The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-07
Politics i'm Nuggets.

Long of Boston says all papers con-
cede Harrison's election.
THE great national prohibition party
failed to poll vote in New York equal
to that of 'S4. They owe their deserved
discontinue to the magnificent temper
ance canvass of gallant Warner Miller
IT is no credit to New York that she
has chosen to be governed by David B.
Hill, rather than Warner Miller. The
latter is incomparably the superior of
the two as statesman, as a scholar
and a Christian gentleman. New
York, we pity you.
MINISTER WEST has been informed
by Secretary Bayard that his continu-
ance in his present official position in
the United States is no longer accept
able to this government and would con-
sequently be detrimental to the rela-
tions between the two countries.
IT looks as though Grant had carried
the day in New York city. When
Tammany nominated him as their can
didate for mayor Joe Howard predicted
in his weekly letter to the Boston
Globe, that Hewitt would "whip the
life out of him." The time has vet to
come when Tammany Hall cannot run
New York city politics. For ways
that are dark and tricks that are vain "
old Tammany Hall is peculiar.
PERHAPS Manitoba is as good a
place as any to test the question
whether or not a great railway corpora
ton is Z" bigger than old Grant" The
Canadian Pacific has long been the
Sinbad of that province of the Do
minion of Canada. The legislature is
about to meet and it proposes to grapple
the giant and hold on with Comanche-
like hug until one or the other is
worsted.
BEFORE the birth of the third party
sixteen states had enacted prohibitory
legislation, and since that period
1S69-fifteen additional states have en-
acted stringent laws against rum, in
most cases unaided by, and in many
cases in spite of, the prohibition party.
From the day of its advent till now, it
has been a positive hindrance to the
cause of prohibition by playing more or
less directly into the hands of the
avowed rum party of the country. But
its power to execute this mischief has
reached high-water mark and is now on
the wane. Prohibition in the guise
of third political party is a sham.
Prohibitory legislation owes its exist
ence and success to the republican
party. That party is the tower of its
defense and its hope for the future.
The sooner the advocates of third
partyism recognize this fact and in good
faith strike hands with the only party
of progress and reform, the sooner and
more completely will triumph come to
the cause they claim to love so well.
THE identity of Murchison "seems
to be still matter of dispute. AT the
close of last week we were told that he
was not a mere mythical creature,
sort of guise, as it were, in which
some shrewd republican politician was
masquerading, but bona fde semi
Americanized John Bull. The Mail
and Express describes him as a reputa-
BILE citizen of Pomona, CAL, who did
not write the letter to entrap the
representative of his native land, but
in spirit of earnest inquiry after
the truth. When he received the re-
ply from Lord Sackville he did not
show it to any one for month, but
finally with the astuteness Characters
tic of his nation, he exhibited it to the
city attorney, who at once " caught on
to its great value as political docu-
ment and let the cat out of the bag.
The latest version, however, has it that
the letter was written by young Eng
lish Canadian, named James Cosner,
a strong republican, with the assistance
of other Pomona citizens of like politi-
cal faith. Letters of a similar seductive
nature were also sent to Sir Charles
Upper, General Fisk and Joseph
Chamberlain, but these gentlemen
failed to bite.
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