The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-19
The Watchman for 1884.

The coming year will be crowded with STIR
ring political events. In the field OF national
politics the presidential canvass will be the all
absorbing subject OF peoples thoughts. The
signs betoken one OF tho most determined po.
htical contests In the history of the country.
Parties are nearly evenly balanced. The de-
mocracy will renew their repeated struggles to
wrest from their opponents the power they
have welded for nearly quarter of century.
The republican party will strenuously m aintain
the lease OF the power it has used with such
signal benefit to the whole country and to man.
kind. The relation Of Vermont to this impend-
ing crisis iu the history of the republican party
and the affairs Of the country will be OF close
and responsible character In any event, her
soil will be the early battle-ground OF the great
contest. Among all the eminent names on the
party rolls there is none 80 fit for the Office of
president as her distinguished senator, and
none to which is so universally conceded the
post Of leadership. The national contest has in
fact opened with the assembling of congress.
To the event of paramount interest and inn.
portance, the presidential election, Is added the
fact that Vermont herself will In the election of
next year choose successors to all her state off,
GERS, from representatives Of towns and coun-
ties In the legislature to governor, and repre-
sentatives In the house and senate OF the con-
gress OF the United States. The crownipg
affair OF local Importance in this period will be
the biennial legislative session. Matters relat-
ing to the protection and advancement Of tax
reformation, to the highways, 10 education,
and to the general affairs OF the state, will
come up for consideration, upon which 1t is the
duty, II not the pleasure, Of every citizen to
read and be informed. Here Is period, ex-
tending from the present to January /, 1885,
which will be thickly crowded with events of
the highest interest and Of vital Importance to
the state and the nation. No thinking citizen
'0iH toiSh to be ,oihom a good state newspaper
during this period. THE VERMONT WATCH
HAN has been greatly enlarged, put in proper
form, and new facilities procured for its sue
sessful publication, with the special end in view
Of providing for the people Of Vermont just
such paper as they would wish to have at all
times, and particularly for the stirring times in
the near future. Its record in the past is the
boet guaranty 1t can give for the future as to its
course politically and upon those non-political
matters which, like agriculture, education, tax
alton, temperance, and state affairs generally,
have to do with morals and good progressive
government rather than with partisan politics.
Except as time and increasing experience shall
enable its conductors to treat these subjects
more inteligently and more successfully, no
pledge for the future that Is not supplied by
the past can be given.
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be given him for the discussion of farm sub
jects, change which c.nnot fail to receive the
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