St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-14
Public Opinion.

Ben Hill says all the talk about revO.
luton is CANNON. "Hayes is legally
the president, and will be sustained by
every southern man until the end of his
term" He doesn't believe there are
over IL democrats in both branches
who would favor project to recognize
Tilden if their party should control the
next Congress.
If there is people who will not be
cOaxed or driven into hOstilities, it is
this people of the South. If there is a
cause which least of all the South
would espouse bloodily, it is that OF
Tilden VS.. physiological (Ga.)
Chronicle and COnstitutiOnaliSt.
There cannot be revolution in the
country without revolutionists to make
it, and it is certain that there is no con-
siderable body of democrats who are
inclined to play that role.-S. Louis
Republican, Democratic.
If the democrats care to save any
part of their case from the jeering con-
tempt of the whole continent, or to
make it respectable even for election
eering purposes in the congressional
districts, they should frankly give up
all efforts to connect the president with
it.-New York Euening Post.
The only certainty about the investi-
CATION that we can think of now is that
the solid South will not stand the non
sense of attempting to seat Mr.. Tilden.
atlanta (Gd.) Constitution.
Stanley Matthews considers Ander-
son ''as complete an example of total
depravity as l know of on earth"
As to the Stewards hotel failure, the
Independent observes: Respectable
women do not like to be treated rs if
they were not respectable. They do
not like to be put under restrictions
which they would be very glad to put
upon themselves. 1t is not pleasant for
one to be forbidden to see her father or
brother, not to say lover, except in a
public parlOr. Good women feel that
they ought to be trusted as much as
men,
If the president had acted upon the
theory that he was n fraud and indebt-
ed to frauds for his place, and had be-
slowed the patronage with the view of
rewarding those whose claims were that
they had done dirty work, he would
not have offended the corrupt wing of
his own party-the machine would have
been with him Jim Blaine would have
praised him; Roscoe Conkling would
have celebrated him; and there would
have been no fraud investigation at
this time. The war upon the president
has from the beginning been melted,
not because he has done i'll, but because
he has done well.-Cincinnat CONNER
cidl.
The president, so far as he is person.
ally interested, is the least disturbed
man IN Washington over the fraud in
vestigatiOn. For a president without
party, he is remarkably wholesome,
being in better health and flesh than at
any time since he was inaugurated.
The only thing that worries him is to
find occasionally that he has put man
in office upon representations of charac-
ter and fitness that are not borne out
by actual Cincinnati Commercial.
Samuel ]. Tilden is at the bottom of
the Mexicanizing scheme. He is doing
more to-day to unsettle the government
and bring it into disgrace than any
American who ever lived except Jeffer-
son Davis.-Indianapolis Journal.
Two things have been made perfect
ly evident since the passage of the Pot
ter resolution. One is that the action
of the House is the beginning of an at
tack upon the title of the President,
and the other that the attack becomes
necessarily the immediate and para
mount question. This is inevitable,
for the movement is one of revolution.
1t can settle nothing, but it can unset
tie everything. 1t is fatal to every in
dustrial interest, and to the tranquility
and prosperity of the country, and of
fers nothing but prolonged excitement
and agitation and possible civil COM
motion.-Harpsr's Weekly.
There seems to be great anxiety nm
North to know what is thought of An
derson's testimony before the Potter
committee, yet if any one had carefully
noted the comments of the New Orleans
press he must have seen. 1t may be
because we have seen so much of An
dersOn, but it is certainly the fact that
we think little or nothing of his testi-
mOny.-Neao Orleans Times.
1t should be understood that while
the democrats are using the Potter in
QUESTION to aid their revolutionary
schemes for ousting President HAYES
and seating Tilden, there is fierce as
sault upon the administration going on.
instigated by leading republicans. These
republicans want to prove that bar
gain was negotiated at Wormley's, with
Mr.. Hayes's knowledge and consent.
between the friends of the president
elect and the southern democrats. II
is very probable that there will be a
general washing of dirty political linen
connected with the electoral count, and
if SO the people will see who have
brought about all this trouble, paraIvz-
ing business and hampering manufac-
lures because they were disappointed
in controlling the Hayes administration
for selfish ends.-"Perleys" WASHING
ton Dispatch to Boston Journal.
Ben Hill doesn't believe that the
president will be found involved in apv
frauds or irregularities on the contra
ry, he considers him an honest, pure
and upright man.