Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-04

distillers viii have to pay their taxes
Ike other people. That is all.
There are several little Preslden-
tial booms about heretofore but little
mentioned, booms no larger than a
mans hand, and which seemed to
have no more commercial value than
a last years bird nest, but they have
in them possibilities which makes
the possessors of big white elephant
booms turn pale at their very men
ton. The position of the Republi-
can party two months before the
meeting of the convention respect
ing the man to be placed at the
head Of the ticket, is very much the
same as it was four, and eight years
ago at the same distance from the
nomination, and on both of those
occasions, dark horses won. Among
the equine species of this shade on
the Republican side is Senator Joe.
Hawley, of Connecticut. Hawley
has many clements to recommend
him as Presidential candidate. The
soldiers of the country are friendly
toward him, and the workingmen
generally regard him as having a sin
cere interest in their cause, while he
is looked upon by his party as an
earnest and consistent Republican,
without the factional alliances which
weigh down some of the other can
didates 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 Chi
cago, which gave General Grant his
first nomination, l said to another
delegate at my. elbow, as General
lIawley took the presiding officers
chair amidst the hurrah of the con-
vention: 4 want, after we have
had eight years Of Grants services
as President, to have chance to
vote for Hawloy for the same place,
and l now feel that my chance will
come next fall"
The latest scheme of the Demo
cratic free-traders-the one which
is being discussed about the hotel
lobbioS tonight is to postpone de-
bates on the regular Morrison bill,
and taking up, discussing, and if
possible, passing the several bills,
charging the free list and reducing
the tariff on distinct articles. The
belief is harbored that these scpar-
ate measures can be carried through
without strenuous opposition, and
that more can be done toward rcduc-
ing the tariff by dealing with it in
that manner than by considering
such q stupendous proposition as
the Morrison bill at one time. This
mode of procedure reminds us OF
the very sympathetic man who de-
sired to crop his dogs ears, and
with the purpose Of hurting tho
poor creature as little as possible
cut off a little each day until he had
trimmed them as closely as he
thought looked well.
The bill introduced by Converse
of Ohio, restoring the duty on wool
will be called up in the House abou
next Monday. The friends of thu
measure are confident that it vii
pass, though the Morrison men wht
are supposed to be in the majority
threaten to knock it higher thar
Gilderoy's kite, however high tha
may be.
Ex-Congressman Shultz, Of Ohio
is in Washington, and is yentilatine
his opinions on politics quite freely
In his view the failure Of the Demo
cratic Legislature Of his State to re
peal the license law will have tn,
effect of turning the liquor elemen
against tie party, and result il
making Ohio strongly Republican
in October, and in increasing thu
Republican delegation in Congress
from the Buckeye State. In tn,
name Of all the gods at once what i
to become of the whiskey mel
if the Democrats do not stand by
them?
The bankruptcy bill will be called
up in the Senate at an early day
There is no measure Of greater I'M
portance to the commercial interest
of the country before Congress thar
this. That q law of the natur,
named in the bill should be enacted
is generally conceded, but the pre-
else shape that it should take is tn,
unsettled question.
CONGRESSMAN Ellis. Of Louisiana