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

complete contradiction between pro-
fession and performance causes broad
smile from one end of the state to the
other.-St Johnsbry Caledonian.
GOVERNOR FORAKER delivered a
ringing address upon the resurrection
of Jeff. Davis in the South at the Ohio
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Cleveland last week For
two or three years the nice magazines
patronized by " the better classes -
have invariably contained soothing es-
says about The New South" and it
has not been respectable to allude to
the reasonable instruction of 1861, ex-
cept confdentially. The same timid
sycophancy that made rebellion pos
sible has again been in vogue in polite
society. Governor Foraker, however,
called halt on this ccasion.-NotionaI
Tribune
IT is pretty well settled that the OPP
position to Senator Edmunds comes
from many of the best republicans in
Vermont. Some of them are Blaine
men, it is true, but that is not the test
by any means. The idea of the opposi-
ton is what the senator was guilty of
in the campaign of 1884 he is liable to
repeat at any time when the party's
nominee does not, in his Judgment,
come up to his standard of excellence
and worth. Vermont republicans right
fully pride themselves upon their
loyalty to party, and they do not relish
the prospect of losing prestige in the
ranks by the caprices of one whom
they have honored to the full extent of
his rts.-PlattSburgh Telegram IRE
publican).
BEFORE this strike passes into his
tory certain facts regarding it should
be fixed in the public mind. 1t was
pronounced without cause by the gov
ernors of Missouri and Kansas, who in
vestigated it. Mr.. Powderly himself
expressed the same opinion of it. 1t
was in effect boycott not only upon
the road, but upon a force of railroad
employees three times larger than the
number of strikers. 1t affected the
employment of thousands of workmen
in other industries and inflicted a loss
of millions of dollars upon the cities on
the line of the roads. At East st.
Louis, at Fort Worth and in one or two
other places it resulted in loss of life.
1t has created needless bitterness, and
will result in severe disappointment to
hundreds of workmen who, applying
for their old places, will find that they
have been filled. And all this because
one man named Hall, employed some-
where on the Texas Pacific, was dis
charged for absence from his work! -
Boston Journal.
THE st. Adams Messenger says, in
reply to an item in the Springfield Re
publican, that Editor Gibbs will have
something to do to retain his place as
chairman of the republican state COM
mittee:
"Our esteemed mugwump contemporary
need not become agitated over this subject.
| Having served twenty-five years on some
committee in the free soil and republican
parties, without having solicited a commit
teeship in any instance, Mr. Gibbs will not
be very likely to ask for a continuance in
the thankless position to which the Spring.
field Republican refers. In all his expert
| ence, however, it remained for him to wit
ness for the first time, in the last presiden'
tial campaign, the heartless spectacle of a
party leader who had been honored as few
others have been in Vermont, and still
| holding that position, turning his back upon
his republican friends in great crisis, and
refusing to come to the rescue. 1t is the
first time that any man holding an Office in
the party in the state has declined to assist
it. No, Mr.. Gibbs proposes to stop when
| his present term shall expire, and to leave
to others the continuance of the duties he
has tried faithfully and unreservedly to per
form. This is a matter somewhat personal
and we beg pardon for having alluded to it,