The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-28
Notes and Comments.

BELLOWS FALLS TIMES: "Our advice
to all interested in national, state and
county conventions is to proceed without
regard to either the souts or ms and
nominate men for office in whom the peo-
pie will at once have confidence, and give
the county or districts for which the nom-
inees are to act, if elected, common
sense administration. Avoid the cliques,
clans and all previous arrangements
WORCESTER Spy: "Mr. Blaine is be-
coming daily less formidable. President
Arthur's strength is increasing, as COM
pared with that of Blaine, but not other.
wise. The delegates whose first choice is
Mr.. Edmunds still occupy position of
advantage. If they hold together and
are guided with as much wisdom and
tenacity of purpose as the Edmunds men
in the New York state convention, they
may reasonably hope for success, and need
not fear that nomination especially OBJ
jectionable to them will be made"
THE killing of Began Cash, last week
Thursday, by sheriffs posse, rids South
Carolina of an undesirable citizen, but
there are SO many others like him left
that his death is less of relief than a
warning to living rufiisns. Cash murdered
two men because he had been arrested for
drunkenness and rowdyism. Since last Feb
ruary Cash and his father have been able to
defy the state authorities. They were
people of some position in rude civiliza-
ton, and, with the assistance of his neigh
bors, the murderer was enabled to escape
arrest. Why there should be any public
sympathy for drunken, staggering DULLES
like Cash is mystery to the calm north.
ern temperament There is a ray of hope
for better things in the energy with which
the state officers kept up the hunt for the
criminal. Ruffians are so often towards
that when towards are made afraid ruff
fianism will probably decrease.
MIDDLEBURY REGISTER ait is sur
prise to almost every one to understand
that DR.. Nichols seeks again to be secre.
tary of state. 1t was stated in the Bur-
lington Free Press, when the doctors
name was proposed as candidate for gov
ernor, that I'VE could as cheerfully sup
port Colonel Pingree, who is one of Yer
mont's worthiest citizens, if it were pos
sible to retain DR.. Nichols in his present
Office. But he has, as we understand, def
nitely decided to retire from that, mat
ter of course wholly within his own dis
erection to determine This was sup
posed to be official and to end the subject.
Practically it did end it. The doctor
cannot expect now to undertake to go
back and crowd out others with success.
His support must be very meagre. Fortu-
nately, in Mr.. Porter we have young
man of fine character and ability, who, as
deputy secretary, has performed large
part of the duties of the Office for years,
and will undoubtedly make capable and
popular secretary of state"
THE fact that the United States derives
considerable revenue from liquor Ii
censes issued in prohibitory states is an
old scandal and standing argument
against the efficacy of prohibitory legisla-
tion. Senator Ingalls, proposes to put an
end to this scandal by prohibiting the
United States revenue officers from re-
ceiving any tax or granting any license
to sell liquors, whenever such business is
contrary to the laws of the state or NUM-
cipality in which such business is sought
to be carried on. The effect of this bill,
should it become law, will be that any
person who attempts to sell liquor in states
where its sale is prohibited, being without
federal license, will be subjected not only
to the state penalties for violation of the
law, but be liable, under the United States
law, to fine of not less than $1,000 nor
more than $4,000, and to imprisonment
for not less than six months nor more than