St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-06-11

was identified by member of the del
egation. to Stewart L. WoodfOrd, run
ming as follows:-
Gen. Woodford: 1 am an ardent Grant
delegate from Massachusetts, but it
seems to me we are losing ground and
raising the devil. l want to offer a
substitute. GEO. A. MARDEN of Massa-
chusetts.
| The allusion to President Hayes was
about the only thing cheered during the
reading of the platform.
When Garfield in nominating Sher-
man asked, 'sWhOm shall we haveT'
almost as if it had been put up job,
the ever present idiot called out Scar
field.D OF course it wasn't a put up
job, but it looked So New York Her
aid.
Chicago hotel keepers are in $4,000
and upward for each days stay.
Edmund Hudson telegraphed the
Boston Herald Sunday night that the
Green mountain boy was dead.
The week has not been wasted. 1t
has put an end to boss government and
I-[New York Tribune.
Whoever may be nominated at Chi
cago, the proceedings of the convention
have already shown that the republican
party, which nominated its first success
full candidate for president in that city
20 years ago, is about to bury itself
where it was born.-[ New York World.
The Republican party has outlived
the issues upon which it came before
the people, and is torn with the rival
claims of the great men who believe
they own it. Its inspiration, its ener-
gy, its elOquence, are all enlisted in the
great duel between the Grant men aud
the Blaine men.-[New York Herald.
1t is a convention of the people and
not OF the states. Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
The republican platform, while il
contains much that is commendable, is
disappointing in comparison with the
utterances of previous national conven-
tiOns. Its best plank was inserted by
force against the wishes of the too tim.
id committee.-[Ha Hartford Courant.
1t must be admitted that in some re.
spects the platforms does not take
such advanced ground us many in the
party desire; but, gu the other hand
there is not in the whole series of dec
laratiOns one which is open to double
constructions Boston Advertiser.
Upon no part of the platform hai
there been any dissensiOn among The
delegates, or any occasion for cOmprO'
mise and shifty phrases. The republi.
cans know just where they stand
} Happy is the party which has SO little
, to explain in its past, and 30 little
need to promise new things for the fu
ture. It's acts have spoken for it,
New York Tribune.
1t is not Frederick Billings's faul
that the letter V comes pretty wei
down in the alphabet and that the con
vention was little tired Saturday
night before Vermont was reached il
the call of states. But the speech il
, which Mr.. Billings presented the nam,
of Senator Edmunds must have iB
spired all of the Vermont statesman
, friends, even at that late hour, and af
) ter the fatigue of n long and excitin,
session. 1t was just eulogistic witheu
, being extravagant, and it claimed moth
ing for Mr.. Edmunds's record or char
| acter which any candid observer wOult
be unwilling to cOncede.- Boston
Journal.
3 GARFIELD FROM AN OHIO VIEW POINT
D Garfield came sauntering in by him
self, as he has done twice before, t,
catch the hurrah of the galleries
e James is weak brother. 1t may b,
that he does not feel himself bette
than the rest of the Ohio delegation
:. "e method i''
10 IL .lnx- IN,
s the role of Ajax defying the political
e lightning. Garfield and his friends ma
be sincere in their support of Sherman
but when they get home they will hav
y some trouble explaining their cOnduc
. to the Ohio republicans. Gov. Foste
9 and Garfield are playing in tOgethe
. :, and for themselves. From what | hav
= been able to see in the last week,
. . looks as if Foster has been making tn
9 Garfield boom. If it wins, Foster ex
q poets to step into Garfeld's new sena
torial shoes before he wears them.
! it looses, then Garfield will help FOste
to the second place on the ticket. On
thing is evident, the Ohio Blaine pee
pie who are here fighting Sherman ar
more than delighted with the aid the
are getting from Garfield and Foster.
One of the most noticeable feature
of the canvass against Gen. Grant is til
introduction of elegantly dressed femal
lobbyists upon the animated scene, VIII
are here working like beavers anon
the country delegates, and bringing a
the force of their seductive smiles an
winning ways to bear. They invade
the Grant headquarters at the Paine
House, where they adopted the sam
tactics, and are carrying on the sam
kind of a campaign as they do in WASH
ington when they infest the Hobbies
the House to advocate some prominer
bill.-[Pittsburg Commercial.
The inconvenience and even DANCE
of inserting a national convention int
the center of bowling mob of 10
600 people in the same room are so ar
parent at Chicago that it may we'll /
doubted if it is ever tried again. I'll
gravity of the interests at stake deman
that the convention be at liberty
conduct its deliberations with freedOl
and decOrum, while the fact that men
beers are at a considerable expense fl
travel and board demands a REASONABLE
dispatch of business and immunity frol
mob Interruptions. 1t would great
elevate the character of the conventio
to hold its future sessions in some ha
not much larger than is required for
body of $50 men and their alternates.-
springfield Republican.
AFTER COMBINES SPEECH.
Mr.. Conkling stepped from the pla
form and resumed his seat. The Graz
claquers started another tornado.