The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02

pie TO ma the man. Let us once more
get on the common sense plan of putting
forward ticket because of its intrinsic
merit and freedom from claim and pre-
tension, and let the cliques and clans
slide. Such ticket will sweep the state
and be credit to the service"
AS showing how varied are the elements
which are combining in favor Of the can.
didacy of Edmunds and Lincoln, the fol-
lowing from Justice" an anti.monopoly
organ published in New York, is signifi.
cant: "General Arthur has made good
president, and, while not taking advanced
grounds on the question Of public and
corporate rights, he would not incur the
active opposition of the anti-monopoly
sentiment in 80 great degree as a pro-
nounced corporation candidate like Mr..
Blaine would, and he is free from the OBJ
legation entered into by President Garfield
to push Mr.. Blaine for the presidency in
1884. There are grave doubts, however,
in view of the local stalwart and half
breed, machine and anti machine feuds,
whether General Arthur would run as
we'll 10 New York as an unexceptionable
| candidate from another state, and if we
Mr.. Edmunds of Vermont irresistibly
suggests itself. Some of the eastern pa
pers have suggested Edmunds and Lin
coin as the winning ticket, and certainly
the East and West could scarcely be more
creditably represented than by these
names. If any ticket could carry the
state of New York against such demo-
cratic ticket as Tilden and Hendricks,
Tilden and Morrison, or Tilden and Car
Isle, or in the event of Mr.. Tilden being
unable to run, Mr.. Flower or Mr.. Hewitt
taking his place at the head of the ticket,
we believe Edmunds and Lincoln could
do it."
| SPEAKING of Senator Edmunds as a
candidate for the presidency, the st. Paul
Pioneer-Press says: "Mr. Edmunds can
satisfy the two great requirements essen
tial in the next candidate brought for
ward by the republican party. He is a
stanch party man, against whom the
veriest old type stalwart cannot raise an
objection and he is, at the same time, a
man of such exalted views, of such un
Improbable character, and such unfinch
ing devotion to high and pure principles
of political action, that he can command
the vote of the independent element
which admires and trusts him
His integrity is in itself voucher fo- al
honest and admirable conduct of public
affairs. His nomination would be the
equivalent of an election. His election
would be the equivalent of political re
form. To honor him would be at once
the best thing for the party aud for the
country, and republicans could not estab
lish success on more absolutely certain
foundation than by naming him as theil
candidate for the presidency at the ap
preaching election. While neither Mr.
Edmunds nor his friends are in the boom
making business, the unanswerable argu
ments which recommend him have Ions
appealed to the masses of the party
throughout the country. Massachusetts
expressed something of this at the las
convention. The best and strongest ele
ment of the party in that state is out
spokenly for him to-day. He could carr.
without sensible effort every state tina
cast its vote for Garfield, and could welt
into one body of enthusiasm the millions
who long to see the presidential NOMINEES
express in his own person the high char
acter and exalted moral tone which the,
hope to see impressed upon the party ant
upon the polite of the country. Unas
sailable in his record, and vouched for a
to fitness by the fine and consistent s,or.
of long career, his selection would no
only be healthful and stimulating infu
ence in our party struggles, but a strok
of genius in the conduct of 'practica
politics as WE'LL"