Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-05-23
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Delegates have heen chosen to the Ohio
Republican State Convention, and Judge
TAFT is the first choice Of majority.
Judge Dillon, of the Seventh Circuit Of the
United States, has resigned to accept pro
fessorshp in Columbia College Law School
A Washington despatch says that the friends
of Secretary McCrary, on account OF his en-
ineat fitness for the position, have suggested
that he be appointed, but the Presidents
desire to keep his Cabinet untouched during
the whole of his administration may prevent
Mr. McCrary from being a candidate.
The Chicago Er0nng Journal says that
one hundred thousand copies of the recent
speech Of Ben Hill have been ordered by the
Republicans Of Wisconsin for circulation as
a Republican campaign document.
Senator Matt Carpenter, who has been
troubled Of late with rheumatism, has gone
to Florida, where he will remain a fortnight
for the benefit of his health.
The Meridian (Nliss) Mercury has come
to the conclusion that no living man can
alay Northern hate as Jefferson Davis could
in the United States Senate. "We have,
it says, "aImc,t superstitious presentiment
that as by and through him was the rupture,
through him, by Providence, shall the rnp-
ture be healed. And that Is the greatest
good for Mississippi now, provided there IS
no dishonor in it.
Hon. John NJ Thayer, of Wyoming, has
addressed a letter to the Cheyenne Leader,
in correction Of 4 statement to the elect tnat
he had said that nearly all the Republicans
he met, while Est, are in favor of Grant for
1850" General Thayer says: THAT one
word nearly is there by mistake. met
with no exceptions. The stalwarts, OF
course, are for Grant, the Greeley Repubil-
cans are for Grant, and the conservative Re-
publicans are now for Grant. Venture the
prediction that when the Republican con-
vention assemble, it will be simply to rec
ord the edict OF the Republican Party Of
the nation, already declared, in favor OF
Grant as their nominee that no other Re
publican will permit his name to be pre-
sented in the convention for that office; that
Grant will accept that the result of the
election will be so decisive, that cipher
dispatches and all attempts to buy return
ing boards will be useless"
A exchange says Mr.. Tilden is not favor
lite in Texas as Presidential candidate.
Nor is he anywhere. But the bari is quite
popular Avalanche (Ind. Dem }
While General Sam Cary, the champion
Greenbacker, was speaking at New Haven,
Conn, the other evening. Judge Hitchcock,
of the superior court, approached the stand
and courteousIy asked several questions. At
first he was unnoiicej, but finally the speak
er made savage reply, closing with,
There, take that, you hard money cuss.
The trial Of the Chi,oln murderers in Mis-
sissippi has been set down Tor September
next. Mr.. Chisolms son, who Is now
messenger in the executive department at
Harrisburg, Pa, says he has been advised
by friends in Mississippi not to appear
against the five persons accused Of the muir
der of his father and other Relatives, but he
is determined to testify, believing thai he
will not be molested dufins the short time
his presence in Mississippi VIII be requS ed'
Colonel j. f. Bryant, the chairman OF TIE
Republican State committee Of Georgia, tells
reporter Of the Boston Trareller that he
believes North Carolina and Florida can be
carried by the Republicans in 1850. and
that enough Congressional districts in the
South can be secured to give the Republicans
control Of the House.
Mr. Weaver, the National Representative
from Iowa, may not know much about cur
rency, but he is an expert in tropes. lie IN
formed the House that If Congress were to
demonetize silver and had not the power to
issue paper money it would hitch the car Of
American civilization to a decreasing gold
product This is as true a. it is beautiful,
but it is not the whole truth. What Mr..
W aver should have said was that the car
put before the horse of a bloated plutOcracy
will brandish its impudent pretensions in
the face OF tho country until the best blood
of the Northwest is ground to powder be-
meath its iron heel, although the bone and
sinew Of the country should cry out with
trumpet tongues against the opprcssor who
has gagged them.-N. !. World.