The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-10
Note and Comment.

Tom REED says the battle-cry Of the de-
mocracy this year will be :" The Prophet
and the ballot-box-both stuffed. Johns
tolCn Tribune.
THERE is a chance for the democratic
editor who is bowling about the iniquities
of tariff in the offer of the american Econo-
mist to give him $1,000 if he will show he
does not save money on his paper bill by
reason of the Mckinley law.-Cincinnati
Commercial.
The New York Herald refers thus to the
use OF the Homestead troubles as a partisan
argument "In every labor dispute, no
matter what the cause, the demagogues
jump for votes as street gamins Jump for
fruit when poor woman's apple stand
blows over"
1T will be difficult for democrats to con-
vince Englishmen that reciprocity is hum
bug in face of such figures as these: In
crease in exports of American cottons to
Brazil in the eleven months ending June
30, last, $40, 749 yards; falling off in sales
of similar goods to Brazil by Great Britain
in same period, 27,900,000 yards.-Americdn
Economist
REV. w. r. PARSONS of Columbus, Ohio,
says he met General Field, the peoples
party candidate for the vice-presidency, on
a train between indianapolis and Chicago
few days ago, and asked him if he had
said, as was reported, that he was sorry he
had not killed more Union soldiers when he
was in the rebel army. 81 do not remem-
Der saying it," said General Field; but
that is my sentiment" General Field will
not poll large Union veteran vote, it is
very evident, but he ought to run well in
Dixie.
The Philadelphia Press is inclined to
favor the popular election of United States
senators, in view of the sort of senators the
Pennsylvania legislature sends to WASH
ington The present method is good enough
in Vermont, where it has given the state
such representatives in the senate as Ed
munds and Morrill,, and before them Foote
and Collamer. But with Cameron and Quay
as the results, the Press does not wonder
that strong petitions in favor of the change
are sent in from Pennsylvania.-.Sp rinQfeid
Republican.
The American people love law and order.
No man can go among them and persist
entity preach revolution and anarchy. When
the average citizen has time for reflection
the thought suddenly strikes him that he
owns house and has a little money saved
up for a rainy day. He cannot afford to
go into a carnival of lawlessness, and he
feels that in social upheaval the mob
would not stop with the Carnegies. After
the millionaires the hundred-thousand-doll
men, then the ten-thousand-dollar men, and
finally any man with few dollars or a coat
on his back would be in danger. This has
been the consequence of such outbreaks of
dudICHy s-dtufLu COIt6UWlOH.
THE New York y ord, which is supposed
to know something about democratic poll
tics, made the observation a few days ago
1t is said on reliable authority that
Bradley b. Smalley is candidate for gov
ernor of Vermont. Those who know
say that he will, if nominated at the
convention soon to be held make one of the
ligeliest canvasses ever known in the his
tory OF democratic politics in Vermont"
Again, the World unconsciously insults
Colonel Smalley by this remark "Colonel
Smalley has profited by his intimate asso-
citation with Hiram Atkins, the greatest of
Vermonters, and from his own previous
service as secretary Of the national commit
| tee." Hiram Atkins, the greatest of Ver-
monters! Where would the World place its
acknowledgements, Hon. E. j. Phelps?
JOHN I. GRAFT, a veteran Pennsylvania
newspaper man, gives his impression of
present social omens, in the Philadelphia
| Times. There is food for reflection in what
he says. " The general prospect to me,
| looking toward the sunset of life" he says,
" is not assuring. In fact, another revolu-
ton is not improbable, and II it comes
| it will be vastly more serious than any
mere sectional struggle. 1t will be one
| in which such craftsmanship as the terms re-
| publican and democrat now stand for will
| be futile, untimely, out OF place, There
will be but two parties then-the friends of
law and order on one side, and the whole
brood of anarchists and their reasonable
sympathizers on the other. IL the former
triumph, our great national experiment will
| 20 on achieving. III they do not, political
and national chaos will ensue and the con-
diton Of the American people will be in
initely worse than could have resulted
from dissolution of the Union in 1861"
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