The Press., 1889-05-30

SOME one in NewYork made up blue book registering 400 persons as fit to move in so- ciety. An imitator in Springfield finds ], 1000 people in that city, one in each 50 persons whom it would do to associate with. The Springfield compiler admits that there may be many excellent men and women among the remaining residents, but they would feel 'sill at easel in genuine society. Nevertheless, it will be we'll for Stafford people to get copies, and upon meeting a Springfield party consult it's pages before admitting to any familiarity.
 Gov. BULKELEY last Thursday vetoed the restricting oleo-margarine bill, and next day the house passed the same over his veto. The governor assumes that the present laws are sufficient, which forbid the sale except in places licensed to sell it, and bearing prom inent sign so declaring, also requiring every packet and every ball or package to be con- spicuously labelled, and every hotel or res- faurant using it to prominently placard the premises so declaring. The new law forbids the making in any way to counterfeit butter in appearance or color. It is claimed that the article is much used by work people, who fully understand what they are buying, but prefer to keep up the illusion of eating butter after the fashion of the Spanish phil osopher, who wore strong magnifying glasses when eating small cherries, and fancied them to be as large as they thus looked to be. However, the senate has sustained the gov ernor in his veto and the counterfeitine of butter can go on.
 THE secret ballot bill, as passed, groups to. gether the names of all candidates for each office voted for, and the voter must enter an enclosure alone, make opposite the can. didate of his choice and has five minutes to do it in. No one can know save himself how he votes. Tickets are furnished by the state, save in cases of town elections, when the town furnishes them. They are procurable only on entering the voting enclosure and the can didate must either vote the one given him o1 hand it back. He cannot carry it outside, thus there can be no doctoring up of tickets by those who would corrupt electors, and he who hires an elector to vote his way must - 0Ss oAAO Ne0AAfoAJ VI 6CONo oO uA4O AOAAOA of the seller, and the seller of such wares has precious little honor. The objectors to the new way would have the candidates grouped by politics rather than by offices. They say that people of dull comprehension will make mistakes. This is not impossible. Such peo- pie make mistakes now, or would if their bal lots were not prepared for them. But the class is small, and the man who has not in- telligence sufficient to vote under the new law is of little worth as citizen and ought not to be a governing factor in politics. In this particular the law discriminates against no party, and those who object the most loudly thereby confess that they have most to fear from any mistakes that ignorant voters may make. The grouping together of the names of different candidates for the same offices is the best feature of all. Letthe voter see the names of fit and unfit men printed side by side, and it becomes harder to vote for the unfit man of your own party and against the fit man of the opposition. This will be @ powerful argument in the caucus in favor of good nominations. The new law is revolutionary and must be imperfect. As the imperfections appear they can be eliminated hereafter.
 The attention of the-state department has been called to the ill-treatment of three