St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
Editorial Notes.

dollar. Doubtless he would have been
cheap at that figure.
An Iowa girl is named Neuralgia.
Nobody wants her.
If the women in New York state
could vote, FOlger would be over
whelmingly defeated. Cleveland and
Hill, the democratic candidates for gov
ernor and lieutenant governor, are
bachelors.
The Boston Star thinks the lady that
marries David Davis will get "fat
take"
/ The Philadelphia Press remarks that
it is wise democrat that knows his
own tariff principles.
Rev. Edward Z. Hale said good
thing before the BostOnian society re-
Gently, when he said that the Declara-
ton of Independence should be framed
and hung up in every school-hOuse,
and the constitution be at the hand
and in the head of every schoolboy.
The Tribune wickedly intimates that
Howard Carroll offered fifteen thous-
and dollars for the congressional nom
nation but twenty four hours before
he made such earnest declarations
against the use of money!
General Beaver, the independent
candidate for governor in Pennsylva-
mia, declines to pledge himself, says he
is no mans man, and if he goes to
Harrisburg, he goes retaining his self
respect, or he goes not at all.
Of the five states which have elected
congressman, Oregon, Vermont, Maine,
Ohio and West Virginia, two lose and
two gain each one member, but where
as the old delegation from them all
stands twenty-three republicans and
nine democrats, the new one has but
fifteen republicans against seventeen
democrats.
"Any party" says the New York
Tribune, Sin order to be fit to live,
must move on"
The New York Sun sees in Tom
Waller, the democratic candidate for
governor of Connecticut, the face, fig
ure and future of the Little Giant of
Illinois, Stephen A. Douglas.
Tom Waller of Connecticut, demo-
cratic candidate for governor, says
Let him who cannot vote for me with
out pay, vote against me-"
The stalwart Albany Express names
as republican newspapers in the state
openly or cOvertly opposing Judge
Folger, the New York Times, Tribune
and Evening Post, the Albany Journal,
Utica Herald, Auburn Advertiser and
Buffalo Express and to these should
be added the Independent and Harper's
Weekly.
Woman suffrage is looking up in Or
egOn. Both branches of the legislature
have ratified the proposed woman's
suffrage amendment. The vote in its
favor was unexpectedly large, it being
81 yeas to : nays in the senate and AZ
yeas to 9 nays in the house of repre-
sentatives. The resolution had previ-
ously passed the legislature of 1880.
1t now goes to the people.
Rev. George C. Min, who created
such sensation in Chicago by his pc
culiar religious belief, has abandoned
the pulpit for the stage, making his
debut as Hamlet in that city last week.
He is said to have made a hit.
The Lewiston Democrat, an Illinois
paper, credits the Ohio victory to
whiskey, and then says: "Now, hur-
rah for the three Ds-the Democracy,
the Dutch and the Devil ~ As the
Chicago Journal says, the Clutch"
ought to appreciate the compliment.
5. 5. Cox of New York, who from his
vivid description of a sunset is known
as ''Sunset Cox" in writing to a friend
under date of Sept. 30, said: "This is
my birthday. | am tifty-eight years
old. The Congressional directory for
the past twenty-five years has fur
nished the date, so that | am free to
speak of it. | am becoming rather a
memory than hope daily. We do as
we grow older. For the loss of the
gay, luminous, all-abounding shrine of
life's morning, we have the serene,
reminiscent evening"
In the second Connecticut congress
sional district Mitchell was nominated
by the democrats because he had a
large barrel. The republicans have
nominated Gen. Merwin, Jr., of New
Haven. In his letter he said concern
ing the practice of giving nominations
to men whose chief qualification is a
willingness to spend money in politics {:
''lf this practice is to be passed unnO-
ticed the worst men in our midst will
soon be paying the highest price for
nominations for themselves or those
they wish to use. Such things are far
more dangerous to our institutions than
star-route thieving { which is bad
enough), and if continued will forever
debar men of honest merit and lauda-
bic ambition from rising on the score
of political honor for what chance has
the poor man, or the man of moderate
means, against the millionaire, when
he is ready to spend his money in a
manner that brings disgrace upon
American politics Z"
The Legislature.