The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

fers by the great famine, Mr.. Morton
paid for one-quarter of her charitable
cargo, and this fact has always made
him very popular among the Irish peo
pie. "--ETchdnge. Mr.. Morton's bene-
factions have been extensive. Recently
(some time before his nomination for
the vice-presidency) he gave $4,000 to
Middlebury College to establish new
professorship.
WHO now will say that Mr.. Blaine
has trihed and plotted to deceive his
countrymen? He comes out of this
convention with more honor than any
avowed, working, successful candidate
ever received at the hands of his party.
He has kept his plighted word to
the letter, and no stain is on his ban
ner. More than that, he has taken
out of this canvass every preteXt for
lukewarmness on the part of any man
who ever voted the republican ticket
and left every honest member of the
party no possible excuse for boiling, or
even hostile criticism.-Albany Journal.
THE charge that Benjamin Harrison
was once on time a know-nothing
is fully disproved. His father, John
Scott Harrison, was elected to congress
as know-nothing but acted with the
democrats. General Harrison has been
a republican from the organization of
the party in 1854. The biggest know
nothings are the democratic and So
called Independent editors who make
the charge referred to, and who also
show their ignorance of Harrison's
record on the Chinese question. That
conspicuous mugwump, Charles Francis
Adams, is another know-nothing. He
says he "never heard of Harrison;
don't know who he is"
THE republicans have decided for
what to fight and for whom. How to
fight they have not yet considered.
But the methods to be adopted in the
coming campaign may determine the
result. A hurrah campaign sometimes
wins. This year the republican party
needs to depend upon facts and rea-
sons. There must be argument at the
beginning, argument in the middle
and argument to the end of the cam
paign, if the right is to prevail. " Tip
pecanoe and tariff too" has more
meaning in it than Tippecanoe and
Tyler too, only the voters need to know
what the tariff means, what it does for
them and what democratic victory
would nvolve.-Trib,ne.
You inquire what 1 think of the
nomination and the prospects of the
republican ticket? Well, General Har-
rison is a lawyer of great ability, in
tegrity and personal honor. His public
life has been free from stain and his
domestic existence is a model for men,
This campaign can not be given over to
mud-throwing. The democrat who
attacks General Harrison on personal
grounds will commit a grave error. 1t
must be on the line of party principles
that the battle must wage. | entertain
unfeigned respect for Ben. Harrison.
He is, in my estimation, destined to
defeat next November, but it will
scarcely be on personal grounds. Ed
Senator Mcdonald (Dem,) Of Indiana.
IT is most discreditable to the as
sumed fairness and candor of the third
party prohibitionists that they should
charge the republican party with "pre-
ferring cheap whiskey" because of the
plank in the Chicago platform favoring
the removal of the tax on spirits used
in manufactures and the arts, when
their own platform expressly declares
in favor of the entire abolition of the
whiskey tax. And the course of demo-
cratic journals in opposing the aboli-
ton of internal revenue taxes on
moral grounds is a spectacle for the
gods! The tax on whiskey is regarded
by the organized temperance sentiment
of the country as one of the great him
ORANGES of temperance reform. The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has passed strong resolutions calling
for the repeal of the tax on this ground.
a CHICAGO special says: Congress
man Boutelle's resolution for virtue
and sobriety, the purity of the home
temperance and morality will find a
unanimous support throughout the
country. 1t is against lying, stealing
adultery and murder, as much as against
drunkenness. Theoretically even wits.
key-makers and drinkers approve OF
this plank. The Fisk prohibitionists
also must necessarily approve of it or
stultify themselves. 1t is absurd to sec
the democratic Ne,cS here publishing
an interview with the democratic Staat,
Zeit,mg here, in which the latter shakes
his solemn head and says: 'Oh, no;
can not support Harrison on account OF
the virtue and sobriety plank These
papers both did everything for Cleve'
land before. The Ne,US will again, but
the Stats Zeihng says it won't sup
port Cleveland, and therefore it vii
either thus fall between two stools OF
it must come out in favor of the purity
of the home, and the gallant candidates
who carry that standard, Harrison ant
Norton
DRUNKENNESS is no excuse for muir
der. This is the decision of the SUI
preme court of Kansas in the case o.
j. II. Marlborough, who shot l.. d
Collier, the son of Rev. DIR. Rober