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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21
Presidential Figuring.

Since the November elections many
pencils have been busy with the figures of
the next electoral vote. Ugly and lament
able as the prospect is, it seems certain
that the presidential canvass must be
made again with the South solidly arrayed
on one side. A solid South means solid
North marshaled against her. 1t means
another contest on the old battle-worn
sectional line. In forecasting the issue of
the canvass, the following figures play an
important part. There will be 4Ol votes
in the next electoral college, POI being a
majority. The solid South will cast 1913
votes, and these can be written down for
the democratic nominee as confidently as
if they we're already cast and declared
for him, whatsoever he may chance to be.
The democrats must break into the
solid North and capture forty-eight votes
in order to win. If the republicans
carry all the states which voted for Gar
field in 1880, they would have 22S votes
and would therefore elect their candidate.
But since 1880 several of those states
have given democratic majorities in local
elections, and cannot with certainty be
reckoned on either side in the approach
ing canvass. AS Connecticut has recently
given very conclusive evidence of her
fealty to republicanism, it is believed
that her six electoral votes are as sure for
the republican candidate as Massachusetts,
fourteen. New York and Indiana are not
equally sure to vote as they did in 1880.
Together these two states will cast fifty
one votes, leaving III that are reasonably
sure to be cast for the republican candi-
date /; so that he must obtain at least
twenty.four more to receive the election
against the fortyeight which the dem
ocrats will lack. The full list of doubtful
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

northern states, with their votes, is prob
ably comprised in the following New
York, thirty six /; Indiana, fifteen; Cal
ifornia, eight; Nevada, three. New Jer-
sey, with her nine votes, like the South is
considered "solid" for the democracy.
That party must then obtain from the
doubtful northern states thirty-nine votes,
10 win the election, while the republicans
will want twenty.four. If the democrats
carry New York, they must also have a.
least one of the other doubtful states to
elect. If the republicans carry New York
alone, they will win and have twelve votes
to spare. If they lose New York they
will be defeated unless they carry all the
other doubtful states. The latter contin.
gency is sufficiently remote to establish
the fact that, as was apprehended on the
morning of November 8, 1880, New York
will be the battle-ground of the next pres
idential contest.
If, under a system of reckoning the
vote of this state by counties, it were pos
sible to decide the issue of a state election
by massing all the strength and energy of
an intense political canvass in one county,
such system could hardly escape severe
criticism for its inconsistency with the
principles upon which the government is
founded, the abuses and the narrowing in.
fuences to which it would give rise. This
is, however, the practical operation of the
existing method of conducting presiden-
tial election. A great question directly
and vitality affecting the united states is
decided in single state. The question
of the adoption of a policy and the choice
of President is taken down from the
high plane on which it should be consid-
cred. Partisanship narrows down the de.
bate and the selection of candidates is in
fluenced by appeals to those local and
selfish interests which will secure votes in
"pivotal states" A system adapted to a
state of things which existed hundred
years ago, partly through perversion but
chiefly because it has been outgrown,
seems very imperfectly to serve the means
of obtaining a thoroughly impartial and
national expression of the will of the peo
pie. However bad the system may be
it is destined to endure as long as the
two great parties maintain their present
equipoise, or as long as their defiant and
jealous attitude toward each other is sus
tanned. All the conditions are as unfa
vorable for any change in this respect az
in the matter of the presidential success
sion, or the matter of counting the cleo
toral vote.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

