Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-28
Political lettings.

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examination as to qualification.
THE Hon. Stanley MATHEWS was elected
United States Senator from Ohio last week,
and J. Donald Cameron from Pennsylvania.
SECRETARY THOMPSON, of the navy, has
already discharged eighty clerks from his
department. They were extras, and en-
ployed without authority by law.
IT is reported that General Gilman Mars
ton will contest Frank Jones' right to seat
in Congress as the member from the First
district of New Hampshire, on the ground of
bribery.
"THERE is a dismal rumor," says the
Boston Journal, that Trumbul and Palmer
of Illinois, approve of the course of the
President and are coming back to the Re-
publican party"
SENATOR GEORGE F. HoAR has declined a
public reception rendered him by the lead
ing citizens of Worcester on the somewhat
unusual ground that Z" he did not think he
deserved so conspicuous an honor"
FULL returns from the Congressional dis
tricts in New Hampshire show that the Re-
publcans have gained about twenty-five
hundred votes over the Congressional maj
tiles of two years ago, although they lost the
first district by some forty plurality.
JUDGE KELLEY, of Philadelphia, says that
| % from, tho Southern, ,,aliox, nf tba Drae; Innt
and his determination to improve the civil
service and put it on a better basis than it
has been since the days of John Quincy
Adams, expect the happest results"
PosTMAsTERGENERAL KEY says: "They
must remember that the President must be
governed in a great measure by the men who
placed him in power--his Republican ad
visers. The Southern men can't expect to
have things done exactly in their way
THE atlanta Constitution prints the fol
lowing telegram from Ben Hill "With my
sense of public duty can make no recon
mendaton for offices to be passed upon by
the Senate. There can be no reform unless
congressional control of the executive offices
be broken up
THE New York Times says of William
Lloyd Garrison, Z" hat if he should visit any
part of the South at the present time HI
would be cordially welcomed, and that no
a single gray hair upon his honored anc
venerable head would be harmed by the peo
pie who once clamored for his blood"
In the sixteen years of the rule of Lincoln
johnson and Grant, there have been bu
three secretaries of state-Seward Wash
burn and Fish. In fact, two men, Seward
and Fish, have managed the foreign inter
course OF the country during sixteen event
full years with an ability so consummate a
to be unexceled.
No NOMINATION was sent to the Senat
prior to its adjournment to fill the vacanc.
occasoned by the resignation of Justic
Davis, of the United States Supreme Court
But the names of lIerschell v johnson, o
Georgia, candidate for Vice-President witt
Douglass in 1860, and ex-senator Joshut
Hill, of the same state, are PROMINENT
mentioned for that position
The New York Sun is shocked by the al
r tempt of President Hayes to divide and cor
quer the solid South by recognizing the jus
complaints of Southern citizens and rightin
, their wrongs so far as he lawfully can. Tn
President is simply doing his duty, withou
reference to its effect upon parties, but
: will no doubt appear in the end, that " h
, serves his party best, who serves his countr
best
The President expressed himself very Ell
d, phatically last week, on the color line in hi
administration The views of Mr.. Haye
briefly stated are as follows Color wi
be no barrier against any man holding otfc
as far as appointments by the President al
concerned, and any head of a department
who makes objections, will be removed.
= OF all the evidences of real reform in pol
ties thus far shown, this is perhaps tn
+ greatest.
A LETTER received in Washington fe
days ago from prominent democratic e'
Senator of Georgia, has the following "
far our people, although disappointed abou
the Presidency, are perfectly decided on til
question. We have had war enough, an
: my private opinion is that Hayes will max
a better President for the country than Ii
. den. know he will, should he carry OF
= his Southern policy. am for Hayes nov
and am not alone"
! THE Senate has passed the judgment a
ready that Mr.. Wheeler is the best presidin
a officer, not even excluding Mr.. Ferry, thu
: has filled the chair in many administration
! He is entirely familiar with parliamentar
r law, and without pretension, acts prompt.
J. impartially, and with a peculiar and fittin
dignity. He is equally popular as presi'
/. ing officer with Republicans and democrat
q Moreover, he is one of President Hayes mos
= trusted advisers, and his knowledge of pull
lie affairs and of public men has been sougi
and has been of great service to the Pres
: dent in beginning his administration.
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