The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20

that island, if left in command four
mouths longer. AS the cost has been
GIL 100000 per month and continued
failure probable, Spain would evidently
rather try some other plan.
OUR American apples have secured
an established reputation abroad. Over
26 900 barrels of American apples were
shipped to Great Britain last week, and
the price per barrel in Liverpool aver
aged 1915. The choice Newton pip
pins brought from $3.50 to 1925 per
barrel.
The Brattleboro Reformer said last
week editorially: "Governor Grout is
apparently trying to beat the record as
a pardoning executive. The lavish
way in which he is throwing his par
dons round just now, no less than five
within week, gives promise that the
achievement of the over amiable Hor-
ace Fairbanks in this line will be no.
where in comparison"
THE fact that Governor Bushnell
and Senators Hanna and Foraker are
all pulling in the same boat in Ohio,
and pulling to win, refutes the idea
advanced some days ago by the Demo-
Gratis of that State, that Senator Fora
ker has cancelled his engagements in
Ohio. After party managers have is
sued few such sensational canards in
a campaign and they have each been
shown to be willfully and maliciously
false the people naturally begin to lose
faith in any thing such party managers
may say. -
THE recent slight fall in the price of
wheat has revived the dropping spirits
of the popocratic captains who are anx-
iously watching the market. II wheat
would only 60 down again to fifty cents
a bushel they feel they could shake
their fingers in the farmers faces with
great effect. During the compaign of
1896 a bushel of wheat and an ounce of
silver were equal in value, but this
year the wheat is worth just double the
silver, and for some reason the popo-
Gratis do not stand as we'll with the far
mers as they did year ago.
IT is eminently proper that Justice
Lsa1I oh o,,l oh 10 frAv txa
bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States. He has occupied a seat
upon it for term longer than that of
any other justice since the government
was established, and as he is now past
eighty years of age, he naturally de-
sires to withdraw from active service.
General McKenna comes from Justice
Fields judicial circuit and it is gener-
ally expected that he will be selected
by President Mckinley to fill the va
cancy. General McKenna has had
considerable experience upon the
bench and creditable record in Su.
preme Court would be expected of him.
THE free.trade Democrats have moi
even left to them the satisfaction OF
saving that the Wilson law was better
for the exporters of American manu-
features than the Dingley law. They
thought they had things dead to rights
on this score, and that as soon as the
new law went into operation they
would be able to point to decrease il
the expectations of American manu-
features, but in the very first month O.
the operation of the new law the ex
portations of manufactured articles wer,
larger than in the corresponding month
of any former year. This is disap
pointment to these gentlemen, ant
somewhat amusing in connection will
their walls of regret that such a wicke,
measure as the Dingley law should b
enacted. which they say cuts off GU
foreign markets.
THE question is frequently aske
what the Sagasta ministry expects t
accomplish by sending Marshal Blanc
to Cuba to do what General Weyle
with 100000 soldiers failed to dc
Blanco was dead failure in the Phil
lipine islands. He was never fighte
as is General Weyler, yet, if his mis-
sion is one of peace, why should he as
for 10000 more soldiers than Genera
Weyler hadp Sagasta's game is sti