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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

THE better class of the religious papers
do not countenance the efforts of certain
political journals to steal the livery of
morality to serve the devil in and score
point in political canvass. The Chris
tian at Work says; ave have received
several invitations to travel four hundred
and fifty miles to Buffalo at an expense
of twenty dollars, going and returning,
board ourselves at hotel, and investigate
unclean newspaper reports. We expect
like invitation to Maine for the same
purpose and at about the same cost. In
either case we decline with thanks, having
much better work on hand requiring at
tention. And now, friends, send us no
letters of personal detraction on either
side. We suspect charges that are
brought on in an election campaign, while
the old-time accusations are too we'll
known to need any recapitulation in our
columns. All personal indictments from
now till November will 60 into the golden
basket; we will have none of them"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20
WE trust that the towns of the sta

WE trust that the towns of the state
are carefully considering the question of
the choice of representatives. The char
acter of the legislation enacted, the
speedy and proper transaction of the
states business, depend more upon the
composition of the house than the other
branch of the general assembly. "Who
is most competent to represent the town ?"
not "Whose turn is it ?" should be the
starting-point of the canvass for mem.
bers of the lower house, and the canvass,
30 begun, should be followed up till the
right men are chosen all over the state.
Wherever a worthy man now holds the
Office of representative, rotation should
not be allowed to cheat the town and the
state out of the benefits derivable from
experience. Let the towns endeavor to
do their best this year to provide the state
with thoroughly competent and efficient
house of representatives.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

On the 9Th instant the Indianapolis
Sentinel contained an editorial making
scandalous charges against Mr.. Blaine.
Mr.. Blaine summarily resents this attack
by suit for libel. In despatch from
Bar Harbor, August 14th, to Colonel w.
r. Holloway, he says: g. have this mo-
ment received the atrocious libel of the
Indianapolis Sentinel. 1t is utterly and
abominably false in every statement and
every implication. Political SANDER l do
not stop to notice; but this editor assails
the honor of my wife and my children.
desire you, without an hours delay, to
employ the proper attorney and have the
responsible publisher of the Sentinel sued
for libel in the United States district
court of Indiana. 1t is my only remedy.
am sure that honorable democrats alike
with honorable republicans will Justify
me in defending the honor of my family.
if need be, with my life" The matter
was placed in the hands of Senator
Harrison's law firm and a complaint filed
in the United States circuit court against
the Sentinel company demanding $4,000
damages. Mr.. Blaine's presence as q
witness will be necessary, it is said, and
the suit and criminal proceedings will
be pushed with all possible dispatch
1t does not yet appear that Candidate
Cleveland has sued the Buffalo Telegraph
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

Auence upon public morality. The ext
gencies of the canvass do not require
that 80 much moral pollution, even if 1t
were clear that everything the Journal has
alleged were true, should be spread before
the eyes of the young men and women of
the country. Thousands of them with
prurient curiosity will brood over the
story of alleged debsucheries and to many
it may prove the first prompting to an
impure course of life. Thousands will
pore over it who never read syllable of
wholesome political literature. The nox-
ious emanation can hardly fail to breed
evils that will task the combined agencies
of good to cure or neutrslize. The thin
disguise of virtue under which the baleful
messenger was sent forth into the market
places and into the family circle will
hardly justify the sending, nor will the
prurient prudery which the Journal affects
destroy the venom of its sting. The case
seems to stand thus in its baldest aspect.
If now false coloring has been given to
the story, if it shall be proved that the
main fact of single lapse from virtues
ways has been lighted up with the lurid
blaze of false and calumnious charges,
the wickedness Of the whole proceeding
exceeds the capacity of just and proper
Characterization. Every legitimate pur-
pose, every sincere and honest impulse,
would have been better served by state
ment in chaste terms of the main facts in
the case, and by decent and natural ex-
preston of such sentiments as those facts
evoked. No one believes that the Journal
was actuated in this matter by a burning
zeal in the cause of virtue. 1t has time
aud again supported, and doubtless will
in the future support, for office, men even
more open to criticism on the score Of
morality than Governor Cleveland. 1t
seems to be plain that it is impelled solely
by desire to obtain, no matter at what
disaster to the cause of public morality, a
temporary partisan advantage where there
is already, in the discussion of matters
that are of national consequence, all the
odds any reasonable foeman could ask.
Papers that descend to this filthy mode of
warfare confess their incapacity to handle
effectively the legitimate weapons of clean
and honorable discussion. The New York
Tribune, the acknowledged leader in the
East of the republican canvass and hard
and pitiless hitter, disdains to use the
weapons which its Boston co-worker finds
so congenial. 1t maintains its discussions
high above the plane of low and debasing
personalities, and by its course wins pub.
lie respect and commentator. The
Journal stands alone in its bad eminence
among decent papers. Some of its late
issues would breed moral pestilence in
any family and should have been sup
pressed as "obscene literature by the
official guardians of public virtue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

