News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-14
POLITICAL.

The Alexandria,, Va, Gazette tells
the Democratic party that it will not
do to nominate President Cleveland
or any other New Yorker in 1888.
The South, it says, has done the vot-
ing for the Democratic party while
the North has furnished the candi-
dates, and it is tired and won't do it
any longer. Cleveland's success. it
| declares, has been more disastrous to
the party than any of its defeats. The
Gazette demands the nomination of
Speaker Carlisle.
! The Ohio Democrats, to catch the
labor vote, nominated John Mcbride,
president of the miners union. for
Secretary Of State. A large meeting
of workingmen has just been held at
Glen Roy, at which resolutions were
passed censuring Mr.. Mcbride for ac-
cepting the nomination, disproving
his course, deploring the irreparable
harm done to organized labor by such
procedure, and expressing unqualified
condemnation of all meetings called
by Mcbride in the interest of the
Democracy. Like sentiments seem
to be very prevalent among the la
boring men Of the State.
Figures compiled in the office of the
second assistant Postmaster General
show that the cost of the star-route
service during the last fiscal year was
S5,414,804, a decrease Of $62,623,
or 1.57 per cent, as compared with
the p eceding fiscal year. The steam
boat service was also reduced in cost
during the year from $563,0O2 to
SAC, 419 or little over twenty per
cent. Little items like the above are
being sent daily over the wires from
the departments. They only render
more inexplicable the action of the
recent congress in making its appro-
priations for the present fiscal year
98,000,000 larger than were voted
by its immediate predecessor.-Kjng-
ston Freeman.
The Democrats of Indiana are hop
ing to elect Legislature which will
send Democrat to the United States
Senate, in place of Benjamin Harri-
son, and the Democrat who expects
to be chosen is L. P. Gray, the pres
ent Governor. He is an adroit polit-
ical manipulation, and in this respect
has the advantage Of ex-senator Jc-
seph E. Mcdonald. The AdUeHiser
says that the kind of a man Gray is
may be judged from this extract from
his opening speech at Logansport
81 would vote for the devil if it was
necessary to secure the election of q
Democrat to the United States SEN
ate" He is an open opponent of civ
il service reform principles, and IA
vors ''re varding workers with the of
fees"
THE SAME OLD REBEL.-Jeferso
Davis fills several columns of the Bal
timore Sun with a rambling and vitu-
perative reply to Gen. Sherman's re-
cent " historical statement" Gen.
Sherman about two years ago said
that he had once seen a letter signed
by Davis threatening to use Lees
army to coerce any southern state
that should attempt to secede from
the Southern Confederacy. Mr.. Da-
Wis promptly and successfully deied
him to produce this letter; in fact, no
such letter can be found in the cap
tured Confederate war records or APP
parently anywhere else. The matter
could wisely there have been dropped
however, Gen. Sherman put on file at
the war department what purported
to be p" historical statement on the
subject, and the Senate called for it
in order to give it the benefit of being
printed. Mr.. Davis's present censure
Of an act entirely within the Senate's
functions, and showing much respect
for very distinguished soldier, does
not come in the finest taste from him.
Gen. Sherman's chief fame decidedly
will not be that of historian, and,
as everybody is aware his memory has
played him few sad tricks; never
theless. to speak of him as g habit-
ual slanderer," and of unsubstantiated
statements Of his as &c deliberate false
hsods " might not occur to many peo-
pie besides Mr.. Davis, who of course,
seizes this occasion also to thrash out
once more the old secession straw.
His letter is one to make the Boys in
Blue recall the days when they sang
as they marched, "We'll hang Jeff
Davis to a sour apple tree" and to
make them wish they had carried the
words into practical effect.