Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-20
!QLlrICAL NOTES.

Mr. James H. Barnes, n leading business
man Of Eir ..iamton, n. v. has renounceu
liancocl. and will vote for Garfield on the
ground that a change OF administration
would be hazardous for the business interests
of the country Mr. Barnes ran for Demo
cratic member of Assembly in 1877.
Perhaps Col. Waddcll will explain the fol-
lowing: -Four former Democrats near
Broadhead, Ky, who have come out for
Garfield and Arthur, hsve received notice,
signed Capt Lynch, ordering them TO
leave within thirty days on pain of hanging
This piece of Ku-kux literature was read
at public meeting "a, Cab Orchard, Thurs
day"
Representative De Ii Matyr of Indiana
has returned from Alabama and has given
his impressions 10 Il reporter The Green
back Congressman is free to declare that the
election was carried by the Democrats by the
means of a systematic scheme of fraudulent
counting and voting. The laws are designed
TO make this scheme practicable. De la Ma
tyr saws that leading Democrats admitted to
him that on Il fair vote and honest count the
Democratic majority IS not over l5,ooO Ill
Alabama. lie SAYS the Democratic orators
did not pretend TO answer his arguments,
Their speeches were simply appeals TO the
passions of the Southern people to unite Ia
defeat the Republican party of the North
and thus gct control If the Government. lie
had never listened 10 such bitter sectional
harangucs in all his life, and he does not
wonder that the Republicans have raised the
cry of solid North against a solid South.
Mr.. De Ia Maiyr thinks that it would be
next to impossible to secure fair election in
November in any State of the South.
II. ID. lIadock of Bucksport, Me, one OF
the leading lawyers of the county and the
Democratic candidate for Judge of Probate
in 1876, and president of the Democratic
County Convention in 1873, says that the ac-
ton of the Democratic party in abandoning
its old hard-moncy doctrine, and in indoors
ing the cxccrable villany of last winter, has
compelled him to go it alone or train with
the Republicans. So he appeared and thus
spoke at a recent Republican meeting at Ellis
worth, Me.
"Whv moi trust Hancock! ? queries the
New York Sun, and the Indianapolis HeraM
answers: lie is not trading with us
An apostle Of initiation in Wisconsin re-
Gently made the truthful observation God
has not been kind to the Greenbackers this
year; lie has given too abundant harvests. y
Charles H. Tandy. president of the Colorcd
Relief Board Of st. Louis, has advices that
Il, 600 negroes will cmigrate from Missis-
sippi and Louisiana during the next two
months, and will arrive there en- route for
Kansas and other Northern States.
A gentleman wlo has been visiting the
South and witnessed some of the political
methods in vogue there, thus gives vent 10
his feelings in letter from Mobile, Ala;
wish the lukewarm Republicans at the
North could spend Just one week in this city.
| came here from the North four weeks ago
feeling that the radical Republicans repre-
sensations OF the South were overdone, but
am sorry to say that have found the mass
of The white people here are just as disloyal
in spirit AS they were in 1861. AT Demo-
cratic mass meeting, held here on the cath,
one of the speakers gave his audience to un-
derstand, in roundabout way, that there
must he no killing done this election, for, he
said, the Republicans would give $500, 900 to
have ten men killed here. But they are
using every other means that ingenuity and
mcanuess can contrive TO prevent fair vote.