The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-23
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.

AHTH UR HOP6S, General bulIOI
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY seems to be
lifting the American flag in Hawaii as
promptly as Grover Cleveland pulled it
down.
The few free-traders left in the
Democratic party are in a state of dis
tress over the fact that one-third of the
Southern vote in Congress has been
cast for high protection in the con
sideration of the tariff bill. This is an
other case in which "the blow almost
killed father"
THE faith of the American people in
the wisdom of President Mckinley will
not be lessened when his plans with
reference to Cuba are made public. He
is giving the subject close and earnest
attention and his action when matured,
will crafty citizens of the United
States and friends of Cuba.
A CONSENSUS of the newspaper SEN
timents of the country, with reference
to business revival, shows decided
improvement. Articles are appearing
in daily papers in every part of the
country, showing a slow but distinct
growth, while Dun's Revie,O, which
covers the field thoroughly, says: "On
the whole, the number of hands en-
ployed, the volume of new orders and
the amount of work done are slowly
increasing, while the prospect of good
wheat and cotton crops helps"
THE silver forces, it is said, are
looking for new leader. The idiosyn-
crasies of those who led the silver
cause to defeat last fall are growing sc
rapidly that the people who are spend
ing money to keep the silver cause be-
fore the country, have concluded tt
make a change in leadership. 1t ii
said that this was the real cause o.
the Chicago gathering in which SSH
yer republican party was organized
and that the work of this organization
will be to push new man to the from
to displace Bryan as the leader of thu
silver movement.
THE latest advices from Washington
would seem to indicate that Presiden
Mckinley has decided that the time has
come for Congress, as the representa-
tive of the people, to use its deliberate
judgment in regard to granting belli
gerent rights to the struggling Cubans
1t is said the President defines his pc
sition in regard to the Cuban belliger
ent resolution by saying, Let the PEG
pie have their way" and that he viii
no longer interpose his influence agains
its passage. The recent course o.
events in Spain, whereby it is eviden
that it is the purpose of the new minis
try to permit Gen. Weyler to continue
his policy of DISCRIMINATING the non
combatants, leaves the United States
government little reason to hope thai
real concessions will be offered by
Spain to Cuba, as seemed probable q
few days ago, or that the warfare
against her people will be conducted on
civilized lines. -
The Hardwick Gazette of a recent
date contained a scathing editorial para
graph aimed at the Burlington Democ-
racy because of the fact that when Mr..
Bryan was there at recent date, he was
apparently under the sole chaperonage
of the Republicans of that city. The
Gazette pertinently asked why Col.
Smalley or Postmaster Hall or some
other of the faithful did not meet Mr..
Bryan at the station and take him to
their bone for entertainment. In re-
ply to this the Brattleboro Refornaer,
the leading Democratic organ in the
state, says: "Col. Smalley had an inn
perative call to Washington { on bust
ness and the Colonel always attends
to business. Had he been in the city
no doubt he would have been willing to
do everything courtesy could suggest
toward the entertainment of the dis.
tinguished guest, and that while feel
ing no sympathy for his financial no.
tons. We imagine, without knowing
anything about it, that men like Small
ley and Hall were not wanted by the
silverites to take any part. They pre-.
fer Republican to gold Democrat
any day. Besides the Bryan visit to
the state was entirely business opera.
ton conducted by the Republicans fol-
The money there was in it," Our Dem.
ocratic brethren in the state are re.
ferred to Psalms: 1873 /.
The fact that Grover Cleveland has
recently consented to receive the de-
gree of III, D. from Princeton Coll zoe