Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-15
Personal AND POLITICAL.

There is little reason to doubt that the
real force behind the Louisiana prosscu-
tons is Tiiden. lie aims to be the candi-
date in 1850. His sole argument Is the
false plea that he was cheated out of the
Presidency in 1877. a crusade against the
Returning Board is part of the game.
The President is represented las much dis
satisfied with the course of the Senate in
regard to confrmations. Ii is said that
large number of nominations are in posses
sion of the Senate, and, in many cases, grave
necessity exists for prompt action, but it
seems hardly possible to obtain it.
Senator Thurman's speech in favor of
silver lacked the usual aggressive style of
its author. lie spoke as if he had been
driven to uphold proposition which, he
did not believe or relish. The friends of
the Bland bill were much disappointed.
Some of them were even displeased, because
he not only utterly failed to promise the
people the measure of relief which dsma-
gogues have claimed for the prompt result
of the bill, but he declared his belief that
NtEN lllllt thC Ia" "puAA
reach the people for two years to come
Washington Despatch.
The steady growth in the power and in
huence of Senator Edmunds is one os the
few gratifying things that are noticeable
nowadays in Congress. Whether or not he
be the ablest man in COngress-as think
him to be-he is certainly the ablest leglsla-
tor, and exerts an influence which makes
him a much greater man than the country
knowns him to be. Whatever power he has
gained is his by the purest Of titles. Ii he
knows any of the acts of popularity, he does
not cultivate them. \ newspaper puff OF
Edmunds, of Vermont, never gets itself writ
ten bv his connivancc. could pick out
hundred men in Congress to-day whose col
lec,iyc wisdom and usefulness does not equal
that Of this man from the Green mountains.
He is a standing protest in the Senate
against cant and fraud and hypocrisy, and
woe to the adventurous antagonist who at
tempts to bulldoze him. Washington Cor.
Boston Herald.
A speech of remarkable succiuctness and
force was made against the silver scheme by
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont. The Senator
is one of those level-headed men who talk
little, and when they do talk, talk to the |
purpose. Nowhere have We seen stated, in |
a form so condensed and so comprehensive, |
the manifest evils which will inevitably fol-
low the enactment of the Bland bill. The |
wonder of this whole matter is that none of |
the advocates of silver will take up the oh |
iectiOns presented-liko those enumerated in
this speech-and meet them with specific |
ienial and argumcnt.-itica Herald.
There were bargains, it is said in the
Louisiana business and there is nothing i'm
probable in the allegation. The transac-
ion which eliminated in the abandonment
If Packard and the Inauguration Of Nichols
,Ould scarcely have been cOnsummated with
,ut them. The fact does not imply cDrrup-
ion or diShOnOr on either side, unless the
were different in character from
my that has yet been alleged The real
ground OF complaint, as it seems To Us. Is,
hat the terms, such as they were, have
rot been complied with by either party
Y. Y. Times.