The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-08


amous Mormons very uncomfortable,
and that is the only way to bring them
TO terms President John Taylor is
hiding to avoid arrest, and nearly all
the prominent leaders are harassed with
suits. While this policy brings odium
upon the polygamous relation, the main
reliance to build up true regard for
homogeneous marriage as the founda-
ton of civilized society must be in the
propagation of schools and seminaries,
and the spread of strong social inhu-
ences among women in favor of single
marriage. The Mormons have con-
cluded that they reckoned without their
host in expecting change of senti-
ment at Washington with President
Cleveland"
New YORK SUN: In our judgment,
this appointment [of Pearson will pro-
duce considerable shock in the demo-
cratic party of New York; yet perhaps
please the Independent republicans; in
fact, it is the one thing that they have
asked for and insisted on. Consider
ing that without them, Mr.. Cleveland
could not have been elected, their
recompense is not very large. Our
democratic friends may console them
selves with the reflection that, while
they have republican for postmaster,
he will make as good a postmaster as
any republican could be expected to
make. To borrow the language of the
Chinese poet:
We may be happy yet,
You betp"
Mr.. JAMES, Garfield's postmaster
general, who was Mr.. Pearson's prede-
cessor in the New York postoffice, says
of the reappointment of Pearson: "I
consider that the appointment shows
how thoroughly anxious Mr.. Cleveland
is in favor of pure administration.
OF course the Independents were largely
instrumental in bringing it about, as
they were also in electing Mr.. Cleve-
land president, but that does not make
it less fact that the president has ex-
hibited a courage in standing by his
convictions which is worthy of the dig
nifty of his high office. The position of
postmaster of New York is one of the
highest offices in the country, and more
directly connected with the people than
any other. l have no doubt that the
president was anxious to keep it out of
the field of politics, believing that he
who serves his country best serves his
party best. In making this appointment
Mr.. Cleveland shows that he is pos
sessed of nerve in no small degree"
THE New York Tribune qualities its
approval of Postmaster Pearson's re-
appointment with a formidable and
rather gratuitous string of 6 ifs" thus:
elf it should appear from his acts
hereafter that the selection of Mr..
Pearson is mere screen behind which
to pursue more successfully the shame
less prostitution of the public service
to which many democrats urge him, or
if this appointment is to be regarded
merely as a payment to the traitorous
faction of former republicans for SER
vices which, in their malignant spite,
they incidentally rendered to Mr.. Cleve-
land as candidate, or if it should be
found to be only the outcome of a
bargain for support in coming state
election, then such an act would re-
ceive the emphatic condemnation of all
men who care for the public good and
detest government by false pretences
or by bargain and sale" If bear
should eat you," is the startling and not
inappropriate heading under which the
Boston Herald reprints the above.
THE following is the full text of the
latest dispatch relating to General
Grants condition: " General Grant
slept not quietly, but without much an
noyance, from just before midnight
up to five o'clock Tuesday morning.
The day passed like the night, without
much to vary the monotony of the sick
TOOlu uc ScHcIdl lcStCu III tllC ihOot
of the time in his reclining chair before
brisk wood fire. His family was in
and out during most of the morning,
and the affairs of the household had
somewhat resumed their natural course.
AT noon the generals pulse was seventy
eight and he seemed to be progressing
favorably. There were hours of de-
preston, however, during the day,
when his great will power seemed to
leave him, and he would sink into
deep, meditative mood. Once, when
the doctors were holding converse
ton without the least thought that he
was listening, he opened his eyess 'owly,
and said: / feel that my chances of
getting better are about one in hun
dred. If any of you doctors can tell
me how long man can live under
water when he is drowning, can form
some opinion of how long shall live
when the next strangling spell comes