The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-02-22
Note and Comment.

" DO you tnlnk, Mr.. Reed" was
asked the ex-speaker yesterday, "that
President Cleveland will appoint you
to the cabinel?" He might" was the
response, "but please don't mention
ii. 1t might hurt me in my district"
Washington Post.
THERE seems to be some mistake
about the appointment of the Hon.
Hoax Smith of Georgia to be secretary
of the interior. He ought to be secre.
is a humbug, and Hoax at the head of
it would be the right man in the right
place.-Ne,o York San.
You are away off when you say that
Hoke Smith is man and not myth.
Proof, this from the morning papers:
"Mr. Smith was originally christened
Michael Hoke Smith, but Topped off the
Christian name of Michael" Would
any real, living, actual man, capable of
trousers and discourse of reason, drop
a respectable and beautiful broth of a
name like Michael for heatheni.h,
helish impossibility like Hoak2 No,
sirl No man ever did, will, or can
bear such a name. In old Irish myth.
ology Hocus is known as DC, the
Green.-R. OR. r., in Net0 York Sun.
THE account of the meeting of the
elder and younger De Lesseps r. ads
like passage from a French play.
The son, accompanied by detectives, is
allowed to spend the day with his
father. The detectives are introduced
as intimate friends and are invited to
ppY OF ha g.,
old diplomat, ignorant alike of his own
sentence and of his sons imprison-
ment, entertains his guests with a sem
lie exhibition of his own credulity re-
speeding the Panama project. Father
and sou embrace each other, and the
detectives take back their prisoner
to his cell. 1t is melodrama with a
tragic pathos of its own.--Neso York
Tribune.
MINISTER STEVENS should receive
the cordial support of congress and peo-
pie. Let Hawaii return to the rule of a
queen whose ambition vastly exceeds
her reason, and no one knows what may
happen. Let the United States refuse
to protect these islands, and Britannia
will indeed rule the wave to the ever
lasting detriment of American COM
merce. Iu 1854 Hawaii would have
been coded to the United States had
not the king died before carrying out
his wish. Now it is civilization that
asks to be saved from barbarism. There
is tide in the affairs of nations which,
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
1t has come. Take it, and we gain the
commerce of the Orient; reject it, aud
we deserve the contempt of statesmen
throughout the world.-Kdte Fields
Washington Cad.)
THE talk of your Regenerated
Democrat" through yesterdays Sun,
about raising the standard of politics
above the common level of the small
politician by making democratic sec
rotary OF state out of republican,
sounds very smooth and nice, but, after
all, it does not prove that Mr.. Cleve-
lands choice is the wisest one that he
could have made. 1t is an experiment
that he proposes to try, and the people,
or at least large majority of those who
elected him, have no patience to try ii
with him. Most of them believe that
no strange fowl should be allowed
among the democratic flock to eat their
corn. The process seems crooked; il
doesn't seem to harmonize with demo-
cratic ideas. If there were no full
blooded democrats in the party qualified
| for the office Of secretary OF state, il
might not look quite so disagreeable to
be compelled to call in o stranger; but
while the party has so many Of equal