The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
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| heV. Wllllam Everett IN q recent
speech, but mugwump may be con-
servative or radical" Yes, yes; your
mugwump is mighty conservative in
his condemnation of Garland. and of
Cleveland for not removing Garland,
but he is mighty radical when he gets to
talking of republican shortcomings
Tribune.
JOHN KELLY, the great Tammany
sachem, died in New York last week
Tuesday. He was born in that city in
1922, and learned the trade of mason.
He began to take an interest in politics
in 1S49, and soon acquired large infu-
ence in the Tammany organization.
His control of New York city politics
was for many years practically absolute
He was a member of congress two
terms and had filled the offices of
sheriff and comptroller.
ONE of the most astonishing argu-
ments ever heard in the capitol was de-
livered before the house war claims
committee Friday. Ex-Judge Fuller
ton of New York appeared and spoke
for nearly an hour in favor of the gov
eminent assuming and paying the con-
federate debt. He represents the con-
federate bondholders, and while he
could give no statistics as to the amount
of money il would take, yet he believed
that this government ought to pay the
debt.
SOME voters in Enosburgh who have
sent protest to the st. Adams Messen-
ger against the opposition of that paper
to the reelection of Senator Edmunds
make out poor case for themselves.
They admit that they also " sulked in
their tents - in 1884, and that they
voted the democratic ticket in Franklin
county in the same year, and "not one
has repented of his act" 1t looks as
though the signers were seeking to have
their acts justified through the re-
election of Mr.. Edmunds. With such
political record it would be more becom-
ing in them to hold their peace.
WE are unable to say that there has
been any particular change in the out
look on the governor question since our
last issue. Mr.. Ormsbee is reported to
be gaining ground in some sections,
and Mr.. Batchelder's friends claim that
his prospects are also improving. We
observe that Earle of the Landmark
has "gone back on Batchelder with
surprising celebrity. The lieutenant
governorship seems to lie between Hon.
Franklin Fairbanks and Hon. Hugh
Henry, but it would not be surprising
if there should be another candidate by
the time the convention is held.
THE effect of the indiscrimnate Ii.
cense system is seen upon holidays in
most conspicuous and deplorable man.
ner; and the streets yesterday were the
scenes of many mans exhibition of
his propensity for the chief stock in
trade of the common victuallers."
To put stop to so much drunkenness
upon the public thoroughfare will
sooner or later become the paramount
duty of the local government; and no
better way presents itself, as an open
ing shot against the increase of the rum
power, than the abolition of the sa-
loon.-LoDeU (Mass.) Citizen, June /.
Mr.. HENDRICKS is dead, Mr. Nc
Donald is shelved, Mr.. Thurman is far
advanced in years and Mr.. Bayard' s
popularity has waned. If Mr.. Cleve-
laid seeks the denomination, he has no.
body to fear but Carlisle and Hill, and
probably the latter will be out of the
way. Mr.. Blaine, on the other side,
seems to be equally fortunate. OF his
old opponents, Arthur is not likely to
be alive two years hence and John
Sherman's friends admit that his own
state is hopelessly divided against him.
Mr.. Edmunds certainly will not figure
in the next republican convention
Washington Cor. New York Sun.
THE champions of oleomargarine in
the house of representatives seem to
think they are scoring a point when
they style that mysterious compound
"the poor mans butter" A pretty
thorough investigation of the oleOmar-
garine trade in this city some time ago
showed that the poor man who bought
this sort of butter paid the retailer a
profit of about twenty-one cents on the
pound or not far from one hundred
fifty-three cents on the dollar. In adj
dition to being in bad taste, it is an in
fringement to style oleomargarine the
poor mans butter, for that designation
from time out of memory has belonged
to the goat.-NeW York Sun.
So long as the republican party is
deferred from finishing the work for an
enslaved and degraded race it so glori-
ously begun by the sneers of its enc
mics, by the accusation of " waving the
bloody Shirt" so long will sneers and
accusations avail to keep a solid South
in the saddle. The keynote for
the campaign of 1885 indeed, for
the congressional campaign of 1856
should be protection for industries and
protection for all citizens in their rights
of freedom and citizenship. The negro
question is not settled. No question is
ever settled until it is settled rightly,
and that party will be fortunate which
recognizes this fact. -1raveller.
SENATOR BECK struck blow at Ed
munds, Evarts, Spooner, Wilson, and
other railroad attorneys in the senate
to-day by introducing d bill which pro-
hibits members of congress acting as
railroad attorneys, makes it unlawful
for any member of either house to ac-