St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-02-26

lectured upon it at Newbury village
Tuesday evening. Some of our influ-
entail and heavy taxpayers have set
themselves resoiutely against it. Such
are: striving to convince others that
the district system is more economical
and hence preferable. If this we're to
be the case there is such thing as
false economy.
Mr.. Enoch Parker has returned from
his trip to the West.
Miss Maggie Leslie is recovering
from an attack of diptheretic sore
throat. .-....
The village school closes this week
with written examination occupying
the last two days. This closes a year
of very acceptable labor from Mr..
Goodhue, the head teacher Miss
Noyes, the primary teacher, is unable
to be in the school-reom ON account of
illness.
Miss Clara Eastman was called home
from series of engagements to speak
in Caledonia county by the illness of
her sister, who is sick with pneumonia
The Band of Hope meets next Sat-
urday afternoon. Preparation is be-
ing made for another entertainment.
The Beginning Of Republican Pro-
test.
From the Waterbury Comm American, Feb. 10 /
The most significant and timely ut
in its bearing on the future of the re-
publican party, is that of the Hartford
COurant, in commenting on Murat Hal
stead's discussion of "Revival of Sec
in the North American Re-
view. 1t is significant as the utterance
Of the leading republican paper of Con-
neeticut, which Loyalty supported Mr..
Blaine as the candidate of its party,
and whose nominal editor, Senator
Hawley, was one of the most effective
stump orators of the campaign. 1t is
timely because it defines, at its initia-
ton, a mischievous tendency and com
bats it fOrcibly. The term "reyival of
sectionalismn is not, to the Courant's
apprehension, descriptive of our pres
ent situation. The feeling of section
alism ''by all signs is less to-day than
"There is less bitterness"
it says. cat the South and growing
acceptance of northern ideas, especial
~ in regard to industries, and there is
an awakening sense of the value of ed
ucation. Mr.. Halstead introduces fig
ures which show ia the southern states
a striking increase in the republican
vote and decrease in the democratic
vote in comparing 1880 with 1884. The
plain fact is that Mr.. Blaine was de-
feated at the North, and not on sec
tiOnal issue" What follows is even
more pointed and significant. awe do
not exactly comprehend the object of
Mr.. Halstead's paper" says the Cou-
rant. "1f it is an intimation of any
body's scheme for 1888, and the com
mitment of the republican party to the
fighting over of old issues, we take
leave to express the opinion that the
party can recover power,
and recover it only, by becoming what
it was from the beginning, the party
Of progress, and taking the leadership
in new ideas that interest the people.
The campaign of 1884 is over'
Anyone who has kept his ears open
for the past month or two will know
that the Courant simply gives public
to the thoughts to which
are giving private utter
ince every where-tO feeling of dis
gust and wrath at the narrow and sui
,idal policy of cutting down the re-
D., blican party to the size of the Blaine
action. That policy obtained good
start while the feeling of bitterness
vas still most fervent and the hour for
elaboration and thought for the future
lad not come. Now it begins to be
ound that the organization of the par
" is in the hands of the narrow mind
I'd and revengeful factiOnists who
undertake to decide the |
qualifications for party membership
md draw the lines at the limits made |
~ their own definitions. This does |
rot by any means approve itself to the |
and good sense of the re-
publican party as a whole, and the |
protest has found voice at last within |
he ranks. The Courant is not mug |
Tump, nor anything else than tried
md true party paper, which takes the |
prescription of its party convention |
with manfulness when it is inevitable !
md with laudable effort to hide its |
yry faces. But it has the intelligence
o learn by experience and has devel
ped the courage of its belief. 1t does
lot believe that the medicine is good /
or the party, and when it sees another
lose already mixing it protests with
igor. In doing SO we think it voices
he sound sentiment of the republican
'arty, and that it will be effective to
'reyent blunder which in its repeti-
ion would he almost a crime.
The Courant's discussion of section
lism in which the above quotations
ppear, is sensible aud patriotic, but it
5 not Ourspurpose to touch it here. The
losing sentences are as follows "The
epublican party in the last election
anne within sight of carrying Tennes-
ee and West Virginia on Industrial
ssues. If the republican party shows
self worthy of leadership on such
uestions aud on all the living issues,
he industrial spirit will rally to it
Outh as well as North and the party
ill come into power again. not by
hreshing over old straw, but by keep
lg in the van of the cOuntry's best
leas. New York and Connecticut and
'ew Jersey did not vote for Mr.. Cleve-
md because the South was solid" +
Boston's Dickens Carnival,
n Exciting Fire Scene not on the Pro-
gram /