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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-11-03
BRATTLEBORO
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Name, business and Location ofthe leading
business Houses IN Brduteboro.
:v CUT THIS OUT ron REFERENCE.
Agricultural Implements.
G. F. THOMPSON L CO., williston's Stone Block.
WOOD h MARSHALL, Exchange Block, Main st.
b. A. CLARK, Tyler's Block.
Bookseller and stationers.
CHENEY CLAPP, @ Crosby Block.
+. c. EDWARDS, Van Doorn's Block.
}. STEEN, opposite Brooks House.
ClOthiers.
F. s!BRAc KETT CO., Granite Row.
PRATT, WRIGHT CO., Granite Row, Main St
CHAS. ]. ROOT Brooks House corner.
Carpets.
CLBROWN, Marshall & Esterbrook's block, Main ST.
O. ]. PRATT, Granite Block.
J. RETTING SON, High St., next Brooks House.
Chamber Sets.
C.L. BROWN, Marshall Il Esterbrooks block, Main 81.
J.RETTING 4 SON, High St., next Brooks House.
Coal.
FIX BARRows, office with p. Barrows.
COmns and Caskets.
C.L BROWN, Marshall & Esterbrook's block, Main st.
Contractors and Builders.
ia. CHURCH, Flat st.
CrOckery and Glass Ware.
FRANK G. HOWE, door north Main st. bridge.
NJ. t. VAN DooRN son, Crosby Block.
Dentistry.
DR. c. s. CLARK, over Vermont National Bank.
Dining Rooms.
E. L. COOPER Brooks House.
Doors, sash and BIindS.
B.A. CLARK, Tylers Block.
O. +. THOMPSON CO., Wiliston's Stone BLOCK
Dressmakers.
MRS. ]. B. WALKER over Houghton, Spencer Co.
Druggists.
J.w. GREGG, Main Street, opposite High.
1. n. THORN CO., Crosby Block
II. C. WILLARD CO., Brooks House.
Dry Goods.
p. BARROwS Main St. opposite Brooks House.
HoUGHToN, SPENCER CO., Granite Row.
o. J. PRATT, Granite Block.
d. ROSENBERG, Union Block.
Fertilizers.
c. F. THOMPSON 4 CO., wiistons Stone Block.
C. L. BROWN, Marshall Il Esterbrook's block Main st.
]. RErTING son, High St., next Brooks House.
Groceries.
A. C. DAVENPORT, Crosby Block.
j. W. FROST 4 CO., Crosby Block.
FRANK G. HOWE, l door north Main st. bridge
@. L. PIPER, corner Canal and South Main SITS.
MARTIN SCOTT SON, Thompson Rangers Blf.
J. @. TAYLOR L CO., Brooks House.
CT. THOMPSON CO., Wilstons Stone Block
Hardware, HrPn and Steel.
b. CLARK, Tyler's Block.
CT. THOMPSON & CO., Wilstons Stone Block.
Harness Makers.
HEUsTIs L BURNAP Main St.
ice Cream Rooms. .
Ell. COOPER, Brooks House.
Insurance Agents.
ALBERT BALDWIN, Thompson Rangers Block,
CUDwORTH CHILDs, Room No. 10 Crosby Block
b. X. JENNIE, Thompson Rangers Block.
MOODY HOWE, Savings Bank Block.
RANGER THOMPSON, 7GrAnitc Row.
MAchIniSt.
L. H. CRANE, Canal ST.
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BUSINESS CARDS.

DEM. R. JENNIE,
ID General Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
Representing Companies whose Assets are over
sIOO,OOO,OOO.
TENE MENTs TO LET.
Office in Thompson & Rangers Block, next door to
Phoenix ONCE,
BRATTLEBORO-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-11-03

Name, business and Location ofthe leading
business Houses ia BrdtttebOro.
sD- CUT THIS OUT ron REFERENCE.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-09
The Party Responsible.

