Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-11-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The latest report from Justice Clifford of
the United States Supreme Court, is that he
cannot recognize his most intimate friends,
and that there is not the slightest probability
of any improvement in his condition. lie
may live however, for months, but is liable
TO die at any time.
The Republican State Committee in Flor
ida claim 10 have proof of positive frauds
which will seat both Republican Congress
men. The 1000 or 1000 votes they were
cheated out of, they say, would also have
elected Conover and the whole Republican
ticket.
| Wade Hampton pronOunces any contest
of the Presidential vote on technical grounds
both revolutionary and indefensible. He
docs not believe, either, in throwing obsta-
cles in the way of the Garfield administra-
ton, and will be guided himself by Garfield s
attitude toward the South.
Proceedings in fourteen contests for seats
in the next House, most of them in the South
have already been begun.
1t appears according to the latest census
returns that the population of New York city
is l, 206,51.. This is an increase of 26i, 2S5
within ten years or IS per cent The native
population has grown 40 per cent, and the
| foreign-born population Ills per cent. The
CITY, south of Harlem river, has grown %. u
per cent, its native population 33.5 per cent.
and its population of foreign birth ESQ per
cent,
Missouri has in reality elected five Repub-
lican Congressman, for Hazeltine, Rice, Ford
| and Burrows, the Greenbackers elected in
the 9Th, eth. 9th and 10th districts are pledg-
ed to act with the Republicans on all ques-
tons but those of finance.
Every Southern State except Florida fell
below its Tilden majority IN 1876.
The Florida Patriot, Conover's paper,
claims that the election there was bare
faced fraud The democrats are charged
with using tissue ballots, Is being found fold
ed in one genuine ballot, and little jokers,
tickets cut down to a small enough size to
| fold inside of n full-siZed ballot. \ Leon
county inspector is said TO have openly
shaken the little jokers" from their hiding
place into the ballot-box. 1t is fortunate
that Florida is not needed TO settle the Presl-
Dental election again.
1t appears that there will be at least three
contests for seats in the House of Representa-
tives from Alabama, where the Democratic
theory of a fair count has been carried 10 an
extraordinary extent. The case of Mr.. Stro-
bach, in the Second District, seems TO be a
means in advance of proving, by collateral
evidence, how many votes he received. The
other cOntesting candidates are equally con-
iident that they can make out their election.
The succession of the Connecticut Senator
ship is settled beyond a doubt. Gen. Joseph
| X. Hawley of Hartford, is to succeed Sena-
tor W. W. Eaton, ut present the only Demo
cratic Senator from the New England States
Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell. who has for
years been the rival of Gen. Hawley for the
position, drops out of the race, and his pa
per, the Hartford Post, has printed an cdi-
torial which does not refer in any way to
Mr. JEWELS candidacy of the past, but is
confined TO an earnest Endorsement OF Gen
IIawley for the place.
| Crest as our victory was believe that the
| forged letter cost us all the Northern States
we lost. do not intend to let up on those
rascals until they are punished to the fullest
extent of the law.-Jdmes A. Garfield
The Memphis Apptdi says Of the attempt
to count out Lynch (tcp.) in the Mississippi
"shoe-strlng" district, where the circulation
of the Appeal is large I'VE regret this oc-
currence first and chiefly because it is wrong;
and secondly because it furnishes the enem-
| les of our section with what they will hail as
sufficient justification for their continued cry
Of bulldozing al the South. II the commls-
sioners do not, as we suggest, revise their
work, the secretary of State ut Jackson
doubtless will,-the law pcrmitting,-if not,
Gen. Chalmers should refuse TO take certi-
icate of election to the House based on any
part of this vote, because 10 r, cct 1t is to rob
the citizen of the inestImablc privilege of the
elective franchise and bring discredit upon
free and fair ballot. No citizen. be he white
or black, can afford to stand by and see ?, O55
votes cast aside upon Il construction OF law
so strained as this by the commissioners OF
Warren county To consent 10 it is TO con-
sent with open eyes to the undermining of
our form OF government.