The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-24
Notes and Comments.

the result OF their prospecting on the
Yukon and other streams, that the coun-
try contains plenty of gold, which is yet
too inaccessible to mine proftably.
The centennial anniversary of the proc
lamation of peace between the colonies
and Great Britain was appropriately cele-
brated at Newburg, N. Y, the 18th inst.
Senator Bayard and Hon. w. M. Evarts de-
livered addresses. There was poem and
grand civic and military parade.
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN "Demo-
cratic doctors disagree painfully about
Ohio. Hendricks says the election means
democrat in the White House, Melon
aid thinks it doesn't, Thurman says the
state was carried in a scramble and no.
body can tell how it will go next year,
aud 80 on through the list"
THE prohibition amendment submitted
in Ohio has this clause: "The General
Assembly shall provide by law for its en-
forcement." In case of its adoption, the
amendment would, for the present, be
only glittering generality for who sup
poses that the democratic legislature
would be in hurry to enact anything to
enforce the amendment ?
New YORK TIMES: The democratic
victory in Ohio will yield some bitter
fruits to the victors and those who aided
them. Those fanatical prohibitionists
who helped to put the entire machinery of
the state government into the hands of
the free-rum party, and the indignant
wool-growers who voted against the party
which most unequivocally favored high
tariff, will get no satisfaction from their
work save the momentary pleasure of
fully gratified thirst for revenge. We ad.
wise them to enjoy that to its utmost, for
repentance will not be long in coming"
If any one wishes to procure an unfal-
tering democratic "organ" perhaps he
cannot do better than to send for COPY
of the Greenville Is. CO. Neus. That
paper recently said of Ben Butler that he
ais type of all that is mean, false, bru-
tai, and despicable in man," and that
"there is not criminal in any peniten.
tiary in the country who does not deserve
public confidence and esteem better than
Butler" And yet it added " If by any
freak of insanity democratic convention
should nominate him for President, we
would support him, because this paper is
democratic and will always be loyal to its
party"
MoDEsTY is one of Buffers strong points,
In his speech in fremont Hall, Boston,
last week Wednesday, Butler said "a
man who has got to my time of life, and
who has welded as much as I have in nv
life, whose name, for better or worse, will
be remembered in history and traditions
long after some of the Presidents of the
United States shall have been dead and
buried and forgotten, and the worms have
eaten them, what should care about it
(the Presidency. am ambitious; l ad-
NIT it freely. l am very ambitious to go
to my Maker with the record that l have
done the best could for my state, my
country, and my kind, and that what /
did was as equally done for the poor and
the lowly as for anybody else"
SENATOR BAYARD "Butler is not
man to be trusted. He was one of the
most bitter and violent of republican par
tisans after his desertion from the demo-
cratic party, and now, when the tide is
turning and democratic success is in
sight, he seeks to crawl back into the
ranks of the party, and apostate as he is,
gather the emoluments of office. The
local interests of Massachusetts may de-
mand such leader, but the national DEM
ocratic party does not. That party dare
not trust a man who applied the knife of
treachery in 1860. He would do the same
thing again if opportunity offered. The
democratic party has too many tried and
true leaders who are available, to seek
such double-tongued standard bearer as
ben Butler.
BEHIND the fact that it is extremely
improbable that Ohio can be carried for
the democrats, the New York Tribune
says, lies the ugly fact that the party
has seized too much power and response
bility for its own good. In the touching
words of MIR. Watterson, the devil is
loose again. He always is loose when
the democrats get power to do any mis-
chief. Democracy is so constructed that,
out OF power, the dog sometimes wags
the tail, but in power the tail always wags
the dog. When a democratic majority in
congress and in the Ohio legislature has
been at work month or two, the DID, old
story will be told again ; the rear-parts of
the party will take command. This is
going to be exceedingly trying to demo-
cratic statesmen, and they may we'll lay in
large stock of patience. Before spring
flowers come they will need it ALL"
THE Christian Union, one of the ablest
of the great religious weekliea of Naw