The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

years ne occupied JnaU place uhueI ioPupi-
can rule. We cannot learn that his claim
to be General Wells successor is based
upon any other grounds than alleged po-
litical services. The people of Vermont
excepting a few democratic partisans,
greatly prefer Wells to Smalley, and will
be sadly disappointed if President Cleve-
land should remove gallant Union soldier,
who never has used his Office for partisan
purposes, merely to reward machine
politician"
THE following important information is
conveyed to the Neic York sun in a dispatch
from Burlington "The determination of
the Blaine partisans to defeat Senator Ed
munds in the legislature of 1886 has already
begun to take shape 1t is pretty generally
understood that Ex-Governor Smith, presi-
dent of the Central Vermont railway, ex-
Governor Proctor of Rutland, Ex-Governor
Stewart of Middlebury Judge Powers of
the supreme court, and the venerable Luke
p. Poland will be in the field. The st. AL
bans paper has already begun republishing
the record of Smith as the war governor of
the state. Poland has moved over to Water
vile, in Edmunds side of the state, so as to
be eligible on the ground of locality, and the
others are, thus early, quietly nursing their
booms. The struggle will be bitter one.
Senator Edmunds doesn't seem to worry
over the prospect" The Sum correspondent
should control his feelings awhile longer.
There is nothing to be gained by getting ex-
cited at this early stage of the proceedings.
RUTLAND HERALD: "The reason why free
passes are Objectionable is not because
free pass necessarily sways seriously the
opinion and action of a decent jurist, legisla-
tor or editor, but because the appearance of
all evil should be avoided. 1t is not enough
that legislatures, courts and press should be
honest: they should not do anything that
should needlessly, by its doubtful quality,
impeach their impartiality with the people;
but until the people are better than the
g railroads statutes will not stop free passes.
S If the people were better than the railroads
y they could soon stop the acceptance of free
passes or free tickets by refusing to elect a
: Judge or legislator who rode deadhead
J., but, with the exception of Judge Collamer,
4 we never heard of public man in Vermont
q who refused free pass, and we know very
V few that hesitate to ask for them. The
: honest farmers are just as importunate as
4 the most impecunious legislator, editor or
attorney, and when they are refused they
. Join the ranks of those who denounce the
railroads and free-pass system"
: THERE is great deal of interest taken by
T. public men in Senator Edmunds' invitation
r to go to England to testify before the house
q of lords. 1t has been incorr ectly stated
e that he would appear before parliament
h Senator Morrill, says that the house of lords
r is sitting now court for the examina
ton of various questions. Its sittings cor
g respond to those of our supreme court He
= says that it is entirely without precedent tt
invite any of our public men or lawyers tC
=. appear before it witnesses to explain
:. away any of the topics considered by them
. He has no idea of the subject to be ex
planned by Mr.. Edmunds. When the higl
~ joint commission was here Mr.. Edmund
- became very well acquainted with the Eng
lsh members, and he has visited Englan,
several times since, and has been very gen
H. orally received in London society. He me
le Lord Coeridge when he here. Hi
10 wide acquaintance with English law AM
&c his position as chairman of the judiciar,
~ committee in the senate would natural
ie make him the lawyer to be selected, if til
es English lords should desire to consult an
a. American authority upon the subject of on
~ laws. 1t is said by some that there is
~ certain bit of diplomacy behind all this, an
NC that Mr.. Phelps is responsible for Mr.. EC
IT. munds' invitation. This theory, howeve
is accepted by very few. Senator Edmund
or says: {" / am ON my way to England I
hnfpr t1,a ttan m t,riX lanf
of of the house of lords touching certain poin
ed of American law. My testimony is needle
ial in civil suit affecting the title of one of I'll
Ii Oldest peerages in England, the income
er- which is $4,000 year"
L. The printer earnestly commends to a
50 correspondents and writer's the following a.
re- vice from the Cleceidnd Ledder. We pr
Vi sumo business men will join with new
III paper men in enforcing this advice upC
~ their correspondents, who may be strange
No themselves or writing of strangers: " III
oe- name of a person is something that Il
editor, printer, or proof-reader cannot que
The at successfully, if it happens to be write
TIL blindly, and none of the trio are so fort
ay, nate as to know to a certainty the individu
ION referred to- Yet if there are any words
ayt bilt copy pTtIdTtu LOT Inc press DN ct
S respondents carelessly and llegibly write
on they are, in two-thirds of the cases, prop
ore names We have run across a hundred i
)st, stances, within year, wherein, if the nar
,et- supposed to be written were isolated fro
ing the context, we would wager hat that d
lay person who wrote it could not tell what
the was. If there is anything that makes an
eel divdual mad it is to have his name III
lne spelled or distorted into something els
,es yet in ninety-five instances out of a hundr
it is the fault of the person writing t
the name. Correspondents will write along
was a fairly legible hand until they come to
dow proper name, and then it would seem as
ezra they exhausted their ingenuity in seei
oar how indistinct they can make it, Any otl
lrv word indiStinctly written may be int
eld preted by its connection. Not so with
avs name of person. If it is illegible, nothi
rre. is left the compostor and proof-reader
, of to guess at il, and then it is as liable to
ION wrong as right, We refer to this mat
ow, thus at length hoping that many Of {
,its- esteemed correspondents and occasion
r.. contributors will profit by it, and there
lser save themselves, their friends, and o
s,.l,r.. Il, a,,.