Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
Getting Angry.

Getting Angry.
There has been some unseasonably
warm weather the last few days. Early
May has run the thermometer up where
the sun in the first days of June usually
puts it. How long this will last is uncertain
for cool breezes are already here, but a
long continuance of this heat out Of time,
would bring an unhealthy summer.
In the political atmosphere it is about
so, at this particular moment more espe-
cially on the republican side of the fence.
The winds blow it is true but they are too
much like the African winds that scorch
rather than refresh by their blasts.
ave are seven said the little girl in
Wordsworth's poem and so said the re-
publican conventions last week. The diff
Guilty with the little girls nterlocutor
seemed to be to find where the whole of
the seven were and that is exactly the
trouble about the republican conventions.
New Hampshire elected 10 Blaine dele
gates under VIM. E. Chambers lead and
they are really for Blaine. New Jerseys
convention was for Blaine and elected IS
delegates but the Grant men say they can
have of them. Delaware elected Blaine
delegates who appear to be squarely for
the Maine senator.
Marylands convention was for Blaine
onJ ,,assod Rlo;po ;ncfrrot;ons p,t MI
Creswell is one of the delegates and
vigor Gus Grant man. The Grant folks
claim at least of the 16 delegates. Mean
time four of the New York delegates say
they will vote for Blaine, and Senator
Conklng calls that treason" The. Rut-
land Herald, to which we long ago did
injustice by intimating that it had become
an Edmunds advocate, quotes the Boston
Traveller upon the desperate political
immortality of the Blaine faction.''
We confess our inability to get at exacl-
ly what the Blaine and Grant men who are
SO angry at each other insist on as polt-
ical morality. The Grant men get the New
York convention and some of the dele
gates say they will 90 for Blaine; the
Maryland convention is controlled in like
manner by the Blaine folks and they are
going to lose most of their delegates to
Grant or Sherman.
Tn ere may be a distinction but tie DIFF
ference it invisible between what each set
of partisans is doing in one state and
denouncing in another. The Wisconsin
convention elected for instance Q delegates
for Washburne, for Blaine, for Sher.
man, and for Grant. But it is said on
good authority that about half the dele
cation is really for tho nomination of
Grant.
The Mississippi convention was any
bo1y's convention. The delegation is d.
vided about evenly between the three lead
ing candidates. Grant resolutions were
passed. but some claim that was after the
convention adjourned. Grant got the bulk
of the Tennessee delegation.
The warmest time of all is in Illinois. |
The Republicans elect delegates to the
state convention on the 10Th by county |
conventions. In Chicago the delegates to
the county convention were elected Satur-
day, Grant getting So, Blaine 81 and
Washburne 80. Monday the county con-
vention met, the Washburno and Blaine
men combined and the Grant men left
leaving their credentials with the secreta-
ry of the original convention. Cook
county is entitled to 90 delegates. The
Washburne-Blaine convention elected SO
Washburne and "a Blaine delegates to the
state convention and the seeding Grant
men elected solid Grant delegation OF
90 The control of the Illinois convention
depends on which delegation is admitted
and the Grant men say they will have a
majority of the convention outside of
Cook county. The contest was very bitter
and there was much personal denuncia-
ton.
If the Grant and Blaine republicans
want to keep this thing up, all right
Whichever of the two men is nominated
after three weeks more of such pow-wow
will find himself an easy prey to the dem
ocratic candidate when it comes election
day. This fighting for the republican
nomination as though that is the end -all of
the campaign of 1880 is u much too early
midsummer madness. 1t has been said
that the greatest strength Of the republi.
can party lies in the capacity of the demo-
Gratis for laundering. At this rate the re-
publican blunder shop will soon be turning
out work that cannot be surpassed by its
rival in either quantity or quality.