Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-11
Political JOttings.

AMONG other good things which Wade
Hampton promises. is that he will institute
civil service reform in the state offices, and
retain those Republican officials against
whom there are no charges.
DR.. REDFIELD, in one of his letters from
Columbia, S. c., speaks of Governor Cham
berain as being conspicuously the one
South Carolina Republican who has never
used politics to make money"
JOHN BRIGnT writes; "There is great
and universal satisfaction here at the settle
ment of your Presidential difficulty, and the
good sense of your people is admitted and
admired on this side of the Atlantic"
SECRETARY SoHURz has appointed board
consisting of three of the highest-grade
clerks in the interior department to exam
inc and report on the qualifications of APP
plicants for office also the qualifications and
character of those holding offices.
ANOTHER illustration of the Importance
of one vote: A proposition to amend the
Rhode Island constitution so as to permit
women, when taxed, to vote upon subjects
which affect their taxation, was defeated in
the legislature by vote Of twenty-six to
twenty-five.
SAYS the New York Times "Mr. Hayes
could do no greater service to the cause OF
Republicanism than by abolishing patronage
as means of political warfare, and leaving
the party to win its victories by the sound
ness of its principles and the vigor and f.
deity with which they are sustained"
"YEs, it is good enough. Key is all right
He will do what is right, and so far as | am
concerned he is more acceptable than some
of the others. If the experiment the Pref
dent is trying is worth trying it should be
tried thoroughly, and the only way to try it
is with Just such Cabinet."-U. S. Grant.
ONE OF the first official acts of Secretary
of War McCrary was to order the removal
of two companies of United States troops
from the territory of Alaska, where they have
been maintained at cost to the treasury OF
fifty thousand dollars. They were of nc
practical use there, as they had no duties to
perform.
The Albany Journal learns that there is
impending an actual break between Hewitt
and Tilden, The latter's friends blame
Hewitt for not buying up Maddox and Pick.
EFT, and for standing by the Commission
Rat tho obiaf trouhIa 10 that NJ uau,;t,
made large advances during the canvass
which Mr.. Tilden now declines to pay up.
THE democrats who are claiming that
Hayes is sailing under their charter party u
may turn to his letter of acceptance and
find his present course all laid down there
There has been no deception, TO sale, nc
shifting of papers. People who thought
Hayes was not in earnest find out that he
was hence these groans hence these tears
From ten to fifteen thousand of Nichols
supporters held mass meeting at New Or
leans on Friday of last week, A long series
of resolutions were adopted, affirming theil
devotion TO the constitution and the laws
lhht ioT ioui years 1he Peopie VI loulsianH
have lived under an usurping government
that the Nichols government was elected by
over seven thousand majority; that the
Packard government cannot command the
moral or physical support of any consider
able portion of the people that the attempt
to maintain it by the federal forces would be
an outrage on popular rights that the Com
mission be heartily welcomed, but that nc
arrangement to depose the men elected t.
office will be entertained that large por
ton of the colored people are devoted t.
the Nichols government, and that they viii
never submit 10 the pretended Packard gov
! eminent.