St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-10-05
Press Comment.

Press Comment.
The nomination OF Theodore
Roosevelt for governor of New York
means neither the triumph OF one
faction of the republican party over
another faction, nor the success OF
one personal ambition over other
personal ambitions. 1t signifies that
the whole party within the state, by
an impulse natural, spontaneous and
irresistible, has put itself in line
with the very fore.guard in the pro-
cession of events, and is entering this
political campaign thoroughly i'm
bued with the republicanism OF 1890,
the wonderful year. The issues and
the candidate are Of represent date;
not of 1896, or of 1894, or of 1890,
or of 1880, or of any preceding
year.
A united party never had worth
ier representative than this repub-
lican and American. Honest, intelli-
gent. capable, patriotic and fearless
he is, and all men know it. His
character and his record command
that sort of enthusiastic support
which comes from the heart and not
merely from the sense of partisan
obligation. There is neither humbug
nor vainglory, nor again the guile of
self-seeking, in his composition. The
people know that he is genuine, that
he goes himself wherever he is willing
to send others, and that he gets
there; and to that quality of man
they will be true. whether he is colo
mel or candidate. Forward, then,
with Theodore Roosevelt and for the
republicanism and Americanism Of
the present and the future! j New
York Sun.
The democratic ticket for 1900 has
been started buck Jumping across
the country Dewey and Wheeler =
Vermont and Alabama, Manila and
Santiago, Philippines and Montauk.
-TNew York Press.
The St Adams hotels threaten to
close il the liquor law is enforced in
that city. This is very silly. For
forty years prohibition has been on
the statute books Of Vermont and
the hotel keepers in St Adams knew
that was the law when they invest
ed their money in hotels. There is
no more reason for allowing St.
Adams hotels to sell liquor than any
other hotel in the state, or anybody
else, and so long as prohibition is
the law it ought to be enforced with
out fear or favor. If the people do
not want prohibition give them a
chance to say so.-[Morrisville News
and Citizen.
Deer hunting will commence Oct. 1,
The Sitter would advise its Vermont
readers to stay indoors through o.
tober if they value life and limb
These deer hunters can discount the
Spaniards as marksmen. Unfortun
ately their shots will go somewhere
and it will be risky to be out in field
or on highway during the oper
season. AS to the deer they will bt
comparatively safe. If any are killed
it will he by chance shot, London
derry Sitter.
Gen. Boynton reports the number
of deaths in the camp at Chicka
manga park since April ID to bt
426. Assuming that the average
number of men encamped there dur
ing this time was $4,000, we have 6
death rate of over 2.5 per cent. Thi:
is hardly the normal rate" which
the Alger apologists are constantly
pointing to. 1t is not the norma
army camp rate. 1t is nearly double
the exceptionally high rate prevail
ing in the British camps OF India
| [Springfeld Republican.
1t is interesting to learn that agri
cultural fairs all over New England
are better attended and are 6nan
cially more successful this year, thu
far, than they have been for many
previous years. 1t would be equal,
interesting and more satisfactory
at any rate, to good many folks
to receive assurance that the rejuve
nescence of the New England agri
cultural fair has been brought abou
by revival of scientific farming, o
enthusiasm for improved methods il
tillage and stock raising, by an in
creasing sense of fraternity among
farmers, and by turning of the It'd
which has been for so many year
flowing from the country to tn
town, back toward the country
For it is maxim as trite as tru
and as true as human history tina
the strength of nations fundament
ally restsnpon the character, the in
telligence and the prosperity of then
that dwell upon the land and ear
their bread out of the SOIL Bosto