Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21
Notes and Notions.

Hancock has good military record, but yor
know Union soldiers never run well on the
Democratic ticket"
THE Troy, New York, Times says that {
personal friend of Senator Conklng re
marks You can look for hotter cam
paign in this state than we ever had before
If Roscoe Conkling can make il hot
INGERsoIL describes the situation in an
epigram. He says that the Democratic nom
inees are not good enough to get any Repub
can votes, nor bad enough to excite great
enthusiasm in the Democratic party.
| ONEoNTA Herald: "a Portlandville, OF
sego county, Democrat has against his house
a flag bearing these words with Han
cock and English, and God banished from
the constitution, our liberty is SAFE"
REPoRTs from German communities in
various parts Of the west show that there is
a growing enthusiasm for Garfield The
fact that he understands the German Ian
guage and German customs tends greatly tc
help him with that element of the popula
| ton
IT is great compliment to General Gar
field that those who know him best-no mat
ter Of what party-have only kind things to
say of him. Payne and Thurman and Black
and Watterson-all conspicuous Democrats
unite in characterizing him as above re
proach.
HANCOCK never saw any harder fighting
or more Of it to the minute than Garfield
| did at Stone River and Chckamauga II
was not as scientific as that on the Peninsula
or at Gettysburg, but it was the kind thai
drew the sting out Of the southern confed
eracy very fast.
| WASHINGTON LETTER: I" Not stability
dressed chore boy, ringing the college bel
for his tuition; not struggling schoolmas
ter in country district; not carpenter
shingling houses in this broiling weather
but feels that Garfed's nomination digni
fies his own Woodworking lot"
MARTIN I. TowNsHEND "There could
have been no union upon Grant, Blaine or
| Sherman. Garfield | consider the second
man in America. That is all care about
saying, and you can put that in any kind Of
pipe you want to aud smoke it. III leave
you to infer who the first man is
GARFIELD was not educated in the art OF
of war at West Point at an expense of Sl2,
600 to the government, and this was one
reason why he was able 10 drive Humphrey
Marshall's "army OF liberation " out of Ken
lucky at one-hundredth part of the cost OF
Hancock's killing two decrepid Indians.
LLoYD's WEEKLY Nondon): "Such a
man as Garfield is likely to do well in any
position in life. He is, indeed, fit for any
service; and the Republicans have been well
inspired, we venture to think in the choice
they have made. We picture to ourselves
in James Abram Garfield second President
Lincoln"
THE Boston Traveller learns from gen
tleman usually well informed as to Genera
Buffers plans that letter may be expected
from the general before long, pledging hi,
support to General Hancock and putting
himself in the way of the regular Demo
cratic nomination for governor, which he
means to claim.
| INDIANAPOLIS Journal: "The Democratic
convention of 1868 pronounced the recon
struction acts unconstitutional, revolution
airy and void Hancock was candidat,
before that convention. The last conven
ton, which nominated him, pledged itsel
anew to the doctrines and traditions of tn,
party"
GENERAL GRANT; az can say withou
hesitation that will give General Garfield
my hearty support There is no reason
why any Republican should not vote fol-
Garfield. know him to be man of tai
ent, thoroughly accomplished and an upright
man. have nothing against General Han
cock but Garfield is the man for the office. ;
IN regard to Hancock the Washington
correspondent of the Boston Herald says
"a good many officers feel that it is liable
to injure the service to have prominent Of
ficers who are not at the head of the army
taken up by rival political parties and put
through the rough and tumble of a poitca
campaign. 1t engenders criticisms and dis
paragement of the entire service"
THE most careful estimates of the new
census make the Southern states lose thir
teen congressman and gain three-two in
Texas and one in Missouri. The Northern
states will probably lose eight members and
gain eighteen-the gains going to Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas
Colorado and California. Thus the north
will gain ten at the expense of the south.
HARPER's WEEKLY: General Hancock
is an amiable gentleman, but as president
from the very fact of his total and profes
sional unfamiliarity with political affairs
and men, he would be especially in the hand.
of his party managers. His strength as a
candidate is precisely that of his party and
no more. He will get the vote of no man
who does not prefer to see the government
in Democratic hands"
GALUsHA A. Grow: "The Democrats
are now Boosting that if they elect their
candidate they will insugurate him. OF
course they will. So will we inaugurate
General Garfield if he is elected. They said
in 1867 that Lincoln should not be inaugu-
rated, and they repeated the threat in 1876
But both Lincoln and Hayes were elected
and inaugurated, and II Garfield is elected
he will be inaugurated if it requires mil
lion bayonets."
DIR. FELTON,, the Independent member OF
congress from the seventh Georgia district,
in speech at Marietta in that state last
week referred to General Garfield as fol.
lows al know General Garfield personally,
have been on the same committee with him,
and he is gentleman, of good morals, So
cial, clever, and has a great intellect intel
lectually he has no superior in the house.
He is good man, has mind Of inexhausted
resources, and have not word to say to
detract from his integrity"
New YORK Times: "The country realizes
that the Democratic party, in full possession
of the government, with ample power to in
crease the number Of judges Of the supreme
court, and through its president and senate
to pack the bench of that tribunal, would
be quite capable of working revolution in