St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-30
Political Notes.

If John Sherman has Ohio and half
the southern votes ia the Chicago con-
vention, as is now reported, he has a
fourth of the convention to begin with.
The question of biennial sessions is
before the present Wisconsin Legisla-
ture, and the Milwaukee Sentinel says
that, if the wishes of majority of the
people are regarded, it will be put to
popular vote.
Frederick Hassaurek, the leading
German editor of Ohio, says of Grants
nomination, 1.-The German Republic
cans will vote solidly against him.
That vote would lose him Ohio and de-
feat him.
Judge E. R. Hoar tells a Boston
Transcript reporter that he should re-
gard Gen. Grants nomination as a con-
fessiOn of poverty of the Republican
party, adding: ave are no longer en-
gagged in quenching the embers of
great rebellion we want statesman
at the head of the government, such as
we have had during the last three
years."
The proposed amendment to the
Maine Constitution, making the cleo
ton of Governor to depend upon a plu-
rally instead of a majority vote, will
etfectually prevent such complications
as the present, which grow out of the
clumsy system now prescribed.
The West Virginia delegates to the
Chicago convention will be divided be-
tween Sherman, Blaine, and Wash
burn Cincinnati CONNER cial Ind.)
The more the Pennsylvania Republi-
cans have chance to express them
selves, the more Blaine seems to boom.
i Norristown Herald (Rep.)
We know of no other moral to be
drawn from the Maine middle than
that it is very desirable in political
disputes to own the Judges Utica
Observer (Dem.)
The cause of free government every
where is under lasting obligations to
Gen. Chamberlain, who at the last
stood alone between the reasonable
conspiratOrs and their success. He was
the man upon whom all people turned
their eyes, and he did not disappoint
them.-[ Boston Advertiser (Rep.)
In the year 1880 there will be four
eclipses of the sun and two of the
moon. There will also be an eclipse of
the Democratic party. The latter will
be total, and plainly visible, without
the aid of smoked glass, in the Eastern,
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the Southern states.-[Troy Wing.
If by so fortunate chance or so ia
vOrable providence, Mr.. Edmunds of
Vermont might be nominated by one
party and Mr.. Bayard of Delaware by
the Other-while there would still re-
main political differences to be concern
ed for, the country might have the hap
piness of being sure from the first that
its next chief magistrate would be at
least man of integrity and personal
honor.-[ Boston Congregationalist.
Lincoln was wonderful talker and
teller of stories. 1t is said his stories
were improper. | have heard of them,
but | never heard Lincoln use an i'm
proper word or phrase. | have some
times, when L hear his memory called
in question, tried to recall such thing,
but cannot. always found him pre-
eminently clean-minded man. L re-
gard these stories as exaggerations.
Lincoln's power of illustration, his hui
NOR, was inexhaustible.- Gen. Grant.
Senator Edmunds' friends in Yer
mont will make mistake if they do
not promptly start as big a boom for
him as the state can hold. 1t might
decide a good many men who are
thinking good deal of Edmunds, but
are in doubt whether any one else
wants him. Edmunds is silent first
choice with many men of the best or
der in New York, Boston and Wash
ington.-[Spr. Repub. Qnd.)
The sharp protest uttered by inf1uen-
tial Independent Republicans against a
deliberate effort to drag the country
back to the scandals of Grantism is
having it's effect. The language used
is vigorous enough to illuminate the
situation for reasoning partisans. The
best class of Republicans will not sub
NIT to the nomination of Gen. Grant at
Chicago, and influential party journals
throughout the country are more and
more seeing and saying this from week
to week. AS light grows, the mention
of Sherman's availability increases.
Edmunds and Wheeler and Washburn
and Conkling draw scattered support:
but John Sherman is still regarded as
standing at the top of the column of
ayaila bility.--GSpr, Rep. lind.