St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-23

} to agitation, and they threaten tina
, they will shrink from nothing to carr,
, the next election.
Public Opinion.
The Boston Herald's idea of the
Maine man whom the democratic news.
papers are clubbing Military Dictator il
this: 'Put marble on Gen. Chamber
lain's head, and it would not roll off. ,
Which is one way of saying his head is
level.
Gen. Hawley is a favOrite presiden-
tial candidate of the Greenfield Gazette,
Boston Transcript and NOrwalk (Ct. J
Gazette. 1t is probably safe to put the
Hartford COurant in the list.
POPULAR TRUST IN CHAMBERLAIN.
The calmness with which the public
rest In this remarkable exigency in the
belief that Gen. Chamberlain will prove
a faithful guardian Of the high trust he
has assumed in behalf of the people,
cannot fail to afford him a gratifying
inspiration in the performance of the
dnties that shall devOlve upon him.
Bangor Wing and Courier (Rep.)
NOT FOR GRANT.
A Barre (Vt.) man writes to the
Springfield Republican rather strongly,
and more vituperatively than is neces-
sary, that nobody in this state wants
Grant, except the wire-pullers and Of
fice-seekers ; and then he goes ON TO rive
reasons why Hatch, Taft, Ladd. etc.
are ''for Grant" He winds ND his let,
ter by saying: "The sturdy common
sense of the average citizen is outraged
by the proposal of Grant for a third
term, the sophistical reasoning of Sen
at0r Edmunds and the blind, nav, idi-
Que, alteration of interested politicians
TO the contrary Notwithstanding. Peo-
PIE are beginning to recognize during
'lcls peaceful and clearly administration
OF hayes, that Grants presidential term
mas already become in our otherwise
honorable history an interregnum of
political rascality and rottenness. No
man OF intelligence and pure political
instincts can desire the election of
Grant,
THE CHAMBERLAIN BOOM.
Sometimes it almost seems as though
men of Independence in politics are of
no use at all. But, when parties have
done their worst, showing a stronger
desire for party triumph than for public
good, fortunate is the state which has
an able and Independent citizen who
can command the respectand confidence
OF all his fellOw-citizens. OF course, we
are thinking of Maine and Gen. Cham
oerlaIn. We advise the republican par
ty OF Maine to present the name of
Joshua l.. Chamberlain as its choice |
tor presldent-the man who is not
doubted, suspected or dreaded, but to
whom all turn with confidence in the |
hour of trOuble.-BOstOn Herald.
THE TRUTH ABOUT HAYES.
"lf this COMPOUNDED administration
could hold for another four years. said |
a dissatisfied republican to-day, "Wash-
lngton would be no better than a |
Quaker meeting. There is absolutely |
nothing stirring here to interest or ex-
cite fellow. We used to have south
ern messages and Cuban messages and
Mexican rows under the last admins
tration, and there was always something
going. But now this town is regular
Sleepy Hollow, and as virtuous as
though it was a Young Mems Christian
association. | go for a strong man at
the head of the government to make it
lively all round. Why, even the dem
ocrats are going to sleep under this
wretched administration, and if it was
not for the Utes, there would not be
thing to talk about" This is tolerably
true. The democrats in Congress have
starved out the lobby and the admins
tratiOn has no jobs of its own on hand,
and Washington is us dull as peace and |
prosperity can make it. 1t is so melan-
choly condition of things that it is |
wonder some lover of strong man at |
the head of the government does not
move the impeachment and removal of
Mr.. Hayes.-CharIes NOrdhof in N. Y.
Herald.
AN EDITOR WITH BLOOD IN HIS EYE,
WHICH MEANS GRANT.
The Yankee burns slow, but he has
been heating up all these years of wrong
and cruelty and perfidy, and unless we
are greatly mistaken, the people of the
nOIt tn are well nigh the boiling point of
concerning the south if she
WON'T HUe under law, then let her die
under law ; we are all sick of her loath-
some shape; her hands dripping with
the blood of the feeble aud the lgnor-
ant, her everyday life tale of politi-
cal murder and fIaud the olive branch
has been stretched in vain year after
year; her poverty and sickness have
been the signal for lavish generosity Oh ,
our part; she grasps the olive branch s
only long enough to divert our atten-
ton. and then tries to beat our brains
out with a bludgeon it accepts every .
thing it renders back no sign of rec ;
or obedience to law, and the
north in sheer despair says, give us once
more Il republican Congress to make
our laws operative, and a man like !,
Grant to do his plain duty instead of
Iuibbling how he can dodge it, and we
will yet have either some respite from
he reign of terror at the south or a
iesert; the south had better be as bar .
zen as Labrador than as hellish as euua-
5orlal Africa. If the south is not ready
20 let up on political assassination, ter
'orlsm and fraud, they will be compel
ed to retreat before those who are
willing to maintain a republican form
Of government Instead of the despotism
dubbed a democracy by this gambler
md horse-jockey civilization, that leafs
and chops straw, calling it politics, over
;orn whiskey all day and then turns its
energies to shooting and cheat s
ng the only creature that will work.
viz, "the cursed gger."-Rutland Her.
I'D.
WHY NOT EDMUNDs ,
Senator Edmunds is one of the FIRE
most lawyers and statesmen that this l.
country has ever produced. If he repre- ,
'ented a great state like New York, ,
wi /.