The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-10
Campaign Notes.
PERTINENT NOTES.

THE Granite City Leader has the SUBJ
joined pertinent notes of the campaign:
"If you run newspaper in Vermont and
oppose the nomination of Josiah Circuit
you're mud-slinger. SeeP'
"If Josiah Grout isn't editing the Enter
prise in his own interests, then some one
else who has mighty dull axe to grind is
doing it in the Majors interests; Judging
from recent issues the axe must have had
wire-edge."
ANOTHER CAPTAIN BOBADIL.
The Free Press is following the ex-
ample of the renowned Captain Bob
adj, who was in the habit of Staying
thousands by computation but not one
by actual count. Early in the present
gubernatorial campaign it began to slay
the Stickney followers, made frequent
boasts of success, and predicted with
the utmost assurance the speedy ex-
tinction of all opposition to Major
Grout from this quarter. This was all
matter of computation. When the
actual count began at the caucuses,
however, the slain were found to be
tremendously alive, and this evidence
of life has 80 affected the contemporary
that it's behavior during the past two
weeks has been fairly suggestive of
lunacy. The disparity between the
computed result and that reached by
actual count is large enough to be en-
barrassing to the computer, and may
we'll suggest the necessity of greater
caution in future work, but it does not
justify complete abandonment to all
sorts of reckless statements, which
everybody laughs at and nobody be-
lieves.-Ludlow Tribune.
SHOULD 1T BE W. W. sT1CKNEY?
An ancient slate, framed with wind
and gummed with money, has been
shattered beyond recognition by the
Burlington and Brandon caucuses. The
retirement of the old-line politicians by
1853 majority in Burlington by a straight
peoples movement, and the selection of
sixteen delegates for Stickney from the
Queen City, which had been heralded
far and wide as Grout stronghold by
the Free Press, the machine organ,
show that the people are in the saddle.
1t is the peoples year. Witness the
| downfall of machine methods in ma
tional politics and in our own recent
| republican state convention. Brandon
was likewise proclaimed to be thor
oughly Grouted, but when the caucus
came off last Tuesday night the Grout-
ing was not there, the Stickney dele
CATION going in by reclamation. We'd
nesday night Bristol joined the Stick
ney column by siXty-five majority. The
result in these representative towns
Enthusiastically foreshadows the result in
the state. Mr.. Stickney's nomination
is already as well assured at it is de-
served. -Middlebury Register.
SNAP CAUCUsEs.
The Grout forces supposed they had
plan Of campaign that would work
like charm-it was to call caucuses
early in all the towns where they sup
posed they had walk-over, and by the
enthusiasm thus engendered and by
hurrahing and fourishing of trumpets
to carry the state by storm; but their
little trick was discovered early in the
game with disastrous results. Plans
were all laid to capture Poultney, Leices.
ter and Burlington, but there was q
slip. In the entire northern part OF
the state caucuses have been called
from week to ten days earlier than in
the southern half. Why? To give the
Grout boom prestige and momentum
Does any one ask why Mr. Stickney
did not have caucuses earlier in the
towns he is certain of carrying? The
answer is simple. Mr. Stickney and
his friends do not in most instances
control the machinery that calls eau
cuses; there are too manyl of Mr.