The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-23
Notes and Comments.

Notes and Comments.
ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT: owe feel
authorized to announce that the election
of democratic president is again post
poned."
ST. LOUIS GLoBE-DEMoCRAT: "Senator
Pendleton is the first democratic victim
of civil-service reform. You don't catch
our Missouri Vest fooling with that sort
of thing. "a democrat for every Office,
and an Office for every democrat is good
enough civil-service reform for him."
BosToN HERALD: " Senator Edmunds
is the best man on the republican side of
the senate to stand first in the line of sue
cession to the presidency. If the demo-
Gratis keep up their foolishness, the peo-
pie will be very apt to emphasize their de-
termination to secure civil.service reform
by promoting the Vermont statesman to
the first place."
CINCINNATI NEws.JoURNAL 1--WE frank
ly confess we do not like the taste of the
crow, but, sauced as it is with necessity
and good company, crow isn't so bad after
all. Nine-tenths of the democratic papers
and people of Ohio are partaking of the
dish with us, and now that we have tried
it, we find the bird isn't so black or tough
as he is painted. Waiter, another small,
very small, piece of the crow"
BosToN HERALD: Senator-elect Payne
has given himself mild presidential
boom among the lodging democrats. He
can blow hot from one side of his mouth
and cold from the other; cry good Lord
and good devil with equal junction.; favors
tariff for revenue and also for protec-
ton; is devoted to reform, but ag'in its
application. Mr.. Payne would be capt.
tai candidate to stretch out the line of
democratic blunders toward the crack of
DOOM"
THE London Times says that the con.
tinued depression in trade is puzzle to
the community. The revival of 1879 was
but temporary, and merchants now COM
plain that their profits have either disap-
peared altogether or are extremely small,
while great industries are admittedly in
distress, and nowhere is there real pros
perity. But it is merely the speculative
trade which is depressed. The hand-to.
mouth trade is fully maintained. The
chief cause of the heightened depression,
the writer thinks, is to be found in the
series of bad harvests.
BURLINGTON CLIPPER: "It is very
evident that the sentiment of this COM
munity is plainly in favor of Frederick
Billings for governor. His unquestiona-
BILE integrity, his liberality, and especially,
most generous donations to our principal
institution of learning, places us under
strong obligations to him, and should he
consent to allow his name to be used for
this high Office, it would be most diff
cult task to find the man that would dare
claim the honor, and much more difficult,
to obtain it. 1t is about time the East
Side found man of ability if they are
to furnish the next governor. We have
had light weights enough from that Sec
ton. Mr.. Billings possesses the requisite
ability to make him one of Vermont's
most brilliant governors"
NEW YORK TIMES The salve of after
dinner oratory is to be applied to the
wound in the Ohio democracy caused by
the nomination of Mr.. Payne. That gen.
tleman is reported to have ordered a
spread for six hundred persons, to which
members of the legislature and a number
of the prominent politicians of the state
are to be invited. The mouths of the
foes of the prospective senator will be
closed with terrapin and canvas. back, and
those of his advocates will be opened with
champagne and still Catawba. If the
guests are well selected, and they al
come, the device will work for the state Of
Ohio. But unless Mr.. Payne can give @
series of dinners to all the independent
democrats from the Ohio to the Columbia
he will not stop the expression of the in
dignation which his election by the Stand
ard Oil Company has aroused"
EDMUND HUDSON in his Washington
letter to the Boston Herald says at will
be we'll for observant readers to make {
note of the fact that Senator Edmunds i,
now taking more active part in party
management than ever before He retain'
the presidency of the senate ; he takes thu
J craftsmanship of the caucus; he makes
speeches which define the party policy
J he would be president this year if Arthu
were to die. More is heard of his availa
bility than ever before. There is not t.
be found any person who dares to say tina
! MIR. Edmunds is not eminently fit Il
, be president. l wish the voters every