The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-06


you see well-filled pocket-book, go for
it that is the principle on which it pro-
ceeds. No doubt this freebooting pays in
certain sense, just as other dishonorable
measures sometimes pay" Our contem-
porary is further charged with being the
"faithful ally of the railroad ring " and the
"mouthpiece of the politicians who are
owned by the Central" but this the Arqus
has often and vehemently denied, so the SEN
tyv must be at fault in this particular.
THE Connecticut River and Passumpsic
River railroad companies have entered suit
against the Southeastern road, the Yer
mont National Bank of st. Albans and Re-
ceiver Hendee, in the form of bill of
equity The suit is brought in the United
States circuit court by e. J. Phelps of Bur-
lington and Messrs. Edwards, Dickerman &
Young of Newport, the solicitors for the
orator. The suit involves the question of
the title to, and ownership of, the bonds
and stock of the Montreal, Portland & Bos-
ton road offered for sale by Receiver Hen
dee, which the orator seeks to recover pos
session of on the ground that it is the legal
owner.
The Argus illustrates its capacity for
meanness and insult in its remarks, last
week, upon Collector j. G.. Stearns 1t is
not capable of fairly and correctly repre-
senting what an opponent or rival may have
said or done, and with equal mal-adroitness
it besmirches it's cronies when it feeds them
with taffy. Colonel Stearns is man of
iati 10 W. M @
partisan "-and among the earliest-when
Lincoln wanted volunteers to put down a
southern democratic rebellion, and his re-
publicansm has been of like pronounced
type; but he has never neglected his official
duties moment to run" politics. He has
been "good and faithful servant and if
he is removed it will be, as he says, " for
cause" and the cause" is his republi-
canism.
THE colossal statue, " Liberty Enlighten-
ing the World" the gift of France to Amer
lea, is being loaded on the French trans
port ship Isere for shipment to this country.
The pedestal is not ready for the statue and
there is no money with which to put it in
readiness. The construction committee
and to stimulate popular subscriptions is
offering miniature statuette, an exact
counterpart of the original to subscribers.
| The figure is made of bronze, the pedestal
of nickel silver For the small sum Of 81
this souvenir of the great statue will be de-
livered to subscribers throughout the United
States. All remittances should be addressed
to Richard Butler, secretary, No. "a Mercer
street, New York. The funds raised by the
sale of these statuettes are to be devoted tC
the completion of the base and pedestal or
Bedloe's Island in New York harbor. 1t is
hardly creditable to Americans that there
should be so much apathy in a matter that
appeals so strongly to their national pride
We trust the dollar subscription scheme will
provide the treasury of the committee witt
the needed funds.
THE "leading editorial writer :" of tn,
ArguS turns up smiling, after long periot
of silence, and serenely remarking tina
things have been unusually quiet for {
few weeks back" forthwith begins to rur
amuck in the columns of the journal h,
controls" Colonel Stearns, the Free Press
General Grout and The WATCHMAN are tn,
especial victims of his blade of lath. Th
appropriation of other peoples head-gea
and the sly beneficiary of other people
hotel bills, he is as Utley " unable to un
derstand how a person can become tn
; possessor of ideas by honest research as q
a living by honest industry. So he pre-
fesses to believe that The WATCHMAN get
its ideas of the maple sugar industry froI
the fertile brain of Timothy Wheeler
This is not the first instance of his vain rt
lance upon cranky imagination for hi
facts and a convenient memory for his wi
wit that in the present case somehow c
other seems to have the flavor Of the polio
station, since it finds expression in " pre-
pounding" Mark Tapley's alleged conur
drum, Why is a man out of Jail like a ma
in Jail ?" Has the fellow really been in ia
during his mysterious absence from tn
state? Did the distinguished " delegate
meet recently in Boston his fellow-travelt
c of about a year ago. and was he unable
: elude him. as he did last June in Canada
. These are conundrums quite as funny {
=, Mark Tapley's.
THE Brattleboro Reformer should reforl
. its temper as well as its editorial practice
u 1t is very angry because THE WATCHMA
mildly child it for its indolent habit of bull,
. ing up its editorial page on the unacknow
! edged labor of its contemporaries and therel
presenting an appearance of original ente
d prise and industry to which it is not e.
It titled. 1t has often appropriated Tt
e WATCHMAN's work and we have once befo
II been compelled to remonstrate, while pas
e ing by many offences in silence. Beir
d found with the goods in its possession Il
% ReJormer falls back on an offended dignit
If maintains that the wares are common pro
e erty and winds up by characteristic @
If tempt to depreciate their quality. We su
y nit that when journal spends its time
a, digging up and tabuating statistics it is e
y titled to acknowledgment therefor
another paper appropriating them I'll
4 Reformer appropriated without giving cred
rs as it has done oft before, and has take
Is as il did in this instance, editorial 7
TO marks and propositions, toged them o
ID in a little homemade fustian and sent the
G. forth as its own progeny.
ne PUBLIC interest in late controversy
10 tween Hiram Atkins and the publisher
20 this paper relative to certain alleged ia