The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-09

throws the administration organs into ter
ribe spasms. If they are so thoroughly
convinced as they pretend to be that Mr..
Blaine is the weakest candidate the repub-
licans can present, why are they so uncom-
monty distressed at the mere mention Of his
name?-Sprinafed Union,
We have asked the same question sew
eral times, but get no response.
IT is now probable that the first
ballot in the Chicago convention will
show the strength of the several candi-
dates-Sherman, Depew, Harrison, AL
lison, Gresham and Alger-about in the
order named, while there will be scat
tering votes for Hawley, Lincoln, Will
lam Walter Phelps and perhaps some
others. This calculation leaves out
Mr.. Blaine altogether.
The Boston Herald feels so badly
over Ingalls, scourging of the copper
heads that it predicts Cor hopes) that
another senator than he will represent
Kansas on March 4, 1891. We think
we see the Kansas republicans shelving
Ingalls, to please the MISUNDERSTANDING
mugwumps! But we imagine that they
are made of different stuff. Kansas
affords poor soil for mugwumpery.
Mr.. F. n. WHITNEY has sold the
Mortified Ne,os to E. Gerry & Co., and
will 90 to Burlington June LIST to as
sumo the editorial and business manage
ment of the Clipper, of which he is part
owner. Mr.. Whitney has made the
NeWS live local paper, and in its edi-
torial conduct he has had the courage of
his convictions. We wish him album
dant success in his larger field of labor.
THE views upon the tariff question
of 143 mayors of cities representing a
population of 100000 have been gath
cred and given from time to time by
the New York press, and of those 143
mayors los have solidly favored the
continuance of protective tariff,
eighteen believe in reduction of the
tariff, one is free-trader out and out,
and the rest agree with President
Cleveland.
THE political prohibitionists sent to
the various pastors of the city notices
to be read from their pulpits Sunday of
the conference, and they felt some
what aggrieved because they were not
generally read. What would have been
thought if the democrats had sent no.
tees of their caucus to be read from
the pulpits, and yet they both have the
same object in view-the defeat of the
republican party.-Free Press, May 2.
THE insincerity of the third-party
movement is clearly shown in Pennsyl-
vania. The republicans of that state
have kept their pledge to pass the pro-
hibitory resolve and have promised
favorable action in the next legislature.
They have also enacted high-license
law, whose rigorous restrictions have
wiped out more than half of the saloons
in the cities. Yet the third-party pro-
hibitiOnists 90 right on assisting the
liquor interests.
LAM one of those uninstructed po-
litical economists that have an impress
sion that some things may be too cheap;
that can not find myself in full SYM
pathy with this demand for cheaper
coats, which seems to me necessarily
to involve cheaper man and woman
under the coat. | believe it is true to-
day that we have many things in this
country that are too cheap, because
whenever it is proved that the man or
woman who produces any article can
not get a decent living out of it then it
is too cheap. Benjamin Harrison.
THE New York World thinks that
Indiana ought to have settled on
Gresham for its favorite son, and is
fairly disguised to learn that General
Ben. Harrison has the delegates and
will go to Chicago with pretty big
presidential possibility on his shout
ders. We haven't a word to say
against Judge Gresham, but the fact
that the democrats would rather fight
him than Harrison in the doubtful
state of Indiana is pretty good sign
that the Indiana republicans have
chosen wisely.-SprinQfeld Republican.
THE protesting Knights of Labor
have issued a circular renewing the
charge of extravaganza and misman-
agement on the part of the general ex-
ecutive board. 1t claims that as a re-
suit of the mistaken policy of the
present administration the membership
has decreased from 10000 in 1886 to
$4,000 on April LIST last, and that the
revenues of the order at the present
time are not sufficient to pay the large
salaries of the general officers and keep
up the princely establishment they have
provided for themselves in Philadelphia.
OF. G. CHICK announced that he
was about to publish mugwump paper
in New Bedford, and the authorities
kindly but firmly laid hold upon him
and took him to the insane asylum.
His weakness is what is known to in
sanity experts as hyper-exhilaration, a
condition of extreme sensitiveness to
his surroundings, which makes him ex-
aggerate everything. This ought to be
warning to the editors of the mug
wump Boston Herald, the Springfield
Republican and the New York EueninQ