Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-02
THE TWO PARTIES COMPARED.
Letter from Senator morrill,, Head a
the State Convention.

Letter from Senator morrill,, Read nt
the State Convention.
At the Republican State convention last
week. the following letter from Hon. Justin
S. Morrill,, was read
STRAFFoRD, W., June 21, 1880
My Dear Sir Your favor advising me
that our State Republican convention is to be
held on the % inst, has been received, and
you were pleased to express n wish that you
might see me there, or hear from me. have
indulged the hope of being able to be present,
but this great pleasure am forced to deny
myself as l have not the time TO go-hardly
time to writo-on account of other impor-
tant personal engagements.
Public sentiment appears TO have unmis-
takably designated our gubernatorial candi-
date and the chief work Of the convention is,
therefore, likely to be done not less swiftly
than satisfactorily. The election of Colonel
Farnham, worthy and true as he is, can be no
more doubtful than his nomination.
In our recent nomination OF a Presidential
candidate at Chicago, the Republicans were
embarrassed by the multiplicity of names fit
to be nominated, differing much from the
Democratic convention to assemble at Gin
cinnati, where they are TO be embarrassed by
n multiplicity Of names not fit to be nominat-
ed. The early traditions OF tho American
people concerning third term" have been
maintained, with no dminution of the alice
tion, gratitude and honor due to the incor-
ruptiblo hero Of Appomattox.
Both brilliant and solid claims of other
public men were postponed in order TO OBJ
tain standard-bearer who would make So
called debatable States no longer debatable.
No name could be named with more enthusi-
asm by the young or with greater respect by
the old than that Of James A. Garfield.
Equally courageous and discreet in the field
or in the House of Representatives, sound on
all questions of governmental policy, Of lib
erty and of law, he is statesman of such in
tegrity and ripe experience MS the American
people will gladly crown with their highest
civic honors.
The Republic would have received no det-
riment and no Republican voter would have
stayed Mt homo on election day il the peer
| less name presented at the national conven-
ton by Vermont had been accepted His
constitutional learning and competency TO
handle the live questions of the day, his
broad statesmanship and his ever-vigilant
economy, would have been 80 clear and con-
| spcuous that the perpetuity of Republican
measures would have needed no other assur-
auce. The field for further service in the
| Senate, fortunately for the country and our
State, is still left open to George +. Ed
munds.
The Republican party is entitled to the
credit for the resumption of specie payment
| in spite of the combined Democratic opposi-
ton, with its Greenback allies. A Republi-
can Secretary Of the Treasury executed the
| law with consummato skill, and the prospcri-
| ty Of the country, notwithstanding doleful
predictions, has been unexampled. Much of
the public debt has been paid off, and the
| annual charge for interest, in consequence Of
| refunding at lower rates, has been so reduced
rs to invite considerable reductions of taxa
| ton. The vantage ground of the Republi-
can position is, that the present executive
| branch Of the government is quite unassaia-
| bic, and, for tho wisdom and purity of its
administration, it will occupy a place in his
tory scarcely inferior to the best in our an
mails. Reckless measures of a reckless Con-
gross have been unhinchingly vetoed Prac-
tcal administrative reforms have been stead
| lily introduced. No stain rests upon any de-
| partment. During u time of unusual diff
Guilty, with all the partisan hindrances of ad-
verse majorities in both Houses of Congress-
President Hayes has sustained the even ten
or of his way with dignity and ability, and at
| the close of his term, having outlived the
sham sneers of malignant foes, the country
| will award the plaudit due TO an eminent and
faithful public servant.
Tho Democratic war cry of fraud at the
election of President Hayes, whose title was
vindcatod by q tribunal favored by Demo-
Gratis, is and has been an unsuccessful at-
tempt to hide the frauds Of their own slip
perry candidate, and the shotguns of their SOL
id South. All the votes counted for Hayes
and Wheeler not only belong of right to them,
but many more would have been so counted
| but for the crimes and violence of the parti-
sans Of the Tildon cipher bureau, though
that bureau was foilod in the weak attempt
to steal the vote of Oregon. As a fitting
commentary upon all this a Democratic Con-
! gress has rejected all measures by which the
States might finally determine how their
| Presidential votes should be counted, with
the obvious purpose, through joint rules
alone of the two Houses, to thwart the plain
| provisions of the constitution by throwing
out the vote of any State to which either
| house may object.
\ Democratic House of Representatives
first and last have shown great aptitude for
evil and equal incompetency for good. The
flag and an appropriation" is the patriotic
motto of too many Of its members. 1t with
holds proper appropriations, and is lavish of
such as are prodigal and doubtful 1t object
| cd to the presence Of even n corporars guard
Of United States troops for the preservation
| of peace at the polls on election days, but re-
fused TO punish or exclude from the polls the
armed Ku-Klux or any other armed assassins.
1t omitted to provide for refunding the re-
mainder of the public debt bearing and
| per cent interest, at lower rate, TO the great
future disadvantage of the treasury. Itpro-
posed abortiye tinkering with the tariff,
which, if not broad farce, gave evidence OF
much curious misinformation, pregnant with
more impending blunders In truth Dem
ocratic House is felt like n blister upon the
country, keeping all OF the industrial and
| business interests in state of uncertainty
and constant irritation, from which Repub.
lican House at the next election is likely to
deliver us.
Confident of the success Of our tickets,
both National and State, tender you my
cordial good wishes and am, with much re-
spect, Truly Yours,
JUSTIN S. MORRILL,.
Hon. GEO. NICHOLS,
Co NnrIannlat Rnra GLnL.a lnnI