The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-09-30

was determined to hold the next
National gathering at indianapolis. We
note, also, that S. W. Cummings of the
Central Vermont Railroad, is member
of the new National council of admins
tration.
Now that Senator Hill has spoken in
the interests of the Democratic cause
and again vowed himself Democrat,
we look to hear eulogies of the Senator
from the Cleveland supporters who have
hitherto found language quite inadequate
to express their scorn and contempt for
him. The Mugwump press will probably
accept with abject humility his scoring
of the Mugwump's as "the guerrillas Of
politics"
Those very few Democrats who make
any attempt to defend the free State
banking plank in the Chicago platform
invariably insist that repetition of our
old troublesome experience with such
bank system need not now be neces-
sarily expected, because times and con-
ditions have changed great deal since
then. They have, indeed. Then State
Legislatures were controlled by fairly in
telligent and conservative men. But
now what sort of banks of issue would
be likely to be established by Legisla-
lures controlled by the Farmers
Alliance?-PrOuidenc Journal. The
point which our Providedce contem-
porary makes is well taken. Nor is this
all; but the same type of adventurers
who have promoted endowment orders,
bond assessment companies and bogus
land booms would be on hand to use
their new opportunities to fleece the
ignorant and unwary.-BOstOn Journal.
Asked if he were going on the stump
for Cleveland, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles,
who had recently come from conference
with Murphy and Sheehan made this
sardonic reply: Cleveland is all right,
of course, without New York. He
doesn't need New York. Mr.. Villas is
going to carry Wisconsin, Mr.. Dickinson
is going to carry Michigan, Mr.. Harrity
is going to carry Pennsylvania and Mr..
Russell is going to carry Massachusetts.
There is no necessity for New York,
with all these States going for Cleveland,
and, of course, the Hill men are not
necessary to this success This being so,
why should l or any of Mr.. Hills friends
get excited over the election? They said
we amounted to nothing at Chicago.
Why should we amount to any more
now?" 1t is pretty plain that Gen. Sick
les, like his colleagues, has long and
sharp political knife up his sleeve, and
that he is prepared to WELD it, with all
the fire and precision which he manifest
ed in the war, against the man who has
become known as the soldiers enemy.
When Democratic newspaper informs
its readers that it is its belief that Com
missioner Peck's figures were bought,
it is too evident that its editor believes
that "a lie we'll stuck to is often better
than the truth" 1t is true that the
figures gave the lie to the Democratic
assertions that the country's prosperity
was on the decline, yet Mr.. Peck was too
good Democrat to prove a Judas
Iscariot to his party. His Democratic
principles were strong enough to allow
Grover CleYeland to appoint him to the
office he now holds, and also strong
enough to allow his disappointment by
Mr.. Hill, and by Governor Flower. So
much for the belief of the party leaders
in Mr.. Peck's fidelity to his party princi-
pies. Yet for not making his figures
show results contrary to what they
should show, he is now accused of betray-
ing his party. Such charge, which, as far
as shown by any developments, is with
out the slightest foundation, made
against the man who, at the Paris Ex-
position of 1889, received the gold medal
for the best method of gathering
statistics by an official statistician of any
Nation or State shows the depths to
which many Democratic papers have
already sunk in their attempts to uphold
the assertions of their party chiefs.
In accepting the nomination the Re-
publican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, said: We
are Republicans because, disregarding
individual and sporadic manifestations
of virtue or vice on either side, we
earnestly believe that the country has
more to hope for from the loyalty and in
telligence of the Republican party than
from such measure of those qualities as
the Democratic party may possess. The
Empire State substitutes Hill for an
Evarts in her highest Office, and when he
takes his seat in the Senate he will pre-
sent an interesting subject for COM
parison with his able and upright Re-
publican predecessor. Believing that
the country is richer, more populous and
IuOT6 pOWGIluI OO-udJ DOOduoO VI ITO ~
years under protective policy, we re-
joice that that policy is to be continued,
confident that through its operation,
while the country is strengthened and
riched by varied industries, the con-
dition of the wage Garner will continue
to be the best in the world. Like all
other legislation, the existing tariff is to
be judged by its results. The cry of
Mckinley prices" proved "a good
enough Morgan" for the election, but
the infinitesimal increase in the price Of
the laborer's dinner pail is already
lightened and sweetened by the sub
stantial decrease of the cost of sugar on
his table at night. There is, however,
no permanent sanctity in percentage,
and if it be found that in this most com
plex and difficult piece of legislation
errors or inequalities exist, it will be the
part of manly courage, as well as of
sound policy, to remedy them.