The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23
Notes and Comments.

THE Mlddlebury Register is developing
very determined anti Nichols sentiment.
DECIDEDLY not, sir" is General Sher-
mans answer to the statement that he
was willing to accept democratic NOM
ination to the presidency. 1t was hardly
worth while to put the old hero to the
trouble of denying the story, for it was
absurd on its face. But, as it resulted in
bringing out declaration from the gen.
eral of his political leanings, it served
good purpose after all. az have been
republican all my life," said the general.
That fixes his bearings, and it will quiet
the fears of some people who have allowed
their diseased imaginations to picture
General Sherman marching at the head
of the confederate and home-guard de-
mocracy.
New YORK SUN: ;" AT present we should
judge that the editor of our esteemed free
trade republican contemporary, the Bos.
ton Herald, must be in more contented
and peaceful frame of mind than any
other journalist in the country. He has
found candidate in each party with
whom he will bs perfectly satisfied. Sen.
ator Edmunds is his republican candidate
and Senator Bayard is his democratic
candidate, and both are characterized as
able and safe progressive conservatives
The disadvantage that Mr.. Edmunds la
bors under from being protectionist is
counterbalanced by the fact that ne is a
republican, aud Mr.. Bayard makes up for
being democrat by being free trader.
Our Boston contemporaries chief anxiety
must now be lest both these gentlemen
should be nominated. What will the
Herald do then ?"
The Bellows Falls Times discoursed
common sense in paragraphs last week.
We clip the following: I'VE proclaim no
man for governor. Not yet. He is going
to be found in due time. If we must
have grand and virtuous shaking up of
the political dry bones in Vermont, we
are in for that and strike first for fair
play" 80. "Hon. B. d. Harris of Brat
tleboro appears to be most prominently
named for delegate to Chicago from this
section of the state. He would make
good one, and could be depended upon in
any emergency that may arise" y" The
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Post says that Mr.. Blaine will not feel
much disappointed by defeat at Chicago
if he can pull Mr.. Arthur down. Well,
any man who will engage in his own candi-
dacy, for any such purpose, whether for
president or governor, is unworthy the
suffrages or confidence of the people,"
RUTLAND HERALD: "The hate of
the Blaine men for Edmunds may be es.
timated from the fact that so influential
and dignified journal as the Utica Her.
aid says mo republican can be put in
the field who will not be assailed. AL.
ready the habits of Senator Edmunds are
severely criticised A leading republican
of New York state, Vermonter born aud
bred, recently wrote a friend private
letter, declaring himself for Edmunds,
and expressing his disgust for the efforts
of the emissaries of Blaine all over New
York state to impress the people that Mr..
Edmunds' habits were open to criticism.
The only habits that Vermont knows as
peculiarly belonging to Senator Edmunds
are habit of industry, habit of ex-
haustless patience, habit of infexible
justice, habit of unqualing courage, a
habit of ugly honesty, habit of aggres.
sive hostility within and without congress
to the insidious aud increasing encroach-
ment of the grasping tyranny of monop-
olies upon the rights of the people. These
are some of the habits of Mr.. Edmunds
that in the eighteen years of service in
the United States senate have made him
conspicuous before the country as the an
tipodes of Mr.. Blaine in political moral
ity and patriotism these are the habits ,
that have made Mr. Edmunds the candi-
date, in spite of himself"