The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-16
Note and Comment.

THE Austin Statesman thinks that If
Mr.. Bryan makes $50 900 year for the
next four years by ecturing there will
be no danger of his becoming free
silver candidate for the presidency.
The money power is at it again
The mortgage on Mrs. Leases house in
Wichita, Kan, has been foreclosed
The claim is for only 81 400 and costs,
and we don't know whether the fore
closure best illustrates the devilish re-
venge of the bloodsuckers or the base
ingrstitude of the silver miners who
were 80 well served by the unfortunate
woman.
THE insurance companies are having
some fun with Referee Thomas B.
Reed. He was introduced to their
representatives at dinner in New York
the other night by the chairman, who
said that he had always believed that
Mr.. Reed was model Of righteousness
and integrity, but that he was sorry to
find on meeting him that he hadn't got
an honest hair on the top of his head.
THE Baltimore Sun says: Colonel
Robert M. Douglass, the eldest son of
the late S ephen A. Douglass, is one Of
the republican candidates in North
Carolina who were successful at the re-
cent I'll sction. He has been elected to
judgeship of the state court, and will
take office on January l. Colonel
Douglass is vigorous republican, and
was one OF the earliest as well as one of
the most earnest aud consistent advo
Gates of the election of Major Nc
| Kip1au tn tha ,lrpoihannu A
personal acquaintance has long existed
between Major Mckinley and Colonel
Douglas, formed while they were stay
ing at the same hotel in Washington
during Map Mex nley's earlier terms
in congress-"
A LEAP year is now in its departing
month, it may not be amiss TO give a
precise definition on old authority of
its privileges for the behoof of those
who have waited till this late hour to
exercise them. A book published in
London, 1906, entitled Love, Court
ship and Matrimonie,' thus formulates
them: ALBEIT it has now become a
part of the common lave in regarde to
social relations of life that as often as
every bissextile year dothe return the
ladye's have the SOLE privilege during
the time il continueth of making love
unto the men which they doe either by
wordes or lookes as to them it seemeth
proper and moreover no man will be
entitled to the benefit of clergy who
doeth in any way treate her proposal
with slight or contumely."
PETER is the best of the tribe of
Kansas Populists, and it is natural that
some of them should try to prevent his
reelection to the Senate. He is mild
and peaceful sort of chap, with no tai
ent for sanguinary language, and the
incurable B.dlamites must regard him
as sort of milksop. Leedy, the der.
wish who was elected governor in No
vember and who announced during the
campaign his purpose of blowing
blood in the ears of the capitalists y
must be more to the taste of the real
old roarers. Mr.. PETER is properly
convinced of his own qualifications, and
instances among them the fact that he
has made 437 speeches. At first sight
this seems no extraordinary, or not
even respectable number for public
man in the Populist business. All
itinerant Populst, who was we'll known
month or two ago, would have had
no difficulty in making 437 speeches in
a single day, and very likely he would
have consented to make $50, for the
sake of proportion or to beat the record
Yet Mr PETERS performance is more
imposing than it seems.