The Inter-Ocean deals out threatening
and wrath against its neighbor the Tribune
for disclaiming the Republican psrty's re-
sponsibllity for the delipquencies of Presi-
dent Grant. The Inter- Ocean covers Grant
with fulsome sdulstions and says the
party heartily assumes all the responsible
ity and the glory, too, OF Grants admins
t-stion. The Inter Ocean is right. Repub-
licsnism is Grsntism. and there is no Us
in denying it. The Republican party hss
history of Is years. duration. Eight years
of this time Grant has been the president.
Grants administration makes up half the
the history of the party, and fixes it,
present character. What Grant has Cfi-
cislly done the party IS responsible for.
He is their chosen repre-. entstive, and
that the principal is responsible for the
acts OF the agent is a we'll recognized prin-
cple of law. 1t can not possibly be other
wise. Mr.. Grant being a man of low
political principles and moral sensibility,
the administration that be has organized
has psrtsken of his own disposition. His
ultimate counseilors and associates have
been OF his own type. Look at his cabinet,
Borie, Robson, Williams, Delsno, Aker-
man, Hoar, Chandler and Cameron. The Sc
are the men who have given the
administration OF Grant its charac-
ter. The men in Congress and in the
Senate who have been the special favOrites
of Grant, and who have carried ont his
views are men of like political tone. 1t is
impossible to separate Grant and his sd
ministration from the Republican party
1t is all one. They stand or fall together
The Inter-Ocesn is right, and he is traitor
to the party who goes back upon Grant.
The national convention at Cincinnati in
dorsed Grant as they should to be consist
ent. To have repudisted him would have
been to repudiate the history OF the psrty.
The Republican party to-day that has put
'orth Hayes tor president, is responsible for
for the salary grabs, for tie Credit Mo-
bilier, for the railroad subsidies, for the
ring thieving, tor the straw bidding sys-
tenn, for extravaganza, for disordered
finances, for the Indian msssacres, for
Southern disorders, tor the commercial
stress, and for every political evil that
has been endured Tor the last dozen OF
years. If the pc pie wish to psrpetuste
this psrty's power, they have only to elt ct
Hayes and the work will be done.
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Hayes - a Refermer.

Recogn' z,ng the tact that the present Is
tn be distinctively a reform canvass, the
shrewder msDsgers in the Republican
party are making vigorous attempt to
place Hayes before the country in the light
of a reiormer. These gentlemen point to
nothing in the past career of Governor
Hayes to support his claim to the title they
now give him. They recount no victories
over corrup. rings, no removal of vile
.buses, no millions saved the people
by the reduction of taxes, no deeds
of any kind In his past political
life done in the interest of reform.
They can not even to point to words
those hollow and unsubstantisl shadows
of deeds-boldly and msnfully uttered in
The cause of reform, until that word had
become the rsllying cry OF the Democracy,
when the candidates p srrot-like letters oil
acce p.ance weakly echoed what had been
better said In their 'pponents' platform.
So the claim made for Hayes is reducible
to the simple assertion that he 10 person
who, II elected to the presidency, would
be likely to become a reformer. What is
there In the past life or present per-
sonal character of the man to jus
| tify this assumption? He is Q
man of fair average ability, possibly unex-
ssptionsble personal habits, being removed
py his large private fortune from the neces-
sity of stealing from the public, and OF
rod intentions so far as nybody knows,
or has hitherto cared to know what his in.
tentlons sre. He is all this, but these
qualities, however they fit man to sdorn
private and domtst circles, are not all
THAT is needed to make great reformer In
a crisis OF national importance. NOTHING
in Governor Hay es's past career-and be
has been before the public enough
to show what Ia In him--indicsLet
that he possesses any OF the ele
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in this direction /:

That is the way the money went. The
House of r personalities has been fight
ing for the reduction of this increase back
to something like the former economy.
but the Senate resists, and demands tba.
this trained and paid band of partisan IA
vor tes shall still 81 " their sinecuras, in
order that by their il fluence, money
aud labor, the Republican party
may still retain their power
Strip these hangers N from the Republican
party, and it would be hardly p )ssible for
that party to orgsnizs a resistance to the
reform movement of to-day. Let the
reader carefully ponder these facts. ard
then say II there is not need OF reform that
can not be secured under the Republican
party. These office holders that now con-
troll will not reior N themselves out OF
ONCE, but will rengthen themselves with
higher salaries, that they may still have q
stronger grasp upon the public treasury.
Can any honest man read these records OF
Grants administration and not vote for
ra'Orn,7
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-09
Eacfs and Eigurea

