Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-27
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Notes and Comments.

The New York Sun angrily advises Han
cock to return his goose quill to the orig
inal goose"
SENATOR Dorsey telegraphs that Treat
is elected TO congress in the Fifth Indiana
district. This makes nine Republican con-
gressmen.
NEW York Herald "If the Republi-
cans were to nominate General Grant for
mayor it would make the canvass lively and
original"
WASHINGTON Post. Senator Wade
Hampton Of South Carolina insists upon
turning himself into a Republican campaign
document"
SPRINGFIELD Republican: The Demo
cratic line shows little signs Of rsllying. It
will surprise no one If Garfeld's tally in the
electoral college is over two hundred votes"
BEN HILL Of Georgia says that Wade
Hampton's Staunton virginia. speech and
Bayard's denunciation of the Greenbackers
in his New York speech lost them Indiana.
JAMES A. GARFIELD; We legislate for
the people Of the United States, and not for
the whole world, and it is our glory that the
American laborer is more intelligent and
better paid than his foreign competitor"
The Tribune: "A Aippant correspondent
makes this contribution TO the chorus of
Republican hilarity Why was the Demo
cratic party, on Tuesday, October ~, like
the earth we live on ? Because it was an OBJ
late spheroid-hattened at the polls !"
PHILADELPHIA Press: "This soldier
without civil experience, who doesn't even
comprehend what the tariff question in
wolves, is put forward as fit man to be the
custodian of our great national interests
His last effort only exposes him to deeper
ridicule."
New YORK Times; "Apart from the
special merits of what are shown as sec
tional issues, there can be no doubt that the
people are averse to placing the national ad-
ministration in the keeping of party that
must necessarily be controlled by the unre-
generate Bourbons of the SOUTH"
THE English mil-owner pays his puddler,
under free trade, about five per cent of the
price he receives for his iron, and other la
Dor in proportion while the American mill
owner pays his puddler, under protection,
about eleven per cent of the price he re-
ceives for his iron, and pays his other labor
in proportion.
New JERSEY is giving the Democrats as
much uneasiness as any northern state. In
the old Wing and tariff days her electoral
vote was steadily cast against the Demo
cratic party, and there have been few cleo
tons where the issue was tariff or anti
tariff, in which tariff has not carried the day
in New Jersey.
In 1872 New York state, outside of the
city, went Republican by over $4,000 ma
jority, and with Democratic majority of
$4,000 or so in New York and Brooklyn, the
majority was 55,45l on the state ticket.
This year the Republicans have begun to
predict 10000 majority in the state outside
Of the great cities.
The New York World has looked up one
case of alleged coercion of Democratic
workmen by Republican employers and it
did not yield the expected results. The
World frankly says that, without excep-
ton, they deny that any attempt of any
kind has been made by their employ ers to
influence their vote"
| New YORK Tribune There is nothing
incidental about the Republican tariff doc
trine The Republican party believes in
protection for the sake of protection, and
not in protection as the mere accident of a
scheme for getting revenue. 1t legislates
for the express purpose of benefiting the
workingmen of the United States"
GENERAL CHAMBERLAIN of Maine de-
scribes General Grant as the unmurmuring
soldier, the magnanimous conqueror, the
ruler who loved his whole country, undaunted
by difficulty, patient under misrepreseuta-
ton, tenacious of purpose, prompt and fear
less 10 great emergencies, and in all this the
man who never makes fuss about any.
thing.
"SIMoN CAMERON Roscoe Conkling is
; mountain of intelligence. have known all
the public men of my time-Webster, Clay
I Calhoun and all of them-and, take him for
, all-in-all he is the superior of any OF them.
He has already begun his work, and will,
believe, make such campaign as has not
been seen in New York or any other state at
any time"
e WHEN the London Times can say, as il
$ does, that the object of our protective policy
t is to maintain higher standard of comfort
among our laboring classes than Free Trad.
England maintains for her working people
it ought not to be difficult for an American
, workingman to decide whether the protec
a tionists or the free traders of this country
! are his friends.
= ADvIcEs direct from New York assert tina
4 the Republicans are making a magnificent
J. canvass, and feel perfectly confident of car
d rying the state by at least forty Thousand
t majority. The political gossips say thai
= the good work in Indiana was done princi
paly by the Grant side Of the national com
mittee. If this was true of Indiana, w
v may look for like suspicious results in New
e York, for General Grant appears to hav'
l. thrown himself unreservedly into the can
e vass, and Senator Conkling, having CLOSED
! his western appointments-where he con
q tributed so largely to the grand victorie
a over which the people are now rejoicing
| will devote his entire time to the canvass il
d his own state until the eve of the election.
SECRETARY SHERMAN and Wade Hamr
:, ton have been having a lively tilt. In
Al speech in New York some time ago, MI
70 Sherman not unjustly associated Hampton
d name with the Ku-klux, and the latter de
h manded of Mr., Sherman if he had been COZ
!, rectly reported. Mr.. Sherman replied that
!, while he had not connected Hampton per
n sonally with the Ku-Klux, he did claim tina
, he, in company with other southern men
., was enjoying the political fruits won 10
& them by the violence Of the Ku-klux Khan
D To this Hampton gave the lie direct, AM
Mr.. Sherman quietly rejoined by submit
!, ting all the correspondence to the iudgmen
~ of the people. Wade should have stuck Il
re his resolution to keep still after his Staun
IN ton speech.