The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

healthy, happy life along the shores
and speck with color the islands of
this lake."
Oh the morning of the state conven-
ton the far-sighted Burlington Free
Press said, editorially:
Mr.. Fuller of Brattleboro, undismayed by
his lamentable failure in the convention
four years ago, desires to try his chances
again; but no well-informed person sup
! poses that his nomination is possible. He
Is an amiable and respectable gentleman,
good in some places, but not fitted for the
chair of the senate. Mr.. Fairbanks of st.
Johnsbury will doubtless have more votes
than Mr.. Fuller.
JUDGE POLAND furnishes to the Free
Press long article in regard to his
position on the senatorial question, con-
tanning about the same points as the
reported interview with him published
some weeks ago, and in addition the
statements that his relations with Mr..
Edmunds are friendly and that he was
not the anti-Edmunds candidate for
governor, as some of the Edmunds
papers had asserted.
FIND great many thoughtful men
in the democratic party who think, with
leading republicans, that the chances
of Mr.. Blaine's denomination in 1888
are overwhelmingly great was talk
ing the other day with Colonel o. II.
Payne, whose judgment in politics is
considered excellent by those who know
him. He said that he thought there
was no longer any question that Mr..
Blaine would be the nominee of the
party. 1t would hardly be fair to the
colonel's sterling democracy as saying
directly that he thought Blaine would
be elected in 1888. But got the inn
preston from what he said to me that
he had little hope of electing a demo-
neutrality-suspicious. Of Tribune.
"OF course it would not have been
Vermont convention if it had not ar
raigned the enormous wickedness of
the democrats, but there was one eff
fective point in the platform where it
condemns the administration for turn
ing over the state patronage to Atkins,
Smalley Il Co. "--Sprinqfed Republican.
Perhaps the convention should have
adopted a resolution condemning the
republican mugwumps who made it
possible for Atkins, Smalley & Co. to
control the estate patronage" 1t
seems to us that the Edmunds papers
are rather ungenerous to Mr.. Atkins,
for no man in the state has done more
ment than he.
A WASHINGTON special says: Gre
publicans in Washington are disguised
because Senator Edmunds, in his
speech on the land-grant question, re-
ferred to Garland as one to whom he
liked TO pay homage as an honest man"
This is what Mr.. Edmunds said, as
reported in the Congressional Record
of Wednesday last:
In 1888 Mr.. Garland the present attor-
ney-general of the United States, and to
whom l am always glad to pay my respect
ful homage as an upright and just man, re-
ported from the committee on the judiciary,
which then had charge of these subjects of
forfeitures naturally enough, as they were
legal matters, reported as believe, by the
unanimous judgment of that committee,
composed of democrats to their full proper
| ton, a bill which ask to have the secre-
tary read as illustrating what have to say
A upon this subject of the forfeiture of land
| grants.
E Now that Pan-Electric Garland has
this high endorsement, it may be ex-
pected that republicans ought to regard
it as sufficient vindication of that Of
fetal. But we guess not.
IN reply to the stupid falsehood of
the Burlington Free Press that L" the
friends and supporters of Senator Ed
munds had not proposed to pass reso-
luton distinctly commencing him to
the support of the legislature, unless
resolutions condemning his course in
1884 were introduced" the Messenger
says:
Up to late hour Tuesday night it was
constantly announced by the " friends and
supporters of Senator Edmunds that reso-
lutions of approval would be introduced
and that without the slightest qualification
One of the most jealous adherents of the
senator, a retired official not only declared
his intention to have such resolution pre-
scented, but at nearly midnight declared his
belief that it would meet with but little OPP
position. We have in our possession a copy
of resolution declaring it to be the duty OF
the legislature to re-elect Edmunds which
was in the hands of one of his most ardent
friends and supporters" and which he
publicly announced he would introduce
dnyhoW. Ever since the convention in Rut-
land it has been the avowed intention of the
senator's supporters to force the passage
of such resolution, and this purpose was
not abandoned until the utter hopelessness
of its passage became apparent even to the
editor of the Free Press. The delegates
from Orleans county voted unanimously to
oppose any such resolution. The attempt
to secure the support of the Bennington
county delegates for it resulted in an igno-
minious failure, and the statement that con-
demnatory resolutions were threatened is
purely an afterthought.
THE Burlington Clipper pitches into
the railway commission scheme in this
characteristic fashion:
q Just now few itinerant sheets in this
state are yelping for railroad commission,
claiming the people demand it, especially
the farming interests. Possibly these rural
quill-drivers could manage the railroad in
terests in this state better than they are be-
ing managed now, but some men are of diff
ferent opinion If we have railroad COM
mission, why not have livery stable COM
mission? yes, why not have commission
establishing the price of butter, cheese,
maple sugar and all the farmer products?
The facts are, there is a set of mortals on
earth that are never satisfied to mind their
own business. The railroads in this state
are managed by experienced men. They see
to it that the rOad-beds are all carefully
cared for, the rolling stock the equal of the
finest in the world, their trains are in charge
of gentlemen and everything possible is