The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-15

that | am in FAVOR OF Tree wool Is
untrue" From James Dobson, Have
never advocated free wool, nor do |
think the best interests of the country
would be served if we had it,"
THE Inter- Ocean of Chicago, which
was one of Judge Gresham's most We
hement supporters for the nomination,
has this to say about General Harrison:
He became the leader of the bar of
his state, general of his brigade and
senator of the United States by the eX-
ercise of a sound Judgment, guided by
clear conscience working in
vigorous body Mentally and phys
ically he has the little giant attributes
of the late Stephen A. Douglass"
TIE SIN learns that the national
democratic committee has ordered
100000 copies of the Mills bill to be
printed for circulation as a campaign
document This is what the organ of
united democracy has to say about
it: 1t is pamphlet of twenty-eight
pages, published without any word of
explanation, and it is extremely doubt
full if one voter in five hundred, unless a
well-equipped political economist, could
understand, after the most careful pc
rusal, what it means"
THE Bristol Herald rubs up the fur
on campaign lies as follows: "We re-
luctantly surrender large part of our
space this week to advertisers, which
will account for the limited number of
campaign lies in our present issue.
We trust we shall be able to make up
for temporary deficiency by an unusual
amount of mendacity and misrepre-
sentation in our next few issues. For
this purpose we have secured the serv-
ices of a brilliant liar. He claims he
assisted in drafting the Mills bill"
THERE was so little opposition to the
democratic state and county tickets in
Alabama that there was little effort to
secure news. The republicans did not
have county tickets in half a dozen
counties and there were very few indie
pendent tickets The local contests
were between democrats. The legisla-
ture is overwhelmingly democratic in
both branches, while Governor Seay
and the democratic state ticket carried
nearly every county by considerable
maiorities. What's the matter with
Alabama?
OF politics in Vermont the Spring
field Republican says "The republi-
cans will no doubt increase their vote
in September. The local dissatisfac-
ton with the machine methods of
Hiram Atkins will help them. He has
done what he could to injure the adj
ministration with the people of Yer
mont and will be more potent factor
than the tariff question" Ordinarily
we do not take much stock in the Re
pubhcan's political utterances, but in
the above extract we believe the paper
has struck bottom fact.
A SCOTCH granite-cutter, in his tes-
timony before the congressional COM
mittee at New York, said that for ten
hours work he made in Scotland from
81 to S1.25 day, and that he was now
working at Barre, Vt, at steady work at
1915 day. He said: -" can do so much
brought over my family and intend to
Cleveland is urging the free-trade
policy of England for adoption in this
country and the democratic press is
trying to coax the working-men to en-
ter the free-trade camp and put them
selves on level with the pauper labor
of England.
THE Liverpool Mercury, an able and
candid English journal, says of Cleve-
lands anti-tariff utterances: If all
this does not tend in the direction of
free-trade we do not know the effect
of plain language. President Ceve-
land favors the unfettered influx of
necessaries and raw materials; he
would abolish the duties on articles
which are simply taxed for the sake of the
protective system; he would eliminate
from the list everything which does
not compete with American industry
and he would depend for his customs
revenue mainly upon luxuries. He
will find free-traders all over the world
acclaiming him for so enlightened q
policy"
IT is certain that the arguments which
President Cleveland uses are those
which Golden used to employ forty
five years ago and which any English
free-trader would employ now. Such
propositions as that taxation ought to
be strictly limited by the needs of the
country; that it is unjust to tax the
whole community for the benefit of
special classes; that import duties stifle
production and limit the area of coun-
try's markets, are purely free-trade
arguments. AS such we are very glad
to see President Cleveland using them,
though we are sorry for the popular
infatuation which makes it dangerous
to give them their right name.-Lon-
don Times, July 6.
THE Windham county democrats
held their convention at Newfane
Wednesday and nominated this ticket
Senators, Asa Winchester of Marlboro
and T. w. Davis of Grafton; high
sheriff, II. w. Bellows of Marlboro;
states attorney S. T. Davenport of
Wilmington; high bailiff, M. A. Wilder
of Saxton's River; county commits
sioner, II. H. Norcross of Dummerston
assistant judges, Franklin Moore of
Newfane and Fred Campbell of West.
minister; judges of probate, DR.. o. M.
George of Rockingham and George
Porter of Jacksonville; county com.
mittee, w. H. Childs of Brattleboro
i. III. Porter of Wilmington. w. r