Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

senator baN.iru Is oniy my -ohc' anu Seh"-
tor Blaine was fifty Saturday.
Mark Twain is said 10 have Congressional
aspirations.
Governor Davis of Maine is still COMPARE
lively youn--only 81. As boy he worked
on a farm, and went through the public
schools As a soldier in the army he filled
up the intervals of fighting with studying
Latin and reciting to an officer. After the
war he studied and taught.
In an article on the Grant feeling in the
State of New York, The Tribune says that
talks with active politicians from city and
country make it pretty evident that very
considerable proportion, and probably ma
jorily, of the men WHO shape the action of
the Republican party of the State of New
York in It's local convention favor the nomi-
nation of General Grant. They
believe that tine election of Grant would give
stability to business, and would put a stop
to such revolutionary schemes of the Demo
cracy as tina, Just frustrated in Maine. That
these men represent a very large body OF
Republican voters there can be doubt"
The Tribune itself is decidedly more favor
able 10 the nomination of Senator Blaine for
President by the Republican Convention
than 10 that of Grant, or any other candi-
date
TIE Southern portion Of the Chicago ex-
position building is being converted into an
amphitheatre for the coming Republican
Convention. 1t is expected that q, 900 per-
sons can he seated.
When Gen Grant was in Florida an effort
was made to drive off the poor negroes who
were crowding around him, when he said, in
his quiet way Let them alone wherever
am they can come" Fred Douglass
thinks this the best thing the General ever
said
Gen. sam Cary, Of Ohio, the chief of
Grecnbackers, believes that the Greenback
party is damaged beyond repair" and that
the Brick Pomcroy wing did it.
Ia Congress man Wearer's district the pc
tition for the passage of his bill to pay the
soldiers of the war FIVE hundred millions to
which not one man in thousand of them
claims TO be entitled, was circulated by a
rank coppcrhead-a man who never had any
thing but ahuse for the patriots until he saw
that he might make some money out of
them.
The restless activity of Mr. Sherman is
the best evidence of his weakness the dig
nified retcence and inactivity of Gen. Grant
form the trucst index to his strength-Neo
I0rk Times.
There are Il few men in New York who
are trying TO gel up an enthusiasm for Scna-
tor Conkling for Presidential candidate. 1t
is safe to say that Mr.. Conkling will not
head the Republican ticket in 1S90.-Boston
Journal
We knoa of nobody who claims more for
Gen Grant as Republican candidate than
that he would make the man easiest to elect,
easiest To inauguratc and the best chief mag
isiratc when elected and inaugurated. And
that is reason enough for taking him.
LosceH Courier.
The second choice Of almost the entire
number of Grant men Is James G. Blaine.
So that it is perfectly safe to say, that leav-
ing Grant of the question, all Northern New
York. and perhaps the whole State is heavily
for Blaine ~~r Comfy (N. - RePub-
hcan.
We all want sincere Edmunds men to go
to Chicago, but they had better be selected
from the ranks of those who were not his
foes in in 1872; they had better he selected
from those who were as consistently stalwart
in the Republican faith and practice as Sena-
tor Ednunds has been always is to-day, and
will be rever-RUtLIn1 Herald
Waose wars were dark, whose tricks were vain,
Who had their labor for their pam,
Down IN the sturdy State OF Name:
The Fusionists.
Who gl2ri with juhlant accord
At care luu's returning board.
Ana raised The anthem, ctre 'e FFuHdf
The FuslOnist3.
Vino from thc small end of the horn
Emerged all wrrtched and fprlorn,
To Ia.=t a ,SItion', utter scorn:
The Fu-onists
Who are the men who yeacn to die
Aud thus escape the public eye.
Vel stili more dread Inc bye aud bye:
The FusiOnists.