Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-07
Notes and Notions.


Catholic.
Mr.. TILpEN's first contribution to the
Hancock campaign is check payable to the
order of w. H. Barnum for 100000.
CINCINNATI Gazette; "If Garfelds ma
iority in Ohio does not exceed twenty thou.
sand, it will be the fault Of Republican
management"
THERE is something more than rumor
that w. II. English once belonged to the
American party and wrote a savage Know
Nothing letter.
The telegraphing from Cincinnati during
convention week amounted to over 100000
words, worth at least 100000 to the tele-
graph companies.
THERE won't be so much lamentation over
the small colleges as there has been, since it
has been discovered that they were educat
ing future presidents.
New York Tribune: "The solid south is
a power, but it has been defeated more than
once by greater power which will defeat it
again in November-a solid Republican
party"
CINCINNATI Gazette: "The Democrats
spent most of the last two years in congress
trying to starve the army, and now they
nominate major general on the active list
as their candidate for president"
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS al cannot see
any reason why Hancock should be stronger
than Garfield before the country, because
Hancock merely represents his party, and 1
don't believe the country trusts the party
IT is predicted by the KnorUille, Tennes-
see, Republican (Republican) that Garfield
and Arthur will receive at least one hundred
thousand votes in that state. Hayes and
Wheeler had eighty-nine thousand five hun
bred and ffty-six.
GENERAL SHERMAN declines to say any.
thing about Hapcock's letter to him, pend
ing the electoral struggle in 1877, saying
that his official correspondence is on file at
the war department, but that his personal
communications are sacred
HARTFORD Couranf. "The Democratic
party has adopted the ostrich policy and is
seeking to hide its villainous record behind
General Hancock's army overcoat. The gen.
eral is portly man, but there is altogether
too much record for the size of the coat"
IT is related by correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader that at great Republican
meeting in Warren, Ohio, last fall Senator
Chandler, during his speech, turned and,
pointing to Garfield, said to his audience :
"Gentlemen, there sits your next president"
BUFFALO Express Since the war Cen
eral Hancock has grown very stout and bids
fair to become as unwieldly as General Scott
in his later years. He is not a public speaker,
has no acquaintance with politics, and will
be wholly in the hands of Wallace and other
astute wire pullers."
In his speech in the Cincinnati conven-
ton, Mr.. Daniels of Virginia remarked it as
one Of the cheering omens that the first
man whose presence in this convention
touched its heart and brought forth instan-
taneous applause was the soldier-statesman
Of South Carolina, Wade Hampton"
INDIANAPOLIS Journal: General Han
cock prides himself on his shape, and it has
been understood in army circles for many
years that he wears corset. No man who
wears corset can be elected president.
Give us rather man who wears truss, a
liver pad, and false calves-Tilden for in
stance"
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "The Demo-
Gratis are going to lay out considerable pow
der in Vermont this year, where the Hancock
boom started in New England, and where
General Badly" Smith of the old Vermont
brigade is going to stump for his friend,
Hancock. The Democrats are going to
make an issue of the prohibitory law"
NJ. SIMoNIN in La France: Above all
dangers which might befall the Union, the
Chicago electors have placed the third
term" which might become fourth and
perhaps a life presidency. Let us salute
that magnificent country where such great
things pass with so much order and disci-
pline, ard let us hold it up as an example
to our French republic"
PENNSYLVANIA Weekly Notes: ain his
vetoes, Mr.. Hayes sinks the man in the rea-
son. He is as impersonal as the multiplica-
ton table, and nearly as irresistible. He has
not always been a rongpresident. But the
sense of power and purpose in the man,
and of an intelligence enlightened by sound
principle, grows upon us as we study the his
tory of his administration"
CLEVELAND Leader, General Garfield
is daily receiving large number of letters
from friends in all parts of the country,
and, though he has several secretaries and
| stenographers at his service, he is unable to
answer all promptly. He wishes friends to
understand that all letters requiring an
| swers will receive attention as early as pos
sible. He mailed one hundred and forty
letters this afternoon"
PROTESTING against the raining of Dem
ocratic mud on General Garfield, the Balti
more Herald (DemocraD declares that "a'
man General Garfield is unobjectionable
and all the Democratic newspapers that have
gone off half-cocked ought not to load with
such ammunition again, but to fire at him
as the exponent of the views of party thai
has performed its mission and belongs to
the history of the past"
Troy Press (Democratic): "Our people moi
only demand that the party press shall show
the skillful abandon of the prize fighter, but
they insist that no demand of social propri
ETY. shall hedge about any candidate. If to
defeat him it is necessary to tell story Of
his private life which in all other discus
sions is sacred it must be told. And the
truth need not prevail. A lie well stuck to
is the secret of power in political discus
sion"
| WHEN Lincoln was nominated he received
the news while sitting in the Springfield, Iii
nois, telegraph office. His first remark was
There is little woman down the street
who will be interested in this. I'll go and
tell her." When Garfield had been nomin
ated and was receiving the first congratula
tions, he suddenly turned to friend, as
though reminded of something to be done
| and said Sherwin, won't you telegraph