St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-07-10
Public Opinion.
WHAT WAS SAID OF GEN. CIRCUIT Tw o
YEARS AGO.

\
YEARS AGO.
We count Gen. GrOut among the
Young men in congress who Will make
in time an honorable mark for himself
and his district. An energetic, upright,
honest. vigorous man, Gen. Circuit will
make good use of his opportunities IN
congress- Rutland Herald, May, 1852.
Gen. Grout has made Il good mem
Der, is man of ability who may he
rmphatically termed Il growing man,
and in his one term as congressman
has made Il record never eXcclied by
any representative of Vermont during
his first term Windsor Journal. July,
ISS2.
Vermont loses IL member by the new
apportionmtnt and Hon. j. w. Tyler
and Hon. William w. Grout are now
in the second district. 1t Is announced
that Mr.. Tyler will not he IL candidate.
| This ought to secure the reelection OF
! Gen. Grout, who is serving his first
term. but has already shown Il high
order of ability as legislator. - New
| York Tribune, May, lSS2.
4 CLEAR CASE OF sOFTENING OF THE
| BRAIN.
The Waterman has its preferences,
| but it is not exclusive in the use of its
/ columns. 1t checrfully gives all sides
showing. and so Asterisk's "Plea for
/ General Circuit is given space. We
| fear our correspondents cand0r is
greater than his policy. Few advocates
/ of the nomination of Il man to an i'm
| portant public office would he willing
to admit. and advance it as an argu-
mrnt in his candidates favor, that he
will not take alcoholic StlmulantS,
''cven in case of sickness We are
! free to say that we should oppose Gen.
Grout's nomination on this ground, If
no other. suppose ii was some great
emergency, some measure affecting the
/ interests of the farmers of Vermont
! pending, and their representative
/ should he Frustrated, his life in peril,
the interests of his constituents trem-
! bling in the balance, and he should
/ refuse to comply with his physician :
directions to take alcoholic StimulantS
/ that were deemed necessary to restore
| him to the scenes of his duties. We
| should hardly feel justified in placing
such a man at Il post of grave reSpOn-
| sibility We should prefer Hooker OF
/ Dillingham;. either one of whom we
hope would yield his Scruples in a ease
| of sickness to the superior wisdom of
/ wise and prudent family physician.
Unwittingly we fear our correspondent
1 has greatly injured the case of his can
| didatc DIR. Bullard will need to come
to the rescue Montpelier Waterman.
NOT MUCH OF SHOWER.
The outbreak is by no means as for
midable as that which threatened Grant
| in 1872, and there is no such lllen
and mcnacing silence as brooded over
New York.atter Garfield was nominated
| four years ago. On the other hand,
outside of the two cities of New York
and Boston, no ticket which the re-
. publican party has ever presented to
/ the people has been hailed with such
universal and hearty enthusiasm. West
of the Hudson river there is not a
whisper of dissatisfaction to jar ON
the general approval. Through the
middle states and the great West the
people are fairly atlame for Blaine and
Logan. Il Philadelphia Press.
! One of the most significant things
about this II movement is that it is break
ing up the old party lines. A number
OF democrats. and old democrats, too
have come in here and enrolled THEN
names. This is what we want. This
is not party for this campaign only
1t is going to grow, no matter what
may be the outcome of the election
Boston Independent.
There will never be better time for
j flinging this democratic Jonah over
board. If the republican whale chooses
to take him into its corrupt NAV, 50
much the better for the country. Let
all the corruptionists go where they
belong. The democratic party need
take no risks in this business. La our
opinion, its shortest cut to success Is
TO give the John kellys of the party
timely notice that their services are no
longer required Atlanta Constitu-
ton.