The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-14

possibly a republican senator from
Delaware. The republicans don't want
the earth, but events seem to be forcing
it on them.
THE Boston Herald says the result
of the election was due largely to senti-
ment Bosh Ben Harrison was
elected because he is the champion of
protection and not because he is the
grandson of his grandfather. Why not
have the honesty and candor to own up?
IT is an indication that political in
tolerance in the South is nearing its
end that President-elect Harrison, as
well as President Cleveland, has been
invited to attend the national exposition
at Atlanta, Georgia. A cordial recep-
ton awaits him if he accepts the invi-
taton.
IN order to make the landslide the
more complete, the territories, almost
without exception, send to congress re-
publican delegates. Even Montana,
supposed to be as solidly democratic as
Kentucky, elects a republican. The
Dakota legislature is as strongly repub-
lican as that of Vermont.
OF course, the democratic sailors
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to appease the angry waters. The lot
has fallen upon Chairman Brice. Well,
| it isn't our funeral; but let us say to
the mourners that had not their Grover
sent out great wind in his free-trade
message, there would not have been
mighty tempest, and perhaps the ship
would not have been broken.
! VERMoNTERs, we have worked hard
and deserve the laurel crown. We
share with Kansas and Maine the honor
of being the banner republican states.
Yet the returns from Dakota, Montana,
and Washington territories indicate
that when they become states they will
claim the honor. Let them have it.
Vermonters are scattered through all
those territories. 1--WE build school
houses and raise men,"
THERE is a class of papers, chiefly
the independents" which, though
acknowledging their defeat, are sour
and unwilling to attribute the demo-
cratic waterloo to its real cause, the
free-trade issue. They deny that the
American system of protection has tri-
umphed over the English system of
free trade. This attempt to crawl off
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flying is characteristic of the men who
instituted " a campaign of intellect"
"LITTLE JOHNNY DAVENPORT got
in some of his liveliest work in New
York city on Tuesday. Johnny holds
over. "-Boston Herald. The republic
cans are largely indebted to " little
Johnny Davenport " for their success.
Through his exertions thousands of
fraudulent votes were kept out of the
ballot-boX. If democrats would do
something in the way of assistance in
this good work, they would some time
see their profit in it, though it may not
now appear so to them.
THE position of local democrats is un-
comfortable enough without adding any
extra clothing to their raiment of sack
cloth with Sodom AMI Gomorrah trim
ming of ashes, but ii is entertaining to
consider how it looks from the Hub.
The Boston Journal describes the view
as follows: "Among the Green Noun
tains the sun rises and sets just as it
did before election day, but it is under
stood that Hiram Atkins refuses to be-
lieve it, A long and cold Arctic night
of gloom and despair has settled down
over Hiram and his faithful little band
of office holders" And this is how it
looks to the Traveller: "The most hope
less set of men in this country are said
to be Hiram Atkins of Vermont and
his little band of office-holders.
A NOTABLE feature of the late cleo
ton is the closeness of the vote in at
least dozen districts for members of
congress, and in some of them only the
official count can determine the result.
In one Maryland district the republic
cans claim to have elected their man
by majority of one, while the demo-
Gratis claim for their man a majority of
two. 1t is very probable there will be
many contested election cases before
the next congress, but in any event it
will be republican. In two or three
states which are to choose United
States senators, the legislatures are
very close, and, although either party
may have small nominal majority,
personal or other considerations may
cause the choice of senator of the
opposite party. Yet the senate will be
safely republican by an increased,
though small, majority
TRUER words than these, by the
New York Herald, were never spoken a:
" A solid South against solid North.
This is one solemn fact, While the
democrats carry New Jersey and
Connecticut, the republicans win West
Virginia. New Jersey and Connect
cut are only the political overflow of
the metropolis, and we may as well ac-
cept it as the solid South against the
solid North. And in this we note the
one circumstance most to be regretted,
something that our southern friends
should think over seriously. That
solid South delusion, that holding in
an inextricable political embrace the
dead and damned confederacy-truly,
truly it is miserable business, and
now we see what becomes of it. If our
southern friends, those who have sense
enough to remember that some things
have happened since 1865, would only
set themselves to the abandonment of
this forlorn fanaticism, it would be a
national gain"