St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-29
Political Notes.

1t is money and a majesty in the
pocket of the republican party this
year that Garfield is the candidate, and
not some of the men who are putting in
heavy work as managers, so thinks the
Springfield Republican.
There are still some echoes of the
Indiana election. A democratic banker
said yesterday that while he was sorry
on some accounts for the result, he
cleared $4,000 by the rise in stocks
which it caused, so that he ''guessed on
the whole it was all right" [ met an
Indiana republican leader q day or
two ago, and said /: "Well, general,
the Lord seems to have been on your
side" ayes, he was" was the answer,
''bnt our side had more guns, too
New York Letter.
Gen. Grant has written to a friend
in Washington declining an invitation
to speak in Virginia and says: ''But if
the effect would be what you predict
to add materially to the Garfield and
Arthur ticket would make great sac
rifice to accomplish that result. don't
think there are many friends of mine
who will fail to support the ticket, IN
less it is where land because) they
think their vote can do no possible
good. In Virginia they should not
think this"
George Wilkes, the New York sprot,
has "drawn" his bet of $4,000 on Han
cocks election since the October states
have spoken, and refuses to put up any
money on the result. He was less wise
in the Greeley contest and lost heavily.
Then, as now, the betting before the
October elections favored the demo-
Gratis, and thereafter favored the re-
publicans. In 1876, the betting was at
odds for Hayes till after the elections
in October, but from that time to the
election in November the odds were on
Tilden.
A new floating vote swings to the re-
publican side this year in every doubt
full state. 1t is made up of the men,
and they are many, who care more for
certain result, beyond challenge or
question, than for the success of either
party. No man with brains enough to
know what a disputed contest may
mean, and with patriotism enough or
property enough to have an interest in
the peaceful welfare of the country,
wants doubtful election.-TSpringfeld
Republican.
The democrats are picking up heart
a little as the October elections recede.
But there are no outward signs of a
turn in the popular current. Expert
enced observers at Washington, New
York and Boston are declaring Garfield
already elected. 1t may be remarked
that this has been bad year for politi-
cal prophets.
The registry in New York city, 2l6,-
974, points to vote of POS, 1000 or
whereabouts, which in any ordinary year
would mean a democratic majority of
10000. Changes of political sentiment
have been so numerous this year, and
so extensive among the working classes
that the republicans anticipate vote
of at least 5000, conceding a majority
of only $1,000 to the democrats. The
democratic majority was little less
than this, 81 1863, in 1876, and last year,
on ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, an Office on
which the Tilden and Kelley men unit
ed, was 1926. The state outside of
New York city is unquestionably re-
publican by from $4,000 to 10000.
We lost Indiana. How9 By the
importation of negroes by bribery; by
falsehoods; by repeaters by frauds the
most outrageous in our history, save
only the one fraud by which these same
ravishers of the ballot box elected
Hayes and Nichols by the same votes
four years ago.-[Cincinnati Enquirer
Who are the supporters of the repub-
lican ticket2 They are the million
men who fought for the Union, many
of them crippled and manned but they
are still marching to the same old step.
They came with their ballot in their
hands-nOt the ballot of secession, but
the broad, white ballot of the Union,
representing the spirit, the energy, the
civilization of the common people.
They are the hosts of freedOm-and
there is man with them. Look at
him He stands, serious, solemn and
silent, but you see every soldier, as he
passes by, salute him. Each pays hon.
age to that silent man. And when the
soldiers have all passed by, he steps up
and salutes the republican candidate
and says: II was the commander of
these forces during the rebellion. My
name is U. S. Grant,"-I John Logan.
Hampton has probably discovered by
this time how hard it is for man to
live in one age and guide his conduct
by the rules of another. Hampton's
| friend found it equally difficult to pre-
sent the "affront' he carried III a prop
er and dignifed fashion to busy sec
rotary of the treasury. Sherman
glanced up at the solemn and serious
South Carolinian who brought in
HamptOn's second note, and asked him
to be seated, WHICH, under the circum-
stances, was an insult to be wiped out
by little less than blood, "Sir,n said
the visiting stranger, II desire to call
your attention to the fact that deliver
the communication unsealed." The
laws of the District of Columbia against
dueling are so strictly drawn, that
language of this sort, Joined to the
character of the letter delivered, would
probably make a man liable to fine and
imprisonment, and it is an open cues.
ton if Hampton has not put himself
within the shadow of the same penalty.
-lSpringfield Republican.
William R. Grace, the democratic
candidate for mayor in New York. is
said to. be the choice of Cardinal
McCloskey. He is the most dovout and
faithful of Catholics, and is without spec-
ial fitness for the Office to which he ia
nominated. There is a widely exten5-