The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-29

pursued in these seemingly small af-
fairs may make or mar the towns pros
perity. We believe there is too much
of public indifference to these matters.
AT the annual meeting of the In
diana editorial association the republic
can editors were nearly unanimous for
Harrison. 1t is said, however, that
Harrison could not carry the Pacific
States because he has always opposed
legislation to restrict Chinese immigra-
ton.
A LETTER received in Augusta from
a member of Mr.. Blane's family states
that Mr.. Blaine is in pc rfect health and
that he has not been i'll an hour since
he left home, save slight cold, con-
tracted in crossing the Alps. The Bos-
ton Advertiser will have to guess
again.
THE attacks of civil service reform
ers upon ex-Congressman Jay Hubbell
in 1880 for collecting contributions
from government employees will be well
remembered. And yet, as the Tribune
remarks, the collection of contribu-
tons goes on under a democratic adj
ministraton without in the least dis
turbing these sensitive PERSONS"
A LETTER has been known of late to take
five days to come from Winooski to Burling-
ton by mail.-Free Press.
THE air hereabouts is full of complaints
of delays in the transmission of letters and
hn trn tAtpin If t1,n
Within a few weeks past we have heard
murmurings of this sort on all sides. There
is trouble somewhere that ought to be
acknowledgements
Nevertheless, we have great reform
administration.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw delivered a
notable address on "Our Political
Mission in Chicago last week. After
going into our political history in the
past extensively he made long argu-
ment in favor of a protective tariff. He
declared that Americanism was the foe
of anarchy and that it was the i'm
perative duty of the state to protect
the ballot.
AN item is going the rounds of the
press to the effect that whiskey is now
manufactured out of old rags. We see
nothing remarkable about this. Every
one knows that nearly all the old rags
now in the country are manufactured
out of whiskey, and there is no APP
parent reason why the process of con-
version may not work as well one way
as another.-New York Observer.
THE growth of the anti-second-term
sentiment of the democratic party is
phenomenal The fight against the
presidents denomination will be bold
and aggressive one, and the admins
tration has left itself but one plank to
| fight upon. 1t must have tariff legisla-
ton which can be claimed at least to
sustain the presidents message, or it
goes to the Washington Cor
Boston Journal.
wRITERi in the Ploughman calculates
in detail the income from 1000 fowls
as equal to that from forty cows, with
much less capital needed and much
less labor. 1t may all be so, but we
suspect that the men who could make
1000 fowls profitable are very few,
unless they have been thoroughly edu-
Gated in the business. 1t is, however,
no slight business to run a dairy of
forty cows.-Lo,CeU Courier.
WE understand that the many friends
of Frank Plumley, Esq, of Mortified,
will urge his selection as delegate to
the republican national convention.
This would be fitting recognition of
Mr.. Plumley's efficient services for the
republican party in former campaigns in
this and other states. Hon. S. D. Hob
son of Brighton is also favorably men
toned for place in the delegation. 1t
is claimed that Essex county is clearly
entitled to delegate, and this claim
will doubtless receive proper considera-
| ton.
Hon. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw, in
Chicago, last week, declared that if the
Florence letter had never been penned
Blaine would have been nominated on
the first or second ballot with hurrah.
"As it is, there will be any number of
names presented and after fifty ballots
or more have been cast and everybody
is tired, some one will nominate Blaine
There will be a whoop and yell, and
the Maine man will be nominated by
reclamation. "Will he accept" asked
the reporter. cone cannot very well
decline presidential nomination." re-
piled the New Yorker
THE students of Amherst College
held mock national republican con.
vention in College Hall the other even.
ing. Much preparatory work had been
done in the way of caucuses and cam
paigning, and the different factions
were primed for war when the conven.
ton was called to order. Banners,
hats, coats and tin horns enlivened the
air when the first ballot was announced
1t was: Blaine, 1871; Hawley, eighty
seven; Sherman, sixty-four; Lincoln
thirty-three. There being 3l5 delegates
voting, there was no majority, and the
convention adjourned without de-
cision.
WHAT is proclaimed one of the most