The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-29
Political paragraphs.

Political paragraphs.
Iowa is put down as sure for sixty
or sixty-hye thousand majority 70.
Garfield.
The October state elections thii
year are Colorado on the 9th, Georgi'
on the 9th, Indiana, Ohio and Yves
Virginia on the 18th.
Hon. J. G. Crawford, the leader .
the greenbaek movement in New
Hampshire in 1878, and an exceed.
ingly effective speaker, declares foI
Garfield. lie was a colonel in the
war and is now president Of the asso.
citation Of volunteer officers residen
in y. ii.
This is the way n Trenton working.
man puts it: ''Four years ago | voted
for Tilden because | wanted the South
to govern itself. Now | shall vote
for Garfield because / don't want the
tSouth TO govern us"
Over $500, 900 votes will be cast
in the next election but the contest
will be decided in all probability by
about 20, 900 men living in New York,
Connecticut. Ohio aud Indiana. 1t is
this narrow knife-blade Of a doubtful
vote which makes rash predictions
ridiculous Republican
The attitude of the political proph-
cts is very much like that of the mex
perienced Hibernian who was set &c
trimming apple trees, and taking a
position astride a high limb proceeded
to saw it off between himself and the
trunk. When grayitation asserted its
self and he came down bump! upon
the earth, he scratched his puzzled
head and said "Bodder me eyes if !
see how that warks y
The Philadelphia Press says :"Three
men, strangers to each other, stood
together the other night on the edge
of n political assemblage. Unable to
get into the meeting or to hear the
speaker, they fell into conversation.
After a little preliminary talk II to
another: II don't know what your
politics may be, but i have always
been a Democrat. For three or four
years | have had great difficulty in get
ting employment the shop where l
work has been closed much Of the time
| have had a hard struggle to support
my family. Now we are busy again
work is steady pay comes every week
everything has frightened up; | am
afraid of a change, and though | never
voted anything but the Democratic
ticket, | am now going to vote for
Garfield" "That's just my case eX-
actly," said the third, who had stood
listening ''Ehave always been a Dem
ocrat, but | shall vote for Garfield be-
cause l don't want q change"
The rebel claims referred to are not
claims ofrebels for aiding the rebellion,
but for property, amounting altogeth-
er tohundreds and probably thousands
of millions, taken or destroyed by ar
mics of the United States, and there
fore the moment the test Of loyalty of
any claimant is repealed, the claim of
the rebel stands exactly like the claim
of any other citizen against the govern
ment on account of its action, and not
on account of the action Of the rebel
authorities. The Democrats in Con-
gress have tried time after time to re-
peal this distinctionin respect Of claims
Of loyal and disloyal persons, and they
have bills now pending in the Senate
to effect that object, and they will eff
feet that object, and they will effect ii
by q solid or nearly solid Democratic
vote the moment they get possession
of all the departments of the Govern
mcnt. AS to rebel pensions the editor
of the Democrat, il he will reflect s
little, will, | am sure, agree that {
pension does not in any case fall with.
in the description of "any debt or OBJ
ligation," and if so, it is not within
the prohibition ofthe fourteenth amend.
ment. A pension is and always has
been granted upon the ground Of boun.
ty or gratitude, and not Of legal obi
CATION. 1t is perfectly clear, therefore
that the constitution does not stanC
in the way of Congress pensioniDs
every rebel soldier or soldiers widow
and children, or, indeed, every othe
rebel, if it pleases. | will not recip
rocate the epithets of this worthy edi
tor.-EGchange.