New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-26
party and stubborn enough to resist all inc
patriotic impulses of the waf

party and was stubborn enough to resist all inc
patriotic impulses of the was
The Greenback organization. which made some
stir in Vermont two wears ago. has gone to pieces,
except IN one county-Lamolle-whe II still mas
considerable strength. lawyer named Heath mas
been nominated for Governor by convention maze
nm mostly of men from that city, lie will not get
over thousand votes. This is the district where
Barlow was elected to Congress in 1879 a Green
hacker and boiling Republican. He n cand-
date for the Republican nomination, and when he
failed TO get it he set up on MS
own account as candidate. and courted
the Greenbackers. who made him their
nominee 1t is SAID that he spent $iOOOo III the
canvass. People waited with good deal OF curl
osty TO see what record he would make IN Con
Cress, but he seemed TO nothing for tie place
when be got 1t, and absent from his seat
nearly the whole of the session. attending to railroad
business IN which he is largely engaged In tact
he made no record at all except to vote for VIM. d.
Kelley Tor Speaker in the contest between Randall
and Garfield People here in Burlington say laugh
ingly when speaking OF Barlow, that be paid
$4,000 for a chance to vote for Kelley. He is not
nj all active in politics now According to the town
gossip his old Republican ideas have already got
The better of his recent Grcenback notions and
he intends to vote for Garfield.
Four years ago the Republican vote at the Sep
TENDER election in this State was 44.723. and the
Democratic vole &c, 9SS-majonty, 23,S33. AT the
Presidential election the year the vote was al
most the same. the figures being, Hayes, 44,O92
Ilden, 20, 254-majority. 23,s3S. think 1T safe
TO predict a majority tor Farnham this year OF al
most the same amount. # 1t goes under Z3,oOO IL
will not be because of any desertions from the Re-
pubica ranks. but because of the large emlgra-
tion of enlerpr>ing Republican yonng men to the
,ft he m a O.
turing towns With the exception of perhaps a
third of the French Canadians and few Irish Pro-
festauts the foreign element is sOidlv Democratic,
As in Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
this element is increasing constantly, while the ma
tive element than loses ITS natural increase ny
the movement Westward This steady outflow oil
Repub lean voters. and tho large incoming current
OF men who are Democrats because they have not
grown M under American educational influences.
is an nportan feature to be taken into account IN
Studying The politics of all the Northern States east
Of Indiana. New-lork and Ono are effected by
this change in the voting population TO CONSIDERS
bic extent though not as heavily as the New-Eng-
land States.
GaGhelds majority in November will be about the
same as Farnhams in September. There are no
STATE issues in the contest and the preliminary
STATE battle Is fought on precisely the same ground
upon y hch the National campaign Is conducted.
Tie Democrats Try hard to get up a state question
by comparing the expenses now with those III Old
time. fore there was any war debt to pay the III
terest on and by talking OF tIlflmg increase Of
salaries which put the Governors COM
pensation mp to the magnificent sum OF
81 0OJ year: bat their figures demonstrate the
EbsuTlity OF the argument they try 10 base upon
them Ihe State has always been managed 10y the
Repul leans withan economy that would be thought
penuIious out ide of cH-England. /. " S.