Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-13
The Result In the Third District
COMMENTS OF TIE PRESS.


Ugly reports come to US Of the high
hand by which this strange result has been
produccd-and the remarkable increase Of
Democratic representatives. elect in the Bar
low strongholds leads US to fear that they
are not all without ORtpelicr
Waterman.
The only adequate explanation Is that the
power of party drill and discipline is very
sensibly weakening everywhere this year,
and the political phenomenon of Barlow
success against all the natural precedents,
probabilities and predictions will, in all like
lihood, be repeated in other States. Indeed,
there is some danger that Ben Butler may
be one of the first and most startling illus
trations of this existing Generalization of
party lines and discipline. Rutland Herald.
The election of Bradley Barlow will be a
lasting disgrace to Vermont. LAYING aside
the fact of his treachery to Gen. Grout, and
the fact OF the manner in which he secured n
large fortune. the additional fact that he is
not in favor of honest money, should forever
debar him from a scat in Congress from this
State. While Gen. Grout was fairly nomi
mated, and while he would if elected, make
very crcdltable representative, as We be-
lieve, his election now seems impossible.
Let the Republicans of the Third District
meet this emergency manfully. Let Gen.
GrUut decline as candidate, and then if
Judge Henry Powers or some other first
class man were nominated, We believe the
sober second thought of the District would
elect him, and save the State and the coun-
try the risk and disgrace of Bradley Bar
low Caledonian.
Tho party machinery in the Third Con-
gressional District has received a tremen-
dous shock. The Tribune on the eve Of the
election pilloried Mr.. Bradley Barlow, of St.
Adams, as "a good specimen of the
sort of statesmen the National move
ment is bringing forward" Mr.. Barlow's
connection with ring Of Postofice con-
tractors, who operated largely by means of
straw-bids and bribery, having been estab-
lished by committee of the House The
Tribune, however, should not have credited
Mr.. Barlow to the Nationals. A mass con-
vention of Republicans at St. Adams placed
him in the field prior to his nomination by
the Greenback men. unless VIC are deceived,
and the Nationals did not have il in thor
power to give him more than a handful of
votes. If Mr.. Barlow had received the full
Democratic vote Of the district, with every
National and scattering" vote polled in the
State, he would still have been far behind
General Grout. He needed powerful Repub-
can assistance, and he got it. We leave for
our esteemed contemporary, the Tribune,
to explain why stalwart Republicans 20 ont
of their way to support shareholders that
is an affair which exclusively concerns the
Tribune and its party. In the present ms
lance, if the Republicans have given the
Nationals fOothold and have experienced
serious wrench Of the party machinery, they
are not likely to receive much sympathy.
They went piddling and pottering round
platform concerning the Presidents South
ern policy and evolved three contemplate
and meaningless resolutions. 1t was not in
their power to frame platform which would
lose them the State, but nevertheless they
had to SILVER and trim, and pass over every
living issue in order to say-nothing. Neri-
ly they have had their reward. The Demo
Gratis said something and kept their strength,
and the Republicans lost theirs because, as
the Times puts it, they "strung together
some harmless and inconsequential generali- |
ties about the Administration, but uttered |
not word IN support Of the public faith or
Jf the struggle that is going on in behalf of |
honest money" Trimming does not pay,
wen in a State where the party supremacy
: based upon a vote OF two to one.-NHr
York World