Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-19
Che fireman.
MONTPELIER. VT.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10. 1882.
Two Methods,

been favored with couple OF Pennsylva-
mia attorney generals. Ons of thom,
Wayne Mcveagh, was selected by Presi.
dent Garfield because he was supposed to
be good lawyer and probably also be-
cause he represented an clement IN Penn
sylvania politics with which tho president
was In sympathy.
For some ycars Simon Cameron aud his
soa Don have "run" the republican party
ID that state by system Of machine work
inside the party. This reign has become
81 distastefal to many republicans that
some 10000 of them boiled tho state tick.
ct last fall and came near giving the state
over to the democrats. In the prepare
lions for the state convention to be held
three weeks from now the same ana
chinery has been put to work and Ia sixty
of the sixty.eight counties delegates are
slid to have been elected not Ly the body
Of republican voters, but by those having
control of machine something in the
nature of the republican associations"
that elect delegates in New York city.
Senator Mitchell who appears to be a
sensible man has written a letter in which
he lays down the doctrine that tho repub-
lcan party must be controlled by the re-
publican voters, and in this tho senator is
right and if the Independents who follow
the lead of MacVeash and Wolfe would
undertake in conjunction with men like
Mitchell to accomplish this result it might
be reached.
But Mr.. MacVeagh always acts as
though his being brother in-law Of Don
Cameron made it necessary for him to
play into the hands of the latter. The ex
attorney general is bound TO be so critical
and cross that practically he is no good
His conduct of his Office in tho star-route
matters was 80 spasmodic aud nervous
that the first encounters always resulted
fivorably for Brady and Dorsey. And
when Arthur became president MacVeagh
did nothing more and fairly ran away out
OF the office.
Mr.. Brewster, the new attorney general,
proceeded to learn what ought to be done
in these cases and since he has had the
reins in his hands business progress has
bsen made. And now under Mr.. Brcws.
ter's management the men who are
charged with having plundered the treas
ury arc beginning to find outathlt really
something is going 10 be done about it.
But while Brewster is at work, having
moro than caught up the work that his
predecessor ought TO have done, Mr., Mac
Veagh appe"rsi as political prophet and
s,ge. lie didn't indict the star-router3 very
much, bat he docs iudict the republican
party. There arc several counts, one of
which is that the party is given over to
support of the Malone movement in Viz
GINA and other like things in other south
orn states.
No doubt the Malone movement doesn't
please the sx.attorney general, First they
propose to pay part of the state debt only.
Well, does Mr., MaoVeagh know anybody
who propose, to pay all Of it7 Tho read.
ias.crs are DO more honest than the bour
hons; that is all there Is 10 that. Next
the Mahoue combination now has large
negro voting clement, which Mr.. Mac,
Veash must consider ignorant and not up
to his ideas Of what things should BE-. In
fact, Malone IS not nj tue head O. Il high
toned party. His party would haze been
higher toned ii the bourbon plan Of shut
ting out negroes by imposing a poll tax
had worked better than 1t did.
Mr. MacVengh discovers oil the sius Of
his party friends, bat Is as blind as a bat
10 anything else that Is wrong. They have
run things in the south for years by worse
machinery than that In Pennsylvania OF
which he SO bitterly and .iastly complains.
The working machine was for time Tue
shot gun and has lately been tho tissue
ballet.
Now under Mr.. Brewster's administra.
ton Of the department Of justice there is
coming TO be little Justice ,iono 10 the
msh who have stolen control Of tho state
Of South Csro!int. Font N en- were con
victca Saturday in The United States circuit
court there of election frauds and the trial
OF others is coming on. Two OF the white
men on tho jury now cry baby and say
they didn't mean TO sign any such verdict;
but that is Only an illustration Of what
nice persuasive powers the South Carolina
chivalry have, Their papers have pro-
'astci against these trials. and now they
~ axe il very uncomfortable for any jury
man who has done his sworn drty.
r1o independent movements i'll the
sou h nra protest ng.ns, the shn. gun
and tissue ballot systems which have made
local government there farce and have
made the south uaj1slly solid in national
POLITICS. Mr.. MacVea.h can only SEQ
the Independent notes; the bourbon beams
he has no vision for.
GA tho whole we would give more for
man OF business ability like Mr.. Brewster
and Sen ltor Mitchell than for man 50
crotchety ~ M,cVeagh whose opposition
- the Cancrans is the only reasonable
explanation we could ever SIC OF theil
continued success in Pennsylvania politics
When the anti. Cameron republicans be
gin to have representative men who ln.vt
wisdom as well as knowledge and wht
don't know so much that they don't know
anything, they will have better success it
relieving the state from being run by Tx
ancient Simon and bis heir.
Tie president has nominated Ada Swee
to be pension agent at Chicago, and Sam.