Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-09-17

Club, publishes a card in which he says thai
after voting the Democratic ticket for thirty
years he intends now to act with the Rcpub-
icans.
The Milwaukee Sentinel predicts that the
Republican majority in Wisconsin for Pres
ilcnt. will be the largest ever known IN lie
State, and it believes that the Republicans
are reasonably sure of gaining two OF the
three Representatives in Congress now
Democratic.
At a Republican meeting at Buxton, Me,
the other evening, A. X. Brown of Washing
ton, d. C., the speaker, had occasion to re-
fer TO the spirit of Southern chivalry as still
exhibited by the ladies of that region, and
quoted the remark of one of them recently
made in his daughters hearing, who is one
of the managers of Mount Vernon, the tomb
of Washington, to wit ~ hcpe to Ire 10 ne
Tie Yankee settlers bones al -1rliagtoR taken
up aad My0rn int tie POt0mac.' a vet
Gran soldier of the Union, in "A widc-awake
uniform, hearing this, leaned forward and
said to the speaker, TEL your daughter to
say to that lady at Mount Vernon that
comradc of those Union soldiers sleeping at
Arlington, who lives down in Maine, sends
her word that before those bones are dis
turbed there will be 10000 more of Maine
volunteers buried there, and what is left OF
mine with them"
Ben Buffers biography. 1877, Rcpubll-
can; 1878, a Labor Reformer; 1873, a
Greenbackcr; 1880, a Democrat; 1881,
political Renaissance. i Detroit Post ana
Tribune (Rep.).
When the campaign opened in Vermont
the Republicans of that State were told that
they must pitch the key for the music IN
November. They have struck a very high
note, though their favorite pitch is evidently
b sharp. The Democrats sing on minor
key Boston 1'rdrGlley.
Vermont is small State with few Demo-
Gratis, but the party is not so small thai l.
cannot furnish some robust competitors for
the jack-knife MIR. b. b. Smalley, of the
Democratic National Committee, for in
stance, discoursing at the Democratic Head
quarters in this city on the Vermont election,
saws "On our side the National Committee
declined absolutely to take any part in the
contest" This bid brings Smallcy well up
to the front There is still a chance, how
ever, for Mr.. Hiram Atkins, the Democratic
editor, to come forward with the statement
that there was no election at all.-1rf6Hhe
In Il letter written TO Gen. Arthur, recent
ly, Gen Grant, speaking of the Republican
meeting to be held in New York, Friday
evening, said: Il hope you may have rous-
ing meeting that may awaken the people to
the importance of keeping the control of the
Government in the hands of the Republican
party until we can have two National parties,
every member of which can cast his ballot as
Judgment dictates, without fear of molcsta-
ton or ostracism, and have it honestly count
ed, parties not differing in opinion as to
whether we are nation, but as to policy to
secure the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der of its citizens Sincerely believing that
the Democratic party, as now constituted, is
not a fit party to trust with the control of the
General Government, | believe it to the in
terests of all sections, South as well as North,
that the Republican party should succeed III
November"
The political conditions in Maine are pccu-
liar there is no parallel for them in any
other State. Nowhere else did the Green
back party take such surprising hold upon
the people, and nowhere else has it been so
tenacious of life. Nowhere else would so
desperate and criminal an attempt to seize
the State government by fraud have been so
brazenly defended and so willingly adopted
by the party whose leaders were the crimi-
mails. 1t is evident that the people of Maine
are influenced by other considerations in
their political action than those common to
the whole country which decide the issue of
the election in other States. The Republican
party has domestic causes of weakness
which do not effect its conditions elsewhere,
and the result in Maine is no guide TO what
may be expected in Indiana and Ohio
Worcester Spy.