St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-06

committee were given without author
ity, two of them by means of forged
kilograms, and all against the wish
and opinions of the absent mem
bers of the committee.-[Worcester
Spy.
WHAT BUTLER Is FIGURING FOR.
The chances are, therefore, that Gen.
Butler will decide to pay the high price
demanded, and that he will enter the
next democratic national convention
as the Massachusetts candidate for the
presidential nomination. We sincere
ly hope he may get it. He is the right
man for the democracy. If he is Sc
lected, it will cost him Il good deal
more than 100000 to be beaten, but
when he energies from the disaster he
will have a certificate worth his mon
ey. 1t will establish his regularity
forever, not only as IA democrat but al
so as a democratic statesman, for the
only democratic statesmen of this epoch
who will live in history will be the pic
turesque group of defeated presiden-
tial candidates. New York Tribune
LooPHOLEs FOR RUMsELLERs.
We have been told, though not Off
cially, that those first offences were
counted by the states attorney as the
first offences of that rumseller in New
port. A change of base simply chang
ed the penalty. A few more lOOpholes
inthe law need fixing. Some of our
temperance legislators will do the
state good service and greatly aid in
the future enforcement of the law if
they will introduce and secure the
passage of a bill providing that when
a rumseller moves from one town to
another it shall in no way change the
system of notation; that no man shall
be elected states attorney who cannot
enumerate above one and that any
states attorney, or other officer whose
| business it is to count these offences
who fails to count according to the
plain provisions of the law. shall be nj
once indicted, depOsed from Office and
sentenced to at least year in the
house of correction. If we have good
laws and they are powerless in the
hand of executives, it is time these reg
ulators were themselves regulated 10y
strict enactments.-N Newport Expire IS
MONEY THE DRY-ROT OF POLITICS.
The Republican party at Worcester
selected Oliver Ames of North Eator
as its candidate for lieutenant governor
without formal ballot, tossing til,
nomination with easy indifference,
to the man who led ON the first in
formal vote. Those whom MasSachu
sets calls to her highest hOnOrs shoult
be men of prominent fitness and abOv,
suspicion. They certainly should no
be persons whose business transaction
fall under the condemnation of tn
United States courts. Public stand
ards of business morality are none to,
high that we need lower them in thi
state, which abOunds in able and stain
less men. The Bishop mel
needed barrel, and they looked t.
one of the richest men in the old com
monwealth to provide it. That ac
affronts the moral sense and impeache
f the manhood Of our voters. No on
, will challenge the truth of the state
ment that Oliver Ames never wOul,
have been nominated for lieutenant
, governor but for his wealth and sup
. posed willingness to pour money int
the campaign. That he was taken
illustrates how this dry-rot of Il cam
, paign with money has permeated eve
this state of the Puritans. The Re
publican could not be true to itself an
; honest in its opposition to Butler an
what he has represented in our politics
/ if it did not also utterly reject tn
: nomination of Oliver Ames with wha
a it stands for before the young men {
this state Springfield Republican