The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-29

ant-poyernor. Here is scnene "orVny |
of the genius of the Ne'0s. Inc lie OF
the editor of the WATCDMAN, for which
the Nevs appears to be solicitous, is OF
no particular moment in considering !
the reasons for an early convention
but it is important that the lives of
statesmen should be conserved and
their political preserves made secure
against poachers.
Here is the Brandon Union, fresh and
succulent as the sprouting grass of the
Otter Creek valley, counseling the
WAToHMAN, elf it wishes to retain
particle of its PRESTIGE" not to "allow
its spite against Grout to overbalance
its judgment" Thanks, verdant con-
temporary; but your zeal, inhamed by
liberal orders for extra copies, withers
your reason and destroys your discre-
ton. Whence this idea of "spite "?
Is it original, or has it been contracted,
like the smallpox, or other contagion,
by rubbing up against the Barton pest
house? Like the latter, he seems to
be unable to understand that one may
have, on public grounds, objections to
a man when he becomes a candidate
for office; and, being further unable to
meet and answer these objections, from
the poverty of his moral nature evolves
the notion that "spite " is an oppo-
nent's spring of action. AS a matter
of psychological interest, showing how
some minds, or alleged minds, work, or
conceive things, we would thank the
Union to explain the evolution of this
theory of "spite "; or, if this is task
beyond its powers, to place its dome of
thought under the influence of the x
rays and have the process photographed.
Two months ago, to the eye of the
reverend chronicler of the Free Press,
the canvass for the governorship was a
mighty stream, on whose swelling
bosom Candidate Grout was sweeping
on to the snug haven of an uncon-
tested nomination. Three weeks ago
his bark was among the eddying cur
rents of practical assurance" Last
week the chronicler was peering out
upon the stream, with strained eyes and
troubled mien, for straws to tell him
which way the erstwhile rushing cur
rent is fowingl Did the contemporary
ever read of the wonderful highway
that opened broad and smooth and
level, that began to narrow down and
change till it shrunk to a bride path
that finally dwindled to squirrel track
and ran up tree? This is like the
story of the Grout campaign for The
governorship, as the Free Press ii
telling it in semi. install
ments, and this promises to be its con
clusion.
Space forbids the extension of thes'
reflections. There are others, ant
there are press comments whose lacl
ola certain sort of humor, or whose con
ventional stupidity, dispossesses then
of interest or picturesqueness. w
rejoice to see that the circulation o
the journals of these dome-heade'
scriveners has been undergoing mar
velous expansion with the opening o
the canvass. We trust that it is all on tn
cash-in. advance plan, and that wealth
will enable the worthy editors to COG
their brows during dog days by the re
sounding sea, or to take a summer ru
among the glories of the old world, re
turning in time to hear " Governor
CIRCUITS inaugural, and to receiv
their promised appointments on tn
J staff, the board of agriculture, tn
railway commission, or to other post
of honor or emolument; and we hop
| that the wormwood of disappointment
will not embittter any of these pre.elet
J ton Establishments.