expressing the executive desire that
certain Tammany senator be not re-
elected, because he was personally disa-
greeable to his excellency. This is not
entirely unlike the easy way in which
kings of the olden time were won't TO rid
themselves of personally disagreeable "
statesmen. The Independents have felt
constrained to abandon the man whom, In
spasm Of passionate virtue, they exalted
over Secretary Folgsr. To save their
hocks they have been compelled to extract
the claws and muzzle the wolf which they
made shepherd by way of "rebuke" to
their republican servants. Michigan also
had a tidal wave governor, the cheapest
of the lot" j. w. Begole was chosen
governor of the peninsula state by the
combined vote of greenbackers and demo
Gratis. The chief plank in the platform
framed by himself, declared against the
practice of granting free passes and de-
MED the support of the party to any man
who accepted pass. Mr.. Begole planted
himself on this platform, and on the
stump maintained that the offer of pass
to public official by a railway corpora.
ton should be made a statutory offense
Before the echoes of the exultant shouts
of the victors had died away Governor
Begole was writing to the general manager
of railway running to the state capital,
for one of "the little red books" which
was in fact a request for a five hundred
mile pass. At the same time this cor
sistent and scholarly executive urged the
railway not to "esue any free passes to
members elect of either house of represen-
tatives.' He made this request because
"the peaple have demanded it." In
course of time the rigid rule that exhorts
the conductor to "punch in the presence
of the psssenjaire," had made this Elusive
little red book like seive, and the
considerable governor wrote the obliging
railway manager that he would "doe him
great favor by sending him another OF
his five hundred miles pass-books, also
one for Mrs. Begole." The manager sent
the governor his book, but very ungallantly
drew the line at Mrs. Bsgole. As the
New York Times pungently says: ain
August he had urged, in the heat of vir
tuous indignation, that the Offering Of
passes should be made penal offense in
December he began to collect his passes
10 JANUARY he solemnly advised the legis
lators to beware of the railroad companies
and before the adjournment of the legisla
ture he was trying to get passes for hit
household. The great state of Michigan
is not proud of its governor"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21
Drift-WO0d.

The "tidal wave" governors do not
stand the test of time. One after another
has been compelled to hide his dimin-
ished head in humiliation from the pub
lie eye. Governor Cleveland of New York,
who was given an odor of extreme sanctity
by the votes of iconoclastic independents,
has sunk to the level of very ordinary
and absolute political boss. A question
of veracity between himself and John
Kelly has been decided against the gov
erning boss by the publication Of a litho-
graphic copy of a letter written by the
governor to Kelley before the late election,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

Such u man would recall the frst-best
in the roll of Vermonts governors. II
there be any rings or factions within
the republican party, Mr.. Billings is out
side of them and he always has been out.
side of them. OF his abilities in the
business world, IL is sufficient to say that
as the man at whose touch, to use Web
ster's fine figure, the corpse Of the credit
of the Northern Pacific started TO its feet,
his name is honorably known to the
whole Nation as q man of affairs, he is
among the first in the country, and he has
gift Of public speech at once graceful
in expression and electric in effect, that is
possessed by no man in Vermont 10 an
equal degree. We hope the WATCH
MANS naming Mr.. Billings will end in
his nomination by reclamation. He is
one of the Sons of Vermont, who went
out of it poor and returned to it with
wealth, honestly and honorably won,
which he has dispensed generously in aid
of the educational institutions and wor.
thy public enterprises of Vermont. An
independent, upright, able man of excep
tional talents for public life, Mr.. Billings
would be governor in line with the best
traditions of Vermont craftsmanship
MIR. Billings is rich man who uses his
wealth uprightly and wisely for the bene-
fit of every good cause; he does not use
it tyrannically to load labor with chains
or to buy political power by the bribery
of its influence; he recalls Peter Cooper
he is the social and economic antipodes o.
Lord Leitrim."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21
English Preparation for College.

