The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Notes and Opinions.

| NV'N' """ Vp'hVhos
Notwithstanding E" is what the
New York Sun calls them.
If the American anarchists are as
wise as they are wicked they will start
an emigration society. - Indianapolis
Sentinel.
THE Washington Post Historically
asks: "What are the democrats in
congress thinking off" Nothing. Give
us harder one.-Troy Telegram.
THE news faculty is undoubtedly an
important element in the makeup of an
editor, but more important still is the
hunger after truth.-Rocheste Union.
If the results meet the expectations
of the Ohio republicans, they will send
fourteen or fifteen congressman to the
next house. They have only ten in
the present body.
IT is not surprising that the infant
King of Spain cried right out in meet
ing when he was christened Alfonso
Leon Fernando Maria Santiago Isidoro
Pascual Marciano.
If deposits behind the bar were
changed into deposits in savings
bank, nine-tenths of the poverty and
two-thirds of the crime would be pre-
vented.-Boston Herald.
THIS policy of committing the party
to the personal use of one man, and a
notorious kicker at that, cannot result
in added glory or the improvement of
its ges.-Messenger.
ABOUT the worst outlook this coun-
try has at present is the prospect of a
grain crop big enough to make every
body poor. However, that isn't the
sort of poverty that kills.-Erchange.
EX-SENATOR POWELL CLAYTON of
Arkansas, who presided at the republic
can convention that nominated Blaine,
said last week: "The sentiment of the
West is still for Blaine, and if con-
vention was held he would be NOM
mated" Joseph Medill of the Chicago
Tribune expresses the same opinion.
GENERAL STEWART L. WooDFoRD,
in his address at the Storrs Agricultural
School commencement at Marshfield,
Conn, said that among the twelve
hundred agricultural colleges in the
world he had yet to hear of one that
bestowed any attention upon the condi-
ton and hardships of the farmers wife.
ACCORDING to General w. S. Rose
Grams, register of the United States
treasury at Washington, the United
States government paid S6,000,000 for
the expenses of the war of the revolu-
ton, S115, 100000 for the war of 1912,
S135 ,000, 900 for the Mexican war and
! SO, 1SO, 92O, 9O5 for the war of the re-
bellion.
The remark of the Albany Journal
that if the contest of 1884 is fought
over in 1888 the result will be different
is confirmed by the New York Sun,
which declares that detection of ten
per cent of the Blaine vote of 1884 will
not make up for the loss of democrats
who then supported Mr.. Cleveland but
will now oppose him.
EVER since the election the demo-
Gratis have been frantically telling the
mugwumps to go off somewhere and
flock by themselves; but now that
another election is beginning to loom
up, they hope that the mugwumps may
be again used for filling. And so they
talk of the nobility of going out for
conscience Sales.--future.
THE recent demonstration of the
popularity of Mr.. Edmunds in Yer
mont seems to be generally construed
by the mugwumps as a victory fol
themselves. The why and wherefore
of this singular Interpretation is not
apparent, but then the inner conscious
ness of mugwumpery always operates
in the ark.-Philadelphia Press.
SENATOR LOGAN says that the cur.
rent statement that he said Mr.
Blaine was running the politics of this
country and also trying to run the pol
itics of Europe" is without foundation
1t is dull week when the mugwump
papers don't contrive to invent at least
one falsehood concerning the personal
or political relations of Mr.. Blaine and
General Logan.
HENRY WARD BEECHER sailed fol
Europe just in time to tell the Colder
Club that the regular biennial funera
of the American free-trade monstrosity
occurred on schedule time in the pres
ence of large and sorrowful concOurse
of mugwumps and cranks. Brother
Beecher serving as a messenger of de,
feat to the Golden economists will pre-
sent spectacle to make the British lior
lash his tail in unavailing rage.-Er.
OF the four hundred eight senators
members and territorial delegates who
compose congress, seventy-two are
Methodists, sixty-three Baptists, forty
one Episcopalians, thirty-seven Pres
byterians, thirty-six Catholics, fifteer
Unitarians, eight Lutherans, ten Chris
| tians (Campbellites) and two Quakers
| making a total of two hundred eighty
, three who are actively connected will
some church organization. This Leaves