The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-20

THE new baseball rule requiring the
umpire to be addressed courteously as
I" Mr.. Umpire " will fill long-felt want
1t is pity that its operations can't be
extended to the spectators as well as
the players. BOSTON Herald.
NINETEEN of the fifty-eight insurance
companies that formed the New
Hampshire compact" have gone back
into the state and the boycott is help
lessly broken. There will be a chance
now to demonstrate the vicousness of
the valued policy law, and if it is all
the companies have claimed it is, the
insured, rather than the insurers, will be
the chief sufferers. -SprinUield Re
publican.
Mr.. HARRISON has, so far as is
known, made few mistakes in his APP
pointments. There is no complaints
that his appointees are either incompe-
tent or thieves. The senate will be
asked to confirm large number of APP
pointments, and, with all its buster, it
will 90 so. 1t will confirm them be-
cause the senators know very well they
can not stand before the country in the
attitude of trying to wrest from the
president his constitutional right and
power to select his subordinates.-NeU
York Herald.
If not too inquisitive, we would like
to know whether the Vermont papers
that are making such efforts to boom
the West, and especially such ventures
as depend upon capital from New
England, are paid in stock, cash, rail-
road tickets, free entertainment en-
route and return, or all these induce
ments collectively, Surely there must
be some strong considerations offered
to lead these journals to favor The West
and South against their own home and
the prevalent move to aid our own
state.-Landmdrk.
THE spectacle is, to be seen in two
adjoining states of New England
Vermont and New Hampshre--of a
generous rivalry in the importation of
foreigners as farmers. Vermont has
already invited colony of Swedes to
take possession of abandoned fields in
some of its townships, and the New
Hampshire commissioner has opened
two price-lists of abandoned far is in
that state to the competition of for
egners or natives, whichever party
may be most interested to take them
up. This competition is an excellent
thing. 1t will 90 far towards adver-
Using these vacant homesteads and
making our own citizens appreciate
their value. -BOSton Herald.
IT is strange indeed that so many of
the Vermont newspapers should be so
prompt to take up the cudgels against
any project that promises to benefit the
state. A sample of this disposition was
the story that the lands in Vershire on
which it is proposed to settle a colony
of Swedes are worthless, because they
have been ruined by sulphur released
from the ore in the process of roasting
at the copper mines in that town
Commissioner Valentine, after a per-
sonal examination, says there is not a
word of truth in it, and that the lands
in question are beyond the reach of the
injurious elements evolved by the
roasting process. And b. f. Fuller
the town clerk of Vershre, in letter
to the Montpelier Waterman, confirm:
Mr.. Valentines statement fully.-Brdt
Heboro Rgormer.
L ii r. ldCt Ihdt luC oldl'
| ticket except governor is elected shows
that C@sarism had its effect and tina
the people rendered the verdict agains
third term in Ohio. At the same
time, there was combination of sa
loonists, base-ballists and other per
sonal libertyites who assisted in elect
ing a democratic legislature and Camp
bell. AT the same time the re
moval of Tanner turned the pri
vate soldiers against the national ad
ministration, as Tanners opponents
were generals. The publication of {
forged document on Campbell hao
much to do with it. And it was re
membered that Foraker had all his APP
pointments. In fact, the tide of loca
things was against the republicans, ant
the principles of the party had yer,
little to do with it.-OhiO State Journal
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