The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
Political Notes.

THERE IL malicious whisper going about
to the effect that Honest Farmer CIR nut runs
some scale works at Moline, Ill that he has
passed his winters there regularly and that
he only stays at home this season to chop
political cord wood" The Herald exposes
this talk 80 that Honest Farmer Grout may
get at IL with his AK and fail and pitChfOrk
and shovel and hoe and rake and sCythe
and cradle and potato-digger and sickle and
corn-cutter and cant-hook and sled-stakes
and things and whlck 1t with might and
main.-Rutland Herald.
MAJOR e. b STAHLMAN, owner OF the
Nashville Blnner, and, Of course a demo-
crat, evidently thinks the republicans have
more than a fighting chance to carry Ten
| nessee He says: It's serious question
whether democrat can be elected governor
of Tennessee this year. Beyond ths fact
that the party is badly split on the silver
issue, great many citizens who have al
WAYS acted with the democracy have never
condoned the action of the legislature in
counting out H. Clay Evans, whom they
honestly believe was fairly elected governor
| in 1894"
| WAS the Free Press exercising it's pre-
rogative as bell weather" of the " ma
chine, Tor was it going it alone when it pat ed
| Fletcher and Stickney on the back and told
them il they would be good boys, and not
play in their neighbor's yard, they should
| have nice red orange when their turn
supporters arrive at the same peep hole be-
| fore they get through-to wit: He has
worked like beaver for others, has disre-
| garded the thunderous demands by an anx-
| ious public to De its candidate times with
| out number, has a farm up near Canada
line that belongs to his wife, and it is now
| his " turn?" Is it true that the editor-in-
| chief OF the oldest daily in the city has a
pipe line laid for the colectorship ag ain, OF
is it "stove tall" that now and then dis
u. I.lx.. =.
Burlington Clipper.
The democrats seem fated to be followed
by unmercful disaster. With the Ken
lucky legislature a tie, it bad hardly beer
in session a fortnight before death entered
its ranks and struck down democrat. This
| would have given the repub leans a U hiteC
States senator, had it not neen for the for
bearance of a republican, who, from pity
or some other cause, agreed not to vote un
| til the vacancy on the other side had beer
filed. Now death has come there seconc
! time. In fairness a republican, it woult
sesm should have been its victim; but no
it has stricken down another democrat, anC
this time, it is said, the identical democra
who induced the republican to refrain from
voting before. 1t is bad enough for tn
party TO suffer the astounding defeats it ha
had at the polls in the last three years, bu
to find death ravaging the Comparatively
few men it does elect, and leaving is OppC
nents undisturbed, is as if the hand of fat
was indeed against the democracy.
Herald
IT might be inferred from the stories sen
out from Washington by those more anxiou
to furnish sensational matter than to tell tn
truth that the republicans in congress VIII
support the several gentlemen who are will
ing to lead the republican party to victor
this year are going around scowling at eac
other, ready to quarrel and fight every tim
one of them says a word in favor of his can
didate This is all tommyrot. There neve
has been contest carried on with friendlie
words than the present, up to this time
Every one OF the candidates for the nomins
ton has friends in congress who lose no OF
portunitA to talk up the fitness of their mar
, and it is common to find in group of ha
dozen republicans the champions of thre
or four candidates, but the discussions ar
all thoroughly good-natured. There is n
Safeguarding. Every one is willing
concede that all the other candidates al
good men-but, of course, his is the bes
. 1t is doubtful If single case could be give
of republican member Of either branch
, congress saying a word derogatory to cal
didate for the republican nomination, a
, though every one Of them is pulling all tt
: wires at his command to elect delegates fC
his choice.