Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Notes and Notions.

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are absolutely impossible"
SENATOR CARPENTER informs his friend,
that Wisconsin will elect Grant delegates
notwithstanding Mr. Blaine has much
strength throughout the state.
OGDESsBURG journal (kepublican) an
comparison Of advantages and disadvan
tsges General Grant is entitled to the same
fairness and candor which is asked for Other
candidates"
NEW York Tribune: "The tendency Of
the conventions thus far held has been, most
decidedly, to convince the people of other
states that General Grant is not the strong
est candidate"
Ono STATE Journal (Republican) at
is now proposed to have the Republicans re-
peat the successful experiment of 1860 and
nominate ticket from Illinois and Maine
Washburne and Chamberlain"
Mr.. BLAINE's friends are talking about
giving the second place on the ticket, should
he be nominated for president, to Harrison
of Indiana, Ferry of Michigan, Ingalls, Of
Kansas, or Sargent Of California.
NEw York Epening Mail CRepublican)
"a boom for the Republican party would
now seem to be in order. The party is
greater than any of the men it has made.
Let it do something for itself by way of
variety"
SYRACUSE Journal (Republican) "Every
state delegation carried for Grant is greeted
with the cry by his opponents, One more
such victory will end him. Don't those
people know that it is success that succeeds
And that Grant was never beaten"
THE pile of silver in the United States
treasury is daily growing higher and the pile
of gold, lower-says Secretary Sherman.
The first fact is caused by the difficulty in
getting the silver into circulation and the
second fact Is due to the increase of exports.
PHILADELPHIA North American (Repub-
lcan); at would not be much advantage
to anybody to secure by pure trickery ma
chine nomination as the Republican candi-
date for the presidency, with the moral GER
tainty that an independent ticket would be
run in opposition"
PHILADELPHIA Times Independently;
"The presentation of Senator Edmunds as
Vermont's first choice for the presidency
means something more than is apparent on
the surface. 1t was the formal entry Of a
strong, clean.limbed and sure-footed dark
horse for the Chicago races"
ROCHESTER Express (Republicsn): at
is said that when General Grant has fn-
ished his tour through Mexico he will know
more about that country, its people, govern
ment and needs than any public man in it,
And this information, obtained by careful
personal observation, will be of great use to
a future president of the United States.
BALTIMORE american: aft Senators
Conkling and Cameron are wise, they will
accept the situation and abandon the con-
test while yet they can retire without loss
of prestige. They have demonstrated their
personal powers at the same time that they
have exposed the weakness of their candi.
date, aud with this they may well rest con.
tent"
TILDEN has checked the Bayard boom by
re-printing the secession speech he deliv.
cred nineteen years ago. 1t was a naughty
speech, but it hadn't half the meanness of
Tilden's refusal to sign a call for a Union
meeting or give cent to help on recruiting
for the Union army. Remembering the past,
Bayard is infinitely the more manly man of
the two.
BosToN Herald: 1t is not unreasonable
to suppose that the nomination of Senator
Edmunds of Vermont as the Republican
candidate for president would unite the
party and secure the great bulk of independ-
ent votes against any candidate the Demo-
Gratis are likely to nominate. Mr.. Wash
burne, as candidate, would also secure the
same result
For the first time since the public debt
became so enormous has the figure been re-
duced below two billions. Although it is
within fraction OF that amount, yet the
actual fgures-sl, 995, 2,22l.l7-do not
seem as large as they did before the . was
changed into l. The proportion of the
whole debt that has been actually wiped out
is about one-fourth
CHICAGO Tribune (Republican) "Under
the peculiar conditions in which the New
York and Pennsylvania delegations have
been made up, their votes at Chicago will
either be divided, or represent in large part
the votes of men under partisan duress vot-
ing against their own convictions and the
instructions Of the districts which gave them
seats in the convention"
THIS was the sage remark of an old Bos.
ton merchant "1ve stood here on State
street for forty years, have seen men &C.
cumuate fortunes by speculation, and I've
seen these fortunes disappear. have seen
men go up in worldly wealth, and go down,
and I've always noticed that those persons
who were content with slow gains came out
ahead in the long run"
For many years the Canadian parliament
has endeavored to pass bill legalizing mar
riage with a deceased wife's sister or, as
Beaconsfield once said in the British COM
mons, ito enable man to have two wives
and only one mother-in-law." There is
every prospect that the bill now before the
Canadian commons will pass and thereby
do away with relic Of former generations.
"CHIsATowN in San Francisco having
been declared a nuisance, the followers of
kearney are with difficulty restrained from
" abating" it after their own peculiar fash
ion. The newspapers of the city counsel
more peaceful methods. Meanwhile the
Chinese are leaving for the east by hun
dreds and the question of their rights and
privileges may soon agitate some of the
cities along the Atlantic border.
HARTFORD Courant; "The Chicago con-
vention ought to be a consulting aud delib-
Grating body. which, after due conference,
should choose the best man for president.
II it is merely packed and Instructed
body, to execute the behests of few ma
chine workers, its nominee will only carry
with him to the country the weight of the
machine, and that is not what it once was.
The work of the convention must commend