The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

pressed by peaceable methods, the
whole force of governmental power
must be put forth to stay its further
progress. Morning Star, San Francisco.
THE return this year to the republi-
can party, and to the support of the re-
publican candidates in Massachusetts,
and New York, of those who last wear
refused to support Mr.. Blaine, is in
some of its aspects a matter for con-
graduation, and it is to be hoped that
in the future this class of voters will be
found working in unison and harmony
with the party to which they have re-
turned; but just here is point worthy
ofattention. Unless they are minded to
give their support to the principles of
the republican party as well as to its
candidates, that party is stronger with
out than with them. -Traveller.
ESQUIRE " EDGERToN, Fort Wayne,
Ind, who is to be chairman of the new
civil service commission, is nearly
three-score-and-ten years old, and re-
tired from congressional life thirty
years ago. He was one of the few
Indiana democrats who refused to eat
crow in the Greeley campaign of 1872,
and came within six votes of beating
John Quincy Adams, Jr., as candidate
for vice-president on the O'Conor ticket.
esquire Trenholm, another member,
from Charleston, S. c., is son of that
eminent financier, the last secretary of
the confederate treasury, in the war in
augurated by southern democrats for
the destruction OfNprr nation
The mugwump Boston Record is
gaining no credit among the sturdy re-
publicans of Vermont by its continued
publication of vindictive and uniustifia-
BILE assaults upon the WATCHNfAN and
its editor. The latest contribution of
this kind to the little mugwump sheet
is signed " A Vermont Republican,"
but it was written by a mugwump, and
we all know that a mugwump is about
as much of true republican as bour-
bon democrat. The real trouble with
the Record and its interested cor
respondents is that the WATCHMAN is
too much of republican paper to suit
them. The Record is not republican
paper, and has no right to claim or ex-
pect support from republicans, or to
speak for them.
WE have been favored with a circu-
lar issued by the National Civil Service
Reform League, averring that 4" this is
a peculiarly opportune time for prose-
cutting the work of organizing non-par-
tisan reform associations among those
in all parts of the country who believe
in the application of business methods
to public affairs.'' This is simply
a proposition to abolish parties, and to
conduct politics exclusively upon bust
ness methods. But business methods
will not answer in politics, for the reason
that the end to he attained in politics
is not money-making, but good govern
ment. What public officers may be-
come when they set out to be money
makers may be learned by studying the
history of William M. Tweed. A re-
publican government is not possible
except through parties. The conflicts
and struggles of parties, endeavoring
to secure for their respective principles,
measures and men predominance in
the government, are indispensable to
liberty.-Ne,O York Sun.
If New York has gone democratic,
as now seems probable, the result
should teach the independents the
wholesome lesson that it is much easier
to bolt party nomination than to REM
edy the bad consequences of a bolt.
Having given the state to the demo-
Gratis, they supposed that they could
give it back to the republicans when
they chose. But they find that is
beyond their power. They installed
the democrats in control of the ma
chinery and patronage of the state and
national governments, and in so doing
put them in position in which they
no longer need the assistance of the
Independents. The democratic press
openly derided and defied their late
mugwump allies all through the recent
campaign, and the result seems to have
shown that they could do so with entire
impunity. They used them when they
wanted them. They are now through
with them, and can and will run their
machine after their own fashion with
out their aid. This is, perhaps, the
chief lesson of the election: but it is
one which the men who need it most
in all probability will refuse to learn
Free Press.