The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-31
Note and Comment.

SENATOR CHARLES n. FELTON, of Califor-
mia says that state is all right for Harrison
and Reid.
ALL that is necessary is for the republic
cans in that part of the country to be on
their guard, take off their coats, put in a
few extra ticks, and all the states that have
been republican in the Northwest will go
soldly for Harrison and Reid.-NeUdrG Id
lertiSer.
SOME democrats insist that the force
bill - is the issue, others that the tariff is
the main question. No wonder that they
are absolutely silent on the subject of sound
money That was to be expected of free
silver party, led by an anti-free silver can
didate,-Ne'0 YORK. Commercial Advertiser.
UNDER reciprocity treaties our domestic
exports to countries south of US in the vari-
Gus periods i'll which the treaties were in
force ending June 30 last have risen to S42,-
32S, 67S from S4 los, $40 in the correspond
ing months without a treaty-an advance of
SS,l32,3 1913 or 237o per cent.-Phaddeiphtd
Press.
THE shortcut TO worthless currency via
the repeal of the tax on state bank circula-
ton ought to make the populists green with
envy when they fully understand 1t. 1t is
way of reaching the end they aim at and
at the same time sparing the government
| the expense of printing the stuf-St. Pau
Pioneer Press.
CHAIRMAN CARTER of the republican ma
tional committee sizes up the situation in
this way: " never saw republican cam
pagn open with better prospects. Not only
do find thorough organization everywhere
working tremendously for success, but
many political considerations are contrib
uting to help u.s."
MR.. REDS address (at Springfeld)
abounded in the logic of statemanship and
the conclusions of good common sense, and
| will well repay thoughtful perusal. Its
| tbOnUbt-tbat tho 1pmOprapV ShOul1
be held mercilessly to its platform utter
ances-is an excellent rule of action for re-
publicans everywhere to follow.-Minnedp-
oils Tribune.
THOSE who have daily sight of the thriv-
ing towns built up through Pennsylvania
and other states under the protective sys-
tenn need no further argument in support
of its benefits Had foreign manufacture
ers been allowed to ship their steel, their
iron, their glass, and other wares to the
American markets free of duty, the hives OF
| industry, with which Pennsylvania, ONO
and Virginia are dotted, could not have
come into xistence.-Putsburg Dispatch
AN Idaho silver crank calls upon Colo
| RADIO, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and about
fifteen other Western ami Southern states
to secede from the Union and form new
republic in which the coinage of silver dol
lars shall be as free as mountain air The
crank can do better than that. He can sub
| scribe literally to the democratic campaign
fund and thus help to win democratic VIC
tory. What better friend OF free silver can
he ask for than the democratic party, which
has voted almost soldly for II in the pre-
sent congress.
WHEN thirty-two railway trains can be
robbed in one year. as they were in 1891,
when the Charleston Nelos and Courier has
to record tifty-two murders IN South Caro-
lima between January and July of this
year, and about 100 lynchings occurred in
| the South between the same dates, the
proof is indisputable that an abnormal
amount of crime is happening in the United
| States. The sooner public opinion awakens
to the facts of the situation and sentiment
is formed which will demand a rigorous adj
mnistration of the law, the better 1t will be
for the country. philadelphia Press.
THE Tribune last week published the fol-
lowing dispatch from Chicago Allen w.
Thurman, son of the Old Roman, created
depression in democratic circles to-day by
deridng all pretensons of democratic hopes
in Ohio in the coming campaign. Ohio is
almost hopelessly republican,, said he. IL
will probably be carried by the high tariff
party by as big majority as Mckinley re-
ceived. The democrats will not make any
great efforts in the state this year. would
be in favor of closing up the campaign
headquarters and taking things easy, be-
cause when we make an aggressive nght
the republicans get scared and get out every
voter. If we keep still the enemy might be
Indifferent and not get out their Vote'
WE invite the attention of patriotic citi-
zens and thinking voters to two sentences,
here reprinted from Montreal letter in the
tariff-hating, MISUNDERSTANDING Times
of New York The correspondent is writing
about the present tory government OF the
Dominion of Canada. He says: "Unsuc-
cessful in the reciprocity negotiations at
Washington, 1t will be unwilling to adopt
any course which, while repugnant to the