The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-13
Notes and Comments.
THIRTEEN German papers in Ohio are
supporting Blaine and Logan.

MIN hhN pOl PcDOto III OulU hIb
supporting Blaine and Logan.
A LEADING Mormon has reached Wash
ington from Utah direct. He says Cleve-
land is popular there, and that his election
is looked forward to as an event that will
be full of promise of better times for
them. Suggestive
SECRETARY MCPHERsoN has received
letter from a gentleman who has just
completed a tour of the Pacific states.
The writer says the republicans will carry
California by ten thousand, Nevada by
five thousand and Colorado by ten thou
sand.
NEW YORK SUN (democratic) "Our
grievance is of the simplest nature. There
is nothing about it to require investiga-
ton. We have published it repeatedly,
and will publish it again whenever it is
asked for. We hold that Grover Cleve-
land is not fitted to be president, and that
he has done nothing to merit such pro-
motion"
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is said to be
engaged in preparing speech which will
seriously annoy the Cleveland reformers.
The speech will review the record of
Governor Cleveland and will show that he
was not in sympathy with the Roosevelt
party, which gained its distinction on
account of its devotion to reform. MIR.
Roosevelt's speech, his friends say, will
| furnish such details as to Cleveland's
career as to make it impossible for him to
longer pose as professional reformer.
SPEAKING of the sacrifice of Thurman
and other distinguished democratic lights
on the altar of availability the New York
Sun says: $50 Mr.. Cleveland was Sc
lected, and folly was justified of her chill
dren. Less than month has passed
since this available nomination was made,
and how is it quoted now2 Has availa-
bility gone up or down in that time ?
What has the democratic party gained by
lowering its standard of public merit,
and by sacrificing its most splendid names
to promoted accident 7"
THE federal treasury has lost 100000.
600 in gold during the first seven months
of the year, and since May the gold in
the treasury has sunk from s149,0OO,0OO
to $11S,000000. The attempt has been
recently made to force silver on the Bos-
ton banks, and it will probably be repeated
elsewhere. If any sudden call comes on
the treasury, an attempt to force silver on
the repositories through whom funds are
delivered to disbursing officers will be al
most inevitable. The steady loss of gold
in the treasury can scarcely continue
much longer without attracting degree
of public attention sure to breed alarm.
Two democratic platforms compared.
awe do not sanction the importation of
foreign labor or the admission of servile
races, untitled by habits, training, religion,
or kindred, for absorption into the great
body OF our people, or for citizenship
which our laws confer. American civil.
ization demands that against the immi
grafton or importation of Mongolians to
these shores our gates be closed" Demo-
cratic Platform of 1884. alt is cardinal
principle of democratic faith that our
country is the land of liberty and the
asylum of the oppressed of every nation,
and every attempt to abridge facilities for
becoming citizens ought to be resisted."-
Democratic Platform Of 1855.
New YORK TRIBUNE: "On the other
hand, it is certain that Mr.. Blaines posi-
tions on the tariff and on the foreign pol
icy of the government, including the pro-
lection of American citizens abroad, have
drawn to his support large bodies of dem
ocrats. The organization of protection
lists in Louisiana, the declarations of
prominent democrats in that state, in
Georgia, Tennessee, the Virginias, Ohio,
Indiana and New Jersey, and the general
tone of the lsboring classes in northern
states, prove that the tariff question does
make serious inroad in the democ ratio
ranks. The great meeting of Irish voters
in Chickering hall, and the course of
many journals that are especially ad.
dressed to such citizens, prove that the
views of Mr.. Blaine on the foreign rela-
tions of the nation also attract influential
and numerous democratic adherents. At
this hour, therefore, it must be said that
MIR. Blaine is altogether stronger than he
was Immediately after his nomination"
New YORK Sun (democratic) What
we insist upon is that, with Mr.. Cleve-
lands incapacity and selishness as a
public officer, his election would work
greater and more lasting mischief to the
! party than all the harm that could ensue
in consequence of his defeat. We know
that this harm would be serious, but the
other would be worse. If an inexpe-
rienced private soldier is taken from the
ranks without reason, and put in COM
mand of the army, there is danger that
the loss of the first battle will be the loss
of the army itself and if the new com
mander, unfit for his post, incapable of