The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07
Notes and Opinions.

THE Montpelier attachment of the
Free Press says-but no matter what it
says.
SENATOR MORRILL, will never ask
for or require the endorsement of
county convention.-CRpper.
CHAIRMAN GoFF of the republican
congressional committee expects gain
of two republican congressman in West
Virginia.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer exultingly
proclaims, Canada is soon to be ours"
1t is not known what Cincinnati will
do with Canada.
SPEAKING of drinking, it may be
observed that a man who "can take
it or leave it alone" generally takes
it.-Utica Herald.
THE mugwump New York Times
crows about the " completeness of Sen
ator Edmunds' triumph over the Blaine
people " in Vermont.
OLEoMARGARINE may not be good to
spread on bread, but apparently it
greases the hands of some congressman
beautifully .-Lo,ceU Citizen.
"IN the hands of the weak and the
ELUSIVE the pen is more dangerous than
the sword. "-Christian at Work. Not
always; the machine organs have been
attacking us for some time, and we feel
none the worse for it.
IT is stated by good authority that
the Edmunds resolution passed by the
Irasburgh convention was slid in at
the very last moment, when all but less
than dozen delegates had left the
hall.-North Troy Palladium.
els there anything more excruciating
than the music of japanese tom
tom orchestral" asks a writer. Yes,
the discordant and unstable grindings
of the Burlington organ, ycleped the
Free Press, on the senatorial question.
THE Rutland Telegram speaks of Mr..
Edmunds as " the retained tool of the
railroad, telegraph, telephone, bogus
butter and land-grabbing monopolies."
The Telegram must be more careful, OF
it will expose some of the skeletons in
Mr.. Edmunds' closet,
WATERMAN, tell us of the night
Rutland Herald. We keep good
hours, go to bed early, and therefore
know little of the night. The Herald
might apply to certain poker-playine
and whiskey-guzzling statesmen(?) in
Washington for information on the
subject.
IT is quite apparent from all reports
from Washington that President Cleve-
land is very DESTROYS of denomination
and that having played the reform y
card for all it is worth and got elected
by the aid of the mugwumps, he now
proposes to re-elect himself by the aid
of federal patronage.
THE Poultney Journal makes the Sc
rious charge that the Fair Haven Fro
received $50 for coming to the support
of Senator Edmunds. We should say
this was paying too much by S14S
But can the Journal tell us what dis
tinguished gentleman furnished the
money for the interesting transaction?
AN office-seeker sent in his card to
the President inscribed, jest mint y
The President said he had no time to
jest minute; and besides, running the
government and trying to please both
mugwumps and democrats was no jest
ing matter. Spelling reformers should
not be put into the offices, anyhow
Norristo,Cn Herald.
CANADA has receded from the posi-
ton she took early in the season on the
fishery question, warned by the impe
rial government that she must not at
tempt to maintain it. Bait, ice anC
men may now be obtained by American
fishermen in Canadian ports if obtained
within period of twenty-four hours
from putting into port.
THE mugwump-Cl Cleveland organ
Harper'S Weekly, manifests much de
light over what it calls Mr.. Edmunds
, triumph in Vermont. On the grount
that ga fellow-feeling makes us won
drous kind" the article may be eX
cusable, but the tone and sentimen
must be offensive to every republican
supporter of James G. Blaine in 1884.
In conversation with an Influential
citizen recently, he expressed himsel
as follows: "While nine out of ever,
ten republicans in the state will neve
forgive Edmunds for his action in tn,
late campaign, yet they recognize thu
l fact that no man in the state can fill hi
: shoes in the senate, and they will
3 therefore favor his reelection. Dan
rille North Star.
, THE Vermont legislature assemble
biennially. There is sort of unwrit
ten law that its sessions shall not eX
: coed sixty days. The coming togethe
occurs at time when the legislator
, can make Thanksgiving the goal of ad
iournment. If for any reason the SEES
9 sion extends over that day the people
: of the state are inclined to think the,
? have nothing for which to be thank
, ful.-Cor. Ne,C York Tribune.