The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-26

THE Argus and Patriot republishes
with approval an extract from the Ne,o
England Homestead on Vermont's
state expenditures" which, it is al
legged, have increased from $182, 900 in
1860 to 5000 900 for the last year. "This
shows" the Homestead AYERS, that
even frugal Vermont has shared in the
general extravaganza" The Argus
delivers a broadside of the rhetoric on
this subject that customarily appears in
the papers of the democracy on the eve
Of national canvass. "The times de-
mand change" the contemporary de-
clares. Demolish the charitable and
reformatorv institutions, cut off the
contributions to education, general and
special, withdraw the appropriations
for every progressive move, for every
object designed to keep the state in
sight of her sisters in these closing years
of the nineteenth century, and it is pos
sible that the states expenditures might
be set back to the sum stated for 1860,
or several generations further back.
And this would be modern democracy.
There is worldwide difference be-
tween extravaganza and expendi-
lures that have been made in the inter-
est of humanity and of intelligent, sub
stantial progress, moral and material.
THE Granite City Leader doesn't see
in the boast of the Grout partisans that
their candidate has the support of GER
tain daily papers the implied proof that
"the major has cinch on the nomina-
ton, by any means" The Leader re-
calls some history that is not yet an
Gent: "a man doesn't have to be very
old to remember the time when all the
daily papers, the Rutland Herald in
Guided, were devoting columns of edito-
rial space to the task of convincing the
people that U. A. Woodbury. was the
man who ought to have the nomination
for governor" In 1892, also, the dai.
lies lined up in active opposition to
Colonel Fuller, except the Free Press,
which judiciously remained on the top
rail of the fence till the contest had
been waged and won, and then with
becoming gravity climbed down on the
winning side. The Leader concludes
"The younger element in the party,
and those who have come to the con.
clusion that it is high time there should
be a change in the old regime, are out
for W. W. Stickney of Ludlow and they
are going to make the biggest kind OF
fight before they accept any old rounder
for the first course on the menu" The
Granite City's heart is evidently in the
right place. -
SPEAKER REED may never be presi
dent, but he is bound to be right, and
that is better than being president
His greatness and his fitness to be
president has been shown in many
ways, and these qualities are appearing
conspicuously in his bearing in the
speakers chair, presiding over an as
sembly dangerously near unanimity in
its political belief. There are quarries
of truth in the article Let Speaker
Reed Alone" on page three. Further
more, the subjoined fact would not dis
qualify him, in the opinion of homes
men, for the very responsible duties o
the White House: "Speaker Reed ha
succeeded in keeping the ex-members o
congress, who are engaged in lobbying
off the floor of the house to create
extent than has ever before been done
The rules give ex-members of boil
branches of congress the privilege o
the floor, but the rules also say tina
this privilege can only be enjoyed b,
those who are not interested in legisla
ton. Early in the present session
Speaker Reed instructed the door
keepers of the house to admit no ex
member not provided with a pas
pikhOu W ehO oPOohOiS ouu w cCuu ~
who applied for admission without
pass, to him. He has only issue
passes to the ex-members who cor
vinced him that they were not lobbyists.
"DoN'T beti Save your money for rain
day. But If you must bet on the next 90,
ernor, place your money on the name {
Josiah Circuit Of Derby. 1t matters NJ
whom you prefer, whom I prefer, or whoI
nine-tenths of the voters in the state prefe
the powers that be have said Circuit, an
Circuit it will be. Paste this in your ha
and see whether you have to call somebod
liar next summer"
The author of this extract from stat
exchange can be neither prophet nj
the son of a prophet. Others to who's
mental vision patriotic faith has give
the penetrating power of the X ray
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