Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-14
Political lettings.


got the start of the Republicans, last week,
by introducing resolution indorsing Presi-
dent Hayes policy.
THE business men of Memphis, Tenn,
without distinction Of party, made dem
onstration on Saturday in favor of President
Hayes and the way he takes hold.
A TENNESSEE gentleman now in Wash
ington remarked, Wednesday night of last
week. that if this thing continues there will
be no democratic party in Tennessee.
SENATOR SHERMAN, who undoubtedly
knows, says Anybody who expects to pull
Hayes around will mistake the man. He is
not quarrelsome, but has mind of his own"
No PRESIDENT or political leader ever ut
tered wiser sentiment than that of Presi-
dent Hayes in his inaugural, that he serves
his party best who serves his country best
THE verse which President Hayes kissed
in taking the oath was the 18th of the 18th
psalm; They compassed me about; but
in the name of the Lord | will destroy
them"
In regard to an extra session of Congress
the President has informed Speaker Randall
that he will give thirty days notice in the
call, so that there will be ample time for
every member to be present.
WHEN Ben Wade, as an Ohio elector,
dropped his ballot for Hayes, he remarked,
" This is the last and most important act of
my official life." An effort is now making
to run him for the senatorship.
ONE of the happiest men going, just now
is George William Curtis. He was serenaded
by his Staten Island neighbors, Thursday
evening, and made a speech boiling over with
satisfaction at the inaugural and Cabinet
THE Louisville Cowier,Journdi says "Dem-
ocratic Senators cannot afford TO discuss
what should be their position. They should
unhesitatingly give all their moral and ma
terial support to Hayes so long as he main
tains his present ground"
Mr. KEY, the Postmaster-General that is
to be, isn't much of a democrat after all. In
1869, as a member of the Tennessee Const-
tutional Convention, he advocated negro
suffrage negro schools and negro testimony,
which was all that Republican can do.
MANY of the democratic mountebanks who
rendered themselves so obnoxious last week
to the good sense of the American people
will never be heard from again as they wend
their way to their homes and a deserved OBJ
security, with the execratons of the law
abiding and patriotic ringing in their ears.
The day upon which President Hayes
nounced a rise in American stocks, with the
further remark that they were now recog-
nized as the safest of foreign investments.
Thus, at home and abroad, the election of a
Republican President is received as guar
antee of national good faith and prosperity.
Two Baltimore politicians, a Republican
and a democrat, are out one thousand dollars
each. They "put up" one thousand dollars
each on the result of the Presidential cleo.
ton, but being unable to agree which had
won they took their dispute into court, where
the district-attorney appropriated the stakes
under state law, and turned them into the
city treasury.
A PRIVATE in President Hayes regiment
the twenty-third Ohio, said a drawer OF
better man was not in the army. He had
an abundance of grit If he had fault, il
was that in battle he was too eager. On O
long, dusty march, | could always tell Col
onel Hayes horse, as it was always loaded
with the guns and knapsacks of the boys
who were giving out, the Colonel himself
walking by its side, no matter how great tn,
| heat"
THE TriJunes Washington special says
" 1t is a remarkable fact that with the in
coming of the new administration having
the control of from forty to fifty Thousand
public offices, the number of persons who
have come to Washington seeking govern
ment employment is actually less than tina
of those who came here in December, 1875
to compete for the hundred or two appoint
ments to be made by the democratic Hous,
of Representatives"
THE Worids Washington despatch say
those who are near the President report tina
he contemplates no changes in the personne
of the minor offices of the government, ex
cept where he is assured such changes will
insure increased efficiency. There will b.
numerous changes in the foreign missions
and few in the consular service. In tn
department of justice United States Mar
shals in the South are to be thoroughly over
hauled. This will form part of the Presi
dents Southern policy. He intends to re
quest Mr. Schurz to enter upon full inves
tigation of the interior department, especi
ally of the Indian bureau and patent offic
rings.
THINK, now, what rush and scramble
what discharge of faithful, experienced OF
ficers, and an installation of the mex
perienced and needy, there would be if MI
Tilden were President. Such disaster /
to be expected, under our present no-systen
} every time there is political change S
that we are to remember that, however e,
cellent the appointments of President Have
; may be, his administration will be a failur
in the matter of reform of the civil seryic,
; if system is not inaugurated before he zoe
out of office. The present no-system is il
tensely undemocratic. 1t opens offices as
rule to the more pushing and noisy, to thos
, who serve Senators and Representatives, an
, happen to be the favorites of the most adro
politicians. The poor and deserving youn
men will have less and less chance to q,
into the civil service.
o The Albany Journal has the following
, A New York gentleman, DESTROYS of retirin
q from business, will sell or give away to III
q right sort of person the following good
: wares and merchandise; one livery of r
). form; large and varied assortment {
campaign lies, done up in wrappers OF
q bureau and one cabinet, the bureau is rath,
+, the worse for wear, but the cabinet, whic
= was made early on November Sth, last, hi
o never been used; one verbal felicity entitle
= instruct" protected by patent and pr
. nounced by Richard Grant White and OF
= ers the most eminent word in the languag,
!, a large coil of telegraph wire sufficient