The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-30

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unanimity. Philadelphia Ledger.
THE editor of the Free Press is mildly
booming himself for the lieutenant
governorship, but if newspaper express
sions are reliable he is already distanced
by Colonel U. A. Woodbury..
In the free-traders' mind the same
line of argument that calls for free
wool, iron and lumber calls for pro-
tected sugar and rice. The argument
is curiosity equal to the hen and a
half egg and half puzzle.-Sprinqfeld
Union.
MURAT HALsTED, in the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, gives it as his opn-
ion that Blaine was sincere in his Flor
ence letter and that his declination was
made in good faith. Halsted adds that,
no matter who is nominated at Chicago,
Blaine will continue to be the leader
of leaders,"
THERE are four presidential tickets
already in the field: GODFREY and
Wakefield, representing united labor;
Streeter and Cunningham, put forward
by the union labor party; Lockwood
and Love, standing for equal rights,
and Redstone and Colvin upon an in
dustrial ticket
ERNEST CROSBY says he was sur
prised at the strong undercurrent for
Gresham " he found in the New York
republican state convention at Buffalo.
AS canvass of the delegates gave
Gresham not one vote-not even as
second choice-Mr. Crosby should pub
lish diagram showing the precise To-
cation of the undercurrent."
IN an address before the Methodist
General Conference Rev. DIR. John +.
Spence of Grant Memorial University
of Tennessee said there were 100000
white men in the South who at the
last election did not know whether they
voted for Grover Cleveland or Andrew
jackson. There were in Tennessee
10000 whites who could not read their
ballots.
THE London Economist says: Mr..
Cleveland has no constitutional power
to introduce a new taxing system or to
force either protection or free-trade
upon the minority, but his message
recommending a reduction in tariffs
did far more for free-trade than any
single speech from any premier could
have done"
AFTER having declared their prefer
ence for Harrison by an overwhelming
majority, the Indiana republicans are
disposed to resent the efforts of Illinois
politicians to displace Harrison with
another Indiana man. 1t is possible
that the Illinois politicians may be
taught lesson al Chicago next month
that they will have occasion to remem-
Der for some time.
WHILE it is true the Tribune is
charged with booming Mr.. Blaine, we
have failed to find in its columns any
of the rule or ruin policy which people
attribute to it. 1t believes that the
Florence letter was an expression of
honest opinion, but it evidently be-
lieves, should Mr.. Blaine be nominated
by fair and honestly-inclined conven-
ton, that he can accept the nomination
with honor.-BOstOn Journal.
THE Springfield Union announces
that an eminent mugwump has been
applying the DOnnelly cryptogram to
the letter which Mr.. Cleveland wrote
pronouncing against the eligibility of a
president for reelection, and has dis
covered the following sentence in
geniously interviewer in the text:
"This letter was written by David B.
Hill" This discovery, of course, re-
lieves the president of all suspicion of
inconsistency.
JUDGE GRESHAM is a good repub-
lican and would make good president,
but it is the hardest work possible to
create boom in his favor. If one
half the work done by the Chicago
papers in booming Gresham was be-
slowed on Harrison or Sherman or AL
lison it would create a boom of mag
nificent dimensions, but Gresham is
only as yet the favorite son of Chicago
and its dependencies in Illinois. Rich
mond (Ind.) Palladium.
Mr.. BLAINE has doubtless spoken
his final word. He declines to be a
candidate, but he does not refuse a
nomination which has not been ten
dered. He does not invite the sum-
mons of his party; he hopes to see
some other republican nominated. Yet
no man has right to say that if the
united party places burden upon his
shoulders he will refuse to bear it. Mr..
Blaine will do his duty, whatever the
emergency.-Utica Herald.
AT meeting of seventeen of the
twenty-eight Massachusetts, delegates
to the Chicago convention Alanson w.
Beard thought the convention should
nominate a man who would best repre-