The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Men and Politics,

ONE OF the Quay delegates to the
Pennsylvania convention was Samuel
J. Randall of Philadelphia, son of the
old democratic leader.
IN 1896: For president - Grover
Cleveland. Platform - Grover Cleve-
lands letter suggesting ian amend
ment to the constitution disqualifying
the president from reelection. THE
Tribune.
OHIO claims to have the tallest man
in the National Guard in the United
States, He is Lieutenant House, of
the Fourteenth Ohio National Guard,
and is stationed at Lancaster. In his
stocking feet, Lieutenant House is six
feet eight inches. His weight is 230
pounds.
THERE are 444 votes in the Electoral
College. In the presidential election
of 1892 the democrats secured PIT cleo
tors. At the elections held since, the
democrats carried thirteen states, with
collective electoral vote of 131. All
the other states since March 4, 1898,
have gone republican or been carried
by the popullst party.
THE great strikes in wooden and
carpet mills which have failed, the
strikes Of iron miners and of clothing
workers, and the threatened strike of
cotton workers, with many others of
less importance, all bear witness to the
same fact, that labor is yet receiving
much less than in 1892, before the
country chose to have a change
York Tribune.
/ Mr.. JUSTICE BREWER said several
things at this years meeting of the
American Bar Association that have
gone straight to the popular heart.
Here's one: " 1t would be blessing to
the profession and to the community as
well if some Noachian deluge would
engulf half of those who have license
to practice" Here's another: "Tardy
I justice is often gross injustice"
THE Boston Herald says-and ought
to be ashamed for saying: :" If parties
could be abolished to-day, and the ma
ton could elect a president with as
clear an exemption from partisan feel
ing as there was when George Wash
ington was first chosen to the presi-
dency, we have no doubl that the peo.
pie would override tradition and carry
Grover Cleveland into a third term in
his high office by an immense ma jor-
ity." This is the loudest call of the
cuckoo yet heard. 1t is, perhaps, the
most abject and servile expression in
all American journalism to-day.-The
State.
PRESIDENT ANDREWS of Brown Uni
versity is taken to task for his assertion
that Mr.. Blaine considered Senator
Conkling "shallow." This passage
from Mr.. Blaine's book is quoted at
him: "The ablest and most brilliant
man of the New York delegation in the
thirty-seventh congress was Roscoe
Conkling. He had been elected to the
preceding congress when but twenty
nine years of age, and had exhibited a
readiness and eloquence in debate that
placed him at once in the front rank
His command of language was remark
able. In afiluent and exuberant die
ton Mr.. Conkling was never surpassed
in either branch of congress, unless,
perhaps, by Rufus Choate."
SENATOR QUAY has fought the most
brilliant political battle of modern times,
Deserted by hosts of ingrates, many of
whom owed their position and power
entirely to him, aggressively and vim
dictively opposed by all the power, pat
ionage and promises of the city and
state administrations, cut off from the
ordinary channels from which cam
paign funds can be gathered, to cope
with the combined powers of lobbyists
who have immense means to eXpend in
defense of their disreputable authority,
and relying solely upon the free and
unpurchasable element of the rural
districts of the state, he has manfully
fought and fairly won the victory -
Philadelphia Times Oem.).
So formidable did Conkling's move
ment for Grant become that the oppo-
nents of the two rallied to the war.cry,
Anything to beat Grant" About this
time the superstitous were stirred by
Mother Symptoms prophecy:
The world to an end will come
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.
An anecdote was told of preacher
who dwelt upon the impending cata-