Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-04-05
POLITICAL.


alarmed at the number and kind of Re-
publicans who have said they wouldn't
vote for Grant if nominated. They are
not Independents. nor Germans, nor
Greeley men. They are among the rank
and file of sturdy Republicans who for
twenty-five years have read their weekly
or daily Republican paper, and gone to
church on Sunday and on every election
day have voted the Republican ticket.
Now they tell their paper and their par
ty to go hang if they nominate Grant
that they will vote for any other man
the party may nominate, but that they
will not at the dictation of Don Came
ron and Mr.. Conkling vote to give Grant
or any other man three terms of the
Presidency when Washington, and JEFF
ferson and Jackson and Lincoln had but
two. Now we recognize that great
deal of this talk is from men who ca
gerly want Blaine and are full of resent
ment, that Conkling and Cameron are
trying to kill him off. But much of it
seems to be very intense and earnest
and deep-rooted. And when added to
the Independent and Liberal Republic
can and German and young Republi-
can Reformers'' vote, which will be
largely against Grant, the situation fills
us with the gravest concern as to the
final result.-Keokuk (Loaqa) Gate City
(Grant Rep
1t nov seems very clear, in view
of facts and information coming to us
from every section. of the country, that
there cannot be. full and hearty vote
Of the Republican party for either Gen.
eral Grant or Senator Blame at the
coming presidential election-certainly
not for the former, and most probably
not for the latter. Those who are strong
ly committed to either of the above
names will, Of course, find it hard to
yield their preferences in favor of any
other candidate; but they must do SO
or do worse, and be disgraced by defeat.
There is no use in s0ishing things were
different. There is no use in fighting
for nomination of this man, that man,
or any man save one who can unite the
entire strength of the party, and bring
out the very last vote to insure bril-
liant triumph. Such a man we believe
to be Senator Edmunds, of Vermont
He is patriotic statesman, sound
Republican, and wise politician.
There can be no successful or reasonable
opposition to him. He would, by his
purity of character, great learning, and
long experience bring honor to the high
position to the party who elected him
and to the entire nation.-N. 7. Times.
The unanimity of the Republican
press Of Pennsylvania in favor of Mr..
Blaine for President is one of the most
remarkable political events in history.
Of all the Republican papers upon our
exchange list, they are all. we believe,
outspoken for this distinguished states.
man, except one or two. In fact, they
are only representing the sentiment Of
the people, as it is a rare thing to en-
counter man who fayors any other can
didate. This feeling, too, is daily in
tensifying, and any idea that Pennsyl
vania would vote for any other man a
the National Convention would not on
ly be absurd, but monstrous. German
tO,Oa PENN Telegraph (Rep.)
Secretary Sherman's speech in Mans
field, Ohio, contains manly reference
to his own political prospects. H
speaks of his friends having made hin
a candidate for the Presidency, and add
that there is one condition under whicl
his name shall not be presented to tn
Chicago Convention. That condition
the dissent of a large body of Republi
cans of his own State as expressed i
the election of delegates If that ez
preston shall not be substantially unan
imous for him, he will not allow hi
name to be used. In word, he. mus
be the candidate of an owerwhelmin
majority of his party in his own State
and that preference must be expresse
unreservedly and unequivocally. or b
will not be candidate at all. This
:. most significant declaration in view {
Senator Blaine's popularity in the Yves
ern Reserve. The speech is one waic
), bears the impress of the Secretary's m;
ture judgment and patriotic impulses
His exposition of the aims of the R,
publican party is clear and strong, an
his declaration that it is the only poll
ical organization which has the eourag
4 and the ability to carry out the gre;
e objects of the National will, is grounde
in the hardest of hard facts in the r
cent experience of the country-the il
competence, dishonesty. and dangero'
tendencies of Democratic rule.-N.
Tribune.