Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-10-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

This is an absentee Administration.
Following the Presidents example,
pretty nearly everybody connected with
it is away from Washington on pleasure
bent or politics. But you will hear no
] complaint from the American people on
account of it. They are thankful that
for a time, at least, the Administration
is out of mischief.
Even the independent" newspapers
are now discovering in Senator Hill
virgin mine of golden goodness. He ed
ucates little boys, who in after years
never mention his name without convul-
sive sObs. He Tebukes steTnly and to the
accompaniment of low thunder intimate
friends who try to pull his Senatorial or
GubernatOrial leg. He holds his hands
before his eyes when there is delirious
dancing on the stage, and never once
peeps through his fingers. And she pre-
pares his speeches with such great care''
that he writes them often ION railroad
trains"
Hill has the battle of his life before
him, and to win it he will not hesitate to
use every means that cunning, corrup-
ton and stealthy ambition can set in mo-
ton. The Democratic ticket is strong
only because it stands for all that is inso-
lent and INSCRIPTIONS in politics, and it
is dangerous because it will invite and
encourage the use of methods which a
more reputable party would spurn as
dishonOrable. 1t is a challenge which
calls for the vigorous, incessant, watch
full activity of every Republican in the
State. Eternal vigilance is the price of
victory!
-'Some Democrats talk about having
IL IL !, /
Don't make any mistake. Clothes won't
be cent cheaper" So asseverates the
Hon. Luther f. Mckinney, whilom Dem
ocratic Congressman from New Hamp-
shire. AS Mr.. McKinney's economic
orthodoxy has since been certified to by
an appointment as United States Minis
ter to Columbia at the hands of the Cleve-
land Administration, his statement would
seem to demand the immediate
attention of the other "tariff reformers."
1t certainly runs fatty contrary to one of
their most vociferous claims.
The ratification meeting held Satur
day night at the Cooper Union under the
auspices of the Republican Club was a
signal success both in attendance and en-
thusiasm. The great hall was filled to
its utmost capacity, and the emphatic in
dorsement which the audience gave to
the arraignment of Democratic corrup-
ton and misrule uttered by the speakers
showed the intensity of popular feeling
against the party that has crippled New
YoTk's industries and degraded the gov.
erRment of the State ard city. The
Meeting was most encouraging opening
hbf what promises to be splendidly ag-
gressive and triumphant campaign.
Judge Gaynors acceptance of judi
ciary nomination from Hills machine
convention will show him to be several
sizes smaller as a man and refOrmeT than
he appeared to be last fall, when the
voters irrespective of party, took his
measure for robe Of ermine Judge
Gaynor will not fail to observe that it is
his own case that is now on trial.
History will have to recognize David
b. Hill as the greatest political monOpO-
list that America ever produced. He is
the only man who has ever been able to
organize convention so as to be it's tenn
porary chairman, permanent chairman
and gubernatoral nominee without hay
ing man to help him. Mr.. Hill ought to
organize himself into trust.
Compare the TWO tickets-MOrton
and SaXton, Hill and Lockwood-and it
is not difficult to select the one that rep
resents the higher manhood, the dignity,
intelligence and aspirations of the EN-
pire State. The Republican ticket stands
for the people, the Democratic stands
merely for the politicians.