parish cases, by which
certain portions Of the Force bill were frs
declared to be unconstitutional.
The Republicans at Washington are re
ported more hopeful as to the Presidential
outlook and the betting men, it is said
give odds on Hayes.
The Legislative and Executive Appropria
ton bill provides only S25 900 for the sal
airy of the President. and accompanies il
with provision repeating the section OF the
Revised Statutes which increased the salary
to $4,000. 1t is thought likely that thi,
provision will be agreed to, and the mex
President will have to he content with S25,
900 per annum.
Gradually the extent of the Democratic
frauds in Cincinnati at the October election
is unfolding. Dispatches from Cincinnati
state that it is already clear that Banning
majority over Matthews was wholly fraud.
ulent, and that the prospects are good fol
sending some prominent politicians to the
pe,itentiary.
In referring to the passage of the bill tol
counting the Electoral vote, Gov. Hayes said
to friend Il want it distinctly under
stood that do not desire to influence the
action of Congress one way or the other In
the matter of the Electoral bill, or any other
matter relating to the Presidential election
The whole thing is in the hands OF Con
gress, and shall be content with its action
Judge Thomas Settle, who was defeated
Governor of North Carolina, has been ap-
pointed United States District Judge Of
Florida, which vii! place him in :. position
for appointment to the bench Of the Supreme
Court in the place of Judge Davis. The South
has no representative on the Supreme bench
now.
David Dudley Field is ''reformer. " Refer
ence The Erie thieves, the Tweed ring and
rilden.
The report of Mr.. Co1's committee on
Hewitt's charge that his letters had been
opened in the New York postoffce, concludes
with the remark that "any suspicion or
charge of tampering with the mails in that
Office is baseless'' This is the same as say
ing that Hewitt made an ass of himself.
The Democrats of Florida seem to have
caught a Tartar in Gov. Drew. He declines
to remove certain Republican officials, and
the buli-dozers have discovered that he is a
carpet-bagger and that he was driven out
of Columbus. Ga, during the war, because
he leaned toward the Union.
The election of Ben Hill by the Georgia
Legislature as Senator toas Effected ty The
potes of the ten Republicans In the House,
four OF whom are colored men. They pre-
ferred Hill to Norwood, as Union man,
and Mr.. Hills latest speeches would seem
to vindicate their preference.
The dispatches Of Hewitt. Pelton and
Others, which are disclosed, show how eager
ly and desperately Mr.. Tilden's managers
clutched at Oregon. In one Of them Mr..
Hewitt directs that the Governor should
issue the Certlucdtt u NTOulu, uOt DtChusc
it is right, not because the law requires it,
not because he was the choice of the people
but because it will "force Congress to go
behind the certificates and open" the doors
in other cases 1t was all piece OF pettiog-
ging and bribery.
The old patriot Gov. Dix, wrote as follows
to Senator Morton LAS citizen Of New
York, l hasten at the first moment after
hearing of the surrender of the Republican
party to thank you and Senator Sherman
and those who have acted with you for your
gallant defence of the Constitution. In such
u contest defeat is victory for the yanquish-
ed, whose cause time SOON indicates. You
are to be congratulated for standing on the
same platform with Madison. Pinckney,
Kent, Story, and other great expounders Of
our fundamental law, while your opponents
are on platform constructed by themselves
on foundation they have land outside OF
the Constitution. In their future conflicts
the Republican party will know where to
look for leaders who do not quai! in times Of
trial Very truly yours, JONI A. DIX