St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
BIAINE.


Mr.. Blaine may be ready to separate
himself from the administration on this
or some other question of foreign poll
cy, but Republicans generally are not
ready to follow him if he goes. Posi-
bly, it is an injustice to him 10 harbor
the thought that the letter means more
than appears on the surface but that
thought is in many minds Boston
Advertiser.
Blaine is a wonderful man. unsur-
passed in pluck, extraordinary in re-
sources, intellectually agile as an aero
bat or cat, and lacking only two
qualities to make him a great states
man, viz; safe Judgment and politi-
cal honesty. If we were in IA scrape
we would call upon Blaine to get us
out of 1t. If we were not in a scrape
we could depend on Blaine to get us
into one Rochester Herald.
Everybody will, we believe, he
pleased to note that some other per
sons are taking a little interest in this
South American project besides this
great man Blaine-this brilliant boy OF
genius, who would have fired the Ephe-
sian dome if he could have got his
match to 90 off. 1t is cOmical spec
tacle to see an eX-Secretary of state
publishing "A letter, i'll which he bullies
the President for reversing his policy,
and makes horrible faces at him i'll the
hope to excite his Imagination if the
bullying does not stir his fear; but il
Is more i'll the way of business to find
that Congress wants to know whether
Blaine's invitation to the outside world
is an authentic state paper, and III
what provision of the constitution OIL
the laws the government found author
ity for such action n. Y. Herald.
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
Without question Orlando B. Potter
of New York, owner of the old World
building burned Tuesday, should be
indicted for manslaughter. No one
connected with tile Spuyten Duyvil rail
road disaster could possibly deserve il
more than he. The evidence before
the coroner's jury has shown not only
that the building was huge finder
box, whose considerable bulk was I'M
broken by party walls and divided by
pine petitions, as every tenant of il
and as he himself knew perfectly we'll,
but it has shown also that the fire
had been burning for 81 hours before it
burst out, and that he knew that there
was Il suspicion of fire about the build
ing, had his attention called to it by
tenants, was asked to have the fire de
partment notified of danger, and will
fully neglected all precautions. 1t has
been testified that the use of IA double
tlue which had been used about two
months was discontinued Monday af-
ternOOn, because that morning at 9
o'clock beam projecting into the tlue
was found to he blazing. The flames
were put ont, and Mr.. Potter assured
several tenants that he had examined
all the floors and everything was safe.
The OdOr of burning wood was noticed
all day, and late in the afternoon Il ten
ant called Mr.. Potter'S attention to it,
and the two went together from top to
bottom, finding the walls on every
floor very hot in the vicinity of the
tiue, though discovering no actual fire.
The tenant asked Mr.. Potter to have
the lire department put coil of hose
i'll the building and set watch for the
night. The next morning at half-past
nine, the same tenant on his way to
the third floor found the wall still very
hot, and ten minutes later the fire burst
on every floor ut once from the line of
the tiue, where it had been SmOldering
and spreading since Monday morning.
Even if maintaining n DANGEROUS build
ing be nothing for the law to consider,
such reckless negligence as there is
proved against Potter is surely crimi-
nal. 1t ought to put him in state
prison Spr. Republican.