St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-15
Public Opinion.

Public Opinion.
The people seem to know a cipher
when they see One.-N. 7. Tribune.
Farmers com bine to protect each 9TH
er against the depredations of horse
thieves. Why should they not equally
combine to protect not only their prop
erty but the honor and lives of their
wives and daughters from the violence
of outlaws, compared with whom the
horse thief of 20 years ago was harm
less gentleman ?-CleUeIand Leader.
Public opinion in Vermont is crystal
lized fairly against any license law,
however stringent. The people of Yer
mont are determined that, if liquor SELL
ing is prosecuted in Vermont, it shall
be done outside the law, and thus made
as disreputable as possible. A license
law in our Legislature is about as effec-
tive as the illumination of a "bull against
a comet Rutland Herald.
The Democratic editor is so absorbed
in gloom that he hasn't the spirit to re-
peat his favorite remark about those
ciphers being fOrgeries.
The next time the Democratic party
invents a campaign gun, it will be wise
to have it patented or protected in some
way so that the Republicans cannot
capture it and turn it around. The
''fraud" massacre ought to be q sutfi-
cient warning.-Tribune.
"Young men," said the late Mr.. Til
den, in his Gramercy Park OratiOn-
''young men will you mark these
,,-,oo.~ 1no,c - 1915 NTH tha ,nAi
ton of betrayed, wrOnged sacrificed
people ?" And the young men and sew
eral old men with them, walked sternly
up to the polls on Tuesday and marked
the evil-dOes of 1876 by large majorities
all over the Solid NOrth.--N. Y. Iri-
bane.
New York will have good deal to
do with making the next president, and
New York is republican. Will it be
Senator Roscoe Conkling, or will he
name the man Indianapolis Journal
That alleged political speaker who
said that ''fiat" money was a misprint
for ''flat" money, was not so far out OF
the way. 1t seems fiat enough now !
Ne,v HaUen Register.
If there was ever a state bulldOzed in
this country at an election it was
Massachusetts, and had it not been 81
Gen. Butler would have been the hon
ored governor of that great common
wealth. Wendell Phillips.
SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR THE
PARTY 1t is announced on pretty good
authority that Bradley Barlow, the
Greenback Congressman from the Third
Vermont District, will vote with the
Republicans in the House. 1t is doubt.
full if this will be an accession for the
party to rejoice over. Aside from his
financial views, Mr.. BarlOw's record il
not of the sort to make him a credit tt
any party.-N. Y. Tribune, I1M.
Daily the New York Tribune fiaunt!
the cipher dispatches before the public
eve, and taunts Democrats with a feal
to move for their investigation, and ;
desire to cover up the fraud they aimed
at, and screen the authors of the iniQui
ty. The Democratic party must NEE
this challenge promptly, boldly anC
fairly the moment the Democratic House
of Representatives reassembles a
Washington on the first Monday of De
cember, by ordering and pursuing tt
the end a searching investigation, anG
following the result with whatever &C
ton justice may call for, or it might al
we'll step down and out at once as &
force in the politics of either State Of
country. This is democratic duty, an(
if any Democratic Representative il
Congress does not know it and feel it
he should be educated up to it between
this time and December by his home
cOnstituency.-ROchester Union, Demo
cratic.
The result of the election is an indig,
nant comment on the cipher dispatches
Few men have ever done so much tt
destroy a party as Mr.. Tilden in hi
mad negotiations to purchase the Pres
idency and few newspapers have evel
done so much to effect sudden politi
cal revolution as the Tribune has done
in dragging those negotiations to light
Just how many Republican Congress
men are to be credited to the clandes
tine dispatches of Marble, Pelton, Smitl
Weed, Woolley, Coyle, ''Match,
''Moses," and the rest of the guilty mas
queraders, can never be known, bu
certain it is that the translation of then
generated a sudden disgust and con.
sternation, which were potent at the
polls ON Tuesday. 1t gave to Republi
cans enthusiasm; it paralyzed Demo
Gratis; it put ballots into the hands o
apathetic citizens who seldom VOTE
N. z. Graphic.
Did Uncle Ben know he was maxim.
prophecy when he uttered these word
in fremont Temple Monday evening
'The aggregation of intelligence of mel
is always right; it never makes mis-
takes. No instance can be recorded il
history where the people as a bod!
have spoken wrongfully. Never, never
While here and there fragment of ;
community may be wrong, yet the grea
mass correct it, as the great waters o
the ocean wash out a spot of ink from
its shores" Well, general, your re
mark seems to be true of Massachusetts
at least.-BostOn Herald.