St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-11
ELECTION ECHOES.
A Clear Road.

The plan of the Cleveland campaign
in 1888 seems to be about the same as
it was in 1884 that is, the democrats
will attend to the nomination and the
mugwumps are expected to look after
the election. As for the indications of
the present hour, the first of the pro-
gram would appear to have a clear
road.
Out with Congress, Not Cleveland.
N. 2. Post, Ind.
The present congress was in no sense
a Cleveland congress. 1t distinctly
failed to carry out Cleveland's most
important suggestions, and was nOtO-
riOusly out of sympathy with his re-
form ideas. The failure to send back
a similar majority is an indication of
popular dissatisfaction with the do
nothing policy of the last session rather
than with the president.
A New Deal i'm 1855.
Phila. Enquirer, Rep.
In 1888 a new congress and a new
president will be elected. The great
republican gains on Tuesday clearly
indicate not only the election of a re-
publican congress, but of a republican
president as well.
Philadelphia Times, Ind.
The democrats were in bad fighting
trim, because of their wrangles over
their spOils but the result shows that
no degree of democratic unity or en-
thusiasm could have materially affect
ed the result. They will now have
leisure to fight their spOilsmen's bat
ties out to a finish before the great
contest of 1888 faces them. The re-
publicans, on the other hand, had the
incentive to unity that the loss of pow
er i'm state and nation naturally inspir-
ed, and they buried their differences to
catch the hares before renewing the
quarrel over the method of cooking or
dividing the feast.
No Cause for Repining.
Brooklyn Times Rep.
Looking the whole field over there is
little cause for repining. This is the
routed the enemy. Perhaps it is well
we did not. But we have driven in his
outposts and gained good fighting
ground. 1t was big victory for re-
publicans considering all the difficult
| ties.
Learning Slowly.
Boston Post Dem.
The republican managers in the
state Mass.,l although they have saw
ed their candidate, are demOralized
and undOne. They have learned the
lesson which 1884 should have taught
them, that Massachusetts will not long
endure the domination of a party which
| has neither cause nor conscience.
All CIeveland's Fault.
| N. Y. World, Dem.
| Mr.. Cleveland has not recognized
party ties. He has listened to mug
wumps more than to Democrats in sew
eral states and has hOnOred half demo-
Gratis more than whole ones. Is it
strange that so illustriOus an example
of independence of party fealty should
have found followers ? Independent
and labor candidates have found sup
port which they could not have secur-
ed four years or even two years ago.
Democrats have been defeated by dem
ocratc voters. The Indifference in
high places has been copied in low
ones.
Not Very COndemnatOry.
N 7. Commercial Advertiser, Rep.
1t is a very nOn-cOmmittal election
that does not "rebuke the administra-
ton" in the opinion of somebody. But
we do not see that the result of the
present election, so far as scattered re-
turns enable us to judge, can be said
to be very condemnatory of President
| Cleveland.
! The General Conclusion.
| Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.
Upon the whole the election had its
bitter and it's sweet for both parties
and the proportion in which they were
distributed were more than ordinarily
impartial. The general conclusions to
be drawn are, first, that the strength of
the prohibition party is slowly but
surely increasing, and, second, that
the independent voter has become a
formidable parsonage in American pol