The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-04
Notes and Opinions.


ton writes to the Indianapolis Journal
that his ticket is Harrison and Hawley.
TIE Rockford Qll.) Register says
Lincoln has no efficient strength among
the class who are influential in conven-
lions.
BLAINE was the unanimous first
choice of the colored people for presi-
dent at a meeting held in Atlanta re-
Gently, and after him Sherman.
THE district delegates so far chosen
in Ohio to the republican national con-
vention are instructed to vote for Sher-
man, but are not Sherman men.
THERE will be no mugwumps in the
Chicago convention to participate in
its proceedings and then betray its re-
suits, as Mr.. Curtis did four years
ago.-NaShua Telegraph.
THE mugwumps have left the civil
service reform raft and are now on the
free-trade scow, splurging along madly
under the lead of an " essentially ex-
ecutive " boss.-Hartord Post,
The WATCHMAN of February 10
suggested Harrison and William Walter
Phelps as a good presidential ticket.
Now several other journals are suggest
ing the same ticket, which is all right
IT is stated in the Boston Transcript
that thousands of women are engaged
in the liquor traffic, and if women were
allowed to vote on excise matters all
these women would vote, while very
few others would.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS is to
have the support of the republican
delegation of New Jersey for the presi-
dency first, and the vice-presidency in
case the head of the ticket be chosen
outside of that state.
IN reply to the sensational reports of
democratic newspapers concerning Mr..
Blaine's health, the Tribune says: "The
simple fact is that, barring an occasional
attack of rheumatism, Mr.. Blaine is in
perfect physical health-as well as he
has ever been in his life.'
THE mugwumps seem to have very
tender regard for Gresham, but they
are spilling his fat in the fire by openly
avowing it. A warm mugwump in
H. a,,t ,nt hn 20 ,t<,,,,
certificate of character in the Chicago
convention.-St. Louis Republican.
The new ministry of the kingdom of
Sweden is protectionist by large ma
iority. And thus another European
nation swings herself into the circle of
freedom and abjures commercial de-
pendence on England. The logic of
facts is against free-trade everywhere
and always.
EMPRESS VICTORIA of Germany, it
is stated, has been advised by the Ber-
lin chief of police not to show herself
too freely to her husbands subjects
and to avoid the streets except when
properly guarded. 1t appears that
there are not as many anglo-maniacs in
Germany as in the United States.
AN element of uncertainty in the
coming election in Louisiana, which
the republicans are said to be hopeful
of carrying, is thus tersely stated by the
Philadelphia Press "Our party can
never count with anything like GER
tainty upon a state whose people an
nually spend $500 per capita for
whiskey and only forty-four cents per
capita for schools"
IT is plain that had not Mr.. Blaine's
Florence letter been published there
would have been no possibility of the
nomination of any other man. As it is,
there is a very considerable sentiment,
stronger and more determined than for
any other man, taking all the states
together, in favor of the nomination of
Blaine without reference to his declina-
tion.-Ne,o York Times (naugwmnp).
THE new South should see to it that
fraud and force do not triumph in
Louisiana. When elections are as
honestly managed in the southern as in
the northern tier then the measure of
prosperity will be nearer equal in both
sections. Till then capital and immi-
grafton will avoid the South. That
which is not good for the swarm is not
good for the bee. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THE administrations civil service re-
form policy-Abandonment. The adj
ministration's demand for the suspen-
sion of silver coinage--Relinquish-
ment. The administrations eXtradition
treaty Collapse. The administra-
toms fishery negotiations-Surrender.
The Administrations surplus reduction
CHARACTERIZATION. The administra-
TONS Pan-electric suit-Disgrace.-
Ne,C York Sun.
GENERAL BoULANGER is just now a
disturbing factor in French political
affairs. In retiring him from the army
the government committed an unpODu-