The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-05-25

been occasionally mentioned in connec-
ton with the canvass for the office of
assistant judge of Washington county
court, but Mr. Huntley asks the
WATcHMAN to say that he is not a
candidate for that or any other county
office. If Eber won't, he won't-but
the county will draft him, sometime, and
he will then have to choose between
submission and the penalty for con-
tempt of court.
YESTERDAY afternoon" writes a
correspondent from Washington, ."Sen-
ator Morrill's wife was placed in the
vault out at Rock Greek cemetery. l
think every one sympathizes most
deeply with the poor old Senator in
his separation from his companion"
Throughout Vermont the sympathy for
the Senator is of the tenderest nature.
The pathos of the venerable mans stu
alton, in his domestic isolation, appeals
very strongly to every heart. The peo-
pie at large, of the whole country as
we'll as of his own State, are naturally
sharers in his sorrow, for Senator Nor
rill, in peculiar sense, is public
man, and the great public of the ma
ton, for more than a generation, has
had an affectionate interest in him.
The people feel the bereavement in
the great loss that has befallen him in
the evening of his days.
In the pending contest between
Judge Read and General Grout, the lat
ter can have no monopoly of the pre-
ference the soldier naturally has for a
comrade in the war. Judge Read was
himself Union soldier, in the second
regiment Vermont volunteers. He
was two years in the service, and was
mustered out at the close of the war.
The wound he received in the battle of
the Wilderness claims the consider
alton Of the veteran, if the soldier ar
gument is to have any bearing at all in
the case. 1t is true the young soldier,
just past his majority, was only pri-
vate, but he was type Of thousands of
other young and patriotic privates,
fighting for sheer love of country.
Vermont has made governors, lieuten.
ant governors, judges Of the supreme
court rapraaaptat;uoo opd oopotors ~,
Congress, out of men who wore shout.
der straps; now, what's the matter with
giving private chancep
WARS alarums will give to Memorial
Day observances next week the peculiar
interest that the existence of armed
strife will inevitably impart. The mus
tering squadrons and rumors of battle
recall to the veterans the scenes and in
cidents of the war in which they rem
dered their country the citizens su-
preme service, and they suggest the pa
thetic possibility, when another Memo
rial Day shall roll round, Of a heightened
procession of reverent celebrants and
graves of the heroes of another war
that shall claim their homage and their
fragrant memorial tributes. The men
of 81 to '65 who have survived their
comrades have lived to see the sun rise
on the full fruition of the sacrifices
which they and their comrades bivouac-
ing 'on fame's eternal camping ground"
made for their country. They have
lived to see the soldiers OF the North
and the South enlisting under the stars
and stripes, both wearing the blue and
periodically facing common enemy.
The great cause for which they fought
has finally and fully triumphed.
THERE is nothing patriotic about the
motive of the silver men, who are
majority of the Senate finance COM
mittee, in striking out the clause
authorizing the issue of bonds and of
certificates of indebtedness, and insert
ing in their place authority for issuing
nearly 5000, 100000 in paper currency
100000 in greenbacks and $42,-
100000 in silver certificates. And
there is, if possible, even less patriot
ism in the manner in which those
Democratic Senators who have promis-
ed to join the Republicans in voting to
strike out this fiat money clause and re-
insert the clause authorizing bonds and
certificates of Indebtedness are being
urged to ignore their promises and vote
for fiat money. The radical silver men
who are engineering this movement
have been disappointed because the
first month of the war has not resulted
in sending gold to a premium. They
know that if the bond clause is in the
bill as it finally passes there will be no
probability of any suspension of gold
payments, no matter how long the war