The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16

lore congress or some other department
of the government. Any case of this
sort is bad enough, but in the matter of
railroad companies designated in the
Beck bill there can be no question of
the improperly. - PHILADELPHIA Press
(repubhcan).
THE Providence Journal denies that
it has asserted that it would not sup
port Mr.. Blaine if he were nominated
for president in 1888. Perhaps the
Journal may be good republican pa
per, but it has said good many things
of late which have been quoted APPROX
ingly by the mugwump papers. We
are glad to learn, however, that the
founded.
PRESIDENT REALL of the American
Agricultural and Dairy Association says
the action of the senate in referring
the oleomargarine bill to the committee
on agriculture instead of the finance
committee was victory for the friends
of the measure. He charges that the
attempt to have it referred to the finance
committee was "a well-concocted plan
for the purpose of strangling it," Sen
ators Morrill, and Edmunds voted with
the minority for such reference, yet
both are supposed to be committed to
the support of the bill.
In answer to correspondent, we
will say that the Congressional Record
shows that of the twenty-five senators
who voted to refer the oleomargarine
bill to the committee on agriculture all
but two are republicans. OF the
twenty-one senators who voted against
such reference only Edmunds, Morrill,,
Aldrich and Hawley are republicans
Thirty-three senators are recorded as
absent or not voting, of whom thirteen
are republicans. The vote can hardly
be regarded as a test of the strength of
either the friends or opponents of the
measure.
THE manufacturers of oleomargarine
cannot help knowing that at least nine
teen-twentieths of their product goes
into the stomachs of unwilling con-
sumers. That is the expectation with
which the manufacture is carried on.
Oleomargarine must, as a rule, be eaten
by people who are unconscious respect
ing the origin and nature of what they
are using. Otherwise it would not
be swallowed at all. No hotel-keeper
or Neutrality-suspicious. pretending to
responsibility dares announce to the
guests at his or her table that oleomar-
garine is set before them in the place of
butter.-Troy Times
THE idea that it is in the slightest de-
gree derogatory to delegate to be in
structed by vote or resolution on impor-
tant issues before the people for settle
ment is absurd. Free Press. In this
day men read and assert their indie
pendence and insist upon knowing
precisely where a candidate stands, and
he is expected to express the popular
view upon every vital question. Cor
respondence Rutland Herald. Why
don't the Edmunds men get their
candidate to pledge himself to the re-
publican nominee for president in
1888? There would be something rea-
sonable in that.-John A. Sheldon.
OUT of nearly one thousand republic
can voters in Burlington, only two hun
dred eight attended the recent caucus.
Less than one hundred voters attended
the republican caucus in Montpelier.
Outside of Rutland and Addison coun-
ties the attendance at the caucuses was
generally light. 1t is probable that the
whole body of delegates to the state con.
vention was elected by not more than
one-third of the republican vote of the
state. Of course this is not the fault OF
the delegates; but to what extent may
it be said that representative express
sion of republican sentiment has been
secured which would justify the con-
vention in taking definite action on a
question that should be left to the de-
termination of the voters in the choice
of senators and representatives.?
THE Rutland county republican con-
vention, held last week, made the fol
lowing nominations: Senators, J. G.
Baker of Rutland, Henry L. Clark Of
Castleton, P. E. Chase of Mt. Holly ant
Albert Y. Gray of Middletown; assist
ant Judges, David E. Nicholson of Rut
land and Barnes Frisbie of Poultney
states attorney, Fred S. Plat; sheriff
Daniel p. Peabody; high bailiff, Ed
ward S. Cotton of Sherburne; probate
judges, T. c. Robbins for Rutland dis
trict and j. B. Bromley for Fair Haver
district. John A. Sheldon, who was thu
choice of the Rutland town caucus, re
ceived seventeen votes for first senator
and Baker fifty-four. A resolution
favoring the reelection of Senator Ed
munds was adopted, thirty-four tt
twelve-t,Denty-si delegates not r0ting
Speeches against it were made by
Messrs. Davis and Lawrence of Rut
land, Smith of Clarendon and Peck O
Brandon. Outside of the town o
Rutland there seems to have been NJ
organized effort of the anti-Edmund
republicans, and the other side ha'
: been " fixing things" for some time.
THE WATCHMAN's allusion last weel
to those Enosburgh republicans VIII
voted the democratic ticket two years
ago has impelled the Richford Gazett
, to repeat its misrepresentation of thu
political action of the editor of this pa
per in the past, as follows:
In 1872 he was in sympathy with the Gree
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