News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
POLITICAL,

alu are Salu 10 DC caplIdl pOlIIclduS.
Motto of the Iowa Republicans
GA school house on every hill, and
no saloons in the valley"
The whiskey ring will make q des-
perate effort to persuade Congress to
repeal the whiskey tax next winter.
Should the strike continue Mr.. Til
den could not send cipher dispatches
IN 1884.
A Democratic nomination for Con-
gress is what Greenbacker Weaver is
to have for his Iowa campaign.
There are twenty-one holdover Sen
ators of the Republican persuasion in
the Iowa Senate, and one Democrat
only.
1t is reported in Ohio that John w.
Bookwalter holds Senator Pendleton
responsible for his defeat in pursuit
of the Governorship.
Butler thinks the Governors of
Massachusetts are insufficiently paid.
However, he will take another term
at the old figure-if he can.
The Illinois Greenbackers got to-
gether at Peoria on the 18th of Aug
ust, in State Convention, to see how
many of them were left.
Congressman Robinson, of Massa-
chusetts, is regarded as the man with
whom the Republicans could most
easily beat Butler for Governor.
Nowhere does the Scott law give
greater satisfaction than in Cincinnati.
Last year the city tax rate was S2.56
on the 500, and this year it will
be S1.7O.
Governor Robe, of Name, whom
the Republicans elected despite the
ProhibitiOnists, announces himself
squarely in favor of prohibitory
amendment to the constitution.
David Davis is on the best of terms
with the Illinois Republicans, and if
he were disposed to do so might make
his boom bigger than those of Logan
and Lincoln combined.
A call has been issued in Maryland
for a coloreG mems State convention
in Baltimore September IS to elect
delegates to the national convention
20 be held in Louisville.
At the civil service examination in
Washington a girl 16 years old, a
pupil in the Washington High School,
exhibited the highest degree of accu-
r&cy in answering the questions of
the commission.
The State Republican Committee
of Massachusetts has designated Bos-
ton as the place of holding the State
Convention, and September 10 as the
date. Charles r. Goldman, of Boston,
was invited to preside.
Many of the old line Democrats in
Virginia denounce the platform adopt
ed by their recent State Convention,
on the ground that it comedies too
much to Malone. The latter says it
will strengthen the Readjuster party.
In Ohio the politicians have in view
not only the immediate result Of the
State election. but the United States
Senatorship; the leading candidates
for which are Foster, Republican, and
Pendleton, Democrat.
The results of the canvasses of
Ohio, made by the Republican and
Democratic State committees, have
been published. The Republican can
vass claims a majority of 25,335 for
the Republicans. The Democratic
canvass claims 1920 majority for
the Democrats.
The Democratic council of Cincin-
natl has just elected five members of
the Board OF Health, four of whom
are saloon keepers. The other has
s.Ireys boon a D,,II,eers,t, s'nd the
other four are presumably of that
persuasion.
Col. John A. Martin, of Kansas,
Secretary of the Republican National
Committee, announces himself as a
candidate for Vice President in 1884.
He is said to be the unanimous choice
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
an organization, which, by the way,
seems likely to be a more powerful
factor in the next campaign than it
ever has been before.
A Southern Democratic paper, the
State, evinces in the fol-
lowing paragraph that it is wiser than
Northern organs of that party can ever
hope to be: 1--WE would give Garfield
the same right to confront the witness
es against him and cross-eXamine them
that we would accord to any other
person, dead or living. Dorsey had
that right himself in his trial, and so
must Garfield. An indictment does
not mean a conviction. Therefore
we say let the dead be heard in his
own defense. Besides, we do not be-
lieve that Democracy can make any
thing but a blunder by assailing the
character of Garfield now"