Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-09-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

What Mr. Blackburn. VI. C., of Kentucky,
said was this eve do not intend TO stop
until we have stricken the last vestige of
your war measures from our statute book.
A few days since a vote for President was
taken on board of train of cars on the way
from Indianapolis TO Columbus. The poll
stood: Garfield "a, Hancock 81, "Green-
back" 1. Upon inquiry, it was ascertained
that Gen. Weaver was aboard the train.
The Danbury, CT, Republican, is unkind
enough to remind the Democrats, in answer
to their claims to Connecticut as Democrat
ic State, that out of twenty -four Presidential
elections she has never gone Democratic but
three times As for James f. English, the
Republicans have three times defeated HIM
for Governor and once for Congress.
The Silk Ribbon Weavers' Union of New
York and Paterson, N. j., an organization
which numbers over l 300 men, has decided
to vote for Garfield and Arthur to the last
man. One of its members says: 1--WE real
ize as never before the injury which our
trade would sustain by the accession of a
party hostile to the protective tariff, which
has fostered our trade IN this country, and
we will do all that We can to elect another
Republican President"
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
has had late interview with Judge Black,
who said: "Wlth regard to the Credit Mo-
biler transaction, | have said, and always
will say, that | believe that Gen. Garfield
told me the truth about it. He would not do
anything else | watched the development
of the investigation, and | saw nothing in
that TO alter my opinion | will tell you
General Garfield's hands were clean in that
transaction, as he has always kept them"
The editor Of the Washington Sunday
CdpitG iBuclD expresses grave doubts as to
the Democratic success, and comments Sc
verely upon the bad Democratic manage
mcnt of the campai.l. lie says that the
boasted accession from tie Republlcan 10
Democratic ranks of any persons OF mn
portance are thus far confined to aShn w
Forney, and that the Democrats would h.,ve
done better without him. The promised re-
Cancellation of the Democratic factions in
Virginia and New York has not yet been
made, and in Virginia the result of the Dem
ocratic split there Twill so far divide the
Democratic vote as to make the choice of the
Garfield electors a matter of imminent prob
ability. Forty-siX thousand Republicans in
' llSlIii Will Nptt tilC HubI'dh iA'h't
while 5000 Democrats will vote the Re
adiusters' ticket This is likely to give the
Republican votes plurality of from 1000 to
5000" The trouble with the Democratic
party, the CaPitdl concludes. is an antipathy
to brains at the party headquarters.
The Yonkcrs Statesman. says a'gentleman
from this neighborhood had occasion few
days since to do some business with aGerman
manufacturer in New York City. An acci-
dental allusion was made TO politics, when
it was found that the German and all his
employees, AZ in number, heretofore Demo-
Gratis, would vote for Garfield this fall. The
German said, in broken English, that his
business was good, he is now making money
and he asked with vehemence, what he had
TO gain by turning things up side down
again? Another manufactory near by, oper-
ated by Germans, was mentioned. Six had
been Democrats, two Greenhackers and
three Republicans. Al would vote for
Garfield