The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
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counting when they had put the ma
iority of their candidate for governor
up to 0,000.-Boston Traveller.
LAST year President Cleveland went
fishing on Decoration day. This year
he will review the Grand Army parade
in Brooklyn. This is presidential year.
YES, my son, you are right. A "tar-
if reformer" is man who spends one
fourth of his time denying that he is
free-trader and the other tbree-fourths
bowling for free trade .--Detroit Tribune.
HENRY WATTERsoN, editor of the
Louisville Comier-Journal, frankly adj
mits that there is not fair poll or
count of the vast overflow of black
votes in states where there is a negro
majority"
THE Indiana democratic state con-
vention Endorsed Governor Gray for
the vice-presidential nomination, in
spite of the vigorous protest of ex-
Senator Mcdonald. Gray is a weak
man. We should be pleased to have
the democrats nominate him.
If the republicans should by any
chance, at the approaching national con-
vention, nominate a candidate who is
even suspected of being unsound on
protection, or of having been unfriendly
to Blaine and Logan in 1884, they will
Al. Il 49, l..n all
in November. Irish World.
In what sad plight the republican party
would be placed if during his blaine S
passage to this country a nomination should
be secured which he should reject on his
val.-BoSton Journal.
But some of Mr. Blaine's intimate
friends claim to know that he will be
in London while the convention is in
session, and not at sea.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw says: 1t is
all very well to talk of favorite sons.
No doubt they can each carry their re-
spective states, but what we want is a
man strong enough to carry not only
his own state, but the entire country,
and | think Blaine is the man who can
do this, and that is why l favor his
nomination"
EVEN the democratic journals are
troubled at the $4,000 majority which
the overzealous democratic returning
officers returned for Nichols in response
to Governor McEnery's call for Sin
creased democratic majorities." They
admit that this was carrying the matter
a trihe too far, especially when 25,00C
would have done just as well.-BoSton
Advertiser.
WE think the National Republican is
far too sanguine in its opinion that
every republican state can furnish one
or more republicans who could be
elected president without any trouble
The ablest and strongest man will be
the only safe man to nominate. Nc
second or third-rate republican states
man could be taken without considera
BILE risk of defeat.
WE didn't guess right. The Mont
peler Argus brought out rooster i
had wintered through to celebrate the
democratic victory in Louisiana. There
is no political fraud that can bring {
blush to the cheek of the Argus. 1t il
on the use of such methods as those
practiced in the Louisiana election, NJ
doubt, that the Argus depends for thu
reelection of MIR. Cleveland.-S Al
bans Messenger.
HOWEVER, it makes little odds wha
the enemies of the republican part,
say. Republicans themselves, though
many of them deplore it, recognize ;
strong tendency in the party to nom
mate Mr.. Blaine. 1t is not the result
of manipulation. 1t springs from tn,
hearts and convictions of people. If i
forces his nomination the fear of
mistake will be offset, to some eXten
at least, by the vote-winning power O
a great popular movement.-Rutldn'
Herald.
If Mr.. Blaine is to be nominated a
all, which rests with delegates most o
whom have not yet been chosen an
who have not yet had any opportunit
for conference and survey of the situa
ton, he will be nominated after mos
thoughtful and dispassionate considers
ton of the merits and strength of a
other possible candidates and of tn
prospects and the wishes of republican
in every part of the country, and nc
by any " stampede" at all.-New Yor
J Tribune.
I NOTICE "further removal of disa
. bilities" of parties recently in arm
against the government. Now, in vie'
of the suppression of the vote of tho,
sands of loyal citizens in states of tn
= South, why continue to pardon thes
rebels, and thus strengthen their hand
to the same ends of suppression
Why, in short, invest or reinvest wit
citizenship and the right to vote thos
5 who do but strip, or aid to strip, otl
= ers of the like status and right GO
. Of Tribune.
Mr.. ISAAC B. CARA of Erie, Penn
writes to the Tribune asking what al