St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-20

dates or the conditions surrounding
them, but should Gov. Pattison
desire it, he can, undoubtedly, have
the delegation from his state to the
next national convention without
the asking. His remarkable success
in politics is something beyond any
thing that has ever been known in
this country There is something
higher and broader in it than mere
luck, but that it will make him a
candidate is matter of much doubt
in my mind. Yet who can deny any
of the possibilities for these young
men. He has never been defeated
At a time when the republican candi-
date for president carried Philadel-
phia by 10000 majority he was
elected comptroller of the city by
$4,000. This was his second cleo
ton to office on the democratic
ticket in the first republican city in
the United States. In 1881 he was
elected governor by republican votes
with 10000 majority, with three
tickets in the field. This year with
only two candidates, he is again
elected by 10, 900 or more
l shouldn't hesitate to say that
there were possibilities of situa-
ton that would make him a presi-
Dental candidate. In such a politi-
cal chaos as we find about us now
in both parties it is a wise man in
deed who can tell what two years
will bring forth.
Gov. Pattison has very strong
friends. During this campaign he
never uttered a sentence that repub-
hcan papers or speakers could quote
to his disadvantage. His campaign
was admirably managed by Chair
man Kerr, whose work was in strong
contrast to the mismana cement of
the republican organiza ton. Time
alone will tell how much higher in
the political scale Governor Pattison
will ascend"
is Mr.. Quay likely to be returned
to the Senate ?''
THAT is matter for the future
and upon which l would rather not
express an opinion at this time. He
is an able man, who seems to have
lost his political reason by the great
success that so suddenly came to
him. He is a man of wonderful
resources, and if he reads the lesson
intended to be taught him by the
election returns of last Tuesday, he
may save himself much modification
and humiliation in the future
Dana Sees the Point.
For the correct inscription on the
over the late $4,000 re-
publican majority in Pennsylvania,
one must consider more than the
democratic majority of 10000 or so
for Governor Pattison.
Pattison was elected to be sure,
but not primarily because of his
democracy. The fact that the man
next to him on the ticket, the candi-
date for acknowledgement, Chaun-
cey Forward Black, a far more in
tense and genuine democrat, was
defeated by about the same ma ority
as that which elected Pattison,
shows that the tombstone before
to should bear not a banner
of triumphant democracy, but a
scourge for Quay. 1t was a Quay
fight and it was a Quay defeat. Pat
tison was employed as scourge to
drive the chairman of the national
committee out of the higher republi-
can politics.
There may be various other facts
of the last election which for proper
must wait until the
disappearance of the bewildering
frenzy that follows the attainment
Of $50 majority in the House of
ReDreSeut q tiVeS R11t the tr11t n
about Pennsylvania is among the
more important.-[ New York Sun.
No Loss to the Party.
The republican party has met with
losses, but Quay's overthrow is not
one of them Milford Mass Jour
nal.
Statesmen to the Front.
If this defeat will send Quay, and
his clique and half a dozen other
politicians we might name, to the
rear and give an opportunity to
some statesmen to come to the front,
it will save the party from further
and give it victory in
Landmark.
A VERMONT COLLECTION.