The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11
Press Notes.

that on which the campaign was con-
Quoted as to leave no doubt that it was
the one on which the election has been
decided Mr.. Mckinley having been
elected, his triumph may be confidently
accepted as the triumph in Ohio of his
protective policy as it is embodied in
the Mckinley bill.-Philadelphia Ledger
Qnd)
AMONG all the loyal war governors
there was none that excelled Governor
Smith of Vermont in energy and ex-
ecutive force. He was here, there and
everywhere-one day in Vermont, the
next in Washington, the third in the
rear of the army looking after the
wounded. l remember seeing him at
Fredericksburg during those terrible
weeks that followed the struggles at
the Wilderness and Spottsylvania-
Erecting his assistants, laboring with
his. own hands-hunting up the sick
and wounded, giving up his own cot,
sleeping on the floor, or not sleeping at
all, cheering up the respondent, writ
mothers whose sons were in the hospi-
tai or had given up their lives to the
country. -ChdrleS Carleton Coffin.
IT is not hard to understand the rea-
sons for the democratic victory. Mr.
Piatt devoted his attention to New
York city, while Mr.. Edward Murphy
and Tammany Hall went on a still hunt
in the republican stronghold in the in
terror of the state. These tactics, COM
bined with the treachery of the Miller
men in the interior counties, caused
the life blood to flow from the gallant
young republican leader, j. Sloat Fas-
sett. In spite of all the protestations
about republican harmony, the returns
prove that the Miller sulk was as
bad as the Plat knife. The gist of the
matter is that the Cleveland independ-
ent vote did not support Mr.. Fassett
through the silly fear that republican
victory in 1891 would operate against
the chances of the democracy for a
president in 1892 Add to this the
sulking of the Millerites and you have
the reasons for Fassett's defeat.-Ne,o
York Herald.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has completed
his work in the War Department and
placed his resignation in the hands of
the president. 1t will, as a matter of
necessity, be accepted soon, and on the
first Monday in ID, cember, Mr.. Proctor
will become Senator Proctor. In that
office he will succeed man who has
had long and honorable public career,
and if Vermont is true to her excellent
traditions, Senator Proctor will be sent
to Washington for more than one term.
In the War Department he has shown
marked administrative ability and great
capacity for public affairs; and we
doubt not that in the senate he will re-
tain and increase the public esteem
which has set the stamp Of approval
upon his course as Secret ary of War;
His retirement from this office will be
universally regretted; but that retire.
ment means, if not promotion, at least
transfer to another honorable and use
full post.-NeW York Tribune.
WE attribute the astonishing demo-
cratic demonstration in the northern,
central and western counties not less
to the personal popularity of Mr.. Flower
and the general confidence in his ster-
ling character, than to the melancholy
exhibition of moral and intellectual
inadeqnacy which constituted Mr..
Fassetts plan of campaign. The sole
issue presented to the voters beyond
the Harlem by the republican candidate
was the alleged misgovernment of New
York city by Tammany Hall, and the
danger of extending Tammany's con-
troll to Albany, in the person of Mr..
Flower. The answer of the democrats
above the Harlem to Mr.. Fassett's
charges against our municipal admins
tration is as emphatic and crushing a
retort as has been rendered in recent
political history. 1t takes rank with
New York city's own reply last year to
the same falsehOods. The towering
fact of the contest is that New York
carries the banner Of democracy. -Ne,o
York Sun.
SCoFFERs at American tin-plate saw
sight yesterday in front of the Ex-
change Building which they did not en-
joy. 1t was a consignment of fifty
boxes of American plate, part fourteen
by twenty and part twenty by twenty
eight inches, exhibited on truck. 1t
had just been received by Sludley &
Simpson, tin-plate merchants, Nos. 12S
and 1870 North street, from Marshall
Brothers of Philadelphia. The con-
signment was pronounced by experts to
be of the best quality, handsomely
coated, fully equal to the English article.
And now as to price. The American
plate sells for SO 80 box, twenty by
twenty eight inches. English tin plate
of the best quality, twenty by twenty
eight inches, costs in this country SIG
per box. We suppose that in spite of
such sharp object lessons there are be-
nighted democrats still to be found who
deny that tin-plate can be manufactured
in America, just as there are benighted
democrats who keep on voting for
Andrew Jackson and deny that Rich
mond has surrendered. But such in
dividuals are rapidly becoming very
few.-Pttsburg Exchange.
OHIO is redeemed. Major McKiu-
ley's magnificent campaign is crowned
with victory. The patriotic Buckeye
state has spoken in no uncertain tones.
She has pronounced for protection, hon.
est money, and the gallant statesman
who has waged within her borders
canvass that has seldom been equaled
and nayar surnaasa6 in tho hiotnrx &c