The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22


Governor Morton will be New York's
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton to the presidency. Probably no
man could be named whose experience,
character, demonstrated capacity, APP
proved wisdom and uprightness, would
command greater confidence than Gov
ernor Morton.
THE "jingo" speech of Don M.
Dickinson of Michigan, before the
Loyal Legion at Detroit, recently, is
printed on page three. Mr.. Dickinson
was postmaster general in Mr.. Cleve-
lands first cabinet. He presents, in
striking array and trenchant words, a
clear, cold exposition of the British
policy of aggression and its fruits. 1t
is good reading, and there is in the ad-
dress much food for very serious re-
Election. -
THE administration at Washington
makes an arbitrary demand on Minister
Haselton to resign. If the Vermont
er's offences are half as rank as those
of his chief, he ought to resign and never
be allowed to return to this state. The
administration has the advantage of
position. Put it one instant in Mr..
Haselton's place and the American peo-
pie would call for Mr.. Cleveland's resig-
nation in terms that would admit OF no
parleying. -
OUR friends of the St. Adams Mes
senger establishment, from Editor
Childs downward, will accept the
WATCHMAN's sincere sympathies in
the misfortune that has turned them
out of the best-equipped and most COM
fortably-appointed printing office in the
state. The good thing about the disaster
is that an opportunity is given the COM
pany to show the stuff it is made of.
This appears to be sand of the clearest
grit, Before the bricks have cooled,
they are being hustled out of the way
to make room for the new official
ready under contract. A building has
been; rented temporarily and the man
ager Is in market buying the materials
and machinery for the new plant.
REFERRING to the gross inequalities
in the existing system of representation
by towns, the Bennington Banner
makes point by comparing the repre-
sentation of Bennington, with its !, 200
voters, with that of the adjoining town
of Glastonbury, having seven or eight
voters. Each voter in Glastonbury,
remarks the Banner, has about $50
times the representation that Ben
nington voter receives. st. George, in
Chittenden county, population 106, cast
% votes at the last election; Somerset,
in Windham county, population 81, cast
20 votes; Baltimore, in Windsor county,
population Ga, cast IA votes. These
towns constitute the Big Four in Yer
mont's representative system and each
can checkmate the most populous town
in the county of its location. st. Georges
106 can hold at bay Burlington's 1000;
Somerset's 81, Brattleboro's 1000; Bal
timore's Ga are match for either of
the populous communities of Hartford,
Springfield or Woodstock. Scores of
similar illustrations might be made to
show how, at one vital point, the state
is very far from being the much-vaunted
, "mbdel republic of which we are all
80 proud at election time, when big
majorities are wanted.
SAYS the Burlington Ne,os: {" The
thing to be done is for the next legisla.
ture to call constitutional convention,
for revising and remodeling our an
tiquated constitution and bringing it up
to date. And it should be repre-
sentative convention, too,-one dele
gate for say every thousand of popula-
ton, and not one delegate for every
town, big and little" The WATcHMAN
recently expressed the fear that the
Ne,os, in its crusade for legislative re-
form, might develop some of the freaks
of the hero of Cervantes' great ro-
nance. These fears seem to be ma.
terializing. How very Quixotic the
contemporary is, the foregoing extract
from recent screed of the Ne,0s dis
closes. If the next legislature will
not do "the thing" which it has nc
power to do, our Don Quixote should
order out the militia and by force Of
arms "revise and remodel our an.
tiquated constitution" The earlier
idiosyncrasies of the Ne,os on this sub
ject were imputed to zeal without
knowledge, but their later develop
ments point conclusively to freakishnesi
as the source. The references in the
remainder of the article to the politics
rAzl1 lx..