The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-01
Notes and Opinions.

FORAKER for senator to succeed
Payne is the talk of Ohio republicans.
"GREAT cry and little WOOL" the II.
US report of the dairymen's meeting.
THE Minneapolis Tribune says that
the Northwest unquestionably prefers
Mr.. Blaine.
THE name of Gen. Stephen Thomas
is frequently mentioned in connection
with the governorship.
THE presidents tariff views may be
yard wide, but they are not all
wool. Washington Critic.
If Mr.. Morrill's bill to return the di-
rect tax of 1861 to the states becomes
law Vermont will get nearly 5000, 900.
"THE next president of the United
States will be Mr.. Blaine," remarked
Governor Ames at banquet in Boston
the other night.
81 AM not candidate and neither
would l accept the nomination for
president" says George w. Childs of
the Philadelphia Ledger.
IT hardly needs special canvass to
demonstrate that Mr.. Blaine is the first
choice of a majority of Vermont repub-
licans for the presidency.
THE protectionst democrats must go
and the administration has appointed
Mr.. Randall as drum-major to head the
Observation-Disclosures Press.
PROMINENT Pennsylvania prohibitionists
commend Cleveland and condemn Blaine
Exchange.
OF course they do; they helped to elect
Cleveland.
THE Tribune favors James Russell
Lowell for second place on the demo-
cratic ticket. He could carry England
and one or two wards in New York.
Minneapolis Tribune.
A MAINE railroad commissioner has
been giving his views on the operation
of the long and short-haul clause of the
interstate commerce law and he be-
lieves that it should be repealed.
If any working-mani is anxious to work
for free-trade wages he can board the
steamer at New York and reach En-
gland in very few days. Send us
word, please, when you decide to co.
Detroit Tribune.
COLONEL A. A. JONES of Indiana,
one of the originators of the exodus
movement, says that during the past
fifteen years $4,000 colored men have
been killed in the Southern States for
their political opinions.
THE CaledOnian says the absurd story
invented by the Rchford Gazette, and
which the Newport Express eagerly
swallowed, that Captain Forbes made a
proposition to Mr.. w. l.. Pearl in re-
gard to the prohibition vote, is without
foundation in fact.
PERU is passing through terrible
financial depression. She has no silver
and her " greenbacks " are worthless.
The people have lost confidence in her
paper notes. Excitement runs high
and suffering, rioting and bloodshed in
places are reported.
If the Voice, the third-party pro-
hibtory organ, manifested one-half the
luminosity toward the saloons which it
DISPLAYS toward anti-saloon republic
cans it would be very likely to ac-
compish something for the cause of
temperance. Boston Journal.
Mr. EDMuNDs is an acute lawyer and in
some respects an able legislator but he has
apparently almost everything to learn upon
the tariff question.-BoSton Herald.
Perhaps Mr.. Edmunds will take a few
lessons of the conceited mugwump and
free-trade editors of the Herald, but we
guess not.
THE mugwump's voice will not be
heard in 1888. Probably he will not
raise it at all, and if he does it will only
swell the great clamor of the united
democracy. He entered their camp as
an enemy and a conspirator, and as he
failed to do much harm they don't care
whether he stays or not. And as for
him. he can not find other SHELTER
Ne,o York Sun.
THE Newport Express may imagine
that it is doing smart thing in at
lacking Captain Forbes and Colonel
Clarke, but those gentlemen stand
much higher in the estimation of the
republican party than the editor of the
Express and can well afford to let him
fire away"
THE Young Mems Republican Club
of Baltimore gave banquet the other
evening, and among the guests were
Senators Hawley, Chandler and Evarts