The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-13

and his republican co-laborers for OPP
posing emancipation and prolonging
slavery. boston Journal.
UP to June the New York receipts
of potatoes from Great Britain since
October were 3 All $40 bushels against
1866 47 bushels for the same period the
previous year. This, in spite of the
protective duty of fifteen cents per
bushel, indicates what would become
of potato-raising in this country if the
duty were entirely removed.
THE New York Mail and Cypress
pronounces the statement of the Chicago
Tribune Ga Gresham pape) that Mr..
Depew will not be a candidate for the
presidential nomination, but that the
New York delegation may 90 to Mr..
Gresham on the first ballot, as utterly
unfounded. Verify, the Gresham boom
is fed to a considerable extent on wind.
THE Nebraska State Journal, while
admitting that there is more blatant
demagogy in this part of the coun-
try" 0he WesD on the subject of rail-
roads than on any other, argues that
a." it is about time il was settled that a
citizen of the United States can work
at any honest employment that he may
choose without danger of disfranchise-
ment or disgrace"
TIE mugwump voted against Mr..
Blaine in 1884 ostensibly because he
considered it to be his duty to rebuke
the republican party. The rebuke was
singularly ineffective, since four years
afterward an overwhelming majority of
the republican party favored the re-
nomination of Mr.. Blaine. This is
what irritates the professional indie
pendent.-Iribune.
UP to Tuesday morning there had
been little change in General Sheri-
dams condition. He has had his good
and bad days during the week, and his
case is still considered critical. His
pulse is good, his breathing somewhat
difficult, he sleeps comfortably at times
and is assimilating an increased guam
tity of nourishment, but recurrence
of the heart trouble is feared.
AFTER long experience in the con-
duct of reforms, have learned to eX-
ercise reasonable patience in view of
the difficulty of persuading great po-
litical party, even one of high princi-
pies and aims, to accept promptly a
measure which involves a radical
change of policy. He who looks for a
harvest on the same day that he sows
his seed is unreasonable. However
hungry he may be, he must wait for the
seed to terminate and the crop TO
ripen in natures appointed way
Oirer johnson.
THE Washingtonian Home, perma-
nently established at Al Waltham street,
Boston, in 1873, has sent out its thir-
tieth annual report, by which we learn
that 404 inebrates were admitted last
year, making over 10000 who have re-
ceived treatment for this terrible evil
most of whom were sent away cured
and became sober, industrious citizens
This was the first asylum in this coun.
try devoted exclusively to the reforma.
ton of drunkards. Its success led to
the establishment of similar institutions
in other cities and countries.
GENERAL HARRISON would make g
brilliant candidate and his gallant
record as a soldier would strengthen
the excellent impression which he has
made in his civil career. There is nc
questioning the genuineness and en-.
thusiasm of his support among Indiana
republicans. He would be strong also
in New York, and if the suggestion OF
the Hon. Levi p. Morton for the second
place on the ticket with Harrison were
adopted we should have ticket eX
ceptionally strong in the two most i'm
portant states.-BOStOn Journal.
THErepublicans of Burlington elected
delegates to the state convention headed
"For governor, William p. Dillingham;
for Acknowledgements, L. A. Wood
bury" Other Chittenden county towns
have elected Dillingham; and Woodbury.
delegates. 1t is now generally con
coded that both Dillingham; and Wood
bury will be nominated by reclamation
AS to the rest of the ticket, there is a
this time little reason to doubt tina
Treasurer Dubois, Secretary of State
Porter and Auditor Powell will be re
nominated with substantial unanimity
THE Advocate, which pretends to bt
an organ OF the party prohibitionists
proves to be edited by the Rev. j. r
Bartlett, formerly of this state, bu
now editor of a prohibition organ il
New Hampshire. The thing has some
thing of the appearance of a certain
party which a stump orator once com
pared to MULE thing which ha
neither pride of ancestry nor hope o
posterity." Mr.. Bartlett's papers have
always abounded in extravagant, angry
and bigoted assertions, and have neve
been particularly effective in moulding
public opinion. -Barton Monitor.
THE Tribune wastes no time in pro
Tossing to regard Mr.. Cleveland as {
weak candidate. Morally he is weak
Intellectually he is weak. In execu
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