News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-04
POLITICAL.

Ohio and West Virginia are now thu
only October States, and the tenden
cies of the campaign in each from this
time on will be watched closely by
both parties.
The fact that the father Of Mrs.
Blaine died about six years before the
lady saw James G.. for the first time,
rather knocks the bottom out of the
Democratic scandal about the Repub-
lican nominee. You remember the
Democratic papers alleged that the old
gentleman pursued Mr.. Blaine to
Maine with a shot gun and compelled
him to marry his daughter. This i'm
poses extra work upon the Morey let
ter fraud Democratic National Com
mittee.
Mr.. Hendricks kindly gives Mr..
Cleveland a moral bill of health.
Such certificate from such a source
must be of priceless value.
The New York Star says that the
Democratic managers "gaze with
equanimity on the going of the Irish
and revel in a vision of the coming of
the German" There is a good deal
more going than coming in progress,
however. ---
The New York Herald thinks that
if the Hendricks missive is genuine ii
is the worst blunder of the year, and
shows that candidates for high office
ssmay be guilty of worse things than
those that lead to scandal"
A Brattleboro man assures the
Globe that Vermont is honey-combed
with Independents. This man must
be one of the eleven who made up the
recent State Independent Conference
in Vermont.
Senator Hoar of Mass, has written
q two column letter in which he meets
and answers at every point Car
Schurz's speech before the New York
Independents. The Independents are
circulating 2, 100000 copies ofSchurz' s
speech, and the Republicans will fol-
low suit with like number of copies
of Mr.. Hoar's letter.
The Herald thinks that the formal
abandonment of Cleveland by the re-
ligious press "does not involve any
loss to the Democratic vote" Thou
sands of conscientious voters who al
first thought they could vote for Mr..
Cleveland have followed the lead OF
the religious papers in abandoning
him.
Saturday evening last was the &C.
casion of three large political gather,
ings in Portland, Me.
Gen. Fremont protests that he is
still Republican and that his name
was announced among the speakers
at the New York Butler meeting
without his consent.
The New York Star thinks it is an
unsettled question whether the Irish
voters who will support Cleveland are
more numerous than those who will
cast their influence for Blaine.
Considering that the candidates
make light of General Buffers candi-
dacy, the Democratic press devotes a
great deal of space to assaults upon
him. The New York Void gives
three columns to q review of his New
Orleans career.
The Albany Times (Dem.) is de-
pressed by the course of the New
York Independent in repudiating
Cleveland, and says, gloomily: "Here
is the record ard the outcome of that
great independent vote which was so
much to be desired"
The Buffalo Commercial AdUertiser
says of the Hendricks letter: ''We
submit that more extraordinary
epistle than this was never penned by
a subordinate candidate in a great po-
litical campaign. 1t is a cold, heart
less, sullen admission that his chief is
in a bad pickle and the party in a
worse one, but that it is too late to
rectify the mistake"
The old straddler Hendricks, the
tail of the Democratic ticket, has fol-
lowed Cleveland and now comes out
with his letter of acceptance. Of
course it is non-committal on the tar
iff and the other great issues of the
day.
The New York Tribune, which has
been making a study of the census
statistics and political almanacs, esti-
mates that the probable vote for the
Presidency in November next, will be
very close on ten and half millions,
and may exceed that number. The
vote in 1880, using round figures,
was 100000 in total population of
40, 81 900, and in a male population
of the voting age reported at roundly
1851, 900 for the 80 States.
This, from the Congregationalist,
merits the attention of those expound-
ers of morals, the New York Post,
Springfield Republican and the Bos-
ton Herald: This campaign, more
than any other within ourrecollection,
f not actually more than any other
n our national history, will be known
o posterity as that in which it was
argued soberly and persistently that