When the Democracy urge the necC ssity
of reform, the opposition claims that it is
an empty clsmor merely for the purpose
of gaining control of the government
They claim, by tbs action of the Senate
that there is no need of reducing ex-
penses, that the people should continue to
pay high taxes, and that any reduction in
the government expenses will cripple he
service of the government.
Let us examine tbs matter briefly and
in way that ali can understand. 1t
must in fairness be admitted that the in
crease in population and the settlement OF
new territories, and the vast extent OF
immigration viii entail some new ex-
penses, and it my be reasonably ex-
pected that with the growth of the coun-
try the government expenses should
be greater. II the RECORDS are fairly
examined, IT will be- found that
The expenses OF our government have
gradually increased with its growth aud
prosperity. But when the average OF
this Increase is fairly made aid a cOmpaI-
ison instituted between the admi nistrstion
of Mr.. Grant aud those OF former year., the
increase is so oisprop0rtionste that the
reader can come TO but One conclusion, and
thai is, that gross aud criminal tx.Tava-
gsnce, winch amounts in tact TO absolute
robbery ct ne government, has been sys-
Iemstic4ly pTacticed by the present sd-
nistratiO4. The best aud 1siress way tu
make this exhibit will be- TO take tue ordi-
nary annual expenses o. the government
for, say niue years before the war and COM
pare them with the nine years just
closing. In this estimate the interts
on the public deb', and expenses Il
the pension lisr, are not Included
1t is unns cessary TO say that from 1852 10
1860 the country vas under the ec0nOmi-
cal administrations OF the Dsmocr scy.
Here are the figures:
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ments of sturdy, aggressive Independence,
originality or positiveness of convictions
that 60 to make up reformer. Personally
pure from want of temptation to be other
wise, he has been In public life as wax to
the party that has used and rewarded him.
No fragrant abuse within the party has
ever aroused his criticism or condemns-
ton. As member of Congress he con-
sented to and profited by back pay steal
and put the money in his pocket; and as
governor he encouraged the repeal of re-
form act of Governor Aliens administra-
ton for the breaking up and despoiling OF
corrupt local rings. What is thought
of him as a reformer by his own
party In his own state Is shown
year ago to beat Taft, who was too honest
to suit the party managers of Ohio. On
this occasion he not only weakly allowed
h'mself to be used as troll to defeat the
purest and sblest Republican in the state,
but in order to do so violated solemn
pledge previously made not to allow his
name to be used against Judge Tsit's in the
convention. His yielding in this case,
when he even sacrificed his personal
honor at the behest of parry snd in oppo-
sition to reform, SHOWS what could be
expected from him in the presidency.
For himself and within his own
household, respectable degree OF
honesty might be expected, and we
should probs bly, be spared the spectacle
Of another Bsbcock; but beyond these
narrow limits, the rule of rings would be
as complete, the public service would be as
corrupt. fraud would be as open and uD-
checked, and The country would be plum
dered as mercilessly and unblushingly a.
at any time since the regime of Grsntism
was inaugurated.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-09
POLITICAL.
THE SITUATION IN SHELBY.

THE MUTATION IN SHELBY.
A REVIEW OF THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED
stvEN HUNDRED MAJORITY sCooPED By
OLD JOHNSON.
To the Editor of the Sentinel.
Sir: In brio fly reporting the political
condition OF this county. permit me to say
that there hes been a great awakening
here in the last two weeks. During this
ion of the Democratic psrty has been in
progress. Clubs have been organized in
every part OF the county, and the harmony
md enthu siasm developed exceeds ell tStt
we could have most saDguinely hoped tor.
On the 29th of July Tilden and Hem
bricks Club was organized at Union Vii
lsge, in this county. This was supposed to
be one Of the Independent stron gholds in
the county. About ore hundred per-
sons were present, who were addressed in
an able manner by Richard NJ. Johnson
and VIM. BuckinRh ham. Since then meet
ings have been held every day or evening,
in some part OF the county. The following
Monday evening over three hundred men
met at Bargensville, and amidst the wild
est enthusiasm, the firing OF snvils, etc.,
erected q pole one hundred and h:tSen
feet high, surmounted by a stTeamer
twenty feet in length, one which are the
words, "Tilden and Hendricks and Re-
torm." f. s. staff and r. NJ. johnson de-
iivered elt quent ard sriking paeches.
This was followed on the same evening by
the organization of
TILDEN AND HENDRICKS CLUE
at Whiteland, OF which Townsend v ilson
was made president. The attendance was
large, and forcible and highly sstisfsc-
tsry speech was made by r. NJ. john
son. The following evening our club
at this place was addressed by
w. Scott Ray, our candidate for prosecut-
ing sttorneyin this di-tric'. His audience
Was large and st enuve, notwithstanding
the despera e aud futile attempt made by
the Rspu blicaDs odrsw the crowd to the
park In the pubic square, where Gen. Z.
NJ. Lee was frsnticaDy manipulating the
"bloody shit" in the presence of a doleful
and crestfallen little crowd, composed
largely of boys and women. Yesterday
evening Judge T. W. WoJllea addressed
large or ,wd AZ Bro SnstpwD. His spss ch
was we'll received, and the enthusiasm Of
his audience was greatly enhsrced by the
unanswersble and vigorous logic so char
scteristic of the judges speeches. The
Democracy Of old Johnson expect TO lake
posi- ion III the front rank in October and
November. Il pledges 700 majority.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
FRANKLIN, IND August 8, 1876.
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Tenth District.

