The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

cause that party is the, national party
and because its candidate is an Ameri-
can.-Irish World.
SHOULD the dependent soldiers bill
pass, and the government adopt policy
of constructing public buildings wher-
ever needed and build navy worthy
of our great nation, such an impetus
would be given to business by the wide
distribution of so much money that
hard times would be far oved.-Er-
Mayor Woodbury. Of Burlington.
A NEWSPAPER in another part of the
state is respectfully informed that the
WATCHMAN has no divided preference
for governor-it is for Hon. w. p. Dill
bingham. The attempt to put the
WATCHMAN in a false position on this
question for the apparent purpose of
relieving the Il. Y. from an unpleasant
dilemma will not work. AS the Il. Y.
has made its bed so it must lie in it.
JOHN b. REYNOLDS, a substantial
citizen of Rutland, remarked the other
day: CT see nothing in the cry about
a surplus that is at all sensible. When
a business man finds that he has a sur
plus he feels happy and prosperous and
proceeds to use his surplus for judicious
investment. If he has mortgages he
pays them off. The government is in
the same position. AS long as it has
bonds outstanding it has place for all
its surplus"
IT is true, though many of his coun-
trymen may long hesitate to do him the
justice of believing it, that the presi-
dency lost to Mr.. Blaine the charm
and fascination it has for those who APP
proach the great Office after the long
watches by the bedside of the murdered
Garfield, and it has not since that
solemnizing experience been by his
preference that he has been at the front
as presidential candidate. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
THE indianapolis Journal, the lead
ing republican newspaper of Indiana,
says that the republicans of that state
will certainly present ex-senator Ben
jamin Harrison as their choice for a
presidential candidate. Richard Smith
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
says that Harrison will be the second
choice of Ohio republicans. He is a
grandson of President Harrison and
was born at North Bend, Ohio, August
20, 1888; received classical education {;
graduated at Miami University in 1854 !;
commenced the practice of law at
indianapolis and has since resided
there. He served for number of
years before being elected United States
senator as reporter of the supreme
court. He enlisted in the Union army
in July, 1862, and was commissioned
second lieutenant. He was promoted
through successive grades to be colonel
of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers
and was mustered out at the close of
the war as brigadier-general. His
record as United States senator from
1881 to 1887, when he was cheated out
of reelection, is well known.
No little credit for the momentum
given the Republican club movement
is due to Mr.. Noble, our Vermont
member of the national committee,
who has worked diligently with this
end in view since his appointment.
His speech at the opening of the con-
ventiOn was well considered, highly APP
preciated and rapturously applauded.
Mr.. Noble has been ably and faithfully
seconded in his labors by Mr.. G. S.
Forbes, who has been selected as secre-
tary of the league. This latter seec-
ton is exceedingly appropriate and no
more fitting thing could have been done
by the convention. 1t was Mr.. Forbes,
more than any other man in the state,
who stirred up the forces to be repre-
scented at the New York convention.
Mr.. Forbes has also been made secre-
tary of the executive committee. He
has also been well sustained in his
opinion given in New York that the
sentiment of the state was Enthusiastically
for Blaine. 1t is significant fact that
every mention OF Mr.. Blaine's name in
the convention, or reference to him,
was loudly applauded and cheered as
none other. But the republicans OF
Vermont are solidly for the republican
candidates, whoever they may be-
Messenger.
AFTER sneering at the organization
of republican clubs and deprecating the
holding of " midwinter convention >
in Montpelier, the II. Y. has the un
paralleled audacity to claim the result;
of the convention as substantial tri
umph for its policy. All know thai
questions of candidates and state poll
cies were carefully excluded from the
deliberations of the convention, anC
national issues only were put at the
front. There never was any intention
on the part of the clubs to boom any
candidates before nominations were
made by the regular conventions, anC
when the II. Y. intimates the contrar,
it is guilty of deliberate falsehood. O.
course there was considerable tall
among the delegates and others outsid,
of the convention about candidates ant
political matters generally, and the II
VS. little faction did their full shar,
of it. So far as we can learn, the latte
did not find the outlook encouragn!
for their plans and retired from the felt
disgruntled and discounted. Thu
endeth that chapter; and the II. Y.
finding that its schemes have miscar
ried and mugwumpery does not pay