The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-15


that Germany has treaties with Sweden,
Spain and Roumauia similar to those
with Austria and Italy. The Moscow
Gazette significantly remarks that can
alliance between Russia, England and
France must be effected to counter
balance this peace league"
IT is stated by the Washington cor
respondent of the Boston advertiser
that Mr.. Blaine is afflicted with an in
durable disease and that is the only
reason that be will never again be a
candidate for president. This revela-
ton is not fully admitted by Mr..
Blaine's friends, though there is lit
tie doubt that the state of his health had
something to do with his decision.
ANY good republican is good enough for
us.--NdShua Telegraph.
WELL, he isn't for us unless he can be
Observation-Disclosures Mirror.
How are you going to know in advance
that any republican can be elected?
We may have our individual opinion as
to the strongest candidate, and give
some reasons for our confidence, but
no one can positively predict or guar
antee his success. Whoever the can
didate may be, some chances must be
taken on his possible defeat
SENATOR SHERMAN made notable
speech before the Home Market Club
in Boston last Thursday evening, in
which he emphasized the value of the
home market as compared with the
foreign market He well said that "the
best we can do for mankind is to do the
best for our own country" In reply to
James Russell Lowell's recent eulogy
of the president, the senator showed
up the hypocrisy and duplicity of the
administrations civil service reform
policy. He also spoke of tariff revision
as a necessity, but it should be accom-
plished with the least injury to home
interests.
THE Springfield Republican has re-
markable editorial on the southern ques-
ton, which, in short, is an abject
apology for the observation-disclosures and ex-
rebels and sickening appeal to north
ern people to respect the tender feel
ings of those who vainly sought to
strangle the republic. The article con-
cludes as follows:
We are proud of them as our fellow-coun-
trymen, and we would not ask them to re-
pent or to be ashamed of their past.
We doubt if any southern journal has
made stronger plea for the condone-
ment of treason, and we have seen
nothing of the kind that surpasses it in
cool impudence since Lamar rebuked
a republican senator for calling Jeff.
Davis traitor. Doughfaceism, which
was so rampant in the North before the
war, is evidently gaining ground very
fast among the mugwumps.
THE r. Y. continued its mugwump
performance last week, with some fan
tastic variations. 1t affords considera-
BILE amusement to the spectators, and
yet it is spectacle that should rather
excite commiseration than laughter.
The u. Y. is evidently afflicted with
the mania common TO one-idea people
and cranks generally that it is the
leader in a great revolution, and i'm
AGNES that the whole country is watch
ing its movements with absorbing in
terest. 1t has become so tumefied by
chronic self-esteem and love of noto-
riety that its conductors can not see
how it is actually regarded by dispas-
sionate observers. AS we are satisfied
that not very large number of people
are giving much heed to its peculiar
teachings, we may well be pardoned
for devOting our space this week to
more important and serious matters.
AND now the Springfield Republican
(mugwump organ) has what the Brat
tleboro Phenir might well call "spe-
cious communication, dated at Mont
pelier, which is doubtless designed to
forestall, or circumvent, or manufac-
ture public opinion in favor of Mr..
Harris for the governorship. We ex-
pected that the Republican and its cor
respondent would be promptly and
properly rebuked by its satellites in
Vermont; but we find that one of
them, the PhGniT, while affecting to
deprecate discussion, gives quasi en-
dorsement to the sentiments of the
communication, and does not condemn
the Republican, as it did the WATCH
-n]hAN wi uhtihiSiJ oub iiiiPNi III
reference in our political affairs. BY
the way, the Brattleboro Reformer init
mates that the aforesaid communica-
ton was written in Brattleboro Can
it be possible that the Ph@nir candi-
date has literary bureau?
A REMARKABLE article appears in a
recent issue of the Albany La,o Journal,
by member of the Brooklyn bar, on
the arrest, trial and execution of Jesus
from legal point of view-the subject
being handled with the greatest venera-
ton. In brief, the jurist's conclusions
are that the arrest was not legal one,
being in fact the result of a conspiracy
and illegally performed; that the charge
of blasphemy was competent one I'M
der the Jewish law; that the court had
jurisdiction; that the trial was illegally
held at night and unfairly conducted,
and, most important, that the judges
were so prejudiced as to unfit them for
fair conclusions--a state of affairs
which the jurist truthfully says has