The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Notes and Opinions.

Notes and Opinions.
1T looks as though the republican
county ticket would take care of itself.
No splits in this county.
The great storm predicted by west
ern meteorological seems to have been
postponed on account of the weather.
THE Garden Sass Rural, as the Clip
per calls it, is truly rural only to this
extent: it is small potatoes and few in
the hill.
THE Franklin county alliance between
the extra prohibitionists and Senator
Edmunds is the most curious thing 60
ing.-Messenger.
NEXT falls elections will give the
national administration a chance to see
itself as others see it.-Philodelphio
North american
LOOK out for the eleventh-hour false
hoods and small tricks of the Edmunds
organs. They are desperate and will
employ any device to win.
JAUNDICED eyes which feed dis
tempered mind see ill-intent in every
thing. They can even see politics in
horse-trot.-Esser County Herald.
THE New York Sun wants glucose
taxed as well as oleomargarine. The
Sun is right. All humbugs and adul-
terations should be taxed out of ex-
istence.'
THE latest scarecrow set up by the
Edmunds organs is that Jay Gould's
money is being used in Vermont to de-
feat Edmunds. This is the worst sort
of bosh.
MORALS cannot be expurgated al
together from politics, and selfish poll
ticians and nations are at last brought
up to the captains counter to settle. 1t
ought never to be allowed that man
must be something of knave to be ca
pable statesman.-PittSburg Chronicle.
Mr.. BLAINE's speeches in Maine
are able arrangements of the democratic
administration and party and clear ex-
positions of the great national issues,
and will have much effect upon the
campaign now pending in that state, as
also upon the political canvass in other
states.
In reading such a speech the conclu-
o;n ,tCa1f IT,
ought to be in the senate, in the office
of secretary of state or in the presi-
dental chair, for either of which posi-
tons he is better qualified than any
other man in the country.
Telegraph.
No republican leader should feel
jealous of Senator Edmunds, who has
committed political suicide and cannot
get anything outside of his own state.
AS a national candidate we certainly
have no use for him, and he sensibly
refrains from having aspirations in that
direction.-Plattsburgh Telegram (rep).
"THE military rule, to do what your
enemy don't want done, is just the one
for this election. "-Bello,os Falls Times.
A very good rule, and the republicans
of Vermont should not support Ed
munds because he is the favOrite can
didate of the mugwumps, who are the
implacable enemies of the republic
can party.
THE Edmunds organs have much to
say about the service performed by Ed
munds and Morrill, for the Vermont
farmers in relation to abrogating the
reciprocity treaty with Canada. But
did not the same senators vote to re-
duce the duty on wool, two or three
years ago? And how much did that help
the Vermont farmers?
WHAT course he (Edmunds) would
take were Mr.. Blaine to be again nom-
mated in 1888 of course one can only
surmise. If he were secure in his sem
atorial seat, he might again retire into
the mugwump mansion and remark
through the cracks that his "condi-
ton " would not permit him to emerge
Observation-Disclosures Commercial.
IT is noticeable that while the lead
ing candidate for the republican nomi-
nation for the presidency, the Hon.
James G. Blaine, begins to talk to the
public in the East, the next to the lead
ing candidate, the Hon. w. b. Allison
of Iowa, addresses the public of the
West. Wouldn't the two orators of the
day make a mighty republican ticket
Blaine and Allison ?--Sun.
"THE Free Press, since it has become
absorbed in its great personal political
crusade, has ceased to be temperance
paper. 1t could not consistently act in
both capacities at the same time. ~
Messenger. We are glad to see the Free