The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-22

for the vice presidency will probably be
from Gray of Indiana, Boies of Iowa
and Campbell of Ohio.
THE name of Hon. w. G. Veazey has
been mentioned in connection with the
vacant presidency of Dartmouth Col
lege. Judge Veazey was for many
years trustee of the college, and his
interest in it has been active. 1t is
just possible that he could be induced
to devote his practical experience and
wide influence to the building up of
this old and important Institution. A
president of Judge Veazey's character
could do wonders for any college which
might be so fortunate as to secure his
services. The tendency to take men of
affairs for college presidents has sound
sense for its basis, and those colleges
which take such men are pretty certain
to outstrip in resources, popularity and
sure development those which cling
to the older type. If Judge Veazey
were president of Dartmouth he pos
sibly would give courses of lectures on
railway problems, which would be of ex-
ceptional value and interest to the stu
dents.
IN respect of manly honor, all bright
and untarnished, Governor Mckinley is
the hero of two national conventions.
Four years ago he went to Chicago as
the trustee Of John Sherman's presi-
dental ambition, and when in the course
of the ebb and flow of the long battle
for the nomination the effort was made,
with every prospect ofsuccess, to crown
him with the honors of the convention,
in ringing speech he maintained his
fealty to his chief, and declared with
an emphasis that was instinct with
honor, that under all the circumstances
he would not accept the nomination if
it should come to him. He had no diff
fculty in impressing the convention
with deep sense of his sincerity and
singleness of purpose. His demeanor
in the recent convention is fresh in
every mind, and his praise on every
tongue. Governor McKinley's time,
at the next convention, will be fully
ripe, and he will have no rival for the
highest honors of a republican national
convention; and instead of possessing
those honors by burst from the covert
where dark horses are groomed, he will
be borne to the goal along the broad
highway of popular acclaim. Never
again will the delirum that has frenzied
national conventions from 1876 to 1892
infuse its baleful agencies into these
great congregations.
THE course of the chairman of the
Vermont delegation at Minneapolis,
and of the delegates who acted with
him, is the subject of much adverse
criticism. Vermont has not been in
the habit of instructiag her delegates
to national conventions. She has always
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stand without hitching," and leave them
to follow either the clearly-developed
preference of the people, or, in an emer-
gency, the dictates of a sound judgment.
There was no emergency at Minneapo-
lis; the will of the people of Vermont
was never so clearly developed, never
so sharply defined. 1t was the plain
duty of the delegation from the start to
stake positive stand for Harrison"
AT no time should there have been a
whisper, even, of a division in the
delegation. Its united voice from the in
slant of its arrival in Minneapolis should
have been at concert pitch for the re-
nomination of the president. Thus it
would have been a power-a great
moral force if not large voting force
in the convention. All honor is due to
Messrs. Smith, Hazen, George and
Page for their firm and consistent
stand 1t was no fault of theirs that
the influence of Vermont was partially
frittered away in the convention. They
required no instructions from home to
bring them into line, their names were
signed TO no weakened or give-away
dispatches; their entire course will be
remembered with gratitude and thank
fulness and they will haze added honor
among Vermont people.
Puerile Threats.