The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-17

assembly had not changed their minds,
bill for comforting municipal suffrage
upon women would have passed. But
on this question more men are every
year changing from no to yes than from
yes to no. 1t is hard work to say no to
The ladies.-Rutldnd Herald.
EX-SENATOR EDMUNDs is right in his
determination to bring the discussion
on the questions involved in his report
to a speedy close. The country is tired
of it, and the senate has more important
business on hand. "-Record Where
fore this cruel suggestion to cut off de-
bate? Let the constitutional BUSH
whacking go on.
THE Hon. Simon Cameron was eighty
seven on March 8. When he was born
there were only sixteen states in the
Union; now there are thirty-eight, and
four more coming. He has seen over
50,000,000 added to the population.
John Adams was president, and only
six congresses had been elected. Mr.
Cameron first entered the United States
senate forty-one years since.
IF the President and the senate
would coincide with the entire press of
the country, both could easily accom-
plish the best reform of the year. The
press is unanimous that secret execu-
tive sessions of the senate should be
abolished, and that the Presidents re-
movals and appointments should have
no cause that will not bear going
straight to the public.-NaShud Tele-
graph.
THE Mormons are now credited with
they intend to move into the State of
Nevada, legislate or drive the few in
habitants out of the state, seize the
reins of government, and then ask
Uncle Sam what he is going to do about
it. This is very pretty scheme on
paper, but if it was at all feasible the
shrewd Mormons would have carried it
out long ago.-Iribune.
THE great losses directly incurred by
the Pennsylvania coke strike are footed
up by the Pittsburgh Times, kindly
friend to labor, at $685. ,425. OF this
great sum the loss to labor is given at
1928 ,425. There were $4,000 men idle
for thirty days. The average daily
wage was S1.41-that is, Sl6,920 each
day, or $507 800 in all. These laborers
will have to pay a round sum for the
back rent of $500 houses, which is es-
timated at S15,S25.
THE administration at Washington is
to be congratulated upon the fact that
it has at last accomplished something;
it has invented phrase which is des-
tined to become popularized This is
great achievement for democratic
president. In asserting that certain
assumptions by the senate have passed
into a state of innocuous desuetude, -
Mr.. Cleveland does not talk Buffalo or
the more ancient Knickerbocker of AL
bany, but modern and improved
" United States. "-LOUeU Citizen.
JOHN JARRETT of the knights of
Labor, speaking of the tariff agitation
says: "We do not want free-trade
with countries whose workmen are
ground down to the lowest degree of
poverty by their employers, because to
take away the protective barrier formed
by the tariff would place American
workmen upon the same level as the
foreign workmen. Let them increase
the wages of their working people
until they will compare with American
wages and we will give them free-trade.'
THE persistency with which the
Cleveland organs and adulators are per.
suing Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Blaine
opinions, in their editorial columns,
shows the political vitality of the late
republican candidate for the presidency
and who, if he himself shall so will it
can be again placed at the head of the
republican national ticket. That Mr.
Blaine is the strongest man in his party
to-day both these continued attentions
from the opposition press and the pop
ular vote in 1884 afford most convinc
ing evdence.-LoCeU Citizen.
THE Boston Globe says that President
Cleveland "has honestly done the bes
he knows how" This is a reminder Of
the reply of the late Marvin Smalley
Esq, to a Burlington hotel proprietor
with whom he was stopping. The pro
prietor had been lecturing his guest OF
not doing as well as he knew how
AS soon as Mr.. Smalley could get in &
word edgewise he inquired of the land
lord ";f he always did as well as he
knew how?" "Of course l do" was
the reply. "Then," said Smalley, you
don't know but a precious little."-
Messenger.
: Mr.. BLAINE may not be the republi
can candidate for president in 1888, but
the papers that treat such an event as
utterly improbable are oblivious to the
signs of the times. Sagacious politi
clans in Washington believe that Mr.
Blaine will be a formidable, and prob.
ably successful candidate, two years
hence. Senator Frye has said that Mr.
Blaine will be renomnated if he wants
to be. Leading western republican
papers declare that he is stronger II
that section than ever, and could be
nominated by a stronger vote than he
received in 1884. No one but mug
wump regards Mr.. Blaine as weak