Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Representative Glover is still stirring
up his Democratic brethren by his dis
coveries as an investigator. His last
find is the fact, that the first expendi-
ture made out of the appropriation for
the expenses of the committee sent to
New Orleans was sos for liquor, before
they left Washington.
The Democratic New York Express
makes the bitterest attacks upon Samuel
J. Tilden, and is even unkind enough to
tell him, that he sis politically dead,
and that he is only walking around to
save his funeral expenses" Further on
it says: "The New York Democracy can
afford far better to have Samuel j. Til
den their avowed opponent. than to have
him, as in the past, pretended friend,
claiming the right, as party leader, to
know their plans, and then betraying
them at the eleventh hour. They owe
nothing to Mr.. Tilden. On the contrary,
he owes everything to them. They op-
posed his nomination for President, not
from any feelings Of passion orprejudice,
but because they knew he vas wholly
unfit for that high office. They knew
his tortuous, indirect methods, his utter
want of decision, his belplessness IN
emergencies, and his ingratitude to his
political supporters. They knew, that,
if matters came to such point as they
did after the election. he would be une-
quail to the situation"
There were 4,7l4 bills introduced in
the House of Representatives at Wash
ington, between October Is and Apri
%. Of those the House has passed 3l9
and only SO of those have so far become
laws. This House goes to the head 81
far as introducing bills is concerned.
The late municipal election at Alban.
was attended by startling ballot-bo
frauds of all descriptions, all IN the in
terest of the Democratic ticket. In on
ward 200 citizens make affidavit, tina
they voted the Republican ticket, Will
only % votes were returned. In anothe
ward the inspectors were known to throN
away Republican votes and substitute
Democratic. By those tactics ''glorl
Gus Democratic victory" was gained.
The House finished up the post.offic
appropriation bill, Friday, April 2f
and, as passed, the bill appropriate
$50, $685. 1873, about million less tina
last year. The letter carriers do not g
the increased salary which they aske
for. and the House also declined to il
crease the appropriation for the railwa
} postal service.
Representative Jorgenson. the onl
Republican Congressman from Virgin
, thinks the Republican should make ;
effort to carry thirteen Congression
districts in the Southern States, havir
c majorities ranging from 1000 to 7,0(
D on fair vote.
t Information from Republicans in Lo
e isiana tends to throw some light up
n part of the alleged frauds unearthed
4 Mr.. Glover in connection with the Nc
r rison Committee. A large number
: Republicans were summoned and Ike
t waiting many days before being exami
8 ed, and when finally called, Donova
IS acting sergeant.at-arms of the commits
e had them surrender their subpenas, a
l. paid them only for the time they We
J. actually before the committee. The 81
is rendered subpenas would, however, a
b swer for vouches for three dollars !
n day, from their date to their dischar,
W The charge is. that witnesses were sw
l. died in this way out of eighty doll;
d each.
s. The passage of the river and harl
in bill fastens upon the treasury dema
he for 100000 Of which barely two n
s, lions are for purposes even remotely b.
III eicial. More than 100000 of I
,p amount will be as efectually wasted
though they were buried in the mud
ne one of those undiscoverable ditto
es which the House proposes to render n
so igable. Even the exceptional two n
be lious might be deferred to more pr
he porous period without serious injury
K. any public interest. IN. z. Times.
ce What if it should turn out, that tn
nd were frauds in the electoral count
i'll Florida, which, had they been comics
at in time, would have changed the resu
DO 1t isn't remarkably new discovery
NJ American politics There were the L
se isiana frauds of 1914, in Plaquem
he parish. by which the vote of the 81
u was stolen away from Henry Clay
ng Polk, the Democratic candidate;
lat there were the enormous Tweed fra
ty of 1868, by which the vote of New Y
ad was given to Seymour. Nobody del
Re- them now, but we have never he;
ri that any attempt was made to have IL
rectifed.-Hartford Coatramt
When the confederates press ella
upon Congress to the amount of So
100000, and when specimen to