Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Republican State committee of Massa-
chusetts propose printing a book reviewing
the life and ''servcc" of Butler from Re
publican point of observation.
| 1t is stated that Horace Maynard now
American minister to Turkey, will run Tor
Congress in the Second district of Tennessee,
next year Mr. Maynard was long prom
inent and influential member of the House
II is now said that the suppression of Col
Dixon and his Independents in lazoo coun-
ty was prompted by Representatives Single
ton and Barkstlalr, who visited the Demo
cratic committee of the county, and warned
them that the Independents must he crushed
ont at all hazards, as they endangered the
continued supremacy of the Democratic
party
The experience nf Yazoo is repeated in
Rankin county, Mississippi. Major Il. +.
| Sutton was compelled TO withdraw from the
canvass. and ordered To leave the country
all because he had the tcmcriiy 10 become u
candidate on the Independent ticket. lie
is described las a man of intelligence, merit
and Christian worth"
Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, is
quoted as saying that the Republicans can
not count on a single electoral vote from the
South in 1880. The grip of the bulldozer is
So firm thai nothing but disastrous National
defeat can shake ii of. Mr.. Warmoth init
mates that rs the Southern Republicans Will
not he able to assist in clcciing the next Re
publican candidate for the Presidency, they
should he modest about insisting upon max
ing the nomination.
In his letter accepting the st. Louis NOM
ination in 1876, Mr. Tilden said "A finan-
cial policy which should secure the highest
obtain reduction of one per cent in inter
est on most of the loan" Secretary Sherman
has seen" Mr.. Tildcn and gone him one
better. He has reduced the interest two per
cent. and all within less than year
Mr.. Smith, the Grcenback candidate for
Governor of Maine, is pretty clearly convict
ed of duplicitv and falsehood. 1t has been
charged that on the failure of an election by
the people last year, he wrote a letter offer
ing 10 abandon his Grecnback views if the
Republicans in the Senate would make him
Governor. He replied that such letter, If
it existed, was forgery. Now fac smile
of the letter is published, plainly in Smiths
handwriting, signed by his initials, and
stating just what was charged. Since the
publication of the fac-simile, there has been
an omnous silence on the part of MIR. Smith
and of the Demo Grcenhack press ON that
subject.
When the South and West combine, the
East must 20 to the wall. The South need
not fear the census of 1880, so long as she
sticks together and has the casting vote
iHgHsta (Gd) chronicle
Ex-Gov A. G. Brown of Mississippi, who
was one of the best and most able of the
Southern Democrats before the civil war,
has written a strong letter in condemnation
of the Yazoo platform. When will some
P''"',nei'' -'''''''ih '''''''ei'' 'oi'o" HIS
iauua'"c eAaiiipic'
A prominent Florida Republican says that
the party there is united and strong ; the or
saiiiAi'ioh Is perfect ana lnli VOC can al
ways he brought ont the negroes are
fearless ana are nhier II" terrorism Inc
recent immigration from the south has made
hepubllcanlsm respected. The Republican
majority IN The State on iair vote Is seven
thousand, anu unless frauds are practlced, land
they will certainly he attempted at the next
PRESIDENTIAL election, Florida may he conli-
DENLY expected to go Republican.
1t is reported that Mr. Money, Dcmocra-
tic member of Congress from Mississippi, has