The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
Political Notes.

THERE is no question That the sur
plus should be reduced. The only ques-
ton is, who shall reduce it? A party
that has successfully settled great ma
tional questions or one that has made a
failure of everything it has touched.
PROFESSOR BARNARD's new comet,
which enthusiastic democrats have
christened Cleveland, is travelling
three million miles day in the direc-
ton of oblivion. There is reason in
the action of the enthusiastic demo-
Gratis.
THE Boston Herald publishes the
names of the New England wooden
manufacturers who favor free wool.
Among all the long list of manufacture
ers, the Herald can find Just ten who
are in favor of free wool, all of them
democrats and one long since dead.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Standard
There are thousands and thousands of
men who never voted a republican
ticket in their lives and may never do
so again, who will vote for Harrison
and Morton in this campaign, because
they believe in protection to American
labor and American industries and are
determined to beat free-trade.
speech by Secretary Villas, we are
father was turned out of the town of
Chelsea, VT, some years ago for stuff
fling the balot-box at the election when
he was candidate for state represent
alive. Some way or other, it seems to
take the virtuous snap out of Villas
talk.-BoSton Record.
FOREPAUGH is for Cleveland and
Barnum for Harrison. That was
stand off, Intil the other day when
Lewis Sells, of Sells Brothers Circus,
said to reporter: " am not poll
tician, but my business brings me in
contact with all classes of people in
every part of the globe, and l have
seen enough to convince me that free
trade is the very thing we don't want
and should not have in America. 1t is
now two to one on Harrison-a good
majority"
WARNER MILLER's magnificent cam
paign is working sad havoc among the
New York third-party prohibitionists.
James Morton, chairman of the pro-
hibition executive committee of Brook
Ign, freely states that he believes many
third-party men will vote for Miller I" to
prevent Sabbath dissertation, to i'm
prove the morals of legislation and to
improve the party's chances for future
growth and usefulness" This is an
aspect of the situation in New York
state which greatly worries the Hill
Cleveland managers. They had counted
on big third-party movement to assist
them.
THE political deeps of Indiana are
stirred. To the myriads that thronged
Indianapolis on Thursday Mr.. Blaine
said: &C Ladies and Gentlemen: A
man might as well take his position on
the end of Cape Race and address the
Atlantic Ocean as to attempt to address
this vast crowd. hope to speak to a
small section of it in town this evening;
but l came out here simply to exchange
greetings, to exchange congratulations
and to say to you, as you know before
say it, that this great concourse of peo-
pie means 5000 majority in Indiana
for Harrison and Morton. And,
furthermore, that demonstration like
this, of all Indiana, worth five hundred
speeches from any man living. Good
bye"
IN the Morning Post of London, which
occasionally allows drop of protection
to fall into the ocean of e-trade,
a writer says: When England furn-
ished America with all the nails she
used it required ten pounds of butter
to purchase ten pounds of nails. To-
day in the same locality in America one
pound of butter will purchase ten
pounds of nails and of much better
quality than those received in the old
DAYS from England If America had
Joined the free-trade movement, she
would still be producing cheap butter to
exchange for dear nails. Other coun-
sells prevailed, and under an almost
prohibitorv tariff nail-works were es-
tablished. To-day America produces
all the nails she uses and is able to sell
them at price far below that charged
before the tariff was imposed. In the
meantime butter and all other agri-
cultural produce has risen in value on
account of the increased demand for
home consumption in local manufac-
turing centers, and the condition of the
farmer is vastly more prosperous"
MRS. j. ELLEN FOSTER: The re-
publican party, as party, has always
stood for the highest temperance legis-
lation which the people demanded.
The republican party in its rank and
file, and through its individual repre-.
sentatives, has originated and enforced
the EXTREMIST legislation yet on record
Beyond this no party can go withou,
first yielding its claim to be a servant
of the people. / know a congressman
from Western state, who has given
years of service in the church, il
community and political affairs; he
has always been total abstainer ant
a prohibitionst; in his district more
than two thousand third-party votes
were cast against him; he will be re
nominated this fall; every friend OF
temperance would be supposed to de
sire his return to congress; his vote is
needed there for the appointment of {
commission of inquiry for the submis
sion of constitutional prohibition, fol
prohibition in the District of Columbia
for the Blair education bill-for every
measure which temperance people de
IL.