The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30
Notes and Opinions.

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F. w. MCGETTRICK, appointed post
master at st. Adams, was endorsed for
the position by 1903 out of about 400
democratic voters of that town.
ACCORDING to present indications,
the President is going to find himself
as lonesome in congress as was Presi-
dent Tyler. -Proridenc Journal.
THE Paris papers continue to exhibit
their ignorance of American affairs.
The Figaro announces that the presi-
dency in the United States has been
abolished.
THE Catholic priests of Montreal
have been warned by their bishop not
to NEEDLE with politics, either from the
pulpit or in private. The admonition
is supposed to be due to the part the
| priests have taken in the Riel agitation.
A NUT for free-traders to crack If
100000 900 goes abroad into the hands
of foreign labor for articles that could
! be manufactured in our own country.
! how can it be as advantageous to our
labor as if it were kept for distribution
at home?
Now if the democrats can only prove
that Senator Evarts once struck his
little sister, or that J John Sherman tied
tin-can to his grandmother's dogs
tail, about all the available republican
material will have been carried away.
philadelphia Times.
THEORETICALLY, the Independent
! journalist is man with firm attach
ments to principle and loose ties to
party, who is not afraid to denounce
wrong on either side. n-Tribune. Prac-
tically, he has proved more of hum
bug than anything else.
T. C. CRAWFORD, the special cor
respondent of the World at Washing
ton, denies the statement made by sew
eral correspondents to the effect that
the President has invited republican
senators to furnish evidence of the I'M
fitness of appointments.
IT is stated that thirty-nine demo-
Gratis and ninety-one republicans in
the house favor the suspension of
the silver coinage, and 143 democrats
and lifty-two republicans are against
suspension-the latter being mostly
| from the South and West.
"THE tenure of office act should be
repealed. 1t was designed to defeat
reckless executive, and it has since
been retained to enable few senators
to assume the Presidents authority to
make appointments in their states"
This is the opinion of one of the most
distinguished lawyers and republicans
in New England.
GEORGE DUHAMEL, French conserv-
ative, at lecture in Montreal, expressed
his conviction that the time was COM
ing when the population of Western
Canada would be strong enough to di-
vide the confederation and that the
Province of Quebec, with population
of 900 900 or 5000, 900, would be able
to form new France of their own.
WE cannot understand how any one
who has the interest of the working
classes at heart can be in favor of free
trade, in the broad acceptation of the
term. Do they want to make the
American laborer compete with the
pauper labor of over-crowded Europe?
Will free-trade prove a benefit to
England or America? If to America,
why is England so anxious to establish
it with America?-New York Marine
journal.
SENATOR VAN WICK of Nebraska
has introduced bill to organize the
Indian Territory" and the "Public
Land Strip" into a territory to be known
as the Territory of Oklahoma, and to
provide a temporary government there
for. 1t provides that the unoccupied
lands ceded to the United States by the
Greeks and SeminOles, by the treaties of
1866, and the public land strip be de-
clared part of the public domain and
opened to settlement; that the lands
can only be taken up under the home
stead law, and that there shall be no
Communication of claims in cash. All
Indian leases in the territory, except
those for cultivating the soil, are de-
clared void and contrary to public
policy.
AT the beginning of the present year
Vermont had thirteen eX-governors
living, but four of them have died dur
ing the year, and the two oldest died
Friday and Saturday, December 18th
and 19th-Hon. Hiland Hall of Ben
nington and Hon. Ryland Fletcher of
Proctorsville. The other two eX-gov-
ernors who have died during the year
were Hon. Julius Converse of Wood
stock and Hon. John b. Page of Rut-
land. The ex-governors living are Hon.
Frederick Holbrook of Brattleboro,
Hon. j. Gregory Smith of st. Adams,
Hon. Paul Dillingham; of Waterbury,
Hon. John w. Stewart of Middle
bury, Hon. George w. Hendee of
Morrisville, Hon. Horace Fairbanks of
st. Johnsbury, Hon. Redfield Proctor
of Proctor, Hon. Roswell Farnham of
Bradford and Hon. John l.. Barstow of
Shelburn.
IT is reported that republican sena-
tors show a general disposition to con-
firm the appointments of the President,
wherever there is found no personal