The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-07

disingenuous attempt to switch us on
to the wrong track in this business may
as well be abandoned.
THE Bennington Banner has the fol-
lowing to say editorially about dele
gates to Chicago:
AS the time approaches for this state to
elect delegates to the republican national
convention there have been suggested nearly
a score or more from several localities, and
these as whole mention gentlemen from
all sections of the state. Any one of these
lists would give an able selection. 10 an
pears, however, to be more and more set
tied in the public mind that Vermont should
be represented by the most eminent re-
pubicans within her borders. In so doing
1t Is probable that the delegation will in
clude some of our ex-governors, who have
heretofore been called to perform this duty
and whom, together with the new men who
may be associated with them, will give YER
mont as commanding an influence as she
has ever possessed in national councils
of the party. In this connection we NAV
add that we understand that the names Of
ex-Governors Proctor, Smith and Farnham
and of the Hon. Frederick Billings and
General Mccullough will be presented to
the convention.
REPRESENTATIVE CIRCUIT says of the
administration tariff measure: The
presidents proclamation for free wool
is fully endorsed by this democratic
tariff bill, and if sheep husbandry in
the United States is saved from utter
destruction it must be by the republic
can members of the house and few
patriotic democrats who care more
for the business prosperity of the
country than the crack of the party
whip. The sheep industry of Vermont
has suffered severely from the tariff
reduction of 1888, as has that of the
whole country, but this means an
Inhalation, and how the president and
his party can expect the sober iudg-
ment of the American people to aD-
prove it is indeed a mystery. Wool
and marble with fifty per cent duty
struck off and lumber all demand a
hearing from my state, and l think the
committee will grant it, unless their
heads are completely turned"
OF all men in the world, here is Mr.
Henry Cabot Lodge waving the
bloody shirt" That is to say, he
showed plainly in congress how Mr..
Davidson of Alabama was " elected"
representative in district that has
normal republican majority of about
10000. Democratic inspectors of cleo
ton in republican precincts simply re-
fused to receive votes, or else, after the
votes were received, counted them for
the other man. Most of the alleged
crimes against the ballot are proved by
| democratic testimony. They can not
understand down in Alabama how they
did anything wrong in simply prevent
ing a republican from representing
them in congress. OF course the mug
wumps can not see anything wrong in
that either; but as for saying anything
about it, or making fuss because of
frauds and crimes like this, that is
the worst of all crimes to mugwump.
1t is reopening the chasm, it is waving
the bloody shirt, it is resurrecting dead
issues.-Mail and Cypress.
THE Boston Herald objects to the
bill to pension Union soldiers who
served terms in rebel prisons on the
ground that it would establish bad
precedent by offering to soldiers a
premium for being captured" The
point is well taken, and congress will
please make note of it. If there is
any one thing that the average SOL
der enjoys more than anything else
it is being caught and carried to prison.
The table d'hote is always excellent and
so managed as to discourage gluttony,
the walters don't have to be tipped and
there is abundance of leisure. A man
who has boarded at hotel of this kind
is invariably anxious to return to it.
Especially would the guests of Libby
and Andersonville like another taste of
the enemy's hospitality. We confess
that we had rather favored the bill in
question, but we now see how mistaken
we were, especially if the Herald is
right (and being a truly good mugwump
journal, it can hardly be wrong) in
thinking that the American volunteer
soldier is a base, mercenary wretch
who enlists not from patriotic motives,
but simply to get pension.-Concord
Monitor