St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-28
Public Opinion.

There are counties in the black belt
in Georgia in which the majority
doesn't rule and in which it isn't going
to rule Macon Telegraph.
Gen. Longstreet is partly right and
partly wrong in saying that there is no
republican party at the south. Late
events have shown that there is enough
left to shoot at in Virginia and Missis-
sippi. i Philadelphia Press.
The Chicago Press talks sense when
it SAYS: ''In the next presidential cam
paign the man. and not the state he
comes from, will have more effect than
ever before. A mans residence is of
ten accidental, his character and his
principles never.
Looking over the entire field. | am
constrained to say that in the other
southern states the republican party
is no better off than in Georgia. The
only chance of there ever being such a
party is to carry. Virginia. Virginia
was lost this year, but there is going
to be Il strong effort to carry it in the
next election. If it is not carried then,
the last chance of the republicans in
the south will, in my opinion, he lost
Gen. LongStreet.
The democrats seem to be seriously
dissatisfied with the appointment of
Senator Sabin as chairman of the Re
publican National Committee. The
| thOughtlessncss on the part of the COM
mittee in not consulting with the demo-
cratic leaders before selecting their
chairman is really reprehcnsible. The
chief objection to him seems to he that
he is Il man of large wealth. This is
very naturally IL serious objection in
view of the fact that the democracy in
recent years selected for their National
| Committee chairmen men like August
Belmont and w. ii. Barnum.- Boston
| Traveller.
The moral of the tale of the Flatbush
sOciables, told at the serio-comic Hig-
bie-Naughan trial in an old Dutch
town in New York, is too simple and
evident for explanation or amplitica-
ton. Some gay and foolish young
! people, marriages performed only lin
fun" and the stern New York law re-
garding such unceremOniOus marriage
ceremonies form the basis of as pretty
Il little piece of sensation as often hap
pens in real life. When Mr.. IIOwells
WIOle Oh Iilt ptCtllliu tOuIlSnIp Oh his
principal characters in "MOdern In
stance" there were some who scOffed
at the vulgar improbability of the Incl
dent, and yet il stranger event has
happened in a quiet country town.
! We cannot claim that our American
society, with its unusual freedom, is
free from improperly, at least, nor will
it he quite so easy hereafter to throw
the stone at the glass houses of our
neighbOrs. The affair, with all its alb
surdities of silly proceedings, is too Sc
rious to be passed over with laugh.
| How can it he claimed that blooming
American youth is too guileless for ma
ture protection. when it is shown to
need protection from its very guileless-
ness Divorce reformers, who are
planning and studying to save our
homes from dissolution and our society
from disintegration, may well strike at
the root of the evil, this holding of all
sacred and serious things ''in fun"
They may speak of the raising of the
moral tone of the community, but they
may more strongly speak of the making
of pure moral tone and of preserving
it. There is need of more reverence i'll
our society Boston Journal.