Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Ice is what Thomas A. Hendricks said of
Gen. Garfield: 81 will tell you whom think
the Republicans should nominate, and whom
/ consider their strongest man he is a true
man, u man of principle, an honest man. and
would make u good President for us all. Per-
sonally, consider him the best man you
could nominate. ! refer To General james
\. Garfield of Ohio
Representative FELTON, of Georgia, who
represents ..moonshiner" constituency, in
a recent speech denounced the administra-
tion and promised that in the event of the
election of Hancock the taxes on whiskey
and tobacco would he forthwith absolutely
abandoned.
The Charleston Is. c. Netos Dem con-
fesscs that there has been no such increase in
the population of that State as a comparison
of the census returns of 1870 and 1880
shows, but maintains that the present CEN
sus is correc. and that the error was in the
census of 1870.
Senator Dorsey, Secretary OF the National
Committee, says that New York is good for
10000 Republican majority. This is also
Governor Cornelrs estimate.
You have my full sympathy in support of
the ticket headed Garfield and Arthur"
writes Grant TO Secretary Dorsey, and he
goes on TO say that he has lost no opportuni-
ty Of saying what he could in conversation
in behalf ofthe ticket. This disposes of one
of the biggest Democratic lies of the cam
paign.
Tom Bcecher, brother to Henry Ward,
has received the Grccnback nomination for
Congress.
The business interests of the country
would be seriously impaired by such a
''ch.nge' as the Democrats propose.
The Republicans of New Jersey have
nominated man for Governor, Frederick
\. Potts, who is almost sure to redeem the
State. lie comes of revolutionary stock, his
great grandfather having been member of
the Continental Congress- and he is one of
the most distinguished Of the citizens of the
little Commonwealth. His popularity is
evinced by the following facts In 1872 he
ran for Congress in the Fourth New Jersey
District, and reduced the usual Democratic
majority oue-half. In 1s1i ha rla for the
Stale Selatc, aud was e.ected by 2S8 major
ity in a county that Usually gives 1000
Democratic majority. In 1878 he ran for
Congress, and though Tilden carried the
district by more than 5000 majority, MIR.
Potts was defeated by only l 500. Mr. Potts
proposes TO make thorough personal can
vass OF the State.
The New York HeraM gives General Han
cock Il rap when it says that ''he is very
stupid citizen who imagines that the man is
going to manage the party instead Of being
managed by it
Senator Conklng has written to personal
friend in Washington that he will enter on
the campaign for Garfield and Arthur in
three weeks and stay in till they are elected.
The Boston Herald, independent says :;
Neither party is sufficiently alive to the de-
mands of real reformers, and the Democratic
party less than the Republican"
j. G. 5 Blackburn, the man who declared
that all the legislation which followed the
war must be wiped off the statute book, has
been reuomnated for Congress by the
Democrats of the seventh district Of Ken
lucky.
Ex-Governor Fenton Of New York, Who is
a shrewd judge Of New York politics. says
there seems to be no doubt that the Republi-
cans will carry the Empire State.
Ex-Governor William H. Smith, recently
-cn0irtrh United sta,eS Histrict Attorney
for one of the circuits in Alabama, has writ
ten careful, categorical statement of spe-
cific instances Of fraud in the late election in
that State, backed by afiidsvits.
Gen. Hancock will have very large SOL
der vote; the whole of the survivors of the
Confederate army.-Ne,15uryport Herald
The Chicago Times (Ind DEM says
''Of five Southern journals, taken at random,
one describes Northern politicians of the
Chicago party Gi bloody shirt warriors who
fattened on the spoils of plunder wrested
from their own government (the govern
mcnt of Il country Of which ''the South is
not conceived as u part las well as stolen
from the enemy second ridicules Il
Northern man who writes the word Nation
with an y large enough 10 include North and
South in one political autonomy, as person
'asiraddle of his own stcm-winding y L
third expresses desire To ''engrave proph-
ccy On stone TO he read of future genera
tons'' that ''the negroes in these States will
he slaves again or cease 10 dwell in the land
of the white man.