The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-09-12
Political Notes.

Political Notes.
JUDGE L. B. MORRIS of New Haven
is the democratic nominee for governor
of Connecticut.
ONE of the most satisfactory local re-
suits on Tuesday was the reelection, in
Marlboro, of Hugh M. Adams, one of
the bright, active and influential men,
bers of the legislature of 1886. 1t was
largely through Mr.. Adams wide
awake, efficient work that this old hill
town took her place as the banner town
of the county, showing net republic
can gain of 80 in a total vote of 122.-
Brattleboro Phenir.
THE New York Saloon Journal bit
terly denounces the nomination of
Warner Miller and calls on its liquor
selling constituents to bury Mr.. Miller
and his temperance prohibition COM
bination" under such a majority that
they will lose faith in resurrection"
The Boston Journal pertinently re-
marks: "This does not look as if the
Saloon Journal saw very much prom
Use for free whisky in the republican
party"
Hon. DAVID II. GooDELL of An
trim was nominated for governor of
New Hampshire, Tuesday of last week,
by the republican convention held
at Concord. AS a business man,
as representative in the state legis-
lature, and as a member of the
executive council, he has shown good
abilities. He has been active in the
interest of agriculture. His nomina-
ton was received with great enthusi-
asm and he will make a strong candi-
late.
THE Pioneer Press Of st. Paul, Mimi,
reviews the first year of high license in
Minnesota, and finds that the system
has proved all its friends claimed for it.
There are in the state l, 597 saloons
now, as against $500 when the law
went into effect. Under the old sys-
tenn the average cost of license was
about $500, and the total income was
SS50,000; under high license the av-
erage cost of permission to sell is about
5000 and the total income is about
S1,100,000.
A LONDON dispatch says: "The pro-
lection agitation which has for some
time past prevailed throughout the
greater part of Spain bids fair to sue
coed. Arrangements have been made
for an immense meeting of farmers at
Borjas within short time, at which
$4,000 delegates representing the agri-
cultural industry of every part of Spain
will be in attendance. This will be the
largest representative meeting of the
kind ever held in Spain. The reaction
in favor of protection has become so
widespread that when the commercial
treaties are removed in 1892, protective
modification will be inevitable"
A SPECIAL dispatch from Chicago
says: "An extensive combination has
been formed of Chicago, ST. Paul,
Pittsburg and New York capitalists for
the purpose of handling, milling and
marketing rice, with the ultimate de-
sign of controlling the entige rice
product of the South. There has been
subscribed $4,000 900, and an imme-
date investment of $4,000 has been
made in New Orleans in elevators for
the storage of rice, mill for cleaning
and facilities for handling 1t. The pro-
jectors of the company will begin upon
the years crop. Several meetings of
the shareholders have been held"
1t will now become the painful duty of
Mr.. Mills to apply his sovereign remedy
of free-trade to this monopoly of his
dearly-producted rice.
CONCERNING the pay of sewing
women in England, The Lining Church
has the following: Almost the first
piece of evidence that came before the
select committee of parliament on the
sweating system included the state
ment that woman had been known to
make four mems coats in a day, except
the button holes, at seven pence per
coat" This rate of wages, compared
with that of American sewing women in
New York, demolishes the reason given
by Brown of Rutland and others that the
cheapness of American clothing, as
compared with English, is due to the
starvation wages paid the American
women. Against this can also be put
the fact brought out by the investiga-
tons of the congressional immigration
committee that, by violations of the
contract labor law, foreign women have
been imported who sew at foreign rates
of wages.