Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-10
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Notes and Comments.


DEMOCRATS are still in the mud business,
but as they are now bedaubing each other,
outsiders don't mind.
IT looks almost like retribution that Scott
county, Indiana, William H. Englisa's old
home, gave Republican plurality of 1929.
BosToS Herald: And now, while con-
CALCULATIONS are in order, don't forget to give
President Hayes large share of the credit
for bringing about the result"
U. S. GRANT "The only aristocracy that
ever existed in the country was an aristoc-
racy of the Democratic party, and il had its
life in the ownership of human beings"
UTICA, New York, Herald " General Gar
fields vote was larger by many thousands
because his defeat was attempted by forg-
ing his name to falsify the sentiments of his
lifetime"
THE many friends he made during his
stumping tours in this state will be glad to
know that Hon. X. w. Horr has been re-
elected to congress from the eighth Micbi-
gan district.
WHICH of the Democratic candidates
carried his own state ? Garfield and Ar
thur Ohio and New York, great, grand
and glorious commonwealths-mag
they backed their favorite sons
The Boston Post takes it to heart. Here
is one of its walls " Left, scooped, squelched,
sat upon, surrounded and gathered in That's
about the size of it this morning. We hope
to feel more composed and comfortable in
day or two"
CHARLESTON, South Carolina, Ners aud
Courier: There is no question that the
temper of the colored people has changed
since the Indiana election Instead of being
accessible and apathetic, they are disposed
to be insolent and aggressive"
ROCHESTER (NewYork) Democrat: "Above
all, this northern civilization of ours has
indicated itself-this civilization of the
pillow, the speling.book, and the Bible, in
which the dignity of labor and the fullest
rights of every man beneath the flag are up
held"
NEWARK New Jersey Advertiser: The
generous feeling is, that all we want from
the south is allegiance to the nation, fair
faith and an honest ballot box. Beyond
that, in their municipalities, they may do as
they please, but we have given them to un-
derstand, once and forever, that the nation
is supreme"
NORWICH Bulletin: "Connecticut de-
clares against solid south and for the pro-
lection of home labor. She spurns Barnum
and his forgeries, Eaton and his copper
headism. The state takes her old place in
the Republican line, and prepares to send
General j. R. Hawley, apatriot and a states
man, to Governor Buckingham's old seat in
the senate"
UTICA Herald: "The new administration
will represent not simply the organization of
the party, although that has rendered its
best services in the election. 1t will stand
also for the advanced thought of the leading
thinkers of the nation, and will represent
the elements which expect the government
to embody in its action the highest priuci
| pies of morality, and to exert every consti-
tutional power to lift political affairs to the
plane where integrity and honor shall sit as
chief counselors.''
New YORK Herald: The Republicans are
sure of a working majority in both branches
of congress from the 4th of next March, and
the country may be congratulated on homo
geneous administrations congress in har-
mony with the president, and which will not
be tempted, therefore, to waste time in con-
slant and sterile squabbes with the execu-
tive. The Democrats will have the COM
fort of being in strong minority, where, if
they have ability and can agree on policy,
they may be of great use to the country"
SPRINGFIELD Republican "The New
York papers have good word for Arthur,
which, it is no more than fair, should be
noted. The Sun says he is gentleman
and gave great part of the strength to
the ticket in this state The Times says
that in the delicate and difficult position of
both candidate and active manager, it may
be truthfully said that General Arthur's
course has beeu dignifsd and honorable,
and that his services have been of the high
est Importance to the Republican party
He has served as an admirable balance to
the business Of Others"
Fathers aud sons are not usually as ill.,
innate as mothers aud daughters are. Each
seems to so his own way, regardless of the
tastes of the other. If the son starts for
walk in one direction the father starts in
another. 1t is the mother who goes with her
son to the theater it is the daughter who
goes with the father. Yet when father