Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-09-03
THE BURLINGTON, VT,
POLITICAL NOTES.

The New Yorl. H0wld complains that the
Democratic managers in that State are MOI
conducting the campaign even fairly well,
and that it is ''egregiously mlsmanaged-
Mr.. Doughcrty, the ''silver-tongued ora
tor. who nominated Gen. Hancock at I'm
cinnati, shares the current Democratic de
spondency concerning the political outlook.
Talking, the other day, at White Sulphur
Springs, with correspondent, he SAID
Hancock is sangunc Tony astonshment,
hc feels perfectly certain of his election !
stayed all night with him on Governor $
Island, "A week or so ago, and expressed my
surprise at his compOsure. To tell the truth,
feel quite blue just at this iuncturc. Maine
and Ohio leaves us little chance with them,
and | confess Indiana is at least shaky. MIR.
English is model business man, but my
friends assure me he is without personal
magnetism, and by no means popular among
the mass OF the people of his State. Speak
Ing for myself alone, | wish we had some
body else on the ticket. II We lose Indiana,
it will be blue for Hancock
The are of chvalry was bad aye. sober
history proves that the knights who made
such picturesque figures in rommnces and
ballads, and who used so much fine language
about honor and so forth, were not only
vain and ostentatious. but selfish, arrogant,
cruel, rapacious and false. The men VINO
are proud to resemble them are not SO bad
as they, most men fall short of perfectly
attaining their idea, but they have sue
ceeded in acquiring dlscredltahe likeness
to their models of conduct, and Wade lamp
ton is fair representative OF this modern
chivalry- Worcester Spy
Did not Hayes have an eX confederate off,
Ger in his cabinet, and did he not recently
appoint him to United States judgcshIp.-
Plain Dealer.
Yes. but he rcrcnted of his treason, cut
loose from the solid South, and showed his
repentance by joining theparty of the Union
The difference between Il Democratic con-
federate and Republican confederate is
that the first has never repented OF his trea-
son, and is still exertirg all his influence
against the Government, while the second is
grateful for his restoration to citizenship,
and exerts all his influence to strengthen the
Union. -Clereland Leader.
Gen. Grant, in speech al Chicago, FIJI
day night, said: Il will pledge you my
word here tonight that if | am spared.
although shall he at some distance from
you on the second day of November, | shall
return to Galena to cast one Republican vote
for President of the United States, and l
hope the city of Galcna will cast round Re-
publican vote. such rs it has never cast
before"
The Attorney General says that many of
the officers of his department in the South
report that the local authorities, sustained by
public sentiment, frequently place themselves
in an attitude of open hostility to the nlted
States The higher authorities, fearful of
offending this sentiment, encourage this
state of affairs by refusing moral support to
federal officers. The marshal of Alabama
reports that he cannot raise sufficient force
to serve process in Covington county against
States witnesses.
1t is well to bear in mind that the Con
federates have on file at Washington claims
upon the United States Treasury amounting
to s., 523, 600, 900. And this does not include
claims for slaves sure to be made if the prin-
cipes of Lee and Jackson triumph in tho
coming election.
Biddeford (Maine) has an Irish American
Republican Club OF sixty members. The
movement thoroughly enrages the Democrat
ic managers, who have hitherto imagined
that they had on record a warrantee deed of
the entlre Irish vote.
George b. knight, the Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Third Califor-
mia District, is only 90 years of age He
is a native of Massachusetts, but has been on
the Pacific slope since his childhood
1t has been discovered that Wade lamp
ton at Staunton but Endorsed himself. Speak
ing in Charleston, July %, 1868, he said Il
yield TO none in devotion to that lost cause
for which we fought Never shall | admit
that the cause itself failed, and that the prin-
ciples which gave it life were therefore
wrong
The Irish American Republican Associa-
ton of New York has sent out an address
to the Irish-American residents Of the
United States, accompanied by call for q
convention to meet at Saratoga, September
-. The main object of this convention will
he to advise the best means of disseminating
the principles of the Republican party
among the thousands of intelligent and edu-
Gated young lrishmen who, during the past
ten or fifteen years, have been constantly
arriving in America.
There is deal of anxiety among the New
York Democracy because Boss McLaugh-
lin," who was hostile to the nomination OF
Hancock, is doing nothing TO aid the cause.
Inasmuch as the party organization Is in his
hands, GOODNESS on his part will seriously
affect the Democracy of Brooklyn.
Gen Ben. Butler has formally announced
i.is a""assiAn tn the Democracy lie says in
effect that the Republican party having de
serted the freeman, he therefore deserts the
Republican party The real trouble Of
course is that the Republicans of Massachu-
sets would not make nor let the Democrats
make him Governor
William H. English as shown up by the
Cincinnati Commercial, holds sheriif's deeds
TO three hundred and ninety-two pieces OF
property in the city of Indianapolis, nearly
all secured within the past two years. Many
of these were the little homes Of laboring
men who had given him mortgages. \ large
number of these unfortunate people had
paid four-fifths of the purchase money be-
fore he foreclosed the mortgages and obtained
possession. 1t is not strange that he has be-
come the richest man in the State. nor
strange that he is not popular with the work
ing classes.