News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

both these occasions dark horses won.
Among the equine species of this
shade on the Republican side is Sen
ator Joe. Hawley, of Connecticut.
Hawley has many elements to recon-
mend him as Presidential candidate.
The soldiers of the country are friend
ly towards him, and the workingmen
generally regard him as having a sim
cere interest in their cause, while he
is looked upon by his party as an
earnest and consistent Republican,
without the fractional alliances which
weigh down some of the other candi-
dates for the nomination. Said a
prominent Republican politician to
your correspondent at the Capitol the
other day: "Sixteen years ago when
[ sat IN the convention at Chicago,
which gave General Grant his first
nomination, / said to another dele
gate at my elbow, as General Haw-
ley took the presiding officers chair
amidst the hurrah of the convention:
Il want, after we have had eight
years of Grants services as President,
to have a chance to vote for Hawley
for the same place, and now [ feel
that my chance will come next fall"
On the Democratic side, Ex-Govern-
or Curtin, of Pennsylvania, looms up
with a boom just prominent enough
to be seen, and looks dangerous to his
present political associates with Pres
idential bees in their bonnets. Were
he little less attached to the idea of
protection, he would be very for
midable candidate for the Democrat
ic nomination but his friends assert
that this will help him, as will be
seen before the tariff discussion ends,
and their convention assemblies. The
old Governor did a very becoming
thing by Secretary Frelinghuysen In
his management of the 'ELasker-reso-
lutions" affair, and thereby he made
friends on all sides. General Butler
is lying low and keeping dark; and it
is just this that makes a good many
Democrats fear that he has his eye
open on the July Chicago nomination.
There was q time when nobody
thought that Butler would ever again
be found training in Democratic COM
panyi; and there was time when no
Massachusetts man, unless perchance,
it might have been Butler himself,
even dreamed that the hero of Great
Bethel and Fort Fisher would be Gov
er of the old Bay State; but both of
these things came to pass, and so pos
sibly may this latter, which is now
limited at.
Congressman Barksdale, of Missis-
sippi, was before the Senate SUBJ
committee on privileges and elections
on Wednesday morning. He began
his testimony with apparent willing
ness to talk fully and freely about the
political methods of the Democrats
of Copiah and Yazoo counties; but
when confronted by Senators Hoar
and Frye with the records of the pro-
ceedings of some Of the political
meetings in which he took part, he
was suddenly troubled with loss OF
memory, and finally refused, in SUBJ
stance, to answer at all. 1t is 8
matter of regret with every true pat
riot that the issue of southern out
RACES" should still enter into political
canvasses but it is at the same time,
matter of deep shame with the
same class of persons that these out
ro0ac ac tarrihla and rpvOltinU nc
they have been pictured, continue to
be perpetrated, as has been shown by
the testimony before the Sherman
committee that they are. The Dem
ocrats will not need to howl about the
"bloody shirt" when the shotgun pol
icy is abandoned and murders and
other crimes for political purposes
cease to be committed in the south.
C. U.