The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-27

LIE ueNeiopinenI VI lne pIOceSS VI
welding steel by electricity has resulted
in movement to weld together rail-
road joints so that rails shall not be
less than quarter of a mile long.
IT is idle to call the democratic plank
compromise. 1t is simply bungling
effort to deceive and capture protec-
ZIONIST votes for the purpose of in
augurating a free-trade policy.-BoSton
| Advertiser.
THE age of democratic reform; For
the presidency, Mirage; for the vice
presidency, Dotage; for principles,
Patronage, Sausage, Cabbage; for plat
form, Message, Garbage, Wreckage;
for the campaign, Rampage, Persfage,
Damage .-Sprinafeld Union.
A FLORIDA man objects to the APP
pointment of judge in his state be-
cause at the time of his appointment
the said judge had been in this country
less than six months and is now a
British subject. Under our present adj
ministration he shouldn't let little
thing like that trouble him. Tribune.
THE WATCHMAN has reason to feel
gratified with the nomination of Har-
rison. After the publication of Mr..
Blaine's Florence letter the WATCH
MAN suggested Harrison as the man
who (neXt to Blaine) would be the
strongest and most available candidate,
and we have since doomed" him
with much persistency.
PERHAPS the reason why the YER
mont prohibition convention attracted
only thirty-nine persons may be found
in the confession of the prohibitionist
leaders that their object is to destroy
the republican party" The war is an
event of too recent occurrence to give
this shameless boast much converting
power.-Albany Journal.
THE Kingston Freeman figures it
that if the republicans do as well in
New York as they did in Oregon their
majority will be 1SS, 900; if they do as
well in New Jersey, their majority
will be $4,000; if they do as well in
Connecticut, their majority will be
$4,000. These comparisons make more
clear the real size of the Oregon victory
THE speculations and predictions of
the Chicago correspondents on Sunday
were all at fault, except that one
limited at the possibility of the
ticket of Harrison and Morton,
but none of them seemed to have
the remotest idea that the outcome of
the contest on the presidential nominal
ton would be Harrison. Many people
hundreds of miles distant from Chicago
were far more sanguine of Harrison's
nomination.
IT is noticeable that the mugwump
of late has not been so good demo-
crat as he was three or four years ago.
In fact, there are a good many of the
tribe who have begun seemingly to act
and talk as if they would like to be re-
publicans again. The democratic party
has never been very comfortable
abiding-place for them, and it has re-
Gently been doing good many things
that try their patience and put strain
on their consciences.- PhilodelphiQ
Bulletin.
WHY, then, do the democratic con-
gressmen set their faces like flint
against free sugar and molasses? 1t is
because sugar is a southern product
and the strength of the democratic
party in both branches of congress
comes from the South. The interests
of the South dominate the policy of the
democratic party and no leader in that
party dares to make at honest move for
the reduction of the surplus revenue of
the country by abolishing nearly
$50 100000 of it raised on sugar and
molasses.
An article entitled Southern Loy-
atty" published in the Richmond (Va.) J
Critic, written by C. Macarthur, an ex-
confederate soldier, has created great
sensation. The writer says that the
southern white people, except editors
and politicians, who expect to make
something by pleading loyalty to the
United States government, are opposed
to the system of government they now
tolerate, and also despise the public
free school system of Virginia, and will
do so long as there are so many negroes
to educate. The extension of the
right of suffrage to the negroes is
heartily condemned.
THE Hartford Post makes a good
point when it says: IF the demo-
cratic free-traders are wise they will
muzzle the English press or interdict
its issues from being sent across to this
country. Here is the British Hosiery
Rerie,o, saying: ITO the majority of
our readers the question will be of very
great importance, as the quantity of
articles, manufactured and otherwise
that are now sent from British and
continental ports will be materially
increased if these tariff proposals are
accepted. Indeed, we venture to assert
that England will reap the largest share
of any advantages that may arise from
the adoption of the ideas now advocated
by the free-trade party in the United
States Arguments like the above,
coming from English sources, are the
most difficult for the democratic free
trade party to combat"