St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-29
Public Opinion.
A GENTLE VIEW OF 1T.

be glad when he takes his seat and
it is with pleasure that we direct the
attention of the Saints political to this
plain reversal of their bogus prophecy
against Judge Poland. We call upon
them to take notice that if Judge Po-
lands defeat before was caused by the
Divine will because he opposed the
MOrmOns, his triumph must be by Di-
vine favor, and so the Lord is no long
er on their side in politics. Salt Lake
Tribune.
THE NEW YORK SITUATION.
The nomination of Judge FOlger by
the New York republicans over Gov.
Cornell is not a subject of cOngratula-
ton. While there might not be much
to choose between the men themselves,
the fact that Gov. Cornell has stood up
squarely against Jay GOuld's schemes
and has now been the object of a bitter
assault from Jay Gould and Roscoe
Conkling, and the fact that the federal
Office-hOlding machine with the excep-
ton of Collector RObertsOn) has been
put into action, as though by a word
in support of Folger, gives sinister
aspect to the whole performance,
whether it be regarded as defeat for
Cornell or a triumph for FOlger.
President Arthur will have to should
er the responsibility for Folger's can
vass. Whether he is really its author
or not, the readiness with which the
federal machine fell into Folger's sup
port is only eXplicable on the theory
of inspiration from him or from his
chief. Either way, it is disgraceful to
the federal executive. 1t is thorough
ly characteristic of the stalwart policy,
and shows Mr.. Arthur's mind to be
bent upon securing the presidency
again in 1884. Like the Presidents
open sympathy and cooperation with the
Cameron faction in Pennsylvania and
his surrender of the departments at
Washington to be harried by the
guerilla senator, Malone, the New
York affair is discouraging evidence
of the distance between Mr.. Hayes let
alone policy and the stalwart policy of
constituting the President the high
priest and guardian of the party inter
ests, the dictator who makes and I'M
makes candidates and who sends his
thousands of subOrdinates to primaries
and conventions, and even Legislatures
to do his bidding. If that policy tends
to consolidate and harmonic the party
in New York, we shall be very much
surprised Springfield Republican.
A GRACEFUL COMPLIMENT.
The friends of Gen. Grout hope to
see his congressional career end as well
as it has begun, and they will as eager
ly hope that the Judge may take that
prominent place in congress which was
accorded to him when he was there
years ago. Every VermOnter will re-
jOice in his success, and will have a
right to expect that his great expert
ence as a legislator, his excellent
knowledge of law, particularly of the
United States law, his acquaintance
debate, will give him IA most hOnOred
standing in congress and add lustre to
fame already national. While
he has already won renown, he may
hope, with his ripper years, to enter up
on that higher plain of craftsmanship
which shall set his name alongside that
of the few great names which adOrn a
generation and find Il place in a ma
TONS history Barton Monitor, anti
Poland.
THE JOBBERS BROUGHT TO JUDGMENT.
In Senator HOar's address at WOr-
cester the only allusiOn to the river
and harbOr steal accompanied his first
glance through his spectacles, when he
declared that he was "neither afraid
nor ashamed" to look the republicans
of Massachusetts in the face-a decla-
ration in itself sufficient evidence that
he was both afraid and ashamed. But
little later in the day the convention
INDUCED in "A very pointed reference to
the river and harbOr steal. In spite of
managers plans and ring states, it re-
fused by large majority to nominate
for governor William w. Grape of
New Bedford, Il conspicuous river and
harbor jObber. Nobody doubts that
if Grape had voted honestly on the
river and harbor bill he would now be
the nominee for governor of Massa-
chusetts. He has been summarily
tried, condemned and executed. He
is not allowed to run for governor; he
will not be allowed to return to Con-
gress he drops out of sight, his river
and harbor record was the political
death of him. HOar's case is worse
than Crapo's, for Hoar adds hypocrisy
to his other sins. His judgment day
comes i'll January, when he will ask
the Great and General Court to return
him to the Senate. Let the Massachu-
sets republicans continue the good
work of publication which they have
begun NY. Sun.
THE PEOPLE BETRAYED.
The nominee for governor, Charles
J. Folger, is personally as eminent
and capable citizen as the republican
party has named for the gOvernOrship
since its beginning, but the ISSUES be-
fore the people of the state OvershadOw
the personality of any candidate, be it
ever so attractive. Plain words are
best. The Saratoga convention has
signally failed to respond to the senti-
ments of the republican party. The
convention which evolved the nominal
ton of FOlger last night from the
chaos of a turbulent body and an in
capable chairman was not the cOnven-
ton which the people elected at the
primaries. Treachery, greed and cow
ardice ran a swift race through the
hotel corridors at Saratoga Tuesday
night to the goal which Jay Gould and
the administration had so lavlshly
gilded. The people were betrayed,
defrauded, sold out. There is no need
to mention names. Men grown gray
and fat in the well-rewarded livery of
the party cheated their constituents at
home by the bidding of the party's
worst enemies. We know them, our
readers know them. The party
knows them and bushes for them.
Only in the most cOldly formal man
ner can the result their treason pro-
cured be recognized by the party as
binding upon it. In the law of the
land fraud vitiates contracts; perhaps
there is some such clause, too, in the
moral law which governs honest mems