In commenting upon our remark that
in the enacting of the listing and corpo-
ration tax law the work of state regenera.
tion was only begun" the Reformer says
EXACTLY, and the only way to insure its
continuance is to vote for L. w. Reding-
ton, and build up an opposition party in
Vermont which can brighten the ring
rulers into good work" The usually care
full Reformer has over-resched itself in
this instance. 1t must have been a mere
slip, as it surely has not forgotten the
damaging admission it was obliged to
make about Redington's attitude toward
the corporation tax law when we
called its attention to the hesitating en-
dorsement which he gave to it in his
speech accepting the nomination for the
governorship. The Reformer acknowl-
edged then that Mr.. Redington was not
outspoken in favor of the law for fear that
he would excite some antagonism in the
party. And this is the same man for
whom the Reformer now seeks votes
under the plea of a necessity for continu-
ing reforms already begun by the republi-
cans, the latest and most prominent of
which is the corporation tax law.
Wouldn't it be better to urge Redington's
election on some other ground, as, for
instance, the well-known fact that he
favors license law?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

the acknowledged exponent and champion
BY reason of this failure the general did
not 60 before that body as candidate for
its chief honor, and accordingly formally
accepts the nomination Of the greenback
labor party and the anti.monopolist or
ganization. In closing, General Butler
says: "For reasons that l have made
apparent, your principles were rejected
and your alliance spurned. The
democracy has left you to fight the battle
against the oppressors of the people alone.
We will fight the battle of the people to-
gether in the best manner we csn and l
pledge to you all that have of remaining
strength in declining years to do all that
in me lies in behalf of the principles that
you and l hold dear, and without the early
prevalence and adoption Of which this
government cannot stand. You will have
one advantage in your candidate-you will
have to spend no time in defending him.
His doings have been known to the
country for more than quarter of a
century. Every act of his life has been
under a microscope lighted by the lurid
fires of hate and SANDER. He is yet un.
harmed, and has no opinion to take back,
no policy to recant, and no just charge to
explain for what he has done either in
peace or war"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20
A Still Sadder Story.

The pathetic story of Greely's retreat,
the heroic sufferings of his party and the
death, by starvation, of the greater por-
ton of his expedition have been supple
mented during the past week by terri
BILE report of lives saved by cannibalism,
and by accounts of exhumation and EXAM
ination of the buried victims of Arctic ad-
venture. The country should have been
spared this CHASTITY recital, at least till the
exact facts had been fully and officially
ascertained. The New York Times led
the way with several columns of alleged
details of mutilation of the bodies of the
dead by their surviving companions. The
newspapers have followed with the sto-
ries of the officers of the relief expedi-
ton and accounts of interviews with Of
ficials at Washington. 1t seems to have
been quite generally believed, notwith-
standing the denial of Commander Schley
and others, that some, at least, of the ILL
fated party had sustained, or attempted
to sustain, life by consuming the feshy
portions of the bodies of those who had
been the last to succumb to the pangs of
hunger. The bodies of Lieutenant Kis.
lingbury and Private Henry, it was said,
bore unmistakable evidence of the truth
of this horrible tale. These bodies have
been exhumed, and an examination shows
that the limbs and parts of the trunks
have been picked clean. The narrowing
developments of the struggle for life in
the starving camp are further intensified
by Lieutenant Greely's official report that
it became necessary to order the death of
Henry for repeated thefts from the com.
pany's scanty and vanishing store of pro-
visions. After repeated offenses and
faithful admonition and warning, he was
again detected in acts that imperilled the
lives Of the remnant of the party, and by
order of Lieutenant Greedy the unhappy
man was shot. The act is fully justified
in official circles at Washington and
sanctioned by public opinion. And should
it be finally proved true that the survivors,
or any of them, eked out the miserable
pittance of sea weed, shrimps and seal
skin by clan destinely preying upon the
bodies of their more fortunate comrades,
no one will hold to strict accountability for
such an act men whose situation and suf-
ferings had driven them to desperation.
Palliation and justification of dreadful
necessity would come spontaneously from
every right-minded person. Indeed, could
life be saved by such means, without
criminal participation in the death of
their comrades, it would be hard to ex-
cuse the perishing, if what is, after all, a
mere sentiment had deferred them from
employing means fate had provided for
their relief. But, Notwithstanding the
evidence that the survivors OF the expedi-
tion were reduced to the extremity OF
eating the flesh of their dead companions,
Lieutenant Greedy emphatically declares
his ignorance of the circumstances. The
state in which Lieutenant Kislingbury's
body is said to have been found was
particularly distressing TO him. If the
body was mutilated, it must have been
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

