The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-10-06
Political Paragraphs.

FoANhNS1h oA@3hF
Secretary Schurz is to speak five
times IN German in Ohio before the
October election.
Mr.. Evarts' phrase, "desiccated
Democracy" is so apt that it is likely
10 stick to the party for many a day.
-Eb.
Major Grout writes from the West
that he considers Vermont the Fort
Donelson of the campaign, Maine the
Shiloh, and Indiana viii be the Gettys-
burg.
A chrome Is offered for a Democratic
reason why a change should occur in
the policy Of the government. Not
one has yet been presented. W.
Standard.
Miss Nellie Holbrook, the young
woman from California who is making
Republican speeches, is to speaS Mt
Hartford, New Haven and several
other places in Connecticut.
Congressman Blackburn in the House
of Representatives April D, 1879:
''We do not intend TO stop until we
have stricken the last vestige of your
war legislation from the statute book"
Suppose a solid Southern Congress
should tack a lot of claims to an APP
preparation bill, would Hancock, if he
were President, be strong enough aud
brave enough to veto the bill and stick
to il?
Senator Jones of Nevada says that
the report published by the New York
World, that he had abandoned the Re-
publican party, is stupid invention of
the enemy and without a shadow Of
foundation.
The Mormon party in Utah
have nominated for congressional del
egate A. G.. Campbell, n wealthy mi
ner and a good man. lie is a Demo-
crat, but will be supported by the Re-
publicans against George q. Cannon,
whom the Mormons hope to return.
Four supreme judges will retire from
old age in the next four years. Should
their places be filled by a Democratic
President there would then be a ma
iority of the supreme court with con-
rederate procliyities. - Philadelphia
Press.
The Republican party may be strick-
Ell down by the people. The only in
complete service in its pledges is the
pledge that there shall be q free ballot
throughout the land. Such n party
may fall, but, if it does, truth, liberty
and reason will fall with it.-EUartS
Specie at ". y.
The Grcenback campaign poets are
in n fearful state of worry. They
can't find suitable words to rhyme
with Weaver. They can't use "de-
ceiver," or ''gricver," or ''leaye her,"
or "thiever," or %''fever," or ''heaver,"
nor lug in his old beaver-because he
never wore one.-NeV Orleans Times.
President Hayes administration has
had no better commentator than
that which Hugh McCulloch, a Tilden
man in 1876, gave it at Cooper insti-
tute, New York, Wednesday evening.
"Mr Hayes" he said, twas no choice
of mine, but his administration rivals
the best, not excepting the first"
General Hancock says he IS oppos-
ed to the payment of the Rebel claims
presented 10y Rebel members of Con-
gress and now pending in that body.
No doubt he thinks so, but, if elected,
it will be mainly by Rebel votes, and
he could nc more stop them than he
could a stampeded drove of buifaloes
on the grand prairie.-Er.
Buffalo Commercial AdUertiSer:
General Joseph L. Johnston recent
ly said in the presence of a gentleman
who repeated his words to us that ga
northern man would be treated any
where in the south according to his So
cial claims-just as he would be any
where-only he must not talk Repub-
lican politics"
The correspondent of the Hartford
Post conversed recently with Mrs.
Hancock. She said she read Repub-
lican papers exclusively, because the
Democratic papers, which spoke only
in praise of her husband, were toe
monotonous besides she wanted to
know what her husband had been do.
ing all these years. General Hancock
since the o~ttice-seekers began the hunt
for place has lost thirty pounds, ayoir.
dupois.