St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-08
Public Opinion.

The republican party took the helm
which dropped from the Derveless grasp
of traitors, rescued the government from
destruction, and restored prosperity.
Again the democratic party, under the
lead of the South, seeks to mount to
power. Its success would be calami-
ty. Will the people save themselves
-[Chicago Tribune.
More even than his letter of accep-
lance Hancock's letter on rebel claims
gives the impression of man with the
comprehension required in the execu-
tive Office and the no less requisite in
dependence and personality. 1t is ev-
cry way great piece of strategy
Charleston Is. c. News and Courier.
Some one sent Gen. Hancock two
turkey quilts with which to write his
inaugural, and the Boston Herald adj
vises him, ''like the prudent general he
is, to do one of them up nicely in a
box directed to J. A. Garfield, Mentor,
Ohio,-to provide for contingencies"
The New York World was more frank
about Gen. Garfield in 1873 than it is
now. 1t said then on the 18th of Octo-
Der: Senator Thurman of Ohio lets up
on Gen. Garfield of Ohio in this availa-
BILE way "Oakes Ames swore that Gar
| field got ten shares and Garfield says
that he did not do anything of the kind.
There was n good deal of talk but no
proof against him, and 1 am compelled
to say that Garfield got out of it bet
ter than anybody else, and, on the
whole, there was no sufficient evidence
to fasten the corruption at his door.
After considering all the testimony, on
the whole we concur in this view of
Mr.. Garfield's connection with the
Credit Mobilier."
Gen. Hancock's position, as indicated
by his demand for a ga full vote, fair
ballot and an honest count" is as sound
as need be, but the trouble is, that
Democratic actions speak so much
louder than the candidates words, that
it is not too much to say that his letter
doesn't have feathers weight of in
tiuence in the minds of those who are
Justly indignant and alarmed over the
processes by which the South has made
itself solid, and at the practical accep-
lance of this violence and fraud by the
white people as part of the necessary
policy. OF what avail is it, the voters
ask, for Gen. Hancock to put forth fine
sounding generalities in favor of fair
and honest elections, when not a voice
is lifted within his party in rebuke of
the VIGOROUSLY unfair and dishonest
practices whereby the popular will has
been suppressed or reversed at tue
South p Boston Herald (Ind.)
Our BENJAMIN comes up to the mark
smiling. from his adventures among the
HOLSTERS, and not at all daunted by the
uusavory comments upon him from reb-
ell and Democratic sources which were
scattered broadcast through his meet
ings. His "record" has been constant
| ly flung at him for the past twenty
years, with about as much effect as peas
from a boys blower would have upon a
rhinoceros. He has simply gone on
making new record, with a skill in at
tanning croOkedness in results, and an
Indifference as to how his position to-
day accords with that of yesterday,
that may without exageratiOn be call
ed the sublimation of cheek. He comes
back smiling but confident. Gen. Han
cocks election has not seemed so cock
sure to him since the day he decided to
support him-Or since, to use his own
favorite figure, he hitched himself on
to the tail end of the Democratic party,
and begged of the dog to 'wag" him.
''HancOck's success is sure" he says
sit is in the air." Yes, and so there
are larks in the air, but people have
been known to starve to death waiting
for the skies to fall, so that they could
catch them. The voices Gin the air.
thrice told Benjamin that he should be
governor. But either he didn't hear
rightly, or else they lied. Let the ex-
widow not be too sanguine. She has
Done too much of the wooing, and con-
Quoted herself in other particulars too
carelessly, to make a suit hold for
breach of promise in case of disappoint-
ment. Politics are mighty uncertain
this year. Boston Herald.
Gen. Badly Smith advertised that he
had begged the soldier vote of Vermont
for Hancock and English. The election
returns show that Smith must have
spilled the soldier vote out of his bag
on the way to the polls.-[Syracuse
Journal.
Gen. Garfield, the orator of the day,
was in fine health and spirits, Gen
! Hancock, handsome but naughty, was