The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-24
Note and Comment.

Note and Comment.
The Chicago Ne,0s-Record does not be-
lieve Judge Gresham will consent to take
the stump for the peoples party
WHITELAw REID says: "I don't expect
the solid South to be broken this year, but
| figure that we will carry every republican
state in the North This is all we need to
insure success"
To say that man who begins life as a
printers devil and afterwards as an appreu-
tice in machine shop and who, in few
years, by energy and industry becomes the
head of one of the largest manufacturing
industries in the country has not brains
enough to be a good governor for a state
like Vermont or any other state, is the
silliest nonsense. Levi X. Fuller is typ
ical New England Yankee, with brains and
energy enough to fill any position, either in
business or official life. He is lust such a
man as Vermont ought to roll up big ma
jority for and he will get it, too.-MdncheSter
Journal.
SENATOR MoRRILL'S Views upon public
| questions always have weight, and the
analysis Of the political outlook which he
makes in an interview to Journal reporter
will be read with appreciative interest
Like Gladstone, the venerable Vermont
statesman is an octogenarian, but his opin-
| ions are as vigorous and incisive as when,
in 1860-61, the tariff act which bore his
name received the approval of congress-
and after fourteen years disastrous ex-
| perience with the Shareholders policy of
free trade, the country gladly returned to
the American system of protection Boston
Journal.
The tin-plate industry has been success.
| fully established in the presidents own
state. Samples have been received in this
city from the new works in Elwood, Ind
| where 900 boxes are now made per week
| Within ala no cor tv vui1 ha in,
creased to 1000 boxes per week. The quail
| ity is considered by experts to be very good.
The factory has been built entirely with
American capital, and the basis for wages
is taken at double the wages paid in Wales
| for the same class of work. A TIM plate
manufacturer from Wales, who recently
visited these works, has pronounced the
| plant the finest which he had ever seen.
At these mills the steel billet is rolled and
converted into the best quality of tin-plate
So the good work of enlarging the number
and scope of American industries goes on
Ne,o York Tribune.
IT has been demonstrated that the coun-
try distrusts the forces behind the demo-
cratic candidate. Personally the country
thought well enough of Cleveland in 1888,
yet it would have no more of him for presi-
dent. Personally, and also as an able exec
utive, the republican candidate has won the
confidence of the people to a greater degree
than it was possessed by Mr.. Cleveland
and General Harrison has the tremendous
additional advantage, with the business in
terests of all sections, and the party behind
him, that he is trustworthy on all subjects
of finance and commerce, with a general
policy understood, and clearly advantageous
to all interests. Even many business DEM
ocrats will regret the possibility of change,
and to prevent it will vote for Harrison.
My experience is that there is no senti-
ment in business, and very little in politics.
| hpinO a m ba nnnnl4.
to and will favor the party that will best
advance the business interests of the peo-
ple.-iSecretary Stephen B. ElkinS
THE New York Mail and Express has been
publishing letters from prominent bankers
throughout the country regarding the Sec
ton of the democratic platform in which a
| repeal of the tax on state banks is advo-
Gated. Among the contributors are j. l..
Bacon, cashier of the National Bank of
White River junction, G. s. Dowley, presi-
dent of the Vermont National of Brattle-
boro, and j. g. Mccullough, president OF
the First National of North Bennington
Mr. Mccullough speaks emphatically, as
follows Any one familiar with the finan.
cial history of the United States prior to the
establishment of the national banking sys.
TEN must know that the issuing of notes
again by the state banks of forty-four states
(many of them wildcat banks) will result in
not only great inconvenience to the people
but, in the aggregate, in great loss to the
noteholders. To supersede the best bank.
ing system ever devised with the old state
system almost the worst, would seem to be
the veriest folly"
SENATOR HoAR wrote, last week, letter
to the chairman of the Massachusetts Re-
publican Committee regretting that for the
first time for nearly forty-two years he was
unable, on account of his eyes, to take part
in the campaign. He is now in Paris. In
the course of his letter he said " A majority
of the democratic party of the country, in
their state conventions and IN their votes in
the senate and house, have declared them
selves in favor of the free coinage of silver
Can it be supposed that If the national yes
sci be manned with Southern democratic
crew, and most OF its under officers are OF
the same sort, that the ship will be quite
safe with Grover Cleveland as the only re-
straint? Already the democratic party
avows its purpose to overthrow our eX.
cellent banking system and to return to the
wildcat currency of the days before the war
Is there man in Massachusetts, who favors
honest government, who favors honest
elections, who favors honest money, who
desires permanent steady and safe manu-
featuring prosperity, who desires TO elimi
nate gambling and uncertainty from bust
ness, who will not say that the he differs
with the views of the majority OF the demo
cratic party, and that he agrees with the
views of the majority Of the republican
party, as to the policy which shall accom-
plish all these ends? We all know Benja
min Harrison, We know what four years
of his administration have done for the
country-respect abroad, prosperity at home
His administration has encountered foreign
diplomacy with triumphant wisdom anC
} skill, and has conducted our domestic affairs
with an energy which has inspired every
} department of the government with a new
! life. l think the country will have no de
sire to go back to the days of the fishery
surrender and the Samoan middle, or risl
anew the confusion and disorder in every
department of the domestic administration
which accompanied the administration o
Mr.. Cleveland"