The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
Note and Comment.

week.
The democrats of Iowa propose to
present the name of Governor BOies as
a candidate for president, Next.
LET pretty woman go to man with
her troubles, and in his sympathy he
will fall in love with her and add to
them. -TerdS philosophy.
A BosToN clergyman concisely put
great truth in these words last Sun
day "The crying evil of the Ameri-
can character is its dolatry to the god
Hurry"
SoRosIs, the famous New York wom-
ans society, has been discussing How
to manage a husband" The conclusion
reached was that wife's best way is
to hold her tongue and let him think he
has his own way.
To throw light upon obscurity, to
help the reader understand the news of
the day without boring him by assum-
ing omniscieDce, to make the crooked
straight and the rough places plain, il,
in our opinion, the editorial province
En-.
If one will compare the bold, clean.
cut and straightforward talk Of Grover
Cleveland with the cowardly, shifting
and evasive policy of Governor Hill,
he will get au accurate measurement oil
the two men. - NdSbuille american
Oem.).
SENATOR MORRILL, says that of 400
900 900 silver dollars coined, not more
than 100000, 600 could be coaxed or
kicked outside of the treasury, which
has in silver dollars and silver bullion
upwards Of 10000 tons. He did not
vote for the silver act of 1890.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is not so smart a
man as Hill, but he is a better man.
He is an egotist; he is vain and self
opinionated and he does not know half
so much as he thinks he does. But he
is honest, and therein he has tremen-
dous advantage over David B. Hill
Brooklyn Times (Rep.).
REV. B. F. FOSTER of Topeka, Kan
sas, has received the appointment of
sweeper and spittoon- cleaner of the
west corridor of the national house of
repres entatives at a salary of $50
month. He was candidate for auditor
of Kansas on the alliance ticket in
1890, aud, being pulpit orator of repu.
talion in the African Methodist church
in that section, had hoped for some
| Thing luscious when he followed Sena-
tor PETER and Jerry Simpson to the
national capital.
THE solid South is for Cleveland.
OF course, the solid South is also for the
nominee, but should not the solid South,
which has so many votes and without
which no democratic nominee can pos
| ho al -
about the nomination of the man it is
asked to elect? Are few politicians
who are personally offended with Mr..
Cleveland to force a great party to
throw aside its best chance for victory
just to crafty their enmity to Mr.. Cleve-
land? That is the question before the
democrats of this country Richmond
State Dem.).
A ST. ALBANS undertaken recently
had peculiar experience. He and his
assistant prepared the body of poor
man for burial dressing it in what they
supposed to be the clothing provided by
the widow. When the job was finished
the undertaken went tor his new $50
cutaway coat, but could not find it.
After thorough search he glanced at
the body in the casket and then discov-
er, d that he had put his own coat on
the poor man, the result being that the
undertaken went home with only his
overcoat to cover his shoulders, while
his coat was buried.
IT is certain that the democracy of
Michigan will not, and cannot in it's own
interest, endorse Mr.. Cleveland for the
presidency in 1892. The Michigan
democrats believe in the free coinage
of silver, and, however much they may
appreciate Mr.. Cleveland's utterances
on commercial freedom, they recognize
that his position on the silver question
negatives his more advanced position
on the tariff. MIR. Cleveland destroyed
his chances of ever again becoming
president of the United States or even
the candidate of the democracy when
he wrote his silver letter. Nobody can
hold Michigan for Mr.. Cleveland. DE
troit Nstos Ind.).
THE public knows that almost every
paragraph in Governor Hills orders for
the campaign begins with the word
''Don'tl' Don't pass tariff bill, he
tells congress; don't pass a silver bill
don't do anything, in fact, which will
show what the party intends to do,
should it come into power. He would
not move forward. This does not look
like the plan of lighting" democrat,
but rather like that of " dodger "-ot
a man who hopes that his party can
get into power by stealth or trick with
out letting the country know what it
intends to do. The leaders who wish
to put the intentions of the party in the
definite form of bills passed by the
house seem to US much more like the
" fighters" AT least they show fewer
symptoms of fear.-MacOn Telegraph
(Dem.).
SENATOR MORRILL, of Vermont car.
ries his eighty-two years with rare vigol
of mind and body. The annals of the
senate offer no parallel to the remarka.
BILE scene of last Wednesday, when a
member, so weighted with the burden
of time, after thirty-six years of con-
tinuous service in congress, stood in his
| nlace and smoke for nearly two hours