By some inadvertence the following abstract
OF the remarks Of Professor l.. A. Austin of
Middlebury college was overlooked in the re-
port OF the proceedings at the late meeting, Of
the State Teachers Association in this village.
Professor Austin's remarks were Of special in
terest and we improve the first opportunity to
give them space. Upon the question, What
preparation do the colleges expect from high
schools and academies in English the pro-
lessor said In English studies the college
wishes to see in every preparatory course thor
ough, practical instruction in physiology, that
the student may be taught how to take care Of
his body. 1t Asks for systematic training in
good morals also, including good manners.
Elementary studies in physics and natural his
tory are valuable as preparation for advanced
ought to have q place in every preparatory
school. English history should be thoroughly
studied, that English literature may be read with
greater profit. Some other work in English, as
well as in other languages, should be put back
into the preparatory school, in order that the
pressure In the college course may be relieved.
Algebra and the greater part, il not the whole Of
geometry should be thus disposed Of so that
the pure mathematics may be finished earlier
in the course and more time be given to applied
mathematics. Ia this connection 1t may be
suggested that French should be taught boys
before going to college, in order that all the
time allowed them to modern languages may
be given to German. The college asks for the
greatest possible thoroughness In every branch
Of preparatory study. Let the whole founda-
ton be solid. A thorough knowledge of arith-
metic is essential to success in the higher math-
ematics and their applications. Thorough
work in all elementary study is necessary that
right methods and habits may be secured for
future study. Especially should The English
language be thoroughly taught from the be-
ginning. Students cannot do good work in
college, If they do not know their mother
tongue. Reading and spelling should be
dropped only at the end Of the preparatory
course. Regular exercises in speaking and
writing English should be continued through
the course. English grammar and the elements
Of rhetoric should be taught constantly, through
these exercises. Eoglish authors should be
studied through most OF the course, for drill in
the English language. Latin aud Greek should
be laid under tribute, and from the study of
grammar and lexicon, etymology and syntax,
idioms and synonyms, made TO yield up their
treasures In u richer knowledge of English
words and OF the English sentence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

In justice to Governor Barstow, it
should be said that the mention of his
name in connection with reelection is in
no wise inspired by him, and, in fact, it
met with his sincere and outspoken dep.
recation. The governor has made ia
vorable impression by the sensible and
unassuming discharge of his duties. The
encore with which the press and individ-
uals have greeted him is both tribute of
appreciation and the expression of wish
to destroy the baneful one-term rule. II
any real purpose to cruelty his personal
preferences should develop in the course
of time, the governor must brace up and
show that he has in him something of the
stuff of which martyrs are made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21
Notes and Comments.

THE Cincinnati Enquirer mournfully
remarks that the New York democrats
have not come up to the expectations of
the country.
THE receipts from the revenue law for
the first six months without the tax due
from the Troy & Boston and the Vermont
Central are 10000.
The Macon Telegraph bluntly says that
there are counties in "the black belt " in
Georgia in which the maj ority doesn't
rule, and in which it isn't going to rule.
THE Thanksgiving proclamations are
beginning to come up from the South.
Governor jackson of West Virginia, Gov
ernor Hamilton of Maryland and Governor
Crittenden of Missouri have already each
issued one.
"THE republican party of the Nation
Senator Frye Of Maine says, sis in much
better condition to-day than it was nine
months before Garfeld's election. The
trouble is, people forget. The republican
party will win In 1884"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE: care all demo
cratic promises made only to be broken ?
Here is more evidence going to show tina,
they are. Before the recent elections, the
Bourbons in Virginia could hardly find
words to express the horror they felt fol
the reputation views of the readjusters
II Senator Malone and his friends were
defeated, they said, Virginia would onct
more act in good faith toward her cred
itors. The readjuster defeat is not yet {
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

HUMBuaGKD AGAIN. saw so much said
about the merits OF Hop Btters, and my wife
who was always doctoring and never well,
leased me 80 urgently to get her some, con-
cluded to be hum ueged again; and am glad
did, for in less than two months use of the
bitters, my wife was cured, and she has re-
NAMED so for eighteen months since. | like
ouch humbugging. T., St. Paul.-Pioneer
Press
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

Calais.-.Rev. Grin Davis will hold meeting
at South Calais again In two weeks from next
Sunday, November 25th. 4. The On-the-Stair
circle met with Don II Dodge last Thursday.
1t being his twenty first birthday, he was made
the recipient Of q set OF Macaulay's history OF
England Mrs. Henry McLoud has been very
i'll, but Is now improving :. George Colby is
now at home, and has commenced working at
his trade. He is now building sleigh for
Hiram Temoletop
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

