The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28
Notes and Opinions.

much Importance in congress during
the past week.
REPUBLICAN sentiment will prove a
more potent factor in the coming cam
paign than mugwump doctrines.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY's nomination
seems to be hung up" in the senate.
The reason for this is apparent to a
good many people in Vermont.
"CAN Blaine be nominated in 1882"
asks democratic paper. The prac-
tical question is, Can he help being
acknowledgements Standard.
Mr.. WEEKS of the national census
bureau has figured out that in 1880
64,779 employees in this country lost
$3,711 ,O97 in wages in consequence of
strikes.
THE Philadelphia Press says Presi-
dent Cleveland may succeed in driving
his party into the free-trade swamp,
but it will take steam derrick to pull
it out again.
THE last number of the London
Lancet, in forecasting the probabilities
of general European epidemic during
the coming summer, confesses that the
prospects are more .ominous than last
year.
A DISSATISFIED New Hampshire
democratic editor insists that the only
thing to be done with the democratic
President is to +" take him by the nape
of the neck and dump him down and
out"
THE Burlington Free Press speaks of
the Argus as "that stanch and able
republican sheet" The Free Press
always did have peculiar ideas in re-
gard to what constitutes a republican
journal.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND told Law
renee Barrett that he sometimes felt as
though he would like to kick himself.
Then why don't he? Perhaps he de-
serves it, and besides, the exercise might
do him good.
Mr.. PowDERLY and Jay Gould have
been before the congressional labor
committee, and each gave their story
of the Southwestern strike. The COM
mittee have gone to St. Louis to take
the testimony of witnesses there.
Two months ago this democratic adj
ministration was asking for SO 100000
to meet deficiencies in the appropria-
tions for the year ending June 30; now
this sum has increased to $1,000, 900,
and before the twelve months are ended
it may be SS,000,000.
MIR. PowDERLY is authority for the
statement that no demonstration will
be made by the knights of Labor in
favor of the eight-hour movement on
the LIST of May. This had been con-
templated, but he declares the country
is not yet prepared for such change.
WHAT republicans object to is the
Presidents attempt to pose as civil
service reformer, while in fact he is en-
gagged in partition of spoils for the
promotion of partisan ends. All the re-
publicans ask of him is that he shall be
honest and above-board in what he
does.--Iroy Times.
A FAIR and square discussion of the
merits and dement's of such as are
known to be, or are supposed to be,
senatorial candidates, will do no harm
and may do good, but to be singing
dirt at Senator Edmunds, Ex-Governor
Smith or anybody else is poor bust
ness.-Barton Monitor.
MIR. ELISHA ATKINS, the alleged
democratic distributor of post-offices in
Vermont, is filling his columns with
advice to those republicans who desire
to defeat Senator Edmunds. Well, the
democratic party in Vermont is rather
small thing for full-sized leader to
waste his time on. "-BOStOn Journal.
Such is fame.
IT is not definitely known that Judas
Iscariot ever did anything to Repre-
sentative Hopkins of Illinois more than
he did to all the rest of us. Yet the
gentleman from Illinois is the only man
up to date who has charged Mr.. Iscariot
with being a mugwump. This charge
was made in the house and Judas was
not present. Washington Critic.
" SOME one has spoken in decidedly
uncomplimentary terms of the man
who destroys but does not rebuild, the
man who tears down and digs away the
foundations of things without offering
any substitute for the structure he would
ruin. st. Johnsbury Coledonian. This
is precisely the policy of the mugwump
faction of which the Cdledoniap is a
faithful exponent.
COLONEL b. b. SMALLEY told a New
York reporter that he couldn't under
stand why Mr.. Atkins should concern
himself in quarrel between repub-
lican factions. 1t is easily explained
Mr.. Atkins likes to create a sensation
to gain prestige for himself and the
Argus. The Free Press, Rutland Her
aid and few other republican papers
afford material aid to his purpose.
The shipment of American apples
abroad for the season now about con-