We think the Democrats of the Tenth
District did the right thing in nominating
DIR. Raymond, their present member OF
Congress, for reelection. He mas been a
faithful and valuable representative, and
was entitled to the Endorsement by long
est established rule in this state OF allowing a
member, who has done his duty, a second
term. Although new member and
without any previous legislative ex-
perience whatever, he has frequently
been heard on many important
questions. His position on the finsn-
cial subject Is substantially as we'll recon-
mended by the Democratic party in their
platform adopted by the st. Louis conven-
ton. In speech delivered Ia the House
some three months ago, among other
things he recommended the repeal OF the
third section of the resumption law as q
measure that would restore confidence to
BUSH ess and afford the couEtry financial
relief. His we'll known position on this
subject and the efforts he has made as
a member of the banking and currer cy
committee to have bill reported repeating
this law convinced us that the Cincinnati
Enquirer dispatch that he had be come
dissffected and refused to unite with a
majority of the committee in reporting
such bill was sensational. In letter to
a friend in this city he says OF that dis
patch: at is simply a csnsrd and not
worthy of notice. | have In season and
out of season worked srdently for the re-
peal of that act but without avail. / have
done my full duty and it is not my fault II
that bill can not be reported from the COM
mitteS. Almost all the reports circulated
about the meetings of the committees are
sensational. All the Democratic members
from Indiana In the House have made the
right kind of q record on this subject, and
a msjoritY of the House has voted for the
report, and that is sufficient TO show q fair
record for the party. AS for myself, ]
shall continue to vote for the repeal of the
bill in the committee and out OF it, when
ever an opportunity Offers" The Demo-
Gratis OF the Tenth dis riot, knowing their
man paid no attention to this idle rumor,
gave him an Endorsement in. conven-
ton, of which be may we'll feel proud.
They propose to elect him, too, by an in
crease majority.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-09
Never Let Up.

When times were good and trade was
active, every body was wide awake to push
on any enterprise whatever that PROM
ised advantage to the city. The upbuild-
ing of the place and the extension Oh its
business were the leading thoughts and
subjects Of discussion. The unsnimity,
zeal and peIsstency of Indianapolis
citizens In working for public
prosperity became notorious. None
will forget the extraordinary ex-
ertions that were made especially
to induce manufacturers to locate here,
large donations both of land and cash
being made in many instances to bring
business into our midst. In many esses
these exertions were successful. and the
prosperity of the ,ity illustrated in strik-
ing manner what united efforts can &C.
complish. Why should there be any re-
Taxation now? Is there no direction
In which, by making suitable eff
fort, the business prosperity OF the
city may yet be advsncedf On the
contrary, really better work may be done
to make this q solid, powerful and pros
porous metropolis now than at any former
period. There Is q stronger reason for the
display of energy and enterprise. By the
building of the coal road at this time and
the introduction of cheap fuel, greater
work would be accomplished toward the
stimulus OF manufacturing indus
try than all the donations oil
lands and buildings that ever
were thought OF or talked about. This
would be a guarantee of q pe,pstusl adj
vantage to capital such as no competition
could offer. 1t would be controlling and
absolute, for other things being equsl'
mechanical power win be sought where 10
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Furnishing the delinquent. No mat
ter how great the public scandal, be
may escape by resignation. If further
facts shall be developed concern
ing Mr.. Grant, and the House
OF Representatives move fer impeachment,
he csn resign at oncs aud escape.
We do no; see just how the members OF
the Senate, sworn as judges in this Bel
KNAPP case, could vote not guilty
They were in fact judges, and the vote of
the Senate had given them jurisd iction.
The facts were before them. II they be-
lieved him guilty they should have said
so, but not pronounce him not guilty be-
cause thew doubted the Jurisdiction of the
Senate. It was but partisan movement,
and will be so regarded by the country,
and it shows the disposition in that party
to shield the guilty rather than reform
itself
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ORTIZ OFF.
GOTH IEB GRACEFULLY GOES
And the Decapitated Republican
Ticket Blindly Gropes About
for Another Head,
VENGEANCE FOR vICrIMIzED We
NEZITEIANS