Our friend of the Landmark outBag-
stocks the slyness Of old joey B. in ex-
pressing his willingness to bet an apple
that this last scattering candidate arti-
Gle in THE WAToHMAN is by the cunning
of Nichols" No one but the Landmark
could have penetrated the deep disguise
in which that plot was enveloped. The
Landmarks voice is for Pingree, the
Rutland Herald openly and the Free
Press indirectly booms for Billings, and
the Inder brings out Dickerman of New
port.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

NUGGET of gold weighing twenty ounces
and valued at $3.50 has been taken out Of the
river Gilbert at Beauce, p Q
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

COOP health is the greatest of fortunes no
suff ering as Hoods Sarsaparilla. Try 1t.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21

with one hundred and forty presidential
votes, and that the government party will
not command single presidential vote
south of that sectional line. 1t means,
then-at all events, average northern men
will understand it to mean-that the OPP
position, instead of a political party, is
geographical party-a party of the south
ern section, seeking the presidency on the
basis of a sectional feeling. Instead of
manifestations of joy over their victory in
Virginia, manifestations of regret would
be more rational. 1t is the most damag-
ing defeat they have suffered. They could
better have afforded to let the government
combination keep Virginia, and to havo
cast Mississippi into the same scale, than
to have recaptured the only province
which stood forth as a denial of the north
ern cry against solid SOUTH held in its
solidity by Bourbon party organized
upon prejudice against q race"
RUTLAND HERALD " We heartily well
come the WATCHMAN's sense of the fit
ness of things which impelled it to place
at the head of its list Frederick Billings
of Woodstock. The WATERMAN, in
naming him, voices, we believe, the senti-
ment of large number of voters in this
state, who would be gald to see in the
governors chair man of the superior
gifts of mind and graces of character
| that are justly attributed to Mr.. Billings.
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household use it has ever had. The energy,
intelligence and thoroughness he displayed in
that venture argues well for his management
OF this new business. Mr.. Graves will remain
with him till spring. The surmise that Mr.. J.
W. Peck of Montpelier will be associated with
Mr.. Sheple in the business we are assured is
without foundation.
ABOUT year ago the Cooley Manufacturing
Company was formed in this village for the
special purpose of making q sand box axle in
vented by Mr.. +. s. Rolfe, a practical carriage
maker OF this village Mr.. William Cooley
subscribed to half the capital stock and the re-
mainder was taken by citizens OF this village.
Mr.. Cooley, the protector of the enterprise, was
chosen president and the company was given
his name. commodious shop was erected,
foundry put in, steam power provided and
the necessary machinery supplied. Mr.. Cooley
is machnist by trade, skilled mechanic OF
the observing and investigating sort OF which
inventors are made. He worked at his trade
fifteen years in Montreal. His health becom-
ing impaired, he was obliged to leave the shop
and went to st. Louis. His present robust
physique Is hardly suggestive of feebleness.
In q milder climate he recovered his he ,lth,
and after few years work at his trade in the
West and in Connecticut, about fifteen years
ago, Mr.. Cooley came to Waterbury. He has
been engaged In various enterprises here. His
connection with cheese factory at the Center
led him to investigate the mysteries OF the
separation of cream from the milk. An orig
inal kind OF student, he came TO the conclusion
that the old-time method of waiting from day
and a half to two days for cream 10 rise was al
together dilatory; that the process could be
forced aud thorough separation effected in a
very few hours, with a great improvement to
the quality OF the cream. He put his ideas
into practice In the face of the most conclu-
sive dem )nstrations by buldoEing professional
men OF science that the cream could not be
raised inside Of thirty-sx hours, he raised 1t by
his device in two hours and has succeeded in
an hour and half. The outcome OF his obser-
vations and experiments was the invention and
perfection of the now widely known Cooley
Creamery, which in practice does its perfect
work between milkings and which has given
its inventor fortune and distinction. In the
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-24
CONVENTION RATES.
Making Preparations for the Republi-
can and Democratic Gatherings.

