The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Notes and Opinions.

and black"
THE fact that the Mills bill can not
pass the house is clear The majority
against it will not, we are informed, be
less than forty-fve.
For man opposed on principle to a
presidential second term Mr.. Cleve-
land is exercising wonderful energy in
strengthening his political fences.
MANY Vermont democrats repudiate
the presidents free-trade policy, but
there are none of them who object to
holding office under him. -Trdueller.
PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard College
does not approve of women lecturing
to young men on any subject Perhaps
he had painful experience when he
was a young man.
Hon. b. ID. HARRIS of Brattleboro
and Hon. c. p. Hogan of Sheldon,
whose names have been suggested for
delegates to Chicago, announce that
they are not candidates.
THE bounding West " has caught
it again-that is, the snow and the
blow. Consequently the newspapers
out there are less facetious in their re-
marks about the recent eastern blizzard.
FARMERS are invoked to take action
against reducing the tariff on what is
called "raw materials" These are the
goods the farmer produces. Tariff
reform " is commonly at the expense
of the farmer.
THE Iowa state republican conven-
ton at Des Moines elected Allison
delegates TO the Chicago convention
and adopted a resolution urging Senator
Allison as candidate for the presi-
dental nomination.
SENATOR CULLoM wrote letter an
nouncing that he was not presidential
candidate, but stating that if he should
be nominated he would accept with
thanks" That is precisely the situa-
ton of a number of other prospective
candidates.
THE New York Nail and Cypress
has been sold to Elliot F. Shepard, who
says: The paper will be staunchly
republican and will be friendly to all
the supposed candidates" The Nail
and Cypress is an able, reliable and
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measure of success.
SENATOR HAwLEY has provoked the
ire of the mugwump papers by declaring
in a speech last week that he " would
not by his vote, or without vigorous
protest, permit to be placed on the
statute-book anything which would in
any degree reward a man for fighting
on the confederate side in the war;
IN a speech at Chicago last week
General Harrison of Indiana protested
against the suppression of the negro
vote, and said that the republican party
was committed to the protective policy
and that as long as American genius
can supply the country with what it
needs that genius must be protected.
WILLIAM HENRY PRESCOTT, the
well-known diplomat, contributes to the
New York Herald a long letter to the
effect that the fishery treaty is a sur
render of privilege and concession of
Canada's claims. He thinks valuable
rights under the treaty of 1880 have
been lost and only trivial points gained.
IT is as morally certain as any event
three months in the future can be that
the New York delegation will cast its
ballots unanimously for Mr.. Blaine.
Mr.. Depew says this; ex-senator Warner
Miller believes it, and so does every man
who has followed the drift of talk in the
party here the past few weeks.-Al-
bang Dispatch to NeW York Press.
THE New York Press, in some COM
ments upon toadying to mugwumps in
the coming national republican conven-
ton, asks this pertinent question: In
the name of high heaven, why should
handful of canting political hypocrtes
be longer permitted to dictate candi-
dates and policies for a party once great
enough and brave enough to take by
the throat all great political evils?"
A CONTEMPORARY remarks that it
isn't always safe to put too much de-
pendence on name. One of the most
unveracious newspapers this country
has ever seen was entitled The Truth.
The great swindling bank in Cincinnati
which stole millions from its creditors
called itself the Fidelity Bank" and
there has lately been started in Chicago
an organ of the free-trade democracy
which calls itself The Farmers Voice.
ALREADY there is considerable specu-
lation as to Chief Justice Waite's sue
cessor 1t is not so certain that the
president will not appoint southern
man, and Speaker Carlisle is suggested.
1t is thought probable that Justice
Field may be promoted to the place.
Other names suggested are those of
Thurman and Hoadley of Ohio, Nc
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