St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-25
Public Opinion.

Such denial MS he has made is mere
ly the plea of "not guilty." which every
professional burglar makes when caught
with the plumber OH his person. In the
language of the street it is ''toO thin
Hartford COurant.
Mr.. TiIden may protest his innocence
to the end of bis days, but he cannon
blot out these damning facts. Were he
to pretend that having closed his eyes,
filled his ears with cotton, and retired
to garnet in Gramercy park, he should
not be held accountable for the acts OF
confidential agents, some of whom were
in constant communication with him,
the absurdity of his position would be
manifest. This really is his position,
although he fails to state it.-Neao York
Times.
1t is at least year too soon to assign
the democratic presidential nomination
to any man, or to exclude any man from
the race, except Gov. Tilden, whose
race appears to be run.-BOstOn AdUer-
tiSer.
1t is barely possible-barely-that
Tilden, like George Washington, can
not tell lie. But George Washington
never had nephew named FELTON,
Utica IN. ~ Herald.
His card seems to place Mr.. Tilden
at the head of the Nothing party
He is the most remarkable, phenomenal,
unapprOachable Know-NOthing in the
country. He knows nothing, he would
have his countrymen believe, about
things that are done in his own house,
under his own nose, in his own behalf,
by his own nephew. He possesses the
most accommodating pair of eyes and
ears. He sees nothing which he chooses
not to see and hears nothing which he
chooses not to hear. He is the perfect
flower, the absolute incarnation or apo
theosis of Observation-Disclosures
EUening Journal.
| once read of Il man who started to
walk around pond. He got three
fourths of the way, and, looking at his
watch, thought it so near dinner time
that he could not finish his walk in sea-
son, so he hurried back the way he
came If he is living he will be found
advocating IA repeal of the resumption
act.-Gen. Hd,Uley.
We advise the republicans to go slow
ly in fastening moral turpitude on the
democrats, for it is pretty evident on
that the electoral votes of Florida and
Louisiana belonged to Tilden; ~ that
electoral votes were in the market; 81
that Hayes secured them.-BOstOn Her
aid.
Honor to whom honor is due. We
have all grumbled at Hayes. Now let
us he just enough To see and say that
Hayes and his cabinet helped republi-
canism and sound money to win the
grand victory of Tuesday, KeokuL
(Ia.) Gate City.
AS Mr.. Tilden is not possibility in
democratic politics hereafter, there is
no harm in free speaking. Mr.. Tildeu
bungled and tlunked alternately. He
could have won by buying an honest
decision, and didn't do it. He could
have won by fight, aud didn't even
make IL show of it. The News and
Courier vigorously supported Mr.. Til
den for the democratic nomination fol
president. 1t WAS the best thing to do
perhaps, but it leaves bad taste in
the mouth, although, on the foremost
question of the times-pay or repudiate
Mr.. Iilden is far ahead of Thur
man and IA Voorhees,. No more of Til
den in the South, or of anybody like
him.-ChdrieSton IS. c. NerS and
Courier. -....
Mr.. Tilden's Indignation when he
learned that intimate personal and po-
litical friends of his had been sending
dispatches about buying electoral votes
and even disgracing his own house in
relation thereto, by an unwarranted
abuse of hospitality, must have been
violent enough to be heard in New Jer
sey. The only modifying circumstance
WIS the failure of their plot, as it turn
ed out. Mr.. Tilden can never feel tow
ard them exactly us he did before he
discovered their lack of integrity. In
short, he must feel toward them as the
colored woman did toward her son,
who, being under strict orders not to
steal watermelons, was not only base
enough to disobey orders, but weak
enough to steal green ones Boston
Herald.