cHH anu DtIuOOlhtiO VhthCA mss
The following rates have been Sc
cured on the railroads entering this
city for the Republican State conven-
ton June and 6, and the Democratic
State convention Jone 20 and 81.
These rates hold good for June 4, 5,
6 and I, and for June 10, 20, 81 and
%, after which tickets are void:
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati and ST.
Louis in all branches, the Baltimore
and Ohio do, the Indiana, Blooming
ton and Western, the Scioto Valley
and the Cleveland, Akron and Colum-
umbus, 2 cents per mile each way; the
Columbus, Hooking Valley and Tole-
do, the Ohio Central and the Cleve.
land, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indi-
annapolis will charge full fare one way
and return at one cent per mile on cer-
tiGcates. The certificates for the Col
umbus. Hooking Valley and Toledo
road will be furnished in this city by
W. H. Harrison, general passenger
and ticket agent, and for the Cleve-
land, Columbus, Cincinnati and lndi
annapolis and Ohio Central by the Sec
retary of the convention. Those
charging two cents per mile will have
excursion tickets on sale at all their
stations. The roads anticipate larger
attendance at both conventions this
year than was ever known before, and
are making ample preparations for the
transportation.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-24
The Notions About stables.

Let your stable be we'll drained and
sufficiently lighted. The vapors from
a damp, putrid floor, and the sudden
change from darkness to light, will al
most to a certainty cause blindness.
Let the floor OF the stall be quite BAT
and level. Standing on sloping
place in very painful, ana causes lame.
ness by strainlng the ligaments and
membranes. 1t also produces grease
and sore heels. Every stall should be
at least six feet wide and nine feet
long. This will enable the horse to
turn round without bruising himself
and to lie down and stretch himself
with comfort. Let the stalls be sep.
Grated by partitions, not by bars.
They prevent the horses from fighting
and kicking each other. Let proper
openings be made just under the cell
ing, to permit the hot, foul air to es-
cape, and proper openings at the bot
tom of the wall to admit fresh air will
cause broken wind. The fresh air
should enter through number of
small holes, rather than large hole,
such as an open window. That pre-.
vents draughts, which cause chills and
coughs. The temperature of stable
should be that of a sitting-room or
or parlor not over seventy degrees in
summer, nor under forty-five degrees
in winter. Hot, close or foul stables
will bring on glanders or inflammation,
while very cold or damp one may
cause an incurable cough or disease of
the lungs. Do not keep the hay over
the manger. The steam and breath of
the animal make it both unpleasant
aud unwholesome. If the hay must
be kept over the horse, the ceiling be-
tween should be of plaster. This will
in some measure prevent vapors from
passing up to the food. Have no open
ing into the manger from the hay loft.
Dust is very often thrown into the
horses eyes when fed in this way, and
thus blindness is begun. The breath
ascends directly to the food through
the opening which, at the same time,
pours continual draught down on the
horses head, thus causing chills, as
we'll as bad food Whip and Spur.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-24
Better than SantOnin.

DIR. Kelloggs Worm Tea never Injuries
the most delicate child. 1t is efficacious,
and far better than those nauseous and
repugnant preparations that require
other medicines to carry them out of the
system. Read this certificate:
This is to certify that my child was
sick and very much emaciated. pur-
chased one paper of DR.. Kellogg's Worm
Tea, and gave it according to direction.
In "a hours the child passed 10 to Is large
worms, and is now we'll.
Daniel Van Valkenburg, Utica, N. Y.
PHALoN's vITALIA
Restores hair to its original color. 1t is
not muddy compound. Phalon's Hair
Invigorator strengthens and beauties
the hair and removes dandruff. Phalon's
Night Blooming Cereus, delightfully."- fra
grant perfume. All the Phalon perfumes
made by Manhattan Med. Co., with all
their original purity.