The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

week old but the Bourbons are already
arguing that they certainly cannot be ex-
pected to act in opposition to financial
policy twice approved by the voters of the
state. The Richmond Dapatch remarks
that the democratic party would be doub-
ly damned if it should pay the dis.
owned millions. People who do not keep |
their promises ought to avoid such sug-
gestive expressions"
THE North american Review for De-
cember is published. The contents are :
Government Control of the Telegraph, by
Gardner G. Hubbard; Causes of Felicity,
DR.. B. W. Richardson; Evils of the Sub.
Treasury System, Professor J. L. Laugh
lin /; The Day Of Judgment, Part l.,
Gail Hamilton; Overproduction, Henry
George; National Defense, General w.
B. Franklin; Railroad and Public Time,
Professor Leonard Waldo; Morality and
Religion, F. A. Kidder, Professor A. A.
Hodge.
BosroN TIMES "There are people here.
abouts who rejoice over the defeat of Ma
hone because they say heis boss. Well,
he has created of diverse elements party
in Virginia which required vigorous gen.
eralship. His bossism, therefore, had
some excuse. The movement that he Or
gsnized and led afforded the only hope of
breaking the solid South" Republican
ism is odious there, but so many were
tired of the aristocratic and iron rule of
Bourbonism that they welcomed an indie
pendent party. Mahone's success had
been so great that he seemed likely to
sweep Virginia out of the democratic col
umn in the next presidential election.
Something must be done to prevent this,
and done now. There was nothing left
for the Bourbons to do but to shoot few
negroes, and thus intimidate the rest.
They did it, and the farce of an election
which followed is heralded as popular
triumph Malone is hero, and we
greatly mistake if he does not make the
situation warm for his enemies. He de-
serves northern confidence, sympathy
and aid"
FREE PRESS: ave shall always well
come any well.considered effort to break
the one-term rule, which the Waterman
rightly calls the Course of our state
politics; and at some time, when favor
able occasion such as may be presented
by the incumbency of a governor Of ex-
ceptional fitness and popularity, like
Governor Barstow, arises, we trust such
an effort will be made in earnest. With
all that our Montpelier, Rutland and
other contemporaries in the state say in
the way of cordial appreciation of Mr..
Billings, we most heartily concur. He is
one of natures noblemen. Our state could
not honor and benefit itself more than by
selecting him as its chief magistrate. His
name is rightly first in the thought of
thousands of voters; and there could be
no more fortunate augury for the political
future of our commonwealth than to see
him taken up and placed at its head, as it
were, by general reclamation. With re-
gard to other gentlemen mentioned, the
suggestion that statute of limitations
has began to run in the case of DR..
Nichols will hardly find general acquies-
cence among his many friends. He holds
an important and excellent state Office,
which he has hitherto preferred, and may
we'll still prefer, to the more prominent
and more expensive Office of governor. If
such is his preference, it will undoubted.
ly be respected. Lieutenant. Governor
Pingree is by no means man of negative
qualities-he has positive qualifications
of high order"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Dsm.): "The
most serious and fatal casualty to the OPP
position is not their defeat in New York,
nor in Pennsylvania, nor in Massachusetts,
nor in all together. 1t is their victory in
Virginia. The most important gain fol
the administration is not in their sue
cess in New York, Connecticut, Massa
chusetts or Pennsylvania, nor in all four
1t is their defeat in Virginia. What
means the result in Virginia? 1t means
the rehabilitation of the Bourbon party in 9
'solid SOUTH 1t means that the presi
dency squabble next year will be another
contest on the old line between southern
aud northern sections; that the dividing
line between the President-makers will no
be on the tariff or any other political ques
ton, but will more likely be the old line O.
Mason and Dixon-the line of the Poto
mac and the Ohio. 1t means that tn,
democratic cohorts will come up in solit
phalanx to that line in the sunny south
with one hundred and forty presidential
votes, and that the government party will
not command single presidential vot'
south of that sectional line. 1t means
then-at all events, average northern mel
will understand it to mean-thst the op
position, instead of political party, is