St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-11-17
Public Opinion.

PIE are tlTcu L. bOsSlSin =. star route
robberies 3, river and harbor steals
4, Hubbellism.-[ Detroit Free Press.
DEFEAT No DISGRACE.
Governor st. John, of Kansas, has
failed of reelection because of his OPP
position to the liquor traffic. In such
contest defeat is not disgrace Bos-
ton Traveller.
DISGUST WITH THE BOSSES.
The result has been brought about
through the disruption of the republi-
can organization and the general dis
gust of the people with the bosses and
the pap-suckers, and no party can af-
ford to be needless of the lesson con
veyed.-[ Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.
Here is something to think about
President Hayes was not great re-
former, but there was a reform tenden-
cy in his administration. As the re-
suit, every hour of his administration
strengthened his party. Every hour OF
President Arthur's administration has
weakened his party Boston Herald,
HOW THE ADMINISTRATION HELPED.
Looking squarely into the face of the
fact that in every state where the pres
ident and cabinet officers have taken a
hand i'll the campaign there has been
republican disaster, every liberty-lov-
ing citizen of this great country must
be convinced that it would have been
a great deal better for the republican
ticket if the administration had turned
right in and worked with the demo-
cratic party Il Philadelphia Press.
THE sHAMEFULNEss OF IT.
OH the shameful, black mailing
campaign which we have Just passed
through, which Hubbell and his assO-
ciate villains who had the control sup
posed they could carry by the bribery
of fund shamelessly stolen from poor
clerks who, to our absolute knowledge,
had to go without OvercOats and to
take their children out of school that
they might pay two or five per cent as
sessments! We thank God they were
defeated.-[The Independent.
TIRED OF DICTATION.
The country has tired of this bust
ness of dictation and indifference. The
country refuses to submit to any fur
ther dictatiOn, whether it comes from
senators, congressman, cabinets, or
even presidents. The people of New
York insist upon electing their own
governor and state officers, including
theiI own senators. They do not pro-
pose to accept punishment for refusing
to elect senators ut the dictatiOn of a
PRESIDENT Chicago Tribune.
PRETTY SURE TO BE OVERTAKEN.
One of the causes of the reverses of
parties is the failure of those who re-
gard themselves us party leaders to
keep themselves in accord with popu-
lar feeling and to respond to popular
demands. The party leaders who do
not respond to the popular sentiment,
and who are SO unwise as to ignore the
expression of popular opinion, are
pretty sure, in the end, to be Overtaken
by popular indiguatiOn.-- Boston Jour
nal.
HOW A VICTOR REGARDS 1T.
The result is not democratic victo-
~ nor a republican defeat. 1t is the
expression of the good sense of the
be depended upon. 1t is due to the
conduct of the republican party during
the past two years and is Il rebuke of
the party leaders who have held SUI
premacy through fraud and forgery
The success of the democratic party in
1884 will depend upon how it conducts
itself i'll the mean time. 1t must do
bette the next two years than it has
during the past ten MayOr-elect Ed
son of New York.
ENCOURAGING SIGN OF THE TIMES.
1t is certainly an encouraging sign
of the times that congressman have
found it necessary to defend their votes
on some of the measures which an in
telligent public opinion has branded as
perniciOus. There was Il time when
jobs less defensible than the river and
harbOr bill, for example, were allowed
to be relegated to the limbo of things
forgotten when they had once been
squeezed through Congress. Let us
hope that the time has passed. and that
the men whose cOnsciences have be-
come deadened by long service in the
malarial Influences of the national cap
ital will find it necessary hereafter to
be clrcumspect concerning their public
recOrd.-[New York Tribune.
A JUST RETRIBUTION.
In regard to the Republican party of
Massachusetts, it is impossible to ac-
quit it of blame or to feel that its pun
ishment is not in a measure deserved.
1t supported General Butler because
he gratifed its passion and vindictive-
ness, when he was as well known as he
is now, and the party that sent such a
demagOgue to Congress and kept him
there in spite of it's opportunity to
choose better representatives in such
men as Richard H. Dana and Judge
Hoar, is rightly punished for its error.
1t made his strength in a great meas
ure, when it should have seen the in
evitable results, and has only its own
folly to thank for its humiliation. As
for the democrats, they have gained
nothing by their triumph but the name
of victory Providence Press.
JUDGE ROYCE's TAXABLE PROPERTY.
The uncontrOverted story of his al
legged evasion of the tax law was that
he gave in full list of all his taxable
property, and of the funds committed
to him in trust long before the law was
conceived, withholding, as a matter of
confidence to which he was sacredly
committed, only the names of the per
sons of the trust. Knowing that this
omission would not satisfy the strict
letter of the law, he intimated to the
listers his acceptance of the cOnse-
quences, the doubling of the list rather
than to betray an Old-time trust. In
consequence he cheerfully pays some
eight hundred dollars i'll taxes, sum
said to be entirely out of proportion
to the amount of his taxable property.
With many, we have no doubt, it was
simply a question of obedience to law,
but this plausible plea for Judge
Royce's disposition, it is undeniable,
WAS nSed by warning litinants merely