Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-04-28
Notes and Notions.

IHE Prohibitionists Of Massachusetts, me-
in convention at Boston last week and chos,
full set of delegates to the Cincinnati ma
tional convention of June 18th.
WORCESTER SPY: "Mr. Edmunds will be
the New England candidate at Chicago be
cause he will have more votes from New
England than any of his competitors"
ONLY one North Carolina district remains
to choose delegates to Chicago, and the
Grant men claim twelve of the eighteen
already chosen, the Sherman men conceding
ten Of the twelve.
SECRETARY OF WAR RAMSEY strongly
disapproves of General Schofeld's uncalled.
for compliment of the West Point cadets,
and is likely to be heard from after Whit
takers case is disposed of.
Bon TooMBs has again spoken al can
only speak for Georgia. If Tilden is nomi
mated and General Grant is nominated by
the Republicans, believe Grant will carry
Georgia by 10000 majority"
"RENEwED consideration is given in Phil
adelphia to the project of having Blaine take
the second place on the ticket with Grant.
That would be ticket that would sweep
the country" So says an exchange.
NEW York Tribune: "When the hope
lessly Democratic south asks us to re-elect
the ex-president, the states which have got
TO do the work are entitled to say whether
they think they can win with that ticket,
and their judgment ought to be listened to-"
FIFTY-Two newspapers and magazines of
this country are e5ited by colored men. The
first of its class, the Freedmans Journal, was
published in New York in 1927. For six
teen years, beginning in 1917, Frederick
Douglass edited the North Star which lighted
the heavens till "the sun of freedom rose
The supreme court at Des Moines, Iowa,
has decided in case from Jasper county,
where greenbacker and anti-monopolist
agreed to take a county office for less than
the legal salary and return the surplus
to the county if he was elected, that the
election was void and the proffer bribery
of the voters.
NEW YORK Express (Democratic) :" This
desperate and despicable conspiring and
manipulation to divide and distract the party
in this state to secure delegation to the ma
tional convention will go for nothing but to
increase Tildeu's own disgrace and the con-
tempt in which his name will be held by all
honorable men,"
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin &c WAL, said
Wilmington (vermont) farmer, when he
had weighed his pork, 'the big hog weighed
the most; the little hog didn't weigh so
much as expected, and | never expected
he would This is just the way good
many people will feel about the presidential
candidate when he is nominated"
SPEAKER RANDALL says that Pennsylvania
is without doubt secured for the Tilden in.
terest. The programme is to elect delegates
by congressional districts with four dele
gates at large, and to have no unit rule If
Tilden is candidate, he will probably have
Pennsylvania vote in the convention. If
not a candidate, the state will favor one &C.
ceptable to him.
New YORK Sun (Democratic) 4" The Dem
ocracy of New York adhere to Mr.. Tilden
solely and exclusively because he was elected
president Of the United States in 1876, and
because he and they were cheated out OF
that election. And they are for his nomi.
nation now not because they love him per.
sonally, but because they believe in the
right of self-government, and wish to vindi
cate that right in 1880 in the most emphatic
manner possible"
New YORK Times: The Syracuse con-
vention suggests the existence of feeling
in the ranks of the party, which neither its
organs nor its leaders have been able to mod
ify, that Tilden is, after all, the strongest
candidate who can be run as Democratic
nominee in this state. Since his power to
divide the party would probably be greater
in the event of his rejection than in the
event of his nomination, the party sentiment
in his favor is Ineligible enough"
GENERAL GARFIELD, who has returned to
Washington from Ohio, thinks that, notwith.
standing the division among the delegates iu
that state, there will be united vote for
Sherman on the first ballot at the Chicago
convention, after which they will be divided
among Grant, Blaine and Washburne. He
says that the Germans throughout the entire
state are more favorable to Washburne than
to any other candidate, but should General
Grant be nominated they will support him.
MASSACHUSETTS Spy: "The popular de-
mand for Edmunds is not surprising. There
is no mystery about it. 1t is due to this,
more than TO any other cause, that the Re
publicans of Massachusetts have become
wearied beyond endurance with the neces-
sity of defending, excusing or apologize
ing for the acts of party leaders. They
were resolved to give their vote in the ma
tional council for man who needs neither
defense nor apology, and they find in Mr..
Edmunds such a man."
The Cincinnati Gazette favors John Sher-
mdii LOT Jour redsonS' flfst, ne would carry
Ohio by decided majority against any man
the Democrats could place in the field
Second, he would come nearer to polling the
full vote OF the party in all the states than
either Grant or Blaine. Third, with Sher-
man as a candidate the canvass would be an
aggressive and not defensive one. Fourth
he would, if elected, make an able, conserv-
alive and economical president, and would be
able to hand over an administration with
clean record to Republican successor in 1884
JAMES N. JOHNSON, Esq, of Mortified,
a wellknown and level-headed Democrat
writes 10 the Boston Post: "The army ee-
ment in the state convention was mostly
for General Hancock, reinforced by the
timid ones, who seem afraid that John Kelly
carries the vote of New York in his pocket
but the great weight Of opinion among the
four hundred and twenty-five delegates was
for Tilden, ii he can possibly be elected
Whatever our press may say, you must set
it down for the truth that the Democrats OF
Vermont want Samuel j. Tilden for the
next president If he can be had"
AT Springfield, Illinois, on Thursday of
last week, services in commemoration of the