The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

away from an old crippled veteran
hardly seems credible. But such is
the case and Mr.. Kinds steps down and
out. His handless arms count for
naught with this ADMINISTRATION.
COLONEL b. b. SMALLEY has re-
ceived his appointment as collector of
customs at Burlington, whereupon there
has probably been more comment upon
it than ever before on federal an
pointment in this state; but in all of
them we have seen no statement or
reason given that it was not to have
been expected if the democratic party
prevailed in the last presidential cleo
tion.-BellowS Falls Times.
SENATOR HoAR is a courageous and
consistent member of his party, and
has fought with it and for it through
every campaign. He has sometimes
started in to nominate somebody who
has not been nominated, but has always
ably defended the principles of the
party and has cheerfully supported its
candidates. A party has never sue
ceeded yet when Differed by its enc
mies.-,St. Adams MESSENGER.
THE former members of the pension
examining boards at Manchester and in
Concord seem to have very good reason
to infer that an p" offensive partisan"
is one who, in the eyes of the present
administration, committed an unpar-
donable sin in risking his life and his
health in going to the front and defend
ing the old flag from being dishonored
by those who sought to destroy our
government and our country
Monitor.
CIVIL service reform, offensive par
tisanship, and I" to the. victors belong
the spoils," became terribly mixed, and
from the confusion Mr.. Smalley arose
collector of the port of Burlington.
Taken all in all, it must be confessed
that the platter of reform so preten-
tiously arranged by the President is a
curious object, and the question natu-
rally presents itself as to where and
when the next grand mixing of dishes
will occur Windsor Journal.
MONUMENTS and statues to General
Grant are already discussed and pro-
jected. Chicago will have a shaft in
Lincoln Park in that city. Ex-president
Hayes proposes that the Grand Army
of the Republic lead in erecting a
monument in Central Park. General
Burdette, commander of the Grand
Army, thinks that the Grand Army
should provide statue for the national
capital and leave to congress the APP
preparation of a sum to erect a monu-
ment in New York.
THE unbiased public and the mass of
the democratic politicians see that the
President is gradually coming to their
ject to presidential appointment now
belong to democrats and will be given
10 them sooner or later, even if republic
cans are removed. In other words, the
President is yielding to the demands of
his party for the offices and his often
sive partisanship exception is being ex-
tended so as to cover every republican
in office. The daily list of suspensions
shows that this is the fact.-Jounol.
THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
sums up Mr.. Garland's opinion in the
Dolphin" matter thus " First, the
contract and specifications were not ac-
cording to the act of congress; second,
Mr.. Roach, being aware of this fault,
should not have entered into such a
contract; third, there was no contract.
This" says the Commercial Gazette,
reminds one ofthe defence in the cele-
brated case of the cracked kettle First,
the kettle was cracked when we bor-
rowed it; second, the kettle was whole
when we returned it; third, we never
borrowed the plaintiffs kettle"
THE end of Ell Mahdi, if he really is
dead, was pathetic. Having defied the
power of England and baffled her most
famous general, the desert conqueror
persisted without medical attendance,
; while his followers were falling away
from him and fighting among them
selves. 1t is said he commanded his
successor to continue the war against
the Christians, but since Ell Mahdi,
with all the influence due to the sup
posed sacredness of his own person, had
so much difficulty in holding his fierce
tribes together, it seems hardly likely
that any successor to him can bear his
standard VIGOROUSLY
Pith and Point.