The Times And Democrat

A Buffalo newspaper pinches Senator Edmunds pretty hard when it calls upon him to square his record in respect to confirming old soldiers. The point rests thus: Mr. Edmunds urges his associates to reject the nomination of Hon. B. V. Smalley, as Collector at Burlington, Vt., on the ground that he replaces an old soldier, but he voted to confirm Charles A. Gould, appointed Collector of Buffalo by President Garfield, vice Major Tyler, a one-armed soldier, removed without a cause. Mr. Edmunds is classed as a great statesman, but it seems to make as much difference to him as to an ordinary politician who displaces the old soldier.