The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-15
Notes and Opinions.

HE Vermont democrats don't seem
to have even had their Shurtleff. -Bos-
ton Herald.
Now we suppose the Phmnir will be
content to stay in the republican party
awhile longer. This is one of the
gratifying results of the election.
THE Franklin county boilers are evil
IDENTIFY losing their grip. They were
only able to defeat one republican sena-
torial nominee this year; in 1884 they
defeated three.
MosT of the republican representa-
tives elected are unpledged on the sena-
torial question, yet it is well known
that many of them are opposed to Mr.
Edmunds. -MeSsenger
THE sentiment for Edmunds through
out the state illustrates that Vermont
stands for principle in every election
Woodstock Standard What princi-
ple-temperance principle?
THE Rutland Herald and Burlington
Free Press have already come out in
favor of Major Josiah Grout for the
speakership. OF course Mr.. w. w.
Stickney of Ludlow will be reelected
clerk.
In Massachusetts it is not yet thought
to be crime to oppose the reelection
of a United States senator, or that a
man is any the less republican be-
cause he may favor new man for that
position.
A WAsHINGToN lawyer has published
book containing the one hundred one
veto messages of President Cleveland,
with illustrative comments. The old
soldiers will appreciate the jokes in the
pension vetOes.
THE Free Press has this headline:
even the democrats are for Edmunds."
Well, why shouldn't they be? He did
better service for them in 1884 than fol-
his own party. But we thought the
Free Press held (before election, of
course) that the democrats had con.
spired to defeat Edmunds.
IT is claimed to have been an open secret
in Vermont, since the confirmation of Col
lector Smalley and other appointees, thai
! Editor Atkins had ceased to antagoniZe Mr.
Edmunds' e-election.-Sprinqfeld Repub
| iicdn.
What about that" democratic alliance
story that was used to scare republican
voters?
AN alarming rumor was current il
some places Saturday that Presiden
Cleveland had been shot. The repor
grew out of the fact that when the
President fired at deer his gun kicked
him over. That gun must have haC
the kicking power of mule to make al
impression upon the Presidents bulk,
corporosity.
Now that the Edmunds business
is disposed of, there is an anti
movement of a very different charac
ter which, it Gems to us, should com
mend itself to good republicans all owe
the country.-Rutland Herald. Man,
people will be unable to see how tn
Herald can consistently sustain an,
temperance movement.
THE Vermont legislature is more strongl
republican than it has been for many years
and Hiram Atkins is credited with bringn
about the result.-COncOrd Monitor.
Mr.. Atkins war-whoops and other pc
litical absurdities undoubtedly con
tributed something to the result, bu
the fellows who set him up as a scare
crow to brighten timid republican
voters made the largest contribution.
= THE prospective result of the Vel
: mont senatorial contest, as indicated b
the election returns, gives great sati
5 faction to the mugwump papers-Bo
t ton Herald, Springfield Republican
S Philadelphia Times, Philadelphia Re
, ord, New York Evening Post, Ne
York Times, etc. Their rejoicings al
enthusiastic and not altogether agrees
K BILE and reassuring to loyal republican
ROPES evidently regards the result {
the election as mugwump victory, IL
y he makes no further pretence of pul
: fishing republican paper. He tall
t about printing an independent an
: untrammelled paper, and we a