The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-12
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER l2, 1888.
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
dgns betoken one Of the most determined po-
itical contests In the history Of, the country.
Parties are nearly evenly balanced. The de-
nocracy will renew their repeated struggles to
wrest from their opponents the power they
have welded for nearly q quarter Of a century.
The republican party will strenuously maintain
the lease Of the power 1t has used with such
signal benefit to the whole country and to man
kind. The relation OF Vermont to this impend-
ing crisis in 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 so fit for the office Of
president as her distinguished senator, and
none to which is 30 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
poytanoe, the presidential election, is added the
fact that Vermont herself will in the election Of
next year choose successors to all her state off,
eers, from representatives Of towns and coun-
ties In the Legislature to governor, and repre-
sentatives in the house and senate Of the con-
Hess 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, to 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 a 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
vR soish to be uithout good state newspaper
during this period. THE VERMONT WATCH
MAN has been greatly enlarged, put in proper
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Of providing for the people Of Vermont just
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times, and particularly for the stirring times in
the near future. Its record in the past is the
best guaranty it 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
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Except as time and increasing experience shall
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pledge for the future that is not supplied by
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