The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-12
Notes and Opinions.

UNEASY lies the Brattleboro editors
head that wears mugwump covering
THE common sense of the problem is
that no labor should be paid by the day.
All should be paid by the hour.-Sun.
ARTEMAs WARD once remarked that
it would have been money in Jeff. Da-
vis' pocket if he had never been born.
THE able and powerful Vergennes
Vermonter having come to the assist
ance of Mr.. Edmunds, his reelection is
probably assured
SOME of the editorials on Mr.. Ed
munds published in the Burlington
Free Press, a few years ago, might be
interesting reading now.
CONGRESSMAN BARRows thinks that
two years more of democratic con-
gress would be sufficient to cure the
country finally and completely.
A CORRESPONDENT says it would not
be surprising if the temperance people
of the state should take somewhat
active part in the senatorial contest.
IT was big bluader, the capturing
of J. Davis in 1865. He should have
been kept on the run till he got into
Mexico, or put to sea- Washington
Republican.
THE Mormons are moving towards
Mexico. Over one hundred families
have already arrived in the Mexican
State of chihuahua, and more are on
the way. Let them go.
Mr.. EDNIUNDs made a grave mistake
in 1884, rendered more serious by the
fact that he was an unsuccessful candi-
date for the presidency.-ROchester
Democrat and Chronicle.
THE Judge says: "There is no So
cialist, no tramp, no idler, no thief, no
breaker of any kind who does not
rejoice over the existing difficulties
between labor and capital"
THE Free Press gets inexpressibly
silly when it talks about Hiram Atkins
controlling the columns of any other
paper than his own, or of aspiring to be
the republican boss " of Vermont.
THE Baltimore Sun calls attention to
the fact that the republican congress
sional committee recently organized in
the interests of Blaine Both Chair
man Golf and Secretary Mcpherson are
strong Blaine men.
IT is still an open question whether
the mugwumps will sue the democracy
for divorce or whether the democracy
will fight the matter by claiming that
the marriage was not a valid one
Philadelphia Press.
FOURTEEN democratic members of
the Ohio senate ran off to Tennessee
last week to break up quorum, but on
Saturday the republicans broke the
deadlock by seating the four republi-
can members from Hamilton county.
"IT was to perpetuate the grand
principles of liberty and freedom that
we fought our holy war;" says Jeff.
Davis. Nothing can be more impudent
than this declaration, unless it may be
the mugwump demand to run the re-
publican party.
THE Washington Critic is searching
for statesman great enough to solve
the wage problem, brave enough to
defy capital and ignore the unreason.
as to be utterly Indifferent to his own
political future.
THE Washington correspondent of
the Springfield Republican says that
President Cleveland has no imagina
ton" So? Then he can't be mug.
wump. The mugwump has many de-
ficiencies, but he is never lacking in
observation-disclosures Monitor.
THE best time to have prevented the
removal of republican otfice-holders was
at the presidential election in 1884, by
yielding hearty support to the repub
, lican ticket. We hope the republicans
who have got "cleaned out" will be
able to see how it happened.-Mes
Senger
IT seems every day more certain tina
the tariff bill will not pass the house
and it may even be doubted whether i
will be considered there. An intimate
friend of Speaker Carlisle, in talking
about the matter, said that Morrison
: had about given up all idea of passing
, such bill.
: THE protected industries must stanC
or fall together. 1t is absurd ant
illogical to claim protection for on,
= kind or stage of industry and deny i
4 to another. Free-trade in wool thi
( year means free-trade in yarn mex
year, free-trade in cloth the next, ant
free-trade in ready-made clothing tn,
next. " Free raw material is the en-
a tering wedge of general free.trade
: The manufacturer who advocates fire,
wool is like a cabin passenger who
: scuitles the ship in order to drown tn,
men in the steerage. Concord Monitor
. If Daniel Webster had been mug
wump we suppose he would have bolte'