News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
MOLE AND COMMENT.

Gen. Grant said to a reporter at
Old Point Comfort recently that he
had but little opportunity to look into
the political situation, but from what
he could gather it seemed to him that
the Republicans would nominate
either Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Arthur.
A Boston dispatch says the Blaine
men are at work in that State to Sc
cure delegates in the district conven-
tions favorable TO his nomination, if
not as first, as a second choice. But
the best indications point to a hearty,
if not solid Edmunds delegation
from Massachusetts. The most infu
entail leaders deprecate the setting
up of any machinery, believing that
the very decided Republican opinion
in the State for Edmunds will be suf-
fcient to influence the choice of Ed
munds delegates. The great body of
Massachusetts independents are pro-
nounced for Edmunds and Lincoln.
The Democratic protest against the
proposed civil-service reform bill is
based on partisan assumptions which
the practical operations of this meas
ure elsewhere do not bear out. 1t
seems to be assured that the new
commission will set up mandatory
of Republican office holders, a pre-
diction purely gratuitous and petty.
Charles Theodore Russell could tell
John /. Baker better than that, pro-
vided the blue eyed philosopher of
Beverly was at all disposed to consid-
er this measure on its merits.
The report of the Senate committee
on Territories, accompanying the bill
admitting Dakota into the Union says
the area of the new State Is about
1900 square miles, making it the
eighth in size. To the objection that
the population is not enough, the re-
port says that of twenty States adj
mitted from the Territories only foul
had the required number of inhabit.
ants at the time of admission.
A Syracuse, On. Y. } despatch
announcing the call for district
convention of that district, says it is
probable that delegates will be chosen
not pledged to any candidate, but il
favor of the nomination either of Ed
munds or Blaine. Mr.. Carroll E
Smith, editor of the Syracuse JoarnG
and member of the Republican State
Committee, states in his paper thai
Arthur's nomination is a remote con-
tingency. The Syracuse STANDARD
states that Blaine is liked less in thai
section than he was in 1876.
The town of Durango, on the Den
yer and Rio Grande railroad in south
western Colorado, has been blockadeC
for weeks, and at last accounts mea
and grain were being carried to it
over the snow, by mule power. Fo
month no mails were received, bu
telegraph communication was unbro
: ken.
A carload of Mormon converts hal
just left Chattanooga for Utah, colec
ted by the missionary elders in Ten
nessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas
This is the beginning of the regula
spring shipments, and other carloads
will follow.
The conference of colored men
which is called at Pittsburg, Pa.
!, April 20, is not national affair, but
is confined to residents of Illinois
, Kansas. Michigan, New Jersey, In
diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connect
cut, New York, Massachusetts ant
the District of Columbia. The cal
comes from the colored mems STATE
central committee of Illinois, and The
announced objects of the conference
are to condemn the shotgun policy
|, to organize for the Presidential cam
paign, and to express sympathy will
the bulldozed brethren of the south
The Connecticut negroes will cleo
their delegates at Hartford, April 2
and there is likely to be considers
BILE gathering at Pittsburg. The fact
that the movement originates in Hi.
Eois, and that it is cordially Endorsed
by the Washington colored men, who
have warmly declared for Logan
makes it altogether probable that the
meeting will form part of the Presi.
dental boom for the Illinois Senator
In fact Logan now has the support OF
nearly every newspaper edited by col.
ored men.
If the tariff bill fails, there will be
the biggest tariff campaign this coun.
try has seen since wbig times, and
the revenue reformers will not chalk
up their platform and run. 1t is the
protectiOnists who chalk and run this
time, for the reformers will ask for
nothing more than the tariff commits
sion promised as the reasonable need
of the country.