News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
POLITICAL.


mated Chas. E. Whiting for Governor.
Governor Lowery, of Mississippi,
has been renominated by the Demo-
cratic State convention.
1t is alleged that Ex-Congressman
D. N. Lockwood, of Buffalo, who
nominated Cleveland for Sheriff, May
or, Governor and President, has be-
come bitter opponent of the Admin
istration.
1t seems to be settled that Presi-
dent Cleveland will visit Ohio previous
to the October election in that State.
But, of course, his trip will have no
political significance. Perish the I'M
worthy thought
Ben. Butler wrote letter TO the
Hon. VIM. Dorshimer endorsing the
President, and asking Mr.. Dorshimer
to show it to Mr.. Cleveland. The re-
quest was complied with. Then it was
the Presid7ert took to the woods
The Brooklyn Eagle says that it
does not know of a single Democrat
who is in favor of the repeal of the
civil service reform law. But does it
know of a single Democrat who like
the Democratic prohibitionist down in
Maine, is not "agin its enforcement p
Business depression was to be prac-
tically unknown in case Cleveland
should be elected, according to Demo-
cratic stump orators and newspapers
last fall. And yet this depression has
never been so deep and widespread
as now. 1t would be interesting to
inquire if any of the various trades
unions throughout the country, who
are now clamoring so loudly for ere
vival of business" were wheedled
into voting for "a change" by the spe-
cious promises of these Democratic
orators and papers. Those who helped
directly or indirectly to put the free
trade party in power, should not quar-
rel with the result of their work.
Woman suffrage has been establish
ed in Kansas in the election of school
officers, and we learn from the Kansas
City Times that at Seneca the other
day ''the ladies were out in full force
and exercised their franchise accord
ing to the dictates of their husbands. /"
This is discouraging. What is the
use of the women voting if they are
only going to vote as their husbands
tell them? 1t is true that they ought
to vote with their husbands if they are
honestly convinced, upon careful
and conscientious examination of the
case, that their husbands are voting
right; but it would be a sign of indie
pendence if they voted against their
husbands, though it might not add to
the harmony of the domestic circle
afterward.-N. Y. Sun.
Bradley B. Smalley, alias the Dem
ocratic party of Vermont, who has
been appointed collector at Burlington,
will not disturb the present deputy
collector, Mr.. Arthur. And the New
York Graphic is radiant with hap
piness at being able to detect in this
"an illustration of genuine civil-ser-
vice reform without any fuss or false
pretense about it." Mr.. Smalley, if
questioned, might not throw the fuss
or false pretense about his action with
which the Graphic invest it. He
would say that there was no harm in
an entirely efficient Republican per-
forming the work of the office and
leaving the Democratic collector flee,
to draw the salary and look after the
party fences in the district. Buffalo
Express.
Senator Logan is reported as say
ing concerning President Cleveland's
character as civil service reformer:
1t is fashionable to say that he is COM
ing up to the expectations of the
friends of civil service reform. Yet
this civil service reformer at the head
OF a reform administration changed
200 federal officers in a single day to
make room for partisans. History
has never heard of the like before. 1t
may never hear of the like again.
When Lincoln came into power he
had Democrats in Office to deal with,
although he was elected as Republi-
can. This man has removed more Of
ficials in month than Lincoln re-
moved in a year. We have held An
drew Jackson up to execration as the
one great spokesman of history. Yet
this man in four months has made
more removals than Jackson made in
his entire administration.