VENGEANCE FOR VICTIMIZED VIZ
NEZUELANS.
oRTH's LETTER OF RESIGNATION - HE
THINKS THE PARTY WON'T VOTE FOR
HIM AND SO wITHDRAws FROM THE
TICKET-HIs SUCCESSOR To BIZ NAMED
AUGUST 4.
A special from Lafayette to the Journal
of this city says: The following letter has
of the Republican central committee:
LAFAYETTE. IND, August 2, 1876.
DEAR SIR: Feeling satisfied after a full
consultation with yourself and other
friends in different parts of the state, that
1 shall not receive the united support of
the Republican party so essential to sue
cess in the approaching election, hereby
tender you my defamation as a candidate
for governor. With the best wi hes for the
success of the cause, am yours truly,
GoOLovE 8. ORTIZ.
TO Col. G.. W. Friedley, chairman OF the
Republican State Central Committee.
In view of the declinstiou of Mr.. Orth,
the chairman of the Republican State Gen.
trail Committee has issued the following
call:
Rooms OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, August 2, 1876.
The Hon. G. s. Orth having rendered his
resignation as a candidate for governor, the
State Central Committee is hereby invited
to meet at the rooms of the commit ZEE in
Indianapolis on Friday, August 4, 1876, at
z o'clock, P. NJ to take action upon said
declination. [Signeo] G. w. FRIEDLEY,
Chairman.
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can be had cheapest. But no city possesses
greater advantages aside from power than
Indianapolis. Let her excel in cheapness
OF motive power and she can have
no successful competitor for manu-
features. Why, then, we repeat,
should exertions be relxsed for
local pros parity, when the chances for Of
iective enterprise are IS good IS they ever
vert? There is no great undertaking In
the coal road. All that is wanted of this
city is 100000, the country will do the
rest. Let the narrow gauge coal road be
built and 1t will do more for us than all
past schemes put together.
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expenses to much less than before. But
the figures show the very opposite, as II
the more the people were called to paw
legitimstely, the more they might be
plundered. AS we said above, the reader
will naturally ask, what has been done with
the money? The late report OF the naval
committee shows that Robson got away
with one hundred and seventy millions of
1t since he was in office in tinkering with
what may now be termed a useless and
rotten navy. Then we may add the San
Domingo expenses, the district
of Columbia steals, the subsidy contracts,
the syndicste extravaganza, the postoffice
straw bid contracts for which no service
was performed, the fraudulent claims paid,
showed in by lobbying Radical congress
men, and a thousand other schemes that
have been tackled on to almost every leg
islstive bill that has been enacted.
Here Is another short table that the
will account for SAL ,269, 746 6s, for govern :
ment buildings, in every one of which
there were doubtless fat contracts for ia
rites of the party.
since the beginning OF the gov -
Expended in the seventy-one
years previous 10 ls6i............ IS Ga, 10 80
Expended during d teen years of
Republican supremacy aud mis-
rule. . ......... ....... Al 26e746 IS
itures....... - .r...,......sl2 ,s2s.57s 80
fore Republican Supremacy 403,S s2 IS
Average .... 2,75l,Sl6 A
But summing all thess up will not yet
fill the bill of eight hundred and sixty
five millions five hundrsd and fifteen
thousand dollars of increase that Grants
administration has expended, and we
must seek still some other quarter to find
where the money went, and it will be
found In the folio wing table OF the it,
crease OF officeholders under the Grant
regime. 1t is perfe city asst undine
but yet true. The hordes OF Office holders
have been created for the express purpose
OF giving power to the Republican party
With an army OF IS 900 paid office holders
scattered abroad over the county, In every
township and precinct in the country, who
can wonder that they have success at the
pollsf In this country in its earlier and
purer days, t ere was great Jealousy over
any increase in the small standing army
lest it might as an aggregate body have in .
huence upon our legislation and tbe rights
OF the people. What are twenty Thousand
men In camp and TWO or three thousand
comm ssioned officers to be compared with
this alarming horde of officials in
the way of effecting legislation and
controlling elections? Nothing. We give
below the table of this enormous
incr Q, and we ask the reader if it is
not time that there sould he some reform
I'M