Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-03
Politics..

HOllliGS'
# is decidedly out of season to have 10
write or read much on this subject eight
weeks after presidential campaign came
TO the point of voting, but there is no deny
inc the fact that business is considerably
affected by the present unsettled condition
of the public mind as 10 what the next au-
ministration is to be.
Tho usual amount of good resolutions
have been made for the year just entered
upon and the usual percentage OF mem
will be broken as time passes on. Inc
HOLIDAYS have passed as they usually CO.
The old year has died with much less
mise and hurrah than attended its en-
trance on the stage and very much rs all
years die. So that it is perhaps just us
we'll to forego the usual essay expected
"about these days." referring those VINO
really need something of the kind TO "
mcditative contemplation of Time in the
urimer, and to content ourselves with II
note Of some of the weeks events that go
towards making whatsoever sort of time
we of this century are to have during the
first year Of our second century
The South Carolina House committee
has. by subcommittee, expressed an
opinion that the Hayes and Wheeler
electors in South Carolina received n ma
iority of all the votes cast. The two
:. governors are still in office, ana
Hampton has been writing his grievances
TO both Hayes aud TiIden. There is no
prospect of any outbreak or any change in
the situation until there is IL new presi-
dent.
In Florida there are two recountS by
the canvassing board, one signed by Cooke
the Attorney General, which elects the
Tilden elector, and the other signed by
McLin and Cowgirl, which gives Hayes
majority of FOG. 1t is yet undetermined
whether Drew or Stearns will he COVER
nor Drew, by the way, the democratic
claimant is u relative of Capt. John F
Drew. somewhat known here.
Monday tie new state government wa
TO 90 into power in Louisiana and so witt
their usual abundance of politics they pro
ceeded TO establish two governors ant
legislatures, but there is no great dange
of immediate trouble there. 1t would b,
n blessed thing if they could have two
COOL powerful state governments there
each to devote its full powers to maxim,
the members of the party which supper
it respect the lives Nod all other rights c
other persons.
The two committees in Louisiana are {
course still busy taking testimony. Tn
House committee is gathering Il bad Il
of evidence in regard to republican FRAUD
and tricks, while the Senate committe
obtains such IN accommodating mass of dC
tails of murders and brutal treatment (
republican voters that its report must d'
prive the democratic party Of that state
gaining any sympathy from tile thinkin
people of the country.
A new feature in the situation is the a
pearance of democratic addresses al
democratic meetings throughout the mort
in which the Inauguration Of Tildcn al
Hendricks is demanded This demand
generally backed by war talk more or lie
disguised, This talk has been most vigo
ols in Indiana and Ohio, and its result
seen in some late elections in the form
state where vacancies in the legislatu
have been filled and the republicans ha'
made most remarkable gains on the Oct
Der and November vote.
January Slh is the day set for the sc
eral "pow- WOW" in the interest of Tide
And a more foolish performance on Il
part of the democracy cannot be imagine
1t will be IN attempt to bully the III
who are to decide the veXed question, III
one or two exhibitions such as this one
likely to be will have the effect of disgu
ing the sensible people of the country, a
hurting the cause it is hoped to advance
By all means let the democrats 81
tongue to their feelings. Their political
are their spokesman and " Bounding B;
ming" will have Il hundred followers ont
Sth. The decent men of the party will
other and more effective means TO hav
quiet and lawful settlement of the dispu
presidency. 1t is to their injury and
that of the republicans that blatant den
gogues will crate next Monday.