St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-11-05
not Luxury but a Neces-

Independents not Luxury bufa Neces-
sity.
These gentlemen may push their self
assumed privileges as public advisers
somewhat too far, but neither their
principles nor their talents can be i'm
pugned. There is something too much
of the spirit of ancient crusade in their
theories to be exactly in .cousonance
with modern ideas, but precisely be-
cause they represent the antithesis of
modern methods in practical politics
we are glad that they are here, and
only wish there were more of them
Louisville Courier journal.
A Threadbare Tale.
The New York Tribune still harps
upon John Roach. 1t processes to be-
lieve that the election of Mr.. Daten-
port will be a gindication for the con
structor of the Dolphin. And it still
speaks about the men who were turn
ed out of employment "by shameful
act of injustice" when it knows that
the other cruisers in Mr. Roach's yard
are to be completed by his own work
men under government supervision. A
failure for 200 cents on the dollar is
not an issue that needs vindicatiOn.
And the election in New York has
other and deeper meanings. One of
the crosses of republican victory will
be the mOnstrOus interpretations the
Tribune will put upon it Boston
Advertiser.
One Dog with Two Ends.
A rustic, being beset by a fierce dog,
struck the dog with a sharp pike,
thrusting it into him. The owner of
the dog sought satisfaction at law for
the grievous hurt done upon his beast,
and demanded to know why the churl
had not Tended off the dog with the
blunt end of the pike. 70 this the
man replied ''If the dog had not run
at me with his sharp end, would not
have met him with the sharp end OF
the pike"
Senator Sherman's speeches in Ohio
and Virginia are the sharp and blunt
ends of the same dog and consequently
meet with very different receptions.
In Ohio, the senator berated President
! Cleveland for having appointed to his
cabinet three excellent and honorable
men with whom Mr.. Sherman had sat
for years in the United States senate
and what was his objection to them =?
Simply that two of them had been in
the rebellion and one of them had
''sympathized" with it. Mr.. Sherman
says he did not "wave the bloody
shirt" because he denounced the cleo
tOral ''crime" of 1884 and not the acts
of IS6I-5
But his condemnation of the appoint
ment of these honorable members of
the cabinet was based purely and sole
ly on the fact that the rebellion had
their aid or their sympathy and not
upon any acts of theirs for the last 20
years. 1t was by these slight turns of
expression that Senator Sherman's
speeches in the two sections of the
country present two entirely different
ends of the same dog, fierce and
intractable and the other wagging with
smiling benignity.. The senator at
Petersburg even went so far as to say
that "perhaps it was as well that after
il long lease of power by the republican
party, the democratic party should be
put on trial for four years" He thought
it would dissipate the impression of the
South us to the ability of that party to
manage the government. 1t is equally
certain to dissipate the impression at
the North that none but the republi-
can party can manage the government.
i Springfield Republican.