Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-25
NUMBER 80.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Senator Jones, of Florida, is an Irishman,
a devOut Roman Catholic, and a carpenter
by trade.
The Cincinnati Commercial is of the opin-
ion that Hon. W. II. English is entitled to
dinner on account Of the Republican success
in Indiana as well as Mr. Dorsey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is now seen in
public life but little, and he writes no let
tiers. Every morning he spends in his study,
for reading is his chief pleasure, and every
afternoon he walks in spite of his dislike for
cold weather. Once in while the venerable
man goes to hear some friend give an
evening lecture. lie will be 7S years old on
May 25th.
No Senator or Representative in Congress
will allow that he authorized the use of his
frank on political documents in the last cam
paign, but three clerks. regular employees of
the Democratic Congressional Committee,
have been found who signed such franks to
tons and tons of matter sin obedience to the
instructions of the manager of that commit
tee," who was not Congressman. These
clerks were ordered to take names that were
short and easily signed, and one says he
wrote at. II. Cobb" on 50, 900 envelopes.
The New York W~H is honest enough to
admit that the Democratic majority of the
House Of Representatives. during its Six
years of power, has done nothing for finau-
cial reform, tariff reform, tax reform or civil
service reform. In fact, it has proved de-
cided failure as to reform, in every particu-
lar.
The Baltimore American says that it is
a significant fact that in those portions of the
South where the Bourbonism is weakest, the
tide Of immigration is strongest, and the In
dustrial progress most apparent. The re-
mark is illustrated by Texas, where the
mourners for the "lost cause" are compara-
lively few, but the growth in wealth and
population has been simply wonderful The
same is relatively true of Florida and Ten
nessee. Bourbonism may be very chivahic
and all that, but it does not pay.
Gen. Grant has slgnifed his intention of /
attending the Inauguration of Gen. Garfield.
The anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
birthday was quietly observed by some of
the citizens of New Orleans The State law
making it public holiday has been repealed
by Democratic Legislature.
Elliott F. Shepard, whom the President
has nominated for United States District
Attorney for the Southern District of New
York, in place of Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
is one of the best known lawyers in New
York, wealthy, an old Republican, who has |
never heldpublic office. He has always been
an active Republican, having been at the head
of the first campaign organization of that
party, which was started in New York in the
campaign of 1856, and both his money and
his work have been at the party's service
ever since. He is q son-in-law of William
III. Vanderbilt.
The Montgomery (Ala) Adrertiser and
Mail calls Davis "a hero" "a patriot" "a
philanthropist" and "a gentleman" while it
stigmatizes Grant as ''the sorry sciolist of
Galena, the maudlin defamer of the South
''the great gift taker and notorious gour-
mand," and ''the great national hog" The
Chicago Tribune adds: ''The Adrertiser and
Mail forgets something. 1t forgets that
Grant succeeded and that Davis failed that
the former never ran away, while the latter
did that the former did not rob his dead
brethren's children. while the latter did
that Grants services to his country were so
great that the nation has not money or honor
enough with which to pay him, while Davis
was an ignominous traitor who was gener-
ously treated by being permitted to wear his
head on his shoulders
Governor Blackburn of Kentucky has just
performed the unparalleled feat of pardon
ing 300 persons in two days. The Governor
wrote letter TO Judge James E. Stewart
last Summer, in which he stated that he
would pardon all the lawless people of Carter
and Lawrence counties, or Regulators, as
they termed themselves, whom Judge Stew
art would recommend, provided they would
deliver themselves up to justice and make
oath that they would never again disturb the
peace of the community. Over 800 put
themselves into the hands Of the authorities,
out of which number Judge Stewart has re-
cOlliileuueu tndt oSV receive the Executive
clemency. As the movement of the troops
to these counties would have cost a consd-
cradle sum before order could have been re-
stored, the Governor thinks he has done the
Commonwealth good work.
The Scranton Republican says: ''Of all the
plans in vogue in the South for the suppress
sion of the Republican vote the plan IN use
in North Carolina is the most scientific and
least obtrusive and dangerous. There is no
bulldozing no ballot-box sluffing, and every
man, black or white, rich or poor, Democrat
or Republican, deposits his ballot without
interference or suggestion. The county
commissioners. who are empowered to sp-
point the election officers, appoint two col
ored Republicans who can neither read nor
write and three Democrats who are reasona-
bly, well qualified for the office When the
count is made the Democratic inspectors
read as many of the Republican tickets to
the Democratic judges as Democratic tickets
as are necessary to the purpose determined
upon, and as the illiterate colored Republican
inspectors know no better the fraud passes
unchallenged. and the Republican candidate
is quietly counted out and no fuss is made"