St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-07-14
Public Opinion.
AN ACCOMMODATING PLATFORM.

The Vermont Democratic platform
declares in favor of "a tariff for reve-
nue. with Just determinations favOring
the agricultural, industrial and com
mercial interests of the whole coun-
try" This is certainly accommodating.
The free trader can find consolation in
the "tariff for revenue" part, while the
prOtectionist can find all that he wants
in that which follows. 1t was the late
Governor Allen of Ohio who declared
that Democratic principles are suited
to every condition and to any emer-
gency. The Vermont Democratic
platform proves it. Still it does not
seem worth while for committee to
undergo the strain which the draft of
such Il resolution must involve simply
to make sure of the scattering Demo-
cratic vote of Vermont Boston Jour
nal.
Moreover, little as the general tone
of our public life is to he commended,
our statesmen take broader views than
did their grandfathers. In short, this
country is not retrograding i'll public
or private morals any more than it is
in population and wealth. l. Boston
ANNC llS'i"
Unless Hubbell has the hide of a
rhinOceros, he does not find his lot a
happy one. The people do not approve
of Robson, Hubbell & Co., present
bosses of good old party Spring
field Republican.
Mr.. Hubbell, How much money did
IA republican congressional committee
ever spend in prosecuting men guilty
of election frauds in the south That's
what we would like to know Provi-
dence Press.
1t is true, as the Sun goes on to say,
that Garfield expressed his high appre-
citation Of the services of Grant and
Conkling. He did so unreservedly.
He was willing to do anything he
could for them except to be their ser
want. He proposed to be president of
the United States, not the agent of the
bosses who had been beaten in then
party. 1t was for that he was murder
ed and is slandered.- Cincinnati
! Commercial.
Gen. Garfield once said, "The man
who wants to serve his country must
put himself in the line of its leading
thought" Within a short time the
''leading thought" of the country has
Enthusiastically shown that it disproves
of political assessments. Despite the
fustian and bravado of those who de-
fend the system, it is known as we
write that the squeezing process is be-
ing vigorously applied to the pockets
of page boys, clerks and washerwOmen
employed in the federal service. Five
thousand dollars has already been
raised in the interior department
Such conquests are what the Greeks
called Cadmean, because the victOrs
suffer as much as those whom they de-
feat. The enlightened and patriotic
American public cannot be hoodwinked
into advocating such PRACTICES AL
bany Journal.
The president has been steadily and
rapidly getting rid of officers who rep
resented the party, and putting i'll Off
GERS who represent a faction that was
defeated in the last national cOnven-
tion.- New York Tribune.
Seriously, do spoils partisans reflect
what a lesson in party morals they
have taught cOlOred Republicans
They have taught them to demand of
fee as the price of party fealty. They
have taught them that the spOils are
the end and aim of political warfare
They have taught them to try to make
living out of politics. They have
taught them to become black mailers
Than all this nothing could be more
degrading. The slave has been made
free only that he may know how base
freeman may become. He has been