The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-16
Note and Comment.


first in the hair of the Cleveland men,"
is the way the Washington Post sums
up Senator Hill
The bold warrior in Richmond,
Maine, who had made ready to 90 to
war with Chill, has finally concluded to
go to work cutting ice.
"THE blunders committed by the
present democratic congress have never
been exceeded" is the remark imputed
to Grover Cleveland. Mr.. Ceveaud's
head continues level.
REPORTER: Mr. Cleveland, has your
visit to our city any political signif-
canoe? Mr.. Cleveland with melan-
choly sigh) Pm afraid not, young
man-I'm afraid Chicago Tribune.
IF congress increases the severity OF
the present Chinese exclusion laws, it
is said that that country will expel all
Americans from the FIowery Kingdom,
and suspend diplomatic relations with
this country.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS of Missouri is a
stickler for the clawhammer coat at re-
ceptions. An oppoing candidate for
the governorship announces that when
he is elected the people may call upon
him in their shirtsleeves
THE meeting was not entirely har-
monious, as the result shows, but there
was no scene," the Rutland men pre-
ferring to abide peacefully by Atkins
dictation until the convention and then
to fight it out; although Judge Haselton
did not say 80 in as many words, yet in
timated that there would probably be
| finn THE than laof Lroo
Press.
IN discussing the significance of the
fact that President Harrison's veto is
all that stands between the business
interests of the country and free silver,
the New York Tribune says: "Were
any democrat in that place, and =
we do not except Grover Cleveland, the
vote of Monday would have shaken the
foundations OF public credit" We
think the Tribune might have made the
exception. Cleveland has made known
his position on the silver question.
HILLIsM has been adopted in YER
mont. The last democratic convention,
by vote, requested the state central
committee to call the next convention
at Rutland. AT a meeting of the COM
mittee in Montpelier yesterday it was
voted to call the convention at the cap
ital on Thursday, May 5, thus ignor
ing utterly the expressed wishes of the
convention of two years ago. The fine
Italian hand of Hiram Atkins, chairman
of the committee, is recognized in this
order of things, and now the Reformer
would modestly ask, what is the democ-
racy of the state going to do about it,
Bennington RJormer, Dem.
: WHAT! whatl Do our eyes deceive
us? Is it Thayer, the frantic shouter
: for the rights of kids, who is thus" en-
dorsing" the candidacy of E. P. George
as delegate to Minneapolis? "Mr.
George is one of the old rsic] wal
horses who has done valiant work fol
the republican party in this state. II
is needless to say that old Orange
+, county will present his name as hel
unanimous choice, as he is one of the
} most popular men in the county" These
be indeed evil days for trundle-beC
trash when their foremost champion
in the first flush of the early dawn o
the campaign, by his own words Is
proved an apOstate.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION puts in &
claim for the congressional convention
r Why not hold the convention at st
Johnsbury, for change?-St. Johns
bury Republican. 1t is pretty frosty
week when wall for something is no
: waited down over Pumpkin Hill from
r St. Johnsbury. The Republican yelled
loud and long for the insane asylum
then it bawled for the fish incubator
got excited over corn canning factory
= wants local man by the name of Fair
a banks for governor and if any town il
the state suggests desire for anything
no matter how trivial, the Republican il
sure to bob up and put in claim for st
. Johnsbury, "just for change" yol
l ADMINISTRATION Courier.
. THEY [Messrs. Haselton, Meldor
and Childs did exactly right, and they
will find that the convention, when i
= meets, made up of men that believe il
fairness and good faith, over and above
t all personal interests, will support then
8 in it. The action was absolutely with
out excuse or paliation. 1t is par
of the policy represented by Mr.. Akin
when he says, as he has done on paper
/ that "no man connected with the re
r volt of two years ago can have any
favors from this (coming) convention
Perhaps the democrats of Vernon
may have something to say about this
: Some of them have labored under the
1 notion that they lived under free insti
buttons, rather than sovereign whom
it were treason to oppose. -BraHte6orO
Reformer.
NEXT to the Lord of Lakewood there
9 is no man as dear to the mugwump
and presumably to the Columb ian, soul
as his Excelency the Hon. William
Eustis Russell, Commander-in-Ch o
the Army and Admiral of the Navy o
4 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
e Mr.. Russell closes his eyes when h,
sees silver dollar. He bushes wheI
, he thinks ofthe spoils system. He can
1 tiers wildly up North avenue, Cam
D bridge. whenever he thinks about thu
y caitiff and robber tariff. He could tax,
, the Columbian declaration of principle
!, and swear to the creed of the Massa
chusetts Reform Club as easily as hi
,.ro,ll ,ob, q hurdla In all the aOcia