The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-14
The majority of them are first for
Blaine and next for Depcw.

avail except ticket inscribed, as were
ARENAS Wards free passes to his lee
ture on the Mormons: Admit bearer
and one wife. "--Teras Strings.
Now movement has been started
to organize young mems democratic
clubs throughout the country. As
usual, the democrats are initiating re-
publican methods, though several laps
behind in the ace.-Troy Times
No concentration upon any other
candidate instead of Blaine is discov-
cred by the Philadelphia Press, which
therefore urges the republicans in
Pennsylvania not to bind their dele
gates to Chicago with instructions.
HERE is a hint for the ambitious:
An indianapolis livery-stable man
named Brown got himself mentioned as
candidate for the presidency of the
United States in three different weekly
papers by the payment of SIS to each.
Now that the Pacific coast has its
anti-Chinese law securely placed on
the statute books, the Detroit Journal
thinks that no grudge should longer be
cherished against Harrison, Sherman,
Allison and Hawley for opposing the
measure.
THERE is much good sense in the
proposition of DR.. Rauch of the Illinois
board of health, which is to the effect
that congress give the president power
to prohibit immigration from districts
of infected countries suffering from
Asiatic cholera.
"THE Indiana democrats are urging
Gray for the vice-presidency. Illinois
wants Black. New Jersey would
doubtless prefer Green. 1t seems to
be largely a question of color so far. y
Boston Herald. They will all be blue
enough next November.
IT now turns out that the nom
Jeffersonian simplicity tour of the
president to Florida was devised and
engineered by certain Mr.. Flagler of
the Standard Oil trust, and not by Mr..
Cleveland of the "public office is a
public trust. "-Hartord Post.
THERE will be no place at Chicago in
June for namby-pamby men who don't
know whether they are going to sup
port the nominations they have helped
to make until after they get home and
see what the democratic papers say
about them.-SprinNfeld Union.
THE school-house is multiplying
rapidly throughout Scotland since the
education act went into effect, about
fifteen years ago. Since that time
nearly S20,000,000, or about S. per
head of the population, have been ex-
pended in erecting school buildings.
THE latest cold wave has nipped the las,
rose of summer, and its petals will fall be-
fore the Argus and Patriot again appears
Argus and Patriot, February %.
Notwithstanding the pernicious &C.
tivity" of Mr.. Atkins, that " last rose y
appears to have pretty good staying
qualities.
THE New York Sun declares Presi
dent Cleveland cannot be a candidate
for denomination, for he is on record
against second term for any presi
dent, and it is stated that he will soon
withdraw from the field. This is the
only thing he can do to retain shred
of consistency in his political conduct.
THE following measure is pending in
the Ohio legislature:
A bill making the 2Sth and Goth days o.
February one day, the 2Sth, for legal pur
poses. Section BE it enacted by the gen
eral assembly of the state of Ohio that in
every year in which February has tlCenty
nine days such day, for all legal purposes
shall be reckoned as the 2Sth day of such
month of February. Section This ac
shall take effect from and after its passage
The comments of the editor of Harp
er's Weekly, Mr.. George William Cur
tbs, attempting to discredit Mr.. Blaine''
sincerity, only furnishes conclusive
proof of this, that the writer, in hi!
nearly incessant attacks upon Mr.
Blaine during the past three or fou
years, has been the unhappy victim o
his own bitterness and malignancy O.
personal prejudice. Chicago Adcance
THE potatoes are all bad. Our owl
crop is failure, and the pauper potato
of Europe is not fit for good American
citizen to eat. The German potato
produces in the man who eats it an
archical ideas. This would be good
time for the American citizen to reform
his diet. Good wheat bread, rice ant
hominy beat all the potatoes in thu
world. In fact beans are not bad
Mail and Express.
NOTHING makes a new settler who
has come from well-wooded regior
more homesick than to see a treeles'
plain with nothing between his eye
and the horizon, while the poores
shanty becomes attractive if surrounded
by trees and EMPOWERED in shrubbery
Tree-planting may not be a positiv,
cure for the deadly blizzard, but it il