The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
Notes and Comments.

EVENING RECORD. "The criticisms
Justly made on some of Mr.. Cleveland's
late selections show that public senti-
ment is disposed to hold him to high
standard. He cannot do better than to
live up to it,"
THE respect and admiration we have
had for Ex-Governor Long of Massa-
chusetts is not lessened by his ener-
getic declaration that q" if the republic
can party is to be cheap, do-nothing,
captious, heel-barking opposition, it
had better disband."
CHICAGO News: clay A. Hubbell,
in his wordy alteration with fellow
member of the Michigan legislature,
the other day, said he would rather
have his brains in his head than in his
feet. The prevailing sin of Americans
is their yearning desire for change"
MANCHESTER UNION: If General
Grant had possessed no better faculty of
diagnosing the disease that afflicted this
country few years ago than his doc
tors have displayed while practicing on
him, the confederacy would have been
living and the chances more than even
that Grant would have been dead"
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "Because
General Grant is improving, his doc
tors are accused of not understanding
his case. If he had died, they would
have been charged with having brought
about his death by refusing access to
specialists and quacks. Idle aud igno-
rant criticism would have been folly in
any event.
CHRISTIAN AT WORK: "The issues
depending upon a war between Eng
land and Russia at this time are almost
identical with those which were tenn
porarily decided by the taking of Sc
bastopol. The question is simply
whether Russia shall or shall not have
the right of way through Dardanelles
and this right, being once conceded, the
Turk would be speedily banished from
Europe"
PROVIDENCE STAR: The Catholic
clergymen of Worcester set an excellent
example to ministers of other denomi.
nations in making in their churches
last Sunday, crusade against liquor
selling. When priest says boldly
to his congregation that seventeen OF
his parishioners have applied for Ii
censes to sell liquor, and tells them that
it will be impossible for them to save
their souls if they. continue in the bust
ness, there is no discounting his Chris
tan courage"
NEW YORK TIMES: "The mistake
made in these cases the nominations
of Pillsbury, Chase and Higgins is rad
ical, and if not corrected it will dc
much to injure the prestige which the
administration has been so rapidly gain
ing, and which might make it well-nigh
unassailable. 1t consists in accepting
the advice and counsel of prominent
party leaders without taking pains t6
see whether it harmonizes either with
the public interests or the judgment OF
the communities which are to be chiefly
affected"
PORTLAND ADVERTISER: eff active
partisanship is disqualification for the
incumbents of public offices, it is dis
qualification also for their successors
Captain Chase and Mr. Pillsbury, who
were appointed to the internal revenue
service yesterday, are certainly active
partisans, and there is not the least
probability that the senate will confirm
either appointment. 1t was fully set
tied before the adjournment that the
presidents appointments, when sent in
for confirmation, should be tried by his
own rule"
PHILADELPHIA RECORD: "The boys
can hardly find fault with the appoint
ments to internal revenue collector