In his accounting to his constituents,
General Butler thus arraigns the de-
mocracy for its course on the tariff The
country has had no experience for nearly
quarter of century of what the de-
mocracy would do if they had the power,
80 that the people are obliged to require
the most explicit pledges from them of in
tended action before we can put the gov
eminent into their hands. But the
farmer and the laboring man do know
that democratic house of representatives
has just appropriated more money raised
By taxation than any other house of rep.
resentatives has ever appropriated in time
of peace. We also know that the dem
ocratic majority would have made free
trade tariff, containing all the odious fea-
lures of the present war tariff, so far as
regards its monstrous inequalities, by a
horizontal reduction of the tariff to break
down very many rising and struggling in
dustries, and destruction of the homes of
our worklngmen and the home markets
of the American producers. Who does
not know that the very fear of the action
of the democracy in congress has so par
alyzed American enterprise and business
that mills are everywhere closing, mines
shut up, furnaces blown out, and every
kind of employment so curtailed that the
mechanic and workingman are not earn
ing enough to support life in comfort so
that the farmer, even deprived of home
market, and crushed down by discriminate
ing rates of transportation, finds his corn,
wheat and wool lower than it has been
within the present generation. Can the
people, therefore, trust the mach ne democ
racy with power upon shifting, evasive
and deceptive platform ?"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20
An Enemy to True Morality.

The course of the Boston Journal in
publishing the details of the Cleveland
scandal and scattering the nauseous in
dictment broadcast over the land is simply
infamous. No usefnl purpose is served
by the publication. The appearance in a
public journal of alleged responsibility,
one that is admitted unchallenged to the
inner precincts of the family, of such mat
ter, drawn out to such indecent minute
ness of detail as the Police News devotes to
the chronicling of life among the demi-
monde, must be most pernicious in its in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

A WASHINGTON correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean graphically answers
the query, What has Commander Schley
done to earn the honors thrust upon him ?"
"When board of army and navy officers
met to consider the best means of Greelys
rescue Schley was selected as the best man
to conduct the search. There were
score of theories and twc-score of plans
advanced. One said, 'Greely must be
here : another said, you will find him
there A third insisted that he must
have gone in this direction, and fourth
that he took another course. Schley
studied Greelys plans, made thorough
search of all the records of Arctic explo-
ration, and then in report to the secre-
tary of the navy said: IF Greedy is alive
he is between this point and that. If he
is dead, his body will be found somewhere
on line between Camp Conger and Cape
Sabine. Here is the most reasonable
point of beginning the search, and I will
seek him there That point was Cape
Sabine, and to it Schley hurried with all
the haste that steam and sails could carry
him, and he got there few hours before
death came. Not an hour was lost, not
mistake was made, and but for Schley's
energy and unerring judgment Greedy
would have starved with his men. There
were no blunders to regret and repair, no
delay to explain, and no excuses made
necessary. The only report he need make
is in the words, 1 went where said he
was, and found him. At the top of the
foremost of each vessel is little sheltered
perch just large enough for man to sit
in and it is called the crows nest. From
the time the vessel entered the ice until
Greedy was found Captain Sohley was al
most constantly in the crows nest, with
powerful telescope, watching for signs of
the party, and it was he who discovered
Starvation camp, on the topof bare, rocky
hill, over which the icy blasts sweep. with
resistless fury"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

Warren.-Quite company gathered in this
village, last Saturday afternoon, TO witness the
raising of Blaine and Logan flag and listen
to an address by Hon. W. P. Dillingham; of
Waterbury, Mr.. Dillingham; was suffering
from severe cold but his address WAS excel
lent and WAS listened to with much interest.
-. II. W. Lyford is building an addition to
his butter tub factory, twenty by sixty feet,
and Plyna Parker is about to build new mill,
forty by seventy feet. George Bannister has
purchased the old taDnery property of James
Cardell, and is about putting in machinery for
the manufacture OF stone-cutters tools. L.
B. Turner has completed his harness shop. 1t
is fine two-story building, nicely finished
with ash, and is an ornament TO the village.
Willie and Minnie Slayton are spending week
in Morrisville, and Frank j. Tillotson IL assist
ing in the store. Mrs. j. Gerry OF Maine is
visiting her mother, Mrs Laura Cuthbert -.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. l., Kimball and daughter OF
North Ferrisburgh are visiting at Nahum
Nichols on East hill. e.. Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
Eldridge are visiting in Moriah, N. Y, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Porter have been spending the
past week in Burlington Mr.. and Mrs. Jere-
miah Curtin are stopping at present with Mrs.
Curtiu's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Cardell.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

CHICAGO News: " Gentlemen, may go
with you 2" Where 2" al don't care"
" But we are going in opposite directions.
This gentleman is going north, while am
going south" Z" / don't care" But which
of us do you wish to accompany" Both"
"But you can't go in two directions at
once" "Csn't l, thought l guess you
don't know who am. I'm the democratic
platform, / am"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

GENERAL Buffers account of his
Stewardship" is published. 1t is addressed
to his constituents and is the history
of his participation in the last national
democratic convention, in which he failed
in his efforts to commit that body to the
matters of national policy of which he is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20
Republican County Nominations.

