The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-27

gress meets at high noon on Monday
next, and national affairs will engage
the highest public attention from that
time till football comes again.
G. IT is also efficient in practice" ETC.,
the WATCHMAN said of the prohibitory
law. In republishing the article, the
Free Press proof-reader makes us say
{" 1t is not efficient in practice" etc.
From our point of view we prefer our
own statement. -
THE commissioner of internal rev.
enue reports that he spent SOL 900 in
the process of collecting S77, 900 of
income tax. The New York Sun char
acterizes this as ga masterpiece of
consecrated finance" The Cleveland
administration has been singularly apt
in making deficits. 1t is generally ad-
mitted by the presidents admirers that
he is one of the great lights of finance.
THE Brandon Union is a firm be.
lever in high license for Burlington.
The linton says: "The records, which
are not to be disputed, show that high
license law, similar to the one now in
operation in Massachusetts, would re-
duce the rum traffic in that city by
three or four hundred per cent" This
would indeed be a corker. The rum
traffic would be not simply extinguished,
but placed two or three hundred per
cent Gin the hole" 1t would be long
time crawling to the surface again.
1T becomes clearer, with every pass
ing week, that the solicitude the dem
ocrats are manifesting for the republi-
presidency next year, is all needed at
home. The one democrat who stands
the highest in the party, in the general
estimation, as man of sense, and has
in the highest degree the elements of
popular and successful candidate, Will
liam G. Whitney of New York, has
authorized the statement that he is not
candidate for the democratic nominal
ton, has not been and will not be.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says:
cit is seldom that such absolute indif-
ference is shown by senators and rep
resentatives week before the meeting
nf fa xryho do
tions the presidents message may con-
tain as exists among those now in Wash
ington. This indifference is not con-
fined to either party. Everybody seems
to have arrived at the conclusion that
it makes no difference what Mr.. Cleve-
land may say or leave unsaid that it is
the wisdom of the republicans in con-
gress that must be depended upon and
not Mr.. Cleveland's message"
The Herald and NeDs has been as
severating, with more or less of idiotic
iteration, that the WATCHMAN in 1892
"held that the quality of candidate, or
the methods by which he was nomin-
ated, were matters of minor considera-
ton" Last week the contemporary
got down to the proof. Here it is:
"The canvass in Vermont will be on ma
tional issues. No question Of state politics
will in the slightest degree enter into the
election. The speakers will discuss only
national issues The representatives of Yer
mont republicans may be trusted at all times
to nominate the best man for governor, but
the personnel OF that candidate, whoever he
may be, will be forgotten in the contention
OF national matters. The appeal to the
voters will be made on national grounds"
This was written, as the context shows,
in opposition to the claim OF the st.
Adams Messenger that Lieutenant
Governor Fletcher was the only man on
the east side who could bring out full
vote "more surely than any other man
whose name has been commonly con-
sidered." The brain that can discover
any connection between the charge and
the "proof" is very proper subject
for a commission of lunacy. II the
WATCHMAN was guilty of any sin, it
appears to have been chronological
rather than moral or political. Its
diagnosis can hardly be impeached, but
to the contemporaries mind, still under
the trammels of democracy, "per-
sonnet" seems to have been q term
of dark and sinister import.
THE Middlebury Register publishes
the letter Of Mr.. Stewart on the one.
term rule that recently appeared in
the WATCHMAN, and also the statisti-
cal exhibit of inexperience the rule has
biennially sent to the house of repre-
sentatives In referring to this matter
the Register remarks editorially that