Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-07
Echoes Of the Campaign.


willing testimony to his noble bearing through
out, and to his unsullied name They have seen
him grasp great subjects, discharging important
trusts, moldng tariff systems under which the in
dustries of the whole nation may be built up or
pulled down, directing the expenditure of hun
dreds of millions of public money, and they gladly
declare to the American people that the Repub-
lican candidate has, all the way up to this time,
trodden the devious pathways Of opportunity and
temptation with unsoiled feet. He has moved
amid corruption and scandal with garments I'M |
furnished The statesman has been true to his |
trust as the canal boy was to his The white
robe of the Roman candidate was never whittier |
than his is to-day.-Sendtor DdiCes.
THE Republican party proposes to continue the
financial policy of the past four years and If de-
sired to describe that policy, or to show you its
fruits think could not do better than in con- |
filming myself to one simple sentence which read |
in a morning paper last week. 1t was this: 1.-THE |
taker of the census in the city of Lowell reports
that he cannot find a man in that city who wants |
work and is unemployed Now II any of you |
have heard a Democratic speech or listened to a |
Democratic prophecy during the last four years, |
when you hear another Democratic speech or |
Democratic prophecy just remember that single |
sentence; that in the largest manufacturing city |
of Massachusetts the census-taker cannot to-day |
find man who wants work who has not got it. |
Every prosperous workshop in Massachusetts is a |
monument of false Democratic prophecy and a |
baied Democratic policy Hoor at Fan |
Gull Hall.
THE late contest in Chicago is fresh in every |
men strove for the chief magstracy-or allowed |
their friends to strive enthusiastically for them.
When the smoke of the battle blew away, they |
were all defeated. The honor for which others |
had struggled perched on. the brow of an honest |
soldier and statesman who had not lifted his little
finger to reach after it Strange things happen in
American history; but nothing stranger than the |
way in which great honors and offices seek out |
the poor hard-toiling sons of poverty who have |
worked their passage" in life up from the rocks.
OF General Garfield leave others to speak; but |
may venture to whisper just this, that he was my
choice from the start. May the rival party pre-
sent as noble man! Then we shall be sure of |
successor worthy to take the place of the unselfsh
and honest patriot who now keeps the white house |
so cean.-Rer. 7. L. Cuyler.
WADE HAMPTON is cool one. In his speech |
sustaining Hancocks nomination he said: +" In |
the name of South Carolina, that state which was
so overwhelmingly Republican that we scarcely |
dared to count the Democratic vote. in behalf Of |
that state here pledge myself If work. If zeal, |
II energy can do anything, that the people of |
South Carolina will give as large a Democratic |
majority as any other state in the Union.' That |
means that the "niggers" will have a hot time |
OF it II they try to vote; means that the Demo. |
Gratis " dare to count " their vote in this "over-
whelmingly Republican state because 1t is swollen |
by tissue ballots and rifle club bulldozing into |
majority, Hamptons work =" zeal and en- |
and as pledges that the "best men and tool |
chests Will be on hand at the polls to secure |
that " free ballot" which the Democratic plat
form so eloquently demands.--New York Tribune
TURNING for a moment to the vice presidential
candidates OF the two parties, it is found that in
many respects they resemble their principals
Chester A. Arthur-the very name calls up vivid
memories of the early days of the Republican
party, OF the fight for the rights of men and of
the glorious results which foowed-Chester A.
Arthur, the chief aid of Edwin d. Morgan the
war governor, the first public friend and advocate
OF slaves who were refugees in New York, the
lawyer who dared to demand the equal rights of
all races in the public conveyances of the Ameri-
can metropolis the man who has ever since given
his talents, his time and his purse to the Repub-
ncan cause, is the nominee on the one side; while
william ii. English, the most unpopular public
man in Indiana, is the makeshift who has been
given the second place upon the other. He is
known IN MS own state and elsewhere chiefly be-
cause on more than one occasion he has put the
knife of malice and envy deep into " Tom" Hen
bricks, and turned it in the wound, and because
he has grown fat and rich by oppression of the
poor, and the cruel foreclosure OF mortgages upon
the lands OF small tenants whom he had in his
power. 1t is for these reasons doubtless that the
two tickets have met with such different recep-
tons in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and New York.
