The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-19
Notes and Comments.

have overthr0Wn the New Jersey leglsla-
ture recently. No quorum could be gath
cred of the assembly, and the explanation
offered was that too many of its members
we're attending poker meeting of
deeply interesting character at one Of the
Trenton hotels.
AsUBscRrBER of the New York Sun asks
the luminary to shed light on this conun-
drum: "Why does the democratic party
get such booms between presidential
election years, and such boomersngs in
presidential election years ?" The Sun
let's fall these slanting beams: GA loco.
motive engineer who rides with his back
to cowcatcher sees everything after he
passes it,"
PHILADELPHIA PRESS ave stand with
the republican masses. We urge them to
send delegates who will fairly and faith.
fully represent them. Whatever their pref
erence, let them speak it out and make
themselves felt. Let us have popular rule
in its broadcast and best sense. As for the
politicians, we don't come to ask any
favors in the peoples name or make any
appeal, but simply to advise them for
their own sakes to jump aboard of the
peoples train before it is too late. If
they don't, they will surely get left again
if not here, then at Chicago. This popu-
lar revolution is not going backward. Let
the train move on"
THERE have been significant outgivings
lately with regard to the practical motive
behind the independent republican move
ment. The Evening Post represents as
nearly as any paper in New York the
feeling that prompted the movement. 1t
came out Monday with distinct boom
for Edmunds. 1t says that the booms SO
far instituted for other candidates lack
substance, but that E lmunds has latent
strength which would call out vote for
the republican ticket with cheerfulness
and substantial unanimity, because, while
not avowedly in sympathy with the indie
pendent element, he is safe, strong,
clear, well.pcised man, who does his own
thinking and follows his own convictions,
and who is, therefore, to be trusted, not
merely with the interests of reform, but
with all other interests of national import
ance
A BILL has been introduced by Mr.. Ed
munds to provide for the establishment of
forest reservation at the head waters of
the Missouri river, aud at the head waters
and Clark's ford of the Columbia river.
1t provides that tract of land in the ter
ritory of Montana, embracing an area of
about six thousand nire hundred square
miles, and the boundaries of which are
described in the bill, be reserved and
withdrawn from settlement, occupancy,
or sale, and dedicated and set apart for.
ever as a national forest reservation for
the preservation of the natural forests
protecting the head-waters and tributaries
of the Columbia and Missouri rivers. 1t
is easier to make this wise provision for
the preservation of the forests which pro-
tect the sources of the rivers, now, than
after these lands, like the Adirondscks of
New York, where the Hudson has its rise
have passed into the hands of private
individuals who see in them only millions
of feet of lumber.
WINDSOR JOURNAL: "Vermont can.
not be at loss to find many men who
while being honored, will return all due
honor. Among the most available of such
men at the present time is Lieutenant
governor Pingree. In him the people
can find fitting representative of the
purer politics rightfully demanded. His
name is above reproach. He has never
been political huckster, wirepuler, or
trimmer. No one can accuse him OF
running with the machine or subser
viency to bosses He is independent
in the true sense of the word. He asked
for no favors two years ago. He asks fol
none now. If the people see fit to cal
him higher, he will undoubtedly respond
to the call. But none need look to him
to make any exertion for the advancement
of such call. He is we'll endowed tc
meet every demand that may be made
upon the chief executive of the state, ant
his promotion will be one of the sures
signs that the people of Vermont are sin
cere in their professions of desiring to b'
free from the influence of, or contact with
even the semblance of machine politics"
RUTLAND HERALD: "You might q
we'll tell nation that wolf had lost hi
appetite for mutton as to assure it tina
Blaine is really out of politics and de
voted to letters for the rest of his days
when Blaine is in his coffin he will ceas
to be an active political force, not before
you can conceive of Edmunds, or Bay
ard, or John Sherman, or Conkling leay
ing the warning world of active polite
} for less conspicuous fields, but not Blaine
30 long as that man breathes he will b
openly or covertly active in national poll
tics; it is his natural empire and hi