The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-12

Journal.
i. K. CHIrTEHDEN Of New York recently
wrote the Tribune regarding the ballot law
OF this state: 1.-THE ballot law passed at
the last session Is unpopular. Old farmers
who have been accustomed to vote openly
for the candidates they wish to support re-
sent any interference with their ballots
They will not go into shanty or behind
door to prepare them-they will not ask or
take instructions from anybody concerning
them"
The administration of Vermont affairs
during the past two years has been very
successful and satisfactory one and is the
subject Of much favorable comment by the
newspapers generally. The retiring gov
ernor has a right TO feel well-satisfied with
the results he has accomplished. 1t has
been a thorough business administration.
There is no reason to doubt that Governor
Fuller's administration will be equally
satisfactory Clipper.
THE editorial in the Wdtchndn upon the
late Hiram Atkins was the subject of much
unfavorable comment among the hdbitues of
the Pavilion corridors, who, following the
dictates of human nature, were generally
content to forget the faults and frailties of
the departed, and remember only his vir-
tues. On the contrary, the graceful tribute
of the Messenger and the sketch in the Arqits
and Patriot, written by distinguished men,
Der of the Washington county bar, were
highly spoken of,-St. Adams Messenger.
No American ever advanced more rapidly
to the front as a graceful, forcible and eff
fective public speaker than the Hon White
law Reid, republican candidate for vice
president, has done. When nominated, he
was known only as an excellent public
writer and occasional after-dinner orator.
Since then he has delivered perhaps a dozen
speeches, beginning with a good one and
improving every time, until now no speeches
are listened to or read with more pleasure
than his. Mr.. Reid has fully vindicated the
wisdom of his nation.-IndidnapOj
Journal.
IT is impossible to accommodate our dem
ocratic friends; the Herald wants the discus
sion of the state bank question postponed
until after the election, 50 that it may be
treated with calmness, and Mr.. John u.
Russell wants the public to believe that it
is not political question at all. But it has
been thrust into politics by the democratic
platform, and the democratic party cannot
expect to enjoy whatever votes it may Sc
cure by it in the South without having to
face the issue also in the North.-BOston
Journal.
For the same work in producing prints
the Lowell engravers and printers earn
about twice as much per week, and for the
same amount of work, as the same class of
workers earn in Lancashire, Mr.. Russell
did not try to account for the remarkable
fact that Lancashire people leave their own
mill workers paradise to come to Lowell
where they stay, get homes to them
selves and prosper. If his version of the
case is the true one, every Lancashire
worker in Lowell would soon vanish
LOtoeH Mail.
THE Homestead workmen, acting, as it Is
declared, upon the advice of the advisory
committee, broke down and trampled upon
all the safeguards which the staUe had set
up for the protection of life and property,
Y hot har 10 IN ha tot
is for the judiciary to determine; but,
whether it be called one thing or another, it
is lawless criminal and intolerable, and the
strong arm of the state has been properly
stretched out to bring the guilty to punish
ment by a formal legal process which COM
mends itself to high judicial Judgment
Philadelphia Ledger.
AND now the question arises: Will the
wage workers, the savings bank depostors,
the life insurance policy-holders, the PEN
soners, the security-holders and the con-
sumers of the great state of New York,
which has the most at stake, favor or OPP
pose the man and party that demand wild
cat currency, standardization of our
money the initiation of prices, the wild
speculation and the inevitable collapse,
with the disaster, depression and distress
which would inevitably follow such a finan-
cial debauch2 That is one of the leading
questions of the hour; and it comes home
TO every man, woman and child in the
population of New York--Albany Journal.
WE venture to say that there is scarcely
merchant now living who was engaged in
business thirty or forty years ago whose
prOfit-and-loss account of those old days
does not show that he was out of pocket be-
cause of the rotten bank system which then
prevailed. Bank notes which he took in, in
course of trade, were worthless or had suf-
fered depreciation before he could collect
upon them. 1t was the golden age OF the
counterfeiter, and Thompsons Bank Note
Detector" was a part of the necessary outfit
of every man of business, The currency
received in one state would not pass in an
other, save at discount, and in many in
stances the shave was big one.-NeW York
Tribune.
BUT what Cleveland himself claims that
his party will do with the tariff would be
as destructive to the public interests as that
tariff for revenue only which he favors in
! theory, but says he would not establish to
its full extent in practice. He distinctly
announces the purpose OF the democratic
party to unsettle the tariff policy which
| was established two years ago; to subject
the industries of the country to the disturb
ance and decentralization resulting from
| another reconstruction of the tariff - in ac-
cordance with the principles professed by
/ the democratic party" The whole series
| of democratic precedents in the matter OF
tariff legislation explains what he means.
They would undoubtedly attempt to revise
| the tariff by a general reduction of protect
i've duties.-S st. Paul Pioneer-PreSS
MR.. CLEvELAND's visit to this city has re-
suited in demonstrating the truth of Tam
many Halls old-time allegation against
him that he is a selfish politician. He has
spent the greater part of a week here in
making urgent demands upon his friends
the anti-snappers, that they shall continue
To bio; themselves out. His representa-
tives at Chicago urged this demand effect
| lively during the convention. They said
that it was a prime essential of Mr.. Cleve-
lands success for the anti-snappers TO
elface themselves The ant-snappers re-
luctantly but meekly obeyed. 1t now APP
pears that their selt.etfacement must con-
tnue throughout the campaign, and that
Mr.. Cleveland's interests must be lodged in
the men whom the organs OF the anti
snappers denounced as pirates, devils, cor
rupt politicians, backguards and creatures
of similar kind The anti-snappers are
condemned to Join hands with these men
or else 90 into retirement,-Nelo York Irib-
| iRe,
THESE Russian or Polish Jews are for the
most part an undesirable class OF people-ill-
| bred, half civilized, filthy OF habit, repulsive
in manner and entirely destitute Ul that
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