H. Carroll in Neao York Times.
WE ratiiy the nomination of the Republican
candidate for the chief magistracy in the name of
that American level of citizenship which opens
all avenues of elevation to the poorest and hum
blest boy as well as to the favorites of fortune,
and OF which that candidate is an illustrous ex-
ample. We ratify it in the of those equal
rights in the extension Of which slavery was
swept from the soil and the constitution amended
and Tor which he fought on the battlefield and
nIted MS voice In congress and on the platform
We ratfy 1t in the name of the honest payment
OF public obligations and OF sound currency, in
the maintenance of which he stood unflinchingy
among the foremost. We ratify it in the name of
a liberal and generous, but righteous, paci6cation
OF reunited country to which his magnanmty
has never been wanting; and we ratify 1t in the
name OF that still higher advancement Of the re-
public In material prosperity, in national honor
enlarged N still mo
generous recognition of the rights and the better
ing of mankind, to help her forward in which he
is by nature, by service, by study and by steady
growth so rarely fitted In such a man the stall
wart the faithful, the older soldiers of the Re-
publican party find the living embodiment of that
blazing fire for freedom that adherence of OPP
preston, that sturdy independence for the right,
which kindled their own hearts in the old anti
slavery days-GoUernor Long at Fanem Hall
AGREE with the Democratic platform that the
question above all other questions in this country
Is the question of the free ballot. We can go
through again, II need be, another war; we can 90
through again, If need be- another period of de-
preston and poverty and want and hard times like
that through which we have emerged but we
cannot permit the ballot box, by which the Amer
lean people expresses its will, to be tainted with
fraud. have no patience with the men, whether
they are Democratic politicians, whether they are
Independent essayists, or whether they are Re-
publican doctors OF divinity, who would seek to
divert the attention OF the people from this issue
In 1868 sixty thousand fraudulent naturalization
papers were issued in the space of seven DAYS
from two inferior courts in the state of New York
and sent in blank broadcast over New York and
Connecticut and New Jersey You know the his
tory OF the political massacres in Louisiana; you
know the history OF Vcksburg | should like to
ask the gentlemen who say that this question
which the American people feel so deeply Is only
raised by dishonest politicians for political ends
or those men who declare that is better for the
negro that he should not vote, to answer few
questions Has there been any massacre at Vicks-
burgY Did Chisholm die on his bed or was he
murdered? Have his murderers been convicted
or are they at large? Was Dixon shot in the back?
Were there any tissue ballots In South Carolina?
Was there any attempt TO steal an entire state
government at once in the state Of Maine or not?
Are these things public dangers, or are they not?
Senator Hodr at Fdneua Hall.
MRs. GARFIELD abides beyond question. With
less brilliant and positive presence, with less
vital and powerful temperament, than those which
have made Mrs. Hayes the force for beauty and
good which she is in the White House, Mrs Gar
field has charm as unique and real, all her own
unconseiously ! made myself the liege Of this
lady years ago. 1t WAS when a woman called q
woman of genius") said, ptyingy to me, az
she surveyed General Garfield on the floor of the
house, How unfortunate that his wife is not hi,
equal Do you know Mrs. Garfield ?" asked
ono; but have heard" 4" know her." | said
"and know that she Is her husbands equal moi
only, but In more than one respect his superior y
That was ten years ago. Since then have seer
many women come to the surface OF capitoliai
life out of obscurity, and go back into obscurit,
again; have seen hundreds Of so-called Leader
OF society" shrive and 60 out in the scorchinl
flame Of fashion; while | have followed with
tender heart this woman, the wife of famou
mana woman whom nobody called "leader
She, meanwhile, has not been lifted off her feet
as many women are, by her husbands rising for
living; no airs" And In Washington In Off
cial life that means eyerythng---ndicative o
character. She has moved ON In the tranquil teno
of her unobtrusve way, In life OF absolute de
votion to her duty; never forgetting the demand
OF her position, or neglectng her friends. We
making 1t her first charge to bless her home.
teach her children, to fit her boys for college /
be the equal friend, as well az the honored wift
OF her husband. Gentle. patient, unobtrusye a
most to timidity, wise in speech aud action, keenl
intelligent, literally educated conscientiousy d,
voted to everything good-this il the woman vii
will perpetuate the loving consecrated life Ia,
to-day abides In the White House. IL IA Its mi