Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-05
PERSONaL AND POLITICAL.

The New York World tells its party
friends that such of them as think that the
ticket they are to nominate to-day is to have
a walk-oyer, take only "a surface view OF the
matter" The World adds that the Repub-
licans are going to make "a more determined
effort than usual for success, and that 1t
will take 50,000 more Democratic votes to
carry the Legislature than to elect the State
officers.
1t is stated that ex-Indian Commissioner
Smith. who has been appointed United
States consul at Montreal, will not proceed
to his post until he has made some speeches
in Ohio. Does MT that seem something like
whipping the devil around the stump. in
view of the civil service reform order? But
probably federal appointees to Offices abroad
may be permitted to do little e!ectioneer-
ing at home.
The New York Commercial Adrrtiser,
which has always sustained Mr.. Conkling,
cules the apology of his friends that Mr..
Conkling was led to pursue the course he did
because he believed that Mr.. Curtis defeated
his nomination for the Presidency. Nothing,
says the 4drerfisr, was ever more absurd.
Mr.. Conkling was victimized by oyer-zeal-
Gus, brainless and insincere friends. MIR.
Curtis was not responsible for it and even if
he was, the Adrrtiser concludes, "the Sena-
tor is not justified IN committing political
suicide"
The Wisconsin Democrats have made the
election of the Republican ticket almost a
certainty by nominating for Governor the
father of the initiation party in the State.
lie has always been the most coppery sort
of Democrat. and of late has been rabid
for the most extreme initiation measures.
From the fact that Gen. Mcclellan has
been up for office in New York and New
jersey with indiscriminate frequency during
the last two years. the Hdrkeye concludes
that he must live on the ferry and have his
meals brought to him.
Democratic reform in Ohio has received a
check BY the confession of Lewis Myers,
treasurer of Auglaize county. Some weeks
since, Myers was found bound and gagged,
and with his feet badly roasted, while about
81 900 was missing from the treasury. lie
said that four masked ruffians had COM
PEELED him by torture to give the combina-
tion of the safe. Lately, however, he has
| confessed that the whole affair was put up
job, that j F. Smith, county auditor. did
the tying. gagging and roasting, and that
they shared the profits of the enterprise. 1t
was resolved to arrest Smith lie was absent,
| attending Democratic convention at Lima.
When the dectives arrived they found him
| delivering furious reform speech, in which
the Republican party was terribly denounced
for its corruptions. The officials walked up
and tapped him on the shoulder, whereupon
the eloquent orator "came down" like Col.
SCOTS coon and was carried off to Jail,
where he found his late friend and compat-
riot already incarcerated. Auglaize is a
Democratic county, and has not had Re
publican official in 20 years. 1t is ascertain
ed that the system Of stealing from the
treasury was commenced many years ago,
and has been steadily kept up.
The Committee of fifty appointed at the
meeting Of prominent Republicans in the
Union League Club, Of New York city, have
called mass meeting to indorse President
Hayes and the Administration. They in
vite d" Republicans and all others of the
city of New York, who approve of the ad-
minis ration of President Hayes in its efforts
to promote the permanent union and har-
mony of the whole country, and to restore
every branch of the civil service to its early
efficiency and purity, and who feel that the
action Of the late Republican State COnyen-
ton has placed the Republican party and the
people Of the State in position toward the
President and his Administration at once
false and injurious, to meet in Cooper's In
stitute in October 10th, at S p. m, for the
purpose OF declaring their undated faith and
confidence in the integrity, ability and pa
triotism Of President HAYES, their sense of
the wisdom and Justice of the aims and pur-
poses of his Administration, and their belief
and JOY that the country is beginning to
realize and will soon reap the blessings of
domestic quiet and happy concord in and be-
tween all the States, which universal love
OF Union and respect for the Constitution as
ME hayes IN Inc oouth has conquered
e'er'oouy' Il correspondent OIL the "d-'''e
Vi 'inoluna'i says reopie seem 10 hhu
great satisfaction IN saying, as she appears
and bows to the rreat crowds. what fine
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", nO-ia" H'' . iel'i A"oie '"'e
Ina, Is the kino Oh woman we want IN the
nite house- io-uay, "hen Juuge hey
eAcuseu hinseii from making speech ny
ihtiou1clg MIS-. Hayes tic vast crown
glee.Gu ner win Such applause that Tue
;oaIoMs uo, r","Ia,;t~ 10 We" u, sU"A iI5
in these crowds is only equalled by her popu-
larity among the ladies whom she has met
al the receptions before her, all opposition
ia IAN anu "len Tue gay season opens IN
washington thiS- WINTER, she VIII hnd
larger number oil women from the south at
the capital than has gathered there Tor
years.
Mr. Reagan b,,viny denied that Jegcr.on
pa'i9' "heh caPtnreu' WORE rs uiSgui'e'
female clothing, the report of Julian q.
Dickinson. the Michigan cavalry officer who