The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-21
Note and Comment.

GOVERNOR FULLER of Vermont is taking
hold of country road reform in earnest. He
intends to issue a circular illustrated by
cuts showing the ordinary French road in
comparison with the American road. The
native abomination ought to strike the av-
erage VermOnter with shame Springfeld
Republican.
CAssIUs PECK of Brookfield should change
his name, or send long-primer print of it
to the newspapers of the state. They have
dubbed him Cassivo, Cassivar, Casuons,
and CasSus Peck; and, to cap all, it ap-
peared in the list of officers elected by the
state grange as "Cassino Peck. What's
in name? Considerable variety, some
times
THE Jeffersonian simplicity" of ex.
Governor (of Ohio) Campbell's democracy
is more or less tinctured with Jacksonian
avidity From the pOst-ofCe at Con-
fedrit y roads to Van Colt at New York,
/ am in favor of putting them all out and
putting in men who voted for Grover Cleve-
land" Campbell seems to know where the
the party is at, and what for.
" THERE has been enough of the parrot
cry, tariff reform but no free trade, enough
OF the attempt to conciliate protectionists in
the belief that free-traders would vote the
ticket anyway. 1t is now time to think of
conciliating the free-traders." Thus, Con-
gresham Tom johnson of Ohio. About
four years of the policy johnson advocates,
American
industry and American manufactures
wouldn't burden a very voluminous report.
THE Cronin murder is recalled by the
death in Joliet prison of Martin J. Burke
one of the three men sentenced for the
crime. Burke, Coughlin and O'Sullvan
were on December 16, 1889, sentenced to
life imprisonment for the murder of Dr.
Patrick Cronin of Chicago the fact that the
evidence against the accused was wholly
circumstantial saving them from the gal
lows. Burke was the man who rented the
cottage where the crime was committed
During his incarceration Burke had never
once mentioned the crime.
OVER in Hayt, if man starts out to ere
move" the ruling monarch, it is well for
him to prepare beforehand his will and
farewell messages to friends; for If g caught
at it," he has little time for these ceremo.
MES The individual who set out to kill
President Hippolyte succeeded in passing
several guards and in gaining an entrance
to the presidential mansion, but was there
discovered and captured. In few hours
thereafter, by order of the president, the
would-be assassin and the guards whom he
had eluded were shot to death.
The Concord, N. H., granite manufac-
turers' association, Friday, unanimously
voted to impose fine of S25 each on j. IL.
Tressider, w II. Nudge and Harry Phil
lips of the State Capitol polishing works.
and to suspend them from membership, for
violating the rules of the association in do
ing work for contractors outside the organi-
ton. The Brattleboro Ret0rnaer wants to
know why this doesn't come under the
conspiracy law as applied in Vermont
and New York, or how it differs from the
worst things the labor unions do.
THOUGH the legislature wouldn't meet
him, Governor Fuller will not let go the
topic of road reform. He intends to issue a
circular illustrated by cuts showing the or
binary French road in comparison with the
American road. This is one of the WAYS in
which the governor will leave an impress
for good on the state. He is always
wherever yOu put him, prolific of ideas
They may be crude and crotchety, many of
them, and he always has as much conf
dence in one kind as the other. But after
you have said it all, the percentage of good
ones aud practicable ones is very large
Brohleboro Reforn,er
THE republican editors in North Dakota
are agreed that prohibition had something
10 do with the republican defeat there, but
they differ as to whether il was its enforce
ment or its abandonment that did the bust
ness The figures seem to be with those
who maintain the latter proposition. In
1889, with dry" platform and "dry "
candidates, the republicans won by large
majorities. In 1891, with "dry" plat
form and "wet" candidates, the republic
cans won by scant margin; and in 1892,
"lun Doth Piaiorn anu canuluateS very
wet " indeed the republican ticket was
buried out of sight.-Springfeld Republican.
THE great Reform Club dinner in New
York, which afforded Mr.. Cleveland an OPP
portunity to plaster with platitudes " the
columns of our democratic contemporaries,
has resulted in more discord in the party
ranks than in CONSERVATION to the repub-
licans. Speaker Crisp, who at this time
outranks all democratic officeholders, pre-
pared for the occasion an elaborate speech:
but for some reason yet unexplained he was
not called upon to pronounce il. Hence
Crisp and his large and powerful circle Of
friends are hopping mad, and threaten to
make things warm for the next adminstra-
ton unless some satisfactory explanation or
apology is forthcoming. Hardly any one
doubts the propensity of the democracy to
put its foot in it," but it is beginning to
do it rather earlier than was expected.