The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

ready nanuS;
Men whom the lust of Office does not kill
Men whom the spois of Office can not buy
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor men who will not lie ;
Men who can stand before demagogue
And scorn his treacherous batteries with
out winking-
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the
In public duty and in private thinking.
DR.. j. q. Holland.
THE Springfield Union suggests that
"the epitaph of free-trade democracy
will be Died in the WOOL"
CHAIRMAN BRICE of the demo-
cratic campaign committee is almost as
funny as Hiram Atkins in claiming
states. Brice is sure of Maine.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND looks on in
open-mouthed wonder as the great un-
crowned swings around the circle and
speaks the speech trippingly, without
the slightest suspicion of an encyclo-
pedia.
JUDGE THURMAN begins his cam
paign speaking at Port Huron, Mich.
the odd. The neighbors of the Judge,
regardless of politics, have evidenced
the good feeling of the street on which
he lives by presenting him with an oil
portrait of himself.
PRESIDENT CT EvELAND's friends have
secured the selection of Buffalo as the
place for holding the New York state
convention September II. The object
appears to be to overcome Cleveland's
unpopularity in his own county. The
effect is to defeat the wishes of Hill
and his friends.
A MEETING of union printers at Terre
Haute, Ind, adopted resolutions in
dorsing the republican platform and
promising General Harrison hearty
support. But this will not prevent
Voorhees, and his heelers from getting
up bogus labor" conventions and de-
nouncing the republican nominee in
the terms which the democratic bosses
dictate.
THERE will be grand republican
rally at White River Junction on the
23d-Thursday next. Preparations for
it are making on great scale. A. l..
Morrison of New York, George M.
Dewey of Michigan, O. G. Moore of
Nashua, j. W. Patterson of Hanover,
j. G.. Remick of Littleton, F. D. Cur
rier of Canaan and Kittredge Haskins
of Brattleboro will speak, while A. j..
Markham will do the singing. Reduced
rates on the railroads. Go!
In the fiscal year ending the Both of
June last the free-of-duty imports
amounted to S244 ,069, 1927, which was
more than half the amount of imports
upon which duty was paid Twenty
years ago the free list represented only
about S14 100000. This enormous in
crease of $3.50, 100000 in the free list
has been achieved under republican ad-
ministrations, but it is som ething which
is not recognized at all in the prepos-
ferrous percentages argument of the
free-traders.
"YOU see, Dan, the principle is this :
In free-trade we import the raw ma
terial free of duty, lower the price of
manufactured goods and then we ex-
tend our markets into the whole world"
" Yes, sire, heard something like it at
the Ministries last evening"" "How
was it, Dan, how was it?" THE end
man said he had been wrecked in a
small boat and it filled with water.''
Ha' ha " Dan, what did he say he
did then ?" "Egad, sire, it was your
free-trade policy. He said he bored q
hole in the boat and let the water run
out"
AT the republican convention for Or.
leans county Wednesday the following
ticket was nominated Senators, G. p
Stevens of Troy, John Chamberlin OF
Albany; assistant judges, G. p. Owen
of Glover, S. r. Davis of Troy states
attorney, Frank n. Alfred of Newport
judge of probate, O. II. Austin of Bar.
ton Landing sheriff, l.. d. Miles OF
Newport; high bailiff, o. V. Joslyn OF
Barton county commissioner, A. p
Dutton of Craftsbury. The following
Erwin of Newport, George II. Blake
of Barton, George Howard of Crafts
bury.
A CHANGE of heart in the polite;
of business men has been experienced
within the last four years and is evi
denced by the utterances of CONNER
cial travellers. Fouryears ago it seemed
quite the thing for them to supper
Cleveland. One who called at thu
) WATCHEAN office last week corrob
Grated the statements recently pub
, lished that three-fourths of the com
mercial travellers of the country ar,
supporters of the republican nominees
He said that of ten who happened t.
meet at Bar Harbor short time ag'
nine were Harrison men. All this i
significant.
THE essential demagogism of Sen
ator Voorhees, recent attack upon Gen
eral Harrison because of the latter
conduct during the railway riots OF
1877 is apparent when it is remembered
that Voorhees, was member of the
same committee with Harrison at thai
, time, and that, Immediately after thu
f republican convention, he said to re
porter of the New York Sun, speakin.
of this very matter: Ben. Harrison
and the rest of us worked together dur
ing all that time, and can not remem
Der that General Harrison was differ
ent than any of the rest of us in senti
ment or action toward the strikers"
MICHIGAN and Indiana have beer
' flooded with postal cards inscribed wit
{ the democratic campaign lie that Har
| rison once remarked that ga dollar