The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
numerous post-oflices, they feel COM
PEELED to pocket their wrath.

The aspect of affairs in Europe is
now more peaceful than for several
months past. Greece has been COM
PEELED to abandon her warlike designs,
and Servia has been obliged from ne
cessity to sign treaty of peace with
Bulgaria. There are no other compli-
cations at present that threaten to dis
turb the peace of Europe.
THE Gladstone government last week
quite plainly intimated through Mr..
Morley, chief secretary for Ireland,
that it expects to fail in its efforts to
settle the Irish problem. In an adj
dress to conference of liberal dele
gates, Mr.. Morley said: "The govern
ment is now face to face with the Irish
difficulty, and will probably be COM
PEELED to make an early appeal to the
country"
AN Atlanta (Ga.) correspondent of
the Boston Traveller, in a review of
temperance work in the South, says the
secret of its prosperity may be stated
in six words, Temperance is kept out
of politics." The battle is fought
squarely on the merits of the temper
ance issue, and no one stops to con-
slider how his party stands on this ques-
ton, or to question the other party as
to whether it favors prohibition or not.
THE senate certainly did righteous
thing in rejecting the nominations of
Chase and Pillsbury, who were active
participants in the contingent con-
spiracy in Maine. 1t is said that the
senate has confirmed Rasin for col
lector at Baltimore. Even the mug
wumps admit that this was one of the
worst nominations that has been made.
Why the senate should reject some bad
appointments and confirm others equally
bad seems to require explanation.
THE New York Herald says under
a republican form of government every
body is workingman. In one way or
another we are a nation of toilers. We
are busy people, with very few drones
in the hive. When man has family
to support he must work long enough
each day, whether it be eight hours or
ten, to pay his rent and buy his food
1t is our impression that a large ma
jority of business men in America
would be glad to be free at the end of
only eight hours work.
IT will be remembered that in the
presidential campaign of 1884 the Bos-
ton Herald attempted to break the force
of the strong accusations brought
against President Cleveland by the
Rev. DIR. Ball of Buffalo by charging
the minister with immoral conduct
while he was pastor of church in In
diana DIR. Ball sued the Herald for
libel, and that paper has now settled
the matter by paying DR.. Ball 81 800
and the costs of the suit, and has also
made retraction of the charge.
THE solid South, united to few
Northern States, by minority-vote of
the whole people, rule. Is this the
best for the nation? Will not tolera.
ton of a minority-rule debauch. the
public conscience, bring the rule of the
majority into contempt, and thus self
government be lost? If the govern
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people " is not desirable or possible
would it not be better to come to the
rule of an autocracy by more direct
methods at once and forever ?.-Cassius
NJ. Clay.
WHEN the Swanton Sentry says that
the editor of the WATCHMAN has been
closely identified in political matters
with Atkins, Smalley and McGettricl
for several years, at least, it states wha
it knows to be absolutely false. Oul
personal relations with the gentlemen
named are not unfriendly, but when il
comes to politics we have nothing ir
common with them. This fact mus
be patent to every one who reads the
WATCHMAN, and we need not discuss
, it. We suspect that the real trouble
with the Sentry and the small factor
it represents is that the WATCHMAN
fails to see that the republican party in
: the state would gain anything by the
displacement of Messrs. Atkins and
Smalley from democratic leadership
We much prefer their retention as
democratic BOSSES" that the demo
, cratic party in the state may be KEEP
as small as possible.
WE can probably use our space to
better advantage than to reply at length
to the Misrepresentation of the WATCH
, MAN contained in the last two issues ol
the Brattleboro Ph9nir. The WATCH
MAN has not even intimated that ever,
newspaper and person that supports
Senator Edmunds is g mugwump,'
but it feels justified in saying that ever,
, newspaper and person that gave on,
a half-hearted or inefficient support t.
, the republican national ticket in 1884
and has pursued subservient cours
, toward the mugwump element from
2 that time to this, is too much of mug
wump to be true republican. Som
of the statements of the PhGniG in re
n gard to the WATCHMAN and tn
t senatorial question fairly Guido tn,
i wretched absurdties of the Swanto
, Sentry and Richford Gazette. Tn
WATCHMAN has made no pledge O
y support to any candidate or measure
=, but it believes in the free discussion o
: all matters of public interest. Can it
arrogant critics say as much for them
f selves?
t THERE are comparatively few peopl
t in this country who believe, or can b'
e made to believe, that the President ha
7 not the authority to remove officers
SanatOr Edmunds as keen LAWYER