The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-09
Notes and Comments.

RUTLAND REVIEW " The signs of the
county political canvass in Vermont point
decidedly in the direction that there is an
independent vote in this state which will
break with the old party bosses, and unless
state nominations are made satisfactory
to this element they will show their power
at the fall election"
NEW YORK INDEPENDENT "The in
dications are increasing that the final
outcome of the Chicago convention will
be the nomination of Senator Edmunds
for president and Secretary Lincoln for
vice-president. Such ticket would be
very strong one, and would secure the
support of the independent voters in this
and other states. Both of these gentle.
men are men whom the people could
safely trust"
BRATTLEBoRo REFoRMER " The Mont
pelier Argus has got it now. 1t finds that
Colonel Hooker is not only trying to creep
into congress, but is after the pension
agency at Concord, worth SIS. 900 year
The 'news comes from an interview with
Colonel Pingree, who was an aspirant him
self; and, as Captain Cutie would say, it
is fact when found to make note of
unless the Argus interview should
turn out like that with Editor Greene on
the Billings matter"
NoRTHFIELD FARMER AND News !:
is our candidate for governor wicked
rumseller p For many years our towns
man, who is prominently named as one of
the possible candidates for governor, has
been principal owner of drug store in
our village, but for the past ten or twelve
years has had little to do with running
the business. We believe liquors are sold
there for medicinal uses, as they doubtless
are in every drug store in the state, but
have heard no complaint that liquors are
there sold for drinking, or without the ap
proval of the physicians of the town"
SPEAKING of the names mentioned by
THE WATcHMAN for delegates from the
east side-Frederick Billings, B. F. FL
field, B. d. Harris and Horace Fairbanks
the Brattleboro Phenir says: "This
ticket is a strong one, its geographical
distribution over the district cannot be
criticised, and the convention cannot do
better than settle on these four names.
The Watchman further suggests that it
will be quite as we'll to heed the wish of
our congressman that they be allowed to
remain at their posts in Washington
With this suggestion we also agree, and it
may be added, as strong argument in
favor of it at this particular time, that
Senator Edmunds is strongly opposed, as
a matter both of propriety and of princi-
pie, to any interference by senators or rep.
resentatives in political conventions or po-
litical management of any Sort"
The voice of the Newport Express is
still for Barstow for governor 1t finds
in his action upon the appeal to appoint
cattle commission to guard the herds of
the state from the foot and mouth dis
ease fresh reason for his reelection. 1t
says: "The governor, instead of appoint
ing board of commissioners, very sensi-
bly, calls the attention Of selectmen to the
revised laws, which make it their duty to
investigate such diseases and report to
him. In addition, he has directed DIR.
Cutting of the State Board of Agriculture
to be ready with Information upon the
subject respecting symptoms and treat
ment in case it should appear within our
borders. A governor of the important
sort would probably have appointed the
commission with great ado, and the state
would have borne the expense. Give us
the old ticket for two years more"
THE Idler," the cap and bells of the
Free Press, gets in about the only chunks
of wisdom that appear in that paper now
a-days. Here is one of his later gleanings
winnowed out from the jester's nonsense
"One of the best-known politicians in
the state favored the Idler with lot OF
political philosophy, the other night
THE people, he said, want Edmunds
for president, but the politicians don't
and it is the politicians that run these
things. Now in this city, half dozen
fellows will run the caucus and name the
delegates to the state convention half a
dozen fellows will run the state conven
ton and name the candidates to the ma
tional convention; and half dozen grand
mugwamps will run that convention and
name the presidential candidate. The
people don't have anything to say about
it. The machine runs the whole thing