Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-08-29
Thr FIREMAN.
MONTPELIER VT.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST %. 1877.


Political Talk,
The presidents visit to Vermont ha
been the occasion OF q great deal of writing
to the city papcrs-some of it sensible ant
good deal of it trash-about what folk
think of what is called " the president
policy" Some of this wiring is made
out of interviews with which correspond
ents have favored Senators Morrill, anC
Edmunds.
First of ALL President Hayes vis
here has not changed anybody in particu
lar; it simply confirmed by sight and
hearing the impressions those who saw
him, before had of him personally. The
great mass of the people thought well Of
him. This class is made up of men Of
both parties; and not one in ten saw him
or heard him.
There are two classes who are angry at
the man, and though not very numerous,
they are dreadful SET" First there are
the " fraudulent" democrats; the follow
ers of the New York San; those whose
stock in trade is that Tilden was elected
and Hayes counted in. These people APP
pear TO like file for steady diet, and as
long as they do sensible folks are perfectly
willing they should continue to gnaw.
The other class is composed of republi-
cans who feel that Mr.. Hayes is 4 traitor
to his party and to everything else. This
class is largely composed of the same
men, who last winter knew Senator Ed
munds was traitor to his party and to
everything else, when he supported the
electoral commission bill. They feel
about Hayes policy just as they did about
Edmunds' policy when he took the action
he did about Pinchback' admission to the
Senate. Mr.. Edmunds may not know it
but his sound republcanism has been seri-
ously questioned by some of his constit-
uents. And it always will be whenever
he appears in his Washington career with
out rebel in one hand and n patent mix
ture of some compound, supposed to be
peculiarly offensive TO rebels, in the other;
which compound he must be actively en-
gagged in forcing down the rebels throat
Outside the men who love or hate a man
because he was rebel, we believe there
is little anger mt the president or condem-
nation of his course. A good many re-
publicans think what he did was right and
wise: a large aj0rity admit that nothing
else was doable. The hot-heads of the
south, the asses who are braying at Mr.
Key, the bourbons and the rowdes, if un-
controlled by decent people, yet have it in
their power to make most republicans dis
gusted and angry 10 think that the party
TO which they belong is dominant through
out the southern states. Intolerance, bull
doing and all that if prevalent hereafter,
will embitter the north, and by sort OF
reflex action make many republicans look
with disfavor upon the president; that is
all the danger that there is to his popular
ty among the men who voted for him in
this state.
As to the presidential order keeping gov
eminent officers out of the management of
party machinery there has been more pow
der spent, if these intcrvewers are right,
than the game up here is worth. The few
federal office holders in Vermont are gen
orally pretty good men of the average sort
and both they and the party will survive.
The party can get along well enough rs
will be seen. And as for the office holders
themselves, why there are several postmis
tresses in Vermont who have heretofore
managed to live and do, not only their
caucusing but voting even, by proxy or
next friend "-or else go without. The
men ought to be able to tough it out with
the women.