The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

very latest. The forlorn animals will
be caught in the country and shorn in
Wall street. Philadelphia Press.
WITHOUT Blaine the republicans of
the country are adrift. The republic
cans of the country will force Mr..
Blaine to take the feld.-LeUiston
(Maine) Journal.
WHEN President Cleveland read the
returns from Names municipal cleo
tons, showing increased republican
majorities, he must have smelled fish,
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Political observers say that the
prevalent lettering and woe-begone eX-
preston of conspicuous mugwumps is
wholly due to Mr.. Blaine's last letter.
They have lost their only tonic.
IT is now in order for state papers to
repeat the old pleasantly that {" Mr..
Atkins will hold a convention in
Montpelier May 10. 1t is rumored that
Hon. w. H. II. Bingham will head the
democratic delegation to the st. Louis
convention.
THoUGH Mr.. Blaine is counted out
of the presidential race, we think it
safe to predict that no man will be NOM
mated by the Chicago convention who
is a Blaine-hater, and few delegates
will be sent to that convention who are
Blaine-haters.
MARY had little lamb, its fleece was
white as snow, but Grover in his
message said that little lamb must go.
And so he tried to drive it out, but still
it fingers near and threatens to make
Grover 90 within another year.-Cana-
dian Industrial World.
ANY ticket with William Walter
Phelps on it means that it will have the
solid electoral vote of New Jersey and
first-rate prospect of success in New
York. Mr.. Phelps is not only bright
congressman, but he is one of the ablest
politicians of his time.-A lbany Journal.
RANDALL's tariff bill has been re-
ferred to the ways and means commit
tee. Its death will be speedy and pain
less and few will miss it."-Sprinqfeld
Republican, But the free-trade demo-
Gratis will miss Randall and his follow
ers when the house votes on the Mills
tariff bill.
ALL serious republicans now know
that it is not matter of selecting
among favorite sons the particular
favorite who is to walk into the execu-
tive office. 1t is the selection of the
man who is most likely to hold together
the republican states and to carry New
York and Indiana. Sentinel.
THIS country has had many great
snow-storms. The greatest on record
was that of February II, I'LL, which
lasted seven days, with an average
snowfall OF ten feet. The snow was
twelve feet deep on level in the Deer
field valley, Mass. In March, 1868,
there was a snowfall of thirty-one
inches.
SENATOR INGALLS, wrote the follow
ing reply to an open letter addressed to
him by Colonel Finley Anderson, criti-
cising his recent speech;
| Sri have the honor to acknowledge re-
! ceipt of your favor of the 14th instant.
Respectfully yours, JOHN j. INGALLS,
This ought to be satisfactory to Colonel
Anderson.
SAYS Tribune correspondent: 4" If
we can not have Mr. Blaine for our
presidential candidate this year l hope
the convention will nominate Depew
/ and Harrison. Then
With Chauncey Depew and Harrison
We will storm the free-traders' garrison,
We will knock them all out
And put 'em to rout
With Chauncey Depew and Harrison"
"THE Portland Oregonian, the ablest
republican paper in the far Northwest,
says that the republican prospects have
been improved by Mr.. Blane's letter. D
Springfield Republican. But we be-
lieve that the editor of the Oregonia,
has strong antipathy to Blaine and
voted for Cleveland in 1884. There
fore his opinion, as quoted, is not en-
titled to much weight.
HENRY BERGH, the founder of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, died at his home in New
York on the 18th. Mr.. Bergh was
born in the city of New York in 1923 and
was educated at Columbia College. He
was for time secretary of legation at
st. Petersburg. He began his chosen
work in 1866 and continued it persist
emily to the time of his death.
A CIRCULAR from Chairman Page OF
the state republican committee an
nounces that the apportionment given
in the call for a state convention is
based on the vote of 1884 and not on
that of 1886. The error arose from an
unintentional conflict in the sending out
of the calls. The WATCHMAN pub,
lished the call which based the ap.
portionment on the vote of 1884.
THE Washington correspondent OF
the New York Commercial Bulletin
a democratic paper which strongly advo
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