Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-16

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PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. G. BENEDICT Editor.
Ferms-S2. n year, always in advance.
Republican State Nominations.
For Governor,
F.. J. ORMSBEE, of Brandon.
For Licutcnant-G overnor,
LEVI X. FULLER, of Brattleboro.
For Treasurer,
VIM II. DU BOIS, of Randolph.
For Auditor of Accounts,
E. II. POWELL, of Richford.
For Secretary of State,
CHARLES w. PORTER, of Montpelier.
For Member of Congress, First District,
JOHN w. STEW ART of Mddlebury.
County Nominations.
For senators,
WIN. WELLS of Burlington,
A. J. STEVENS of Colchester,
SMITH WRIGHT of WillistOn.
For Assistant Judges.
]. f.. SMITH of South Burlington,
T. W. II. NICHOLS of Essex.
TORREY +. WALES of burlington.
For States Attorney,
d.. FOSTER of Burlington.
For Sheriff.
JOSEPH BARTON of Charlotte.
For High BailiG,
J. H. MACOMBER of Wcstford.
Mr.. Gladstone, it is said, begins to have
a very resigned look.
1t is not matter of much consequence,
but the Democratic State convention is to
be held at Montpelier, Thursday, July %.
There is said to be a good deal of indig-
nation in Buffalo at President Cleveland's
action in pardoning the bank wrecker,
h. Porter Lee.
The MeXicans are proposing to have an
old-fashioned Mexican revolution, because
times are so hard. This is one way of inn
proving the financial condition of the
country.
The announcement is made that the
Attorney General Garland will soon sur
render his troublesome Pan-Electric
stock. But this won't wash the stain
from his hands
Vermont gets nothing, this year, in the
shape of an appropriation its rivers and
harbors This is fortunate, as the fishing
will probably be much better than in pre-
viOus years.
Mr.. Atkins's paper, as we are glad to
see keeps up its attacks on Senator Ed
munds. This is all right. The Demo
cratic clubs always lie thickly under the
best Republican fruit-trees.
The quarrel of Russia and Austria has
been long one, and it will probably never
be settled by peaceful measures. They
have now reached the point where war
seems probable.
Mr.. Gladstone doesn't seem particularly
anxious to enlist Mr.. Beecher's assistance
in his home rule campaign. The fact is,
American assistance is not helping on the
course of home rule much, anyway, in the
present attitude of affairs.
The fact that Attorney General Gar.
land has asked the President for II vaca
tended to resign by and by. His plar
probably is to retreat in good order until
he gets to IA respectable distance, and then
make "A dash for it.
The mortality among the members o
the Forty-ninth Congress has been yer.
great One Senator and five representa-
tives have died within the last congres
sional year, namely, Senator Miller of Cali
fornia, Messrs. Duncan and Evans o
Pennsylvania, Elwood of Illinois, Rank
of Wisconsin, and Hahn of Louisiana.
March 4, 1889 one hundred years vii
have elapsed since the meeting of the frs
Congress under the constitution, and it
proposed to celebrate the day at Washing
ton in a manner commensurate with tn
Importance and dignity of the occasion
Unfortunately, it will be just year to
late to celebrate at the same time the r.
turn of the Republican party to power.
The rejection by the Senate of Presidei
Cleveland's nomination of Solicitor Gel
eral Goode will be applauded by hone
men of whatever party. Goodies come
ton with the election frauds in Nirgini
in 1874 alone would be enough to cOndem
him, but this is by no means the extent
his political trickery He would be q
eminently unfit man for the place.
The Wisconsin Knights of Labor a
nOunce their intention of going into po
tics to defeat the reelection of Governs
Rust, because of his promptness and fir
ness in putting down the Milwauk
anarchist mob by means of the Sta
militia. This shows where the sympatl
of the Knights actually lies. When NJ
Fowderly speaks for them, and when tn
speak for themselves there seems to
considerable discordance of tone.
Advices from the Fiji Islands say tn
the spring hurricanes destroyed the (
coanut crop on the islands, and that t
prospect Of n famine is such that many
fl,n,