The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-11


is the almost angry opposition to him
among the mongrels. Herald.
The New York World uses whole
column to show that the Rev. DR..
Burchard supports Mr.. Cleveland.
This is no news. He supported him in
the last campaign. -Journal.
HAPPY thought: Don't throw your
calendars for 1887 in the ash can. Send
them to the man who doesn't advertise.
Being behind the times, he naturally
will find them timely Tribune.
THERE are indications that the demo-
Gratis are getting ready to dance the
double shuttle" on the tariff question.
They do not want to put the party
squarely on the issue made by the presi-
dent.
THE London Globe says that Mr..
Blaine's "chance of filling the presi-
dental chair certainly looks better than
it did," The mugwump press of
America will never condone that re-
mark Tribune.
8" IT is safe to guess that there is not
a single pet sheep to-day in the coun-
try named Grover Cleveland. "-DalloS
NeUS Perhaps not. He belongs on
the other side with the goats.-CM-
cago Inter- Ocean.
Now and then reports come from
New York of a democratic plot to de-
feat the denomination of President
Cleveland. We think it is too late.
With him the party must sink or
swim, survive or perish"
CLEVELAND is in fine health. 1t was
great thing to be relieved of that
message. Otherwise he might have
died. A large accumulation of bile and
information is not to be retained with
any kind of safety lbany Journal.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has made up the
committee on civil service reform, it is
stated, of members who are not friendly
to the "cause." He has also given
the majority of the chairmanships of
important committees to southern men,
bers.
THE news that Secretary Endicott
has determined to destroy mass of
old war records is creating much feel
ing among the veterans in Washington.
This administration seems bound TO
make itself as odious as possible to
Union soldiers.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat quotes
Mr.. Snyder as saying: "The hatred of
the republican party in the South is
part of the political inheritance of this
generation. 1t has become instructive"
Respectfully referred to those people
who profess to believe that the South
is reconciled" to the results of the
war;
WITH the year 1887 the Knights of
Labor organization will conclude its
career. The semblance of organization
may be kept up for some time to come,
but its power is evidently gone, and the
name is destined soon to become, like
that of other labor organizations which
have preceded it-but memory
Traveller.
THIS shows the decline in demo-
cratic power: Democratic majority in
forty-eighth congress, eighty-three ;
democratic majority in forty-ninth con-
gress, forty-three; democratic majority
in fiftieth congress, fifteen. At the
same rate of shrinkage what will the
democratic majority be in the fifty-first
ngress.-Philadelphia Press.
THE Springfield Union inquiries
"Why don't the democratic free-traders
say something about reducing the sew
enty-six per cent duty on sugar and the
102 per cent duty on rice? Simply be-
cause those highly-protected neces-
saries of life are produced in Louisiana
and South Carolina, which are sure to
be solid for the democratic ticket"
A FREIGHT or railroad strike can
never have much public sympathy, and
without some public sympathyno strike
ever yet succeeded. In fact in pre-
else proportion as contest of this sort
interferes with the on-going of general
business it is foredoomed to failure
The pressure of the united opposition
of all commercial interests is fatal
Providence journal.
IN sentence-slugging Mr.. Lowell
may be termed the Sullivan of oratory
When the chief magistrate, who sling'
his fish-basket over his shoulder or
Memorial day, has it said of him Z" tha
he is the best representative of the
highest type of Americanism we have
had since Lincoln was snatched from
us" it must be admitted that the eli
max of stopping over" has beer
reached. boston Traveller.
If the southern confederacy had es
tablished itself would it have con
sented to put in its supreme court {
lawyer who declared the secession or
dinances invalid and who avowed hi