The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

papers were not opposed to democratic
alliances in 1884.
AN influential senator, and one who
occasionally defends the President in
the senate, said of him to friend the
other day: lie has not influence
enough in congress to chase an old hen
off her nest. "-NeD York Herald.
WE understand that the Bratteboro
correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican, who furnishes so much misin-
formation to that paper in the interest
of Mr.. Edmunds, is democratic. w.
Childs. Comment is unnecessary.
THE democrats of Wisconsin are
greatly surprised at the fact that Madi-
son, in the municipal election just held,
has gone republican by a large majority.
This city has long been democratic
stronghold, and it is the home of Post
master-general Villas.
THE republicans have carried the
municipal election in Cincinnati by
large majority, and have been very
successful in the township elections in
Indiana. The-democrats are depressed,
and charge much of their bad luck to
the impolicy of the Cleveland admins
tration.
SENATOR SAWYER of Wisconsin has
been permitted to look over the papers
relative to suspended postmasters in
Wisconsin. He finds that offensive
partisanship, like the hanging of the
pictures of Blaine and Logan in their
offices in 1884, is the most common
specification.
The State, the new republican Bos-
ton paper, thinks the events of the
past six months have demonstrated be-
yond all question that Mr.. Blaine is
steadily growing as the 1888 candidate
of his party, and events are also demon
strating that James G.. Blaine, if he
lives, will be the next president of the
United States.
A DEMOCRATIC President is to-day
hampered by republican senate.-Ne,c
York World. And republican senate
is to-day hampered by democratic
President. Until the voters, in a con-
stitutional way, change the situation
nothing is more puerile than this talk
about one side or the other being
" hampered. "-Ndshud Telegraph.
SENATOR MORRILL, was very happy
man when the library bill passed the
senate Thursday without objection. 1t
is measure for which Mr.. Morrill, has
necessarily labored for fourteen years,
and the bill which has Just been passed
is identical in terms with the bill which
has passed the senate, thanks to his
efforts, three times before.
Special
SOME democratic and mugwump
papers are industriously circulating the
story that James G. Blaine is interest
ing himself to defeat the reelection of
Mr.. Edmunds: but thus far we have
failed to see or hear of anything tangi-
BILE that goes to prove the statement to
be true, or that would indicate that the
idea is not purely imaginary one
Rutland Telegram.
THE report that Senator Jones of
Florida is coming back to his seat in
the senate is coupled with the state
ment that he proposes to account for
his absence, not by admitting that he
was chained by his infatuation for a
pretty face. but because he was dis
gusted with Cleveland's administration
He also claims that nothing of much
Importance has been doing in congress
that required his presence.
THE Free Press says there is no seri-
Gus personal difference between Sena-
tors Morrill, and Edmunds. So far as we
know, nobody has claimed that there
was. They simply disagreed in amatter
of party policy in reference to confirming
the Presidents appointments in certain
cases. The report we printed last
week concerning the republican sem
atOrial caucus was obtained from re-
publican sources, and we have assur-
ance that it was substantially correct.
A WASHINGTON special says "much
anxiety is expressed over the enor-
nous appropriations for pensions. This
years bill is fifteen millions larger than
last years. The Mexican pension bill,
Just passed, adds several millions more,
and it will cost the government over a
hundred millions before its operation
ceases. Still another bill in the senate,
not yet passed, gives fifty millions to
dependent veterans, and introduces the
new principle of pension for mere serv-
ice and not for sickness or injury"
IT is a mistake to speak of the " at
tacks " upon Mr.. Edmunds with refer
ence to the account recently published
in the New York Tribune, and ex-
tensively copied by other papers, of
his refusal to speak for the candidate
of the republican party in 1884. No
attack has been made. The object of
the Tribme's article was to set the ma
tional committee right before the peo-
pie, and to show that they were neither
to blame for Mr.. Edmunds' silence nor
the defeat of the party.-Rmlond Tele-
gram.
CHARLES WAITE, the New York
alderman who has turned states evil