The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25


the next campaign, we venture to
prophesy, will be Blaine and Harrison,
and we have no objection to the pre-
diction being made a note of."-BoS-
ton Herald. Perhaps the Herald is
right for once.
SEVENTY of the most prominent re-
publican leaders in Iowa have been
interviewed concerning the tariff ques-
ton. Sixty-eight are for protection and
the other two are for I" tariff reform.n
Yet free-trade journals have asserted
that Iowa is free-trade state.
ONCE in awhile there seems to be
somebody in the state who favors
biennial sessions. There is, however,
no boom in that direction and Massa-
chusetts seems disinclined to give the
Goldfish on the walls under the gilded
dome any longer vacation than the
usual summer and fall vacation. -Bos-
ton Traveller.
THE Springfield Republican has tried
to make point against the wool tariff
from the decline of the sheep industry
in Vermont; but, as the Rutland Herald
shows, the decline here has not been
owing to the tariff, but to the enormous
increase in sheep husbandrv in other
parts of the country.
THERE were lynched during the year
1887 in the United States no fewer than
one hundred twenty-three persons. Of
the various states and territories, Texas
leads the list with fifteen lynchings,
and Mississippi is entitled to second
place, with fourteen to her credit. All
the victims were males, eighty of them
being negroes.
THE established inference that Mr.. Blaine
is the preference of New Hampshire re-
publicans in the ratio of four to one for a
denomination should at least suggest the
unwisdom of any attempt to set up a hostile
delegation at the convention in Concord in
May, as has been done heretofore in this
state.-Nashua Telegraph.
The same suggestion is applicable to
the situation in Vermont
IT is becoming more and more evil
dent that the United States did very
profitable stroke of business when it
bought Alaska. According to the last
report of its governor, it is turning out
gold bullion at a rate of about $1,000
a month, is doing fishery business of
5000, 900 year and has yearly fur
trade of more than S2,500,000. Coal
marble and lumber are also among it's
resources.
The sinister opposition of the mug
wump r. Y. to republican organization
in Vermont is arousing republicans in
a number of places to the Importance
of forming clubs. The r. r., st. AL
bans Sentry and the other small CYL
inder organs of chronic discomfort,
don't care which party succeeds in the
presidential election if they can only
accomplish their selfish ends in the
state campaign.
GEORGE w. STUART, a prominent
democrat of Genesee county, Michi-
gan-a democratic candidate for senator
nj 1884 and man who has always voted
the democratic tickets out in a letter
in the Michigan Farmer repudiating
Mr.. Cleveland and his free-trade mani
festo, and calling on all farmers, and
especially wool-growers, of whom Mr..
Stuart is leader, to unite, regardless
of party affiliations, and to resist the
efforts to put wool on the free list.
IT is not creditable to Mr.. Cleveland
that he seeks to set other farmers
against the wool-growers. 1t happens
that wool is grown in every state, and
excluding counties on the borders of
civilization which are but names with
out population, out of 2,400 counties in
all the states wool is grown in every
county except thirty-six, though there
were also thirty-seven others in 1880
where it was not grown to a substan-
tial extent North american Rerie,c.
A BILL to abolish the possibility of
some of the present evil practices I'M
der the laws governing the insane will
soon be introduced in the New York
legislature. The bill provides that no
pcTSOu WlO is dlltSeu W De INSANE SNAIL
be committed to an asylum, whether a
public or private institution, except
by jury trial. Under the present
method of procedure any person may
be committed as insane on the certifi-
cate of two physicians, countersigned
by Judge.
In his attempted reply to Senator
Sherman's tariff speech, Senator Voor-
hees 'straddled the fence " in this way
The manufactures of the Eastern and
Middle States were nursed by the govern
ment when unable to stand alone. | am
prepared to say that within proper and safe
limits and with primary consideration for
the agrculturst as the foundation and be-
ginning of everything, the same policy of
encouragement which has heretofore in
general marked our legislation should now
be continued to the infant manufacturing
industries of the South and of the West.
You are well aware how ardently l
urged in 1884 the denomination of
President Arthur over Mr.. Blaine.
You know how earnestly battled upon
the side of the stalwarts until they
broke up their organization in 1881.