The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

man (DelOre election, OF COurSe) he
promises to see that the great incon-
venience is remedied. Now we know
something of the situation, and we
doubt if dozen persons in either town
are incommoded by the present ar
rangement The expense of the pro-
posed change to the government would
be considerable and there would be
hardly any compensating advantage.
The senator is very liberal with the
money of the government and people,
but he is not putting much of his own
money into public enterprises.
How Senator Edmunds came to the
rescue of Vermont pensioners is a
headline in the Free Press. A reliable
citizen of Montpelier informs us that
few years ago, when Mr.. Edmunds was
attending to a lawsuit here, he was APP
preached by soldier who wanted some
assistance in getting pension, and the
senator loftily answered that he "was
not a pension attorney" Now the
senator is willing to promise anything
that will give him votes-arms to the
militia, pensions for soldiers, mail COM
munication between Grand Isle and
North Hero, ETC., ETC., all of which
promises have been faithfully recorded
by his home organ and made the most
of for electioneering purposes.
THE farmers congress at st. Paul
gave expression on several important
matters. The resolutions, which were
discussed separately and upon their
merits, approve the oleomargarine legis-
lation, system of waterways, govern
ment Intervention to prevent unjust
restrictions by foreign powers against
the importation of American farm
products, and advocate an appropria-
ton for the suppression of contagious
diseases among domestic animals. The
expansion of the signal service and the
protection of industry by duties on inn
ports are favored, and also the state
prohibition of all speculation in products
for future delivery. The congress in
sists upon the regulation of interstate
traffic, not because rates now exacted
are on the whole excessive, but because
their frequent and arbitrary changes
are pernicious to producers.
THE theory that earthquakes will
gradually diminish with the cooling of
the earth has no present support from
observation, and perhaps this may be
considered to some extent reinforce
ment of the hypothesis of solar and
lunar interferences. The period of sci
entific observation, however, has been
too brief to warrant any conclusion in
the premises. All that can be said
safely is that the simultaneity of solar
and lunar and seismic disturbances
gives plausibility to the idea of a dis
tinct relation between the phenomena.
In noticing the Geographic accounts of
the occurrence of shocks in the many
different states affected, the general inn
preston is conveyed that the earth
quake was felt everywhere almost at
the same time. This, of course, could
not be the case. Earthquake waves
travel at the rate of about two thousand
feet a second, and while this is rela-
tive rapidity, it consumes appreciate
time. -Irib,me.
dacks writes that as fisherman Presi-
dent Cleveland is not success; and
his fishing policy in the Adirondacks
has been scarcely more successful of
late than that other fish policy of the
administration. Recently the Presi-
dents party returned in triumph to the
hotel bearing five-pound trout. 1t
was announced that the President him
self had captured this noble fish. A
little inquiry, however, in the right di-
rection developed the interesting fact
that this official trout had been caught
by guide, Ed. Otis, in Long pond, and
given to the President as he passed
that way. A few days later the Presi-
dent came in with very fine brook
trout which he really had caught. 1t
weighed about a pound, but before
landing the guides privately crammed
two handfuls of buckshot down the
fsh's gullet, then weighed it and calmly
announced " two pounds" and thus it
was heralded all over the United States.
1t might have been more appropriately
announced that this fish had been shot
instead of hooked.
THE Boston Traveller favors the re-
election of Senator Edmunds in this
state, but opposes the reelection of
Senator Dawes in Massachusetts. Its
arguments in favor of displacing Mr..
Dawes will apply with equal force to
the senatorial situation in Vermont:
Nothing is more noticeable in the current
discussion of the succession to Senator
Dawes than the assumption on the part OF
the advocates of again electing him that
those who support the candidacy of Cover
nor Long are disturbers of the harmony of
the party and are guilty of presumption in
daring to suggest any other than Senator
Dawes himself for what is termed "Sena-
tor Dawes seat" This assumption marks
a tendency which is not healthful one
If it has not been settled that one election
to an Office furnishes no shadow of claim &c
a reelection on that ground, il is time II
was thus settled. Senator Dawes and
his friends claim the advantage of thirty
years congressional experience and an in.
innate acquaintance with the Indian ques
ton TO recommend him to the people; but
the people will not forget that the very adj
vantages claimed suggest also disadvan,
tages-an absence for large portion of this
thirty years from the people, with "A conse.
quent lack of acquaintance with their sen
timents and interests, and the decreased
activity that increasing years and intrmi
ties bring.
Mr.. Blaine ut Home.
Il. G. Crawford of the World has been
paying visit to Mr.. Blaine at his cottage al