E. K JONES' Northfield;
fo' 0en"'oi' WILLIAM CHAPLIN, Middlesex
A.. ,,s. j. M. FISHER Cabot;
Ass 'u'so' Il S. STANTON, Roxbury.
Probate Judge-HIRAM CARLETON, Montpelier
States Att'y-HARLAN W. KEMP, Montpelier.
Sheriff.. II. ATHERToN, Duxbury.
High Bailiff-CHARLEs B. GALE, Plainfield
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1884.
National Republican Ticket.

National Republican Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES g. BLAINE
OF MAINE.
FOR vIcE-PREsIDENT,
JOHN A. LOGAN
OF ILLINOIS.
Republican State Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
SAMUEL E. PINGREE
OF HARTFORD.
FOR LIEUrENANr-GovERNo
EBENEzER j. ORMSBEE
OF BRANDON.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
CHARLES w. PORTER
OF MONTPELIER.
FOR TREASURER,
WILLIAM n. DUBOIS
OF WEST RANDOLPH.
FOR AUDITOR.
e. b. POWELL
OF R1CHFoRD.
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS, FIRST DISTRICT.
JOHN w. STEWART
OF MIDDLEBURY.
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS, SECOND DISTRICT,
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT
OF BARTON.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
10 D. HATCH OF Burlington,
HIRAM HARLOW OF Windsor,
GEORGE T. CHILDs OF st. Adams,
E. c. REDINGToN Of Bradford.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

HOOPS Sarsaparilla is an extract OF the best
remedies of the vegetable kingdom known as
alternatives and blood-purifers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20
Matrhmar Dc gunrraL.

rsRnss2OO per year, strictly in advance; or $3.50 IL
not paid within three months.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-05

~ am sixteen" said Alexia Ardell,
rsolutely. 'and was put into long
dfesses last month, and I've a right to
cpme down into the paIlor and see COM
pany on New Years day! And am sure
that papa would let me, if he wps here,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-05

Cleveland has young lady who has
had ballet in her head for three vseks.
That's nothing. Some society ladies.
who are fond of dancing, have their
'bead full of balls all winter
Absolutely the best Porous Plaster eyer
made. The Hop Plaster Is co,apneed Of
Fresh Hops, Balsams and Gums. Weak
B,cK, Side Ache, Sore Chest, and alt pains
are speedily cured by IIs use. AlEIy cue
Only 2j cents at any drug store,
-Tramps have signs and tokens.
XXX on cato post means, "The old
bloke wot keeps this ere dosing ken
has gun and two bull. dogs, and ALL
true gentlemen will pass on TO the next
house."
About twice as much Of Jadwin's Pine
Tar Syrup for your money as that VI any
other, aud every one admits It n hundred
times better Tor colds, Group, &c. 1t is about
the only cough remedy made on scientific
principles. Thomas, the druggist, sells u.
The prayers Of little children are
very suggestive A little girl on Long
Island, few nights ago, closed her de-
yoti)ns with these words: II do thank
the, Lord, for all my blessings, and Ill
do as much for You some time"
good staple patent medicine like Jad.
wins Tar Syrup may be trusted with Ear
more safety than ductor's prescription.
The former has been tested over hundred
thousand times, while the latter may effect
and may not. For sale at Thomas' drug
stcre, Bank street.
We met young married man and
asked him how be was pleased with hia
change in life He took long breath
and turned his EYES mp as If trying to
think of some expressive word, and then
said. "Oa sir, 1 wouldn't take mill
| lion dollars fer myself"
When Boston gill gets miffed at
her husband, she says: base tyrant, I
shall leave thee and fly to my father"
When Western girl becomes similarly
affected, she simply remarks: "Old man.
I'm going 10 git up aed git; just climb
up on your eyebrows and see if you can
stop me-
1t is the easiest move that completes
the game. itune is like the lady
whom lover carried of fioni his rivals
by putting additional lace. e.tupon his
liveries.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-05

Superior INTELLIGENcE,- "A quart OF
whisky was mixed with feed and given
to COW in New York town, and half
an hour later the animal was believing
ave won't go home till morning. or
something that way, and treated several
persons to couple of "horus" aud act
ed iu very reprehensible manner gen
orally. When she sobered up she jump
ed down a bank and broke her neck.
This shows the superior intelligence and
good sense of the COW over the average
hibulous person. When the latter gets
drunk and makes things howl, instead OF
jumping down bank and breaking bis
neck when he gets sober, be Immediately
begins to lay the foundation for another
roaring drunk.