The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-01
Press Notes.

THE candidacy of DR.. Boynton for
the speakership is well received and he
is receiving good support. We hope
Windsor county will stand united for
him and that he will secure the place.
WOodStOck Standard.
If there is anything in signs" the
coming message of Governor Page will
be worthy of and attract more than
ordinary interest. He is making per-
sonal Investigations of the conditions
governing the issues dominant in the
public mind, and can not fail to make
an interesting and instructive report
Bello,cS Falls Times.
THE Montpelier Argus this week de-
votes half a column OF its space to cry
ing down the Vermont agricultural and
immigration commission and its work
and five columns to setting forth the
attractiveness of Terminal City as a
place of residence. That is a very fair
sample of the way the Argus works for
the advancement of the local interests
of Vermont.-F Press.
Mr.. MANN is the only one of the four
candidates who has been a member of
late years, and is therefore best in
touch with the present requirements of
the state. Wilmington has done well
10 keep her representative in both the
houses of 1856 and 1888, and now re-
turn him for 1890, because of his
record. For these and other good rea-
sons we unhesitatingly support Mr..
Mann for speaker of the house in 1890.
He has fairly earned the election and
we think he will get it.-Bennington
Banner.
opens a natural and easy way to bring
about the reduction. No one will be
deposed, nobody's feelings will be in
| jured, no injustice will be done any
person. We are more than ever salts
fed that a majority of the lawyers
excepting of course the candidates for
the vacant judgeship-and majority
of the people are for the reduction. If
the incoming legislature means business
in this matter of retrenchment, here is a
good place to begin. We not only hope
with the Woodstock Standard, but we
believe, that there is courage and dis.
elimination enough in the new legis.
lature to reduce the number OF
iudges.-Free Press.
THE speakership seems to lie between
Mr.. Mann of Wilmington and Mr.
Start of Bakersfield. Mr.. Mann ha;
had the most experience in parliament
airy matters, he having been member
of the last two houses. Mr.. Start ha:
only served one term and that in The
other branch of the general assembly
in 1880. In this view Mr.. Mann has
the advantage. He is a man of sounC
judgment and loves the Green Mountain
state. He has already shown himsel
to be good presiding officer. He ha
also the advantage of locality, nearl,
all the state offices being held in tn,
northern section of the state. 1t is
friendly canvass, and, whatever tn,
outcome, the state need have no alarm
for they are both good men, Vergenne
VermOnter.
AN important issue in the campaigl
of retrenchment and reform, upol
} which the legislature is expected l.
, enter, is whether the number O
! judges shall be reduced by one, the op
portunity to do so without droppin
I one now presenting itself in the retire
ment of Judge Powers. On this ques
ton we have held to one opinion TO
many years. The work required O
, the bench is no more than can be pei
r formed readily by six men; indeed it
less than the five judges had to do il
the earlier days, when there was vastl
more litigation in the state than now
: The expense of the extra judge is sew
r eral thousand dollars, and we hop
there is courage and discriminate
I enough in the legislature to reduce tn