The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-21
Note and Comment.

NEVER mind, John l.. Think of Napo-
leon and the other great men whose careers
were broken off somewhat suddenly .-Chj-
cogo Ne1s- Record.
WE suppose the reason that the mug
wumps have nothing to say about the coai-
ton between Cleveland and Hill is this
Cleveland is so very, very good that an al
lance even with Hill cannot hurt him.
Mil1odukee Sentinel
The complete returns from Vermont
show that the democrats polled 1926 votes
for Smalley or Just one vote less than they
polled at the September election in 1888.
The one democrat who failed to vote must
have died; nothing else than death could
swerve a Green Mountain democrat from
his party allegiance.-Sprinafeld RepUb-
licdn.
IT will be hard work for democratic poll
ticians to convince the American people
that they are suffering so terribly that moth
ing but change OF administration can give
them relief. Business throughout the coun-
try is generally good; railroad earnings show
up well and new industries are springing
ap. Usually the prosperity of the country
has been an augury of republican success
Boston Transcript.
WHEN the cholera scare is over it might
be well for the government to turn its atten-
ton to some other foreign products which
| are quite as dangerous The wealthy He
| "
| by band of assassins who came here for
that purpose, and every schoolboy knows
| that half the bandits and outlaws of Europe
are either here or on their way here. Com
| pared with such imports, the cholera is a
blessing.-NeW York Herald.
II is not thing to regret that the major
| ity in Maine was moderate. It can by no
means be interpreted as an assurance
that the republican party has its national
victory already won. But the result in
Maine does give the highest possible stimu-
| lus to effort during the few weeks that re-
main, for with such effort there is reason to
expect a splendid triumph. 1t should also
be taken as warning, in all states where
republican majorites are not sure and
large, that it is not safe to suffer the can
vass to be dull or lacking in vigor. -NelC
York Tribune.
Hon GEORGE f. RICHARDSON. a promi-
nent lawyer of Lowell, Mass, who has just
returned from Great Britain, says of the
effect of the Mckinley bill over there;
tell you it is parayzing industry there, and
if continued will force England to adopt a
protective tariff to protect herself. visited
| Wales, where the tin industry is prominent
| saw several groups of idle men convers-
ing, and learned when listening closely that
the principal part of their conversation was
a condemnation of the Mckinley bill. There
may be no American tin, as the democrats
claim, but there is enough to knock the bot.
| tom out of this branch OF industry in wales
The result of my observation is that the Nc
Kinley tariff has disturbed the English peo-
pie more than any measure this country has
ever adopted affecting its industry. 1t is
dollars and cents to England, and if you
want to know how it is affected, just 60 over
| and see"
LOOKING back across the years to day in
Xenia, Ohio we climbed rickety old stair
case to call upon and congratulate this
same man on his recent graduation witt
high honor from Miami University and his
venture as editor of the Xenia NeUS, anG
found him showing hand roller over the
forms of an old hand press and Preston B
Plumb pulling the lever How little we
or any one else thought that the events
of 1892 would record the death of one of the
most illustrious senators of a state tha
then had no existence while the Other
stood before the nation for the next to the
highest position on ticket of party thai
was then but just emerging from the ruins
of another that had gone down for want o.
moral courage to meet and crush out grea
national crime. But such is history I'M
folded in the lives of two young men, who
with lofty aims started in life firmly fixed
in right principles and courageous in fight
ing for the same.-J. ID. Slime, in Superior
| journal.