The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10

Great Britain to be bar to the honor
able ratification of the peRding treaty
with Nicaragua. If this proposed treaty
can only be ratified at sacrifice of ma
tiona faith and the friendship of Eng
land, it should be modified. There is,
perhaps, some ground for hope that
Mr.. Phelps, assisted perhaps by Mr..
Edmunds, may be able during the COM
ing summer to impress Earl Granville
with favorable view of American ideas
regarding control of the isthmus."
NEW YORK SUN: Offensive parti-
sanship will have to be clearly de-
fined, and it is possible that the presi-
dent and the republican senators may
have hopelessly different opinions as to
the definition. The president has sub
stantially announced that republican
officeholders who have behaved them
selves have nothing to fear. He can
not remove or suspend any of them
within the purview of the confirming
authority without cause stated; and it
is only natural that the republican SEN
ators should do everything in their
power for the protection Of accused re-
publican officials. 1t will not do to go
too far, perhaps, in this line of policy,
for the country will insist that the SEN
ate shall give the president fair play;
yet the republican senators can go
some distance TO show their power and
to satisfy the more virulent partsans
among them"
New YORK SUN: "The worst of this
offensive partisanship business is that
it necessitates an odious investigation
and espionage into the political course
of such republican ofiice-holders as have
not been patiently offensive in their par
tisanship. This is wrong, unjustfiable,
unnecessary. Offensive or inoffensive,
the republicans ought to go. The de-
mocracy expects and demands the Of
fees. Would itnot be wiser, as it would
be franker, to remove republicans with
out any inquisition into the extent of
their partisan offence? Is it to be eX-
pected that democratic officials will con-
sent, or that democrats generally desire
that they should consent, to keep their
partisanship within the metes and
bounds of inoffensive partisanship Is
not the administration, from some vague
regard for civil service reform notions
accepted by the majority of neither re-
publicans nor democrats, laying the
foundation of future embarrassments?"
WASHINGTON dispatches report an
interview between some North Carolina
democrats and the president which
ended in disappointment to the g Tar
heelers." Their particular business
was the removal of the republican post
master and the appointment of a demo-
crat at Goldsboro. They stated the
case in the fewest words: "What
charges do you bring against the in
cumbent ?'' the president inquired.
"The only charge we bring is that he
is a republican" was the answer. SIS
he good ctizen?" the president
wanted to know. eve don't know
anything to the contrary" they said.
"Does he perform the duties of post
master ?'' inquired the president, fur
ther. eve are not prepared to say
that he does not" was the reply.
'Then I will not remove him." was
the way the president cut the matter
short. The North Carolina gentlemen
expressed their regrets, and went home
that evening.
THE Louisville Co,wier-JOurnol (dem-
ocratic): THE violations of honor
and duty which the professional poll
ticians have put upon the president
since his inauguration have not been
exaggerated by the Washington cor
respondents. In the nature of the case,
the appointing power must get its
knowledge of applicants for office at
second hand. The administration is
not omniscient. 1t is not a biograph-
ical dictionary. 1t cannot see cross
eyed, west and round the corner all at
once and without map or spy-glass,
and in consequence it is bound to trust
to others for its information touching
this, that and the other obscure aspirant
for its confidence and favor. The con-
stitution invests the senate with a por-
ton of the responsibility in this par
ticular, and as to the more important
places the president can only act with
its advice and consent Yet, spite
of this, senators, who ought to feel
proper sense of their obligation as
citizens, if not as senators, have acted
in such a way as, if the facts were
made public, would drive them from
the recognition and association of hon
orable men,"
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION: Our
new administration at Washington, in
addition to its arduous labors of turn
ing the rascals out, has apparently
found leisure to attempt collection of
educational fossils, BY dint of vigor-
Gus mining in California, a notable
specimen of this nature has been