Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t is believed by the Chicago Tribune that
Mr. Marble went to Florida for Mr. Tilden' 5
health.
The Cincinnati Commercial Qlnd.) says
that "we need more. not less, national super
vision of United States elections"
The New Orleans Democrat is making the
cause of the men now under indictment in
the Federal Courts in Louisiana for viola
ton Of the election laws, involving the crime
of murder, the cause of the State By exhort-
ing the citizens TO subscribe to tteir support.
The citizens of Shreveport have raised a
large sum for this purpose, which indicates
that they did not exhaust their means upon
yellow fever sufferers.
The San Francisco Chronicle predicts that
the campaign in that State next August will
BE- the most hotly-contested ever known
there, and "the most corrupt political can
vass California ever saw"
A notable article on the negro in politics
appears in the current number Of the North
American Reriep. 1t contains the opinions
Of Senators Blaine, Lamar and Hampton A; Of
Congressman Garfield and Alex Ii. Stephens,
and of Wendell Phillips, Montgomery Blair
and ex-G Governor Hendricks. of course, Mr..
Phillips and Mr.. Blair represent only their
pers 1nal parties of one. The other six OF
the eight gentlemen agree in thinking that
it was necessary to give the negro the ballot,
and that it neither can nor should be taken
from him The whole discussion is inter
esting and forms an important contribution
to the political literature of the day.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, was called
to the chair Of the Senate on Tuesday. Dur
ing the following hour, for the first time,
and perhaps for the last time for some years
to come, a citizen of African descent pre-
sided over the Senate Of the United States
Mr. Bruce presided with marked dignity and
grace.
Senator Cameron. Of Wisconsin, a mem
bsr of the Teller Committee, says that while
many witnesses called before it, especially
white Democrats, were carefully guarded in
their testimony, the people the committee
fell in with in the South talked in private
conversation almost as freely of bul.dozing
ballot-box stufhng and killing as they did o.
cotton-ralsing. This was especially the cast
in South Carolina.
Republican sheriff having been elected
in Cincinnati, the Democratic Legislature il
considering bill to create the Office O
Criminal Bsiliff in order. to deprive thu
sheriff Of the fees Of his office.
The Boston Herald, which supported Til
den in 1875, says there is no popular de
mand for his denomination. and that, though
legally and technically acquitted of tn
cipher corruptions, he is not morally yindi
Gated before the country.
Hon. Zach Chambers remarks to tn,
Republican caucus regarding the ciphe
dispatches were as follows had the hon
or Of having little something to do witt
the election OF 1876. 1t was an election OIL
one side of fraud and violence, and withou
any exception-and say it deliberately AM
after mature consideration-that the creates
fraud, in my judgment, that ever was seer
on the earth was Samuel j. Tilden. The,
howled fraud, fraud" There was fraud
but it was on the other side. Now, wisl
to say with regard to that campaign, as
have said over and over again, that neye
did a thing, wrote line, sent despatch
either in cipher or in the English language
or in any other way. that | would not b
glad to see in print tomorrow morning il
all the Democratic papers Of these Unite
States.