The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-30
go TEMPoREl o MoREsl" groans
Harris Weekly. Take your Latin copy
up 10 Professor Putney for revision,

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Jack.
'I AM told that Senator Morrill, has read
the Vermont Waterman for over fifty years.
What constitution the man must havel
And how little hope there is for those fell
lows who are waiting to succeed him.
Harris Weekly
The man who subscribes and pays
for the WATCHMAN /" fndeth wisdom
and getteth understanding" Like
Wisdom, Length of days is in her right
hand, and in her left hand riches and
honor" Senator Morrill's case proves
this. Moral: Take the WATCHMAN,
and stick to 1t.
HARRIS WEEKLY has come, wait
ing world breathes easier and has even
begun to smile again. This mundane
sphere has been a dull and melancholy
spot since Harris babe adieu TO the
editorial stool of the Gazette. The
Weekly comes out strong in Harris
specialties, and here and there in its
columns a CLEAN of wit and humor is
discernible. The To,on Topics style is
affected, and Harris writes in the first
person singular. We don't know of a
town whose general air of somberness
stands more in need of the relief Harris
sass" and piquancy will afford, and
still St. Johnsbury seems an odd place
to start such paper. 1t is something
like setting up Punch and Judy show
in temple. But if the people want
Harris Weekly and like his kind of fun,
send him 81 80 and get years stock
on the weekly installment plan.
If it is really proposed to start the
reform of the "vicious one-term rule "
"where the evil began, at the top"
the true way would be to go back to
1872 and pick up Ex-Governor Stewart.
Mr.. Stewart was the first governor I'M
der the biennial system. He was can
didate for nomination in 1872, but was
defeated. There the evil began. There
the one-term rule of two years was de-
clared to be the equivalent in length of
service, in usefulness and honor, Of
two terms of one year each. If that
was wrong decision, begin the mend
ing of the wrong right there. Mr.. Stew
art is sort of John Alden, wooing
denomination for his friend, the Miles
Standish of the Van Ness house. The
maiden may we'll say to Governor
Woodbury's ambassador, "Speak for
yourself, John!" Continue the re-
formatory work down the list of ex-
governors till the last of the surviving
victims of vicious rule " has served
a second term. Converse, Peck and
Fairbanks have passed away. Proctor
is in the United States senate and very
likely would abdicate in favor of Farm
ham, the next on the list of living one
termers. Thus the Free Press COM
forting assurance to the waiting that
"their terms will come in time" may
have eight years placed to its credit-a
big haul for the contemporary. Four
terms would be jumped at single
bound. Death and resignation might
still further abbreviate the long list
that has accrued since 1870, and shorten
the period of eighteen years that would
still be required to exhaust the old
stock. Some time in the next century
the accumulating crops of new material
would be reached. After the long fam
inc the first harvest would be exceed
ingly hilarious. We commend to the
attention of the freemen of Vermont
this modification of the Stewart Free.
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