Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-08-18
IMAM & STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1880
Notes and Notions.


The worst thing that could befall the
south would be Democratic administra-
ton.
CANDIDATE WEAVER "The half has
not been told Of the stories Of bulldozing and
fraud in the south"
Every soldier who votes the Democratic
ticket apologies for the part he took in the
war, says the Albany Journal.
The secretary of the national prohibition
committee asserts that the prohibition party
will put an electoral ticket before the votes
Of twenty states.
JEFF DAVIS, who is a most astonishing
monument Of the Republican party's gener-
GUS mercy, never fails to speak Of it as the
party of hate and malignancy."
CINCINNATI Commercial. awe can't find
any defense in the Democratic papers of the
bloodsucker of indianapolis. The revela-
tions seem to have taken away their breath"
IT is reported that General Weaver, the
Greenback candidate for president, has half
mind TO retire and give General Garfield
his support, because of what he saw and
heard in the south.
HARPER's WEEKLY: Both the letter of
the Democratic candidate and the speeches
at the ratification meeting in New York fail
to show any reason whatever to believe
that the public welfare requires Democratic
success"
SENATOR CoNKLING has written 10 gen
tleman in Washington "who enjoys the
closest personal relations with him " that
hS will enter on the campaign for Garfield
and Arthur in three weeks and stay in till
they are elected.
The most remarkable sign of the times,
politically, continues to be the moody man.
ner in which the Democratic organs record
their great victory in Alabama. Seventy
five thousand majority, and no ROSTERS.
Why is it thus
The firing of cannon at an indianapolis
Republican campaign rally so affected a
sick young woman that she died few days
afterward, and the chairman of the Demo
cratic and Republican county committees
have signed an agreement to pay for no
more cannonading during the campaign.
THERE is no statesman now living in the
United States whose collected speeches cover
such wide range Of topics, display such a
vast and varied fund of general information,
reveal more dligent and effective study of
great themes, or show a keener insight or
surer grasp of mind, than those of James A.
Garfield.
"THE secretary Of the treasury" said En-.
wards Pierrepont in his New York speech,
"told me yesterday that piled up in his de-
partment, and before the courts of congress,
were millions and millions of dollars worth
OF southern claims, and that there are bills
before congress to extend the time in aid of
these claims"
The campaign in Indiana is stirring the
people. In the town Of Bloomfield, Green
county, the other day, over one hundred
ladies on horseback took part in the process.
sion, and there is no end to organized bands,
drum corps and glee clubs. A Republican
success in the state by twelve thousand is
now predicted.
Boston is to celebrate her two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary the fore part of Sep.
TENDER. OF course the festivities which will
take place will draw an immense throng to
that city. Poetry and oratory will alike
strive to recount the exploits of the past, to
rehearss the grandeur of the present, and
predict the splendor of the future.
PHILADELPHIA North American: "If
asked what was the supreme issue of this
years campaign, before which all others
should bow down as the sun, moon and eleven
stars bowed before Joseph in his dream,
the most careful, thoughtful and impartial
citizen to be found would probably say the
fact that there is practically no negro suf-
frage in the south"
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "The Boston
Herald sums up the situation about as it is
Neither party is sufficiently alive to the
demands of the real reformers, and the Dem.
cratic party less than the Republican This
fact, and a genuine confidence among the
advance wing of the Republican party that
Gen. Garfield will not disappoint his best
supporters, gives the party in power its
advantage"
ALBANY Journal: "Order No. Al has
been issued. 1t is dated Governors
Ill i. e.
cratic tramps that they can only see General
Hancock Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri.
days between the hours of eleven and two.
The general stood it as long as he could.
Three times week is often enough for the
unwashed to come between the wind and
his nobility"