The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-05
Notes and Opinions.


THE prospect of defeating the tariff
bill in the house is improving.
THE President is not pleased with
the way the " Independents " ere now
treating him.
JEFF. DAVIS glorifes treason to coun-
try. The Brattleboro Picnic glorifies
treason to party.
THE Gladstone home-rule bill has
been modified so that Irish members
may continue to sit at Westminster.
THE results of his appointments sug-
gests the theory that the President
makes them from lottery wheel or
grab-bag-Ne,C York Tribune
THE civil service law is yet intact,
but the operation thereof has received
compound fracture at the hands of
the ration.-Hartord Post.
IT is estimated that every other adult
Canadian spends the first half of his
life in trying to get an office, and the
last half in keeping it and repelling the
attacks of reptile press.-1ribune.
IT is very thick-skinned Union SOL
der who can read of the proceedings
of the confederate carnival at Mont
gomery without feeling that he has all
along been heartless scoundrel and
traitor to his country!-Con. Monitor.
SOME of the democrats in Washing
ton are alarmed over the possible effect
of the Davis demonstrations in the
South, and have sent kilograms of re-
monstrance to General Gordon, begging
him to keep Davis suppressed as much
as possible.
THE latest candidate suggested as a
successor to Senator Edmunds by those
who seem determined to defeat him is
Hon. Wheelock G.. Veazey of Rutland.
Mr. Veazey is one of the judges of the
Vermont supreme court and man of
ability.-Boston Traveller.
A MASs-MEETING of Grand Army
men was held in Albany, Thursday
evening, to protest against the utter
ances of Jeff. Davis in his Montgomery
speech, and to denounce the "resurrec-
ton of Davis from the oblivion to which
a loyal and patriotic people had con-
signed him."
WHILE the republican papers who
are opposed to Senator Edmunds seem
to have no concerted plan of action, the
Edmunds papers all publish articles
booming him simultaneously, and call
attention to them editorially. This re-
minds us of the" Tilden literary bureau
of 1S76."-WeSt Randolph Herald.
THE talk of Senator Hoar as a presi-
dental candidate is intended to coun-
teract the strong republican sentiment
in favor of Mr.. Blaine's denomination
but it will fail of its intended effect.
Mr.. Hoar is an excellent republican,
but he has not the popular qualities for
a presidential candidate. The A." favor
tie son " idea is played out.
THE Clipper has nearly always been
in accord with Senator Edmunds, and
whenever the two have not agreed the
senator has had the benefit of the
doubt. The Clipper found itself in ac-
cord with Senator Edmunds two years
ago, and followed him out of the Blaine
ranks. Neither of us, as far as we
know, have ever had reason to regret
taking that ourse.-Bmlingto Clipper.
The sentiment among republicans in
this section of the state on the governor
question is not yet strongly indicated,
but it appears more favorable to Mr.
Batchclder than to Mr.. Ormsbee In
some towns there has been but little
discussion of the question. For the
enant-governorship we have heard
favorable mention of w. p. Fairbanks
of st. Johnsbury and c. b. Eddy of
Bellows Falls.
THE last annual report of the New
York bureau of statistics of labor tabu-
lates official information as to two hun
dred twenty-five strikes which occurred
in that state during the year ending
November /, 1885. OF these strikes,
ninety-seven were successful. thirty
four failed, thirty-two were compro-
missed and fifty-nine were still pending.
The number of persons engaged in
them was 26, S66, and they involved an
expenditure of S206, l59.6S--a sum
which does not include the heavy loss