Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-09-10

POLITICAL NOTES.

The Damned RaScaP who Is chairman
Of the Republican party in South Carolina"
is the title Of az editorial article in which the
Charlestown Meas Dem pays its respects
to ex-Representativc Elliot (colored) of South
Carolina.
Apropos of Ben Buffers assertion, that
there were as many Democrats rs Republi-
cans III the Union army, the Chicago Tribune
recalls the fact that of the votes pollcd by the
soldiers in the field during the war, 1876, 437
were cast by Republicans, and 4l,so3 by
Democrats.
Pucl's double-pagc cartoon is not as funny
as usual this week, ehow.-ElmfTd tTte
Press Dem.]
The cartoon represents headcss donkey
its fore and hind hoofs pointed towards each
other SO that locomotion is impossible. Gen
Hancock is being brought toward it by the
Democratic managers, and exclaims, Great
Scot Must | be the head of that thing ~
All around ape scattered fragments of the
Democratic record. There is n skeleton
from Andersonvlle, the cipher dispatches a
rag baby, etc, etc, etc. We do not think
any Democrat will see much fun in it-BiJ-
fdlo Erpress.
The editor of the Okolona, Miss, States
gets off a profound truth occasionally, as
when he says: The South has forever ruled
the Democratic party, and forever will,
glory to God and through that party it will
rule this Confederate Union from seaboard
to seaboard, just as certainly as Hancock
captures the robe and laurels of the Presi-
dency.
The size of hats worn by the candidates is
as follows: Garfield y, Hancock =, Arthur
"a, English CT, making a total of fifteen
inches of Republican brains against AZ of
Democratic.
Ex-Congressman J. Scott Sloan Of Wiscon-
sin, who Joined the Democrats in the Greeley
campaign, and has acted with them since
that time, is out for Garfield and Arthur, and
will take the stump.
A man in Hampton county, south Caro-
lima named Holmes. Northern Republican,
who settle there after the war aud hnili "p
the thriving town Of AImcua, on the Port
Royal Railroad, and who has treated negroes
like human beings, has been notified to de-
sist or abide the consequences.
At Bangor many Irishmen hSye joined the
Garfield and Arthur club, and it is believed
that large numbers of Irishmcn at Biddeford
and other places will vote for Gov. Davis.
If Lincoln were alive to-day he would not
be Republican. York World. And
if he had been Democrat in 1865 he might
have been alive today Waterbury -dmai-
can.
English is reported TO be making still
hunt in Indiana He learned how to do it
when engaged foreclosing mortgages on
poor mems property.
The Maine Democrats have imported two
stump speakers from Canada, one of them
is very appropriate action for party which
wants to throw our domestic industries open
to ruinous foreign competition.
Mr.. Weaver the Greenback candidate for
President, protests against the Fusion of his
party with the Democrats for the benefit of
Southern Confederates who will not permit
the votes of his friends to be counted
Ex-Gov. Il. +. Perry OF South Carolina
has published letter in which hc demands
that 1.-THE poor, miserable, unprincipled
white man who tries 10 restore the Radical
party to power in South Carolina should be
socially ostracised, aud not even spoken to
on the Streets" aRd the negro refused en-
ployment who dVes to vote the Republican
ticket.
Judge Jerry Hack says he met judith p.
Benjamin in Europe, and that the runaway
ex-rebel still feels Il great interest in Ameri-
can po),,cs Mr.. Black added Benjamin
says we ought to carry Hancock; through, for
1t IT, very necessary 10 us" ''C-' of course
iUeans the ex-rcbels.
The New jersey Democratic State conven-
tion appears 10 havo been thoroughly char
acteristic affair A correspondent pictures
quely describes it as follows: This amt no
prayer meeting" rolrcd the Hon.
George Thompson of Bordentown, as he SIT
down behind Chairman Abbott, after execut-
ing one of his aboriginal war dances on the
stage. Mr.. Thompson was plainly right
The air of the opera house was blue with
tobocco smoke, and sulphurous with bias
phemy. A delirious mob Of 1000 Demo-
cratic delegates was ranging on the floor and
in the galleries. while the shoutngs of the
chairman and his her-lunged secretary
were only audible now and then, owing to a
temporary lull. 1t was then 6 O'Clock, and
the Democratic convention had been in a
state of instruction anddomestic VIOLENCE for
three solid hours. During the entire after
noon there were no consecutive five minutes
when there was anything like orderly pro-
cedure or the regular transaction OF business
in u civilized American fashion