The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-01

also any allusion to a protective tariff.
MAJOR JACK DOWNING, once being
asked to define himself on the ruling
issue in Maine, sagely remarked that
"with all his heart he was for the |
Maine law, but against its enforce
ment." This incident is revived by |
the attitude of certain democratic lead |
ers toward the president and his poll
cies. National Republican.
THE supporters of the administration
begin to admit that there is an intrigue
to defeat the nomination of Cleveland, |
and they say that two members of the
national committee are concerned in it.
The plan is said to be to secure one
third of the convention and prevent the
president from securing the necessary
two-thirds. Washington Special.
IT can be set down as one of the
suggestive signs of the year that Mas
sachusetts, which has always been fore
most in opposing Mr.. Blaine's NOM
ination, and which, in 1876 and 1880,
succeeded in defeating it, and in 1884
SIlll ODDOSCu IL, 10 llhCl1 w DCCOllC lIlS
year one of the earliest states in indors-
ing his candidacy. -BoSton Advertiser.
MUGwUMPs and other democrats
whose delicate sensibilities are Of
Tended by any waving of the bloody
shirt are warned, in spirit of love,
not to notice the Charleston NeUS and
Co,rier's republication of a three
column-and-a-half report upon the
burning of Columbia twenty years ago.
Its only apparent motive is to stir up
sectional feeling.
THE southern question is still an
issue, at least in one phase. Until
there is free ballot for all citizens and
fair count of ballots honestly cast it
is useless to say that there is no
southern issue. The republican vote
in many of the Southern States is sys-
tematically suppressed, and the demo-
cratic party North supports the demo-
cratic party South in such suppression
Boston Trdreller.
THE sum of money which will be re-
quired to carry into execution the pro-
visions of the Blair educational bill will
be about S10,000,000 annually during
the term of eight years, and each years
expenditure is to be appropriated in the
usual manner for the fiscal year during
which the disbursement is to be made,
so that there is no occasion to set apart
reserve fund in advance. The bill
has been before three congresses.
WE must, in order to render wheat
raising compensatory, not to say profit
able, encourage diversified industries in
manufactures and protect those in
dustries from foreign low-wage COM
petition as an unalterable condition
for sustaining and enlarging our home
markets to absorb the great wheat sur
plus and other agricultural products of
the country. Foreign demand is ut
terly inadequate for this purpose
Troy Times.
DANIEL, me heart is heavy when I
remember that pledged meself to only
one term. Would had not done that,
Dan" Consistency is jewel, o
master; then be consistent" If get
thy meaning then is my head a Hub
bard squash. Unfold thyself, Daniel"
g Be consistent, your eXcellency, with
thy record. Serve this pledge as thou
hast others. Egad! would'st thou kill
the people with surprise as well as sur
plus?"-A lbdny Journal.
THE lquor-dealers of Leeds county,
Ontario, Canada, are opposing the
progress of temperance in that quarter
in their usual fashion. They have
burned eleven buildings in one town
and church and a tannery in another
Two officers of another church have
been warned to dismiss their minister
or have their church building burned.
A number of constabes have been
stoned and assaulted for assisting in
the enforcement of the law.
THERE are 14,5OO,OOO persons in
England whose wages are less than
$3.50 per week, and there are 100000
people who are classed as paupers-that
is, supported wholly or in part at pub
lie expense. 1t might be sublime char
ity to reduce five-sevenths of the
| American people W tle SAINT poverty
for the sake of feeding these poor mill
ions of England, but human nature in
this country is not yet sufficiently sane
titled to make such sacrifice
Springfield Union.
THE principal issue is the great in
dustrial question, but one more impor-
tant has to be solved, and that is, Is
this republican government or not?
Are the people to cast their ballots and
have them counted or not? They say
the colored men are dividing down
South-that we can not rely upon them
any more and that they are beginning
to vote the democratic ticket. If that
is the case, why don't they take their
hands off southern republicans and let
them vote as they like and count their
ballots?-SendtOr Chandler.
THE II. Y. continues to make a char
acterstic exhibition of impotent wrath
and malice in its treatment of the