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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11
A Vital Issue.

In an article on the suffrage issue,
the Boston Traveller says: The re-
publican party has undertaken to right
great wrong. 1t has put its hand to
the pillow, and there will be no looking
back. 1t also asks the support of all
who believe in an honest suffrage, but
it wants to fight no more battles with
its ranks disorganized by apologists for
election frauds and ballot-box corrup-
ton. The present is good time for
this to be understood"
We have insisted that this is more
important issue to the country than the
question of filling the minor positions
in the civil service. The democratic
party has made it so. The gross and
palpable frauds by which the democrats
of Cincinnati elected four senators and
ten representatives, on the face of the
returns, shows that the suffrage issue
is an important one in Ohio. Fortu-
nately the democracy is not likely to
get any benefit from this fraudulent
work, as their violations of the registra-
ton and election laws have been thor
oughly investigated and exposed In
Virginia, it is stated on the best author
ity that in single ward in one city
two or three hundred colored voters
were cheated out of their votes bybeing
kept standing in line until after the
polls closed, and in districts where the
colored vote is large, persistent chal-
longing of the colored voters was kept
up to consume time and make it impos-
sible for any considerable number of
them to vote. The Virginia democrats
tried the same devices successfully last
year. In Mississippi there were no
election disturbances, because the re-
publicans realized the futility of making
any contest in that state, where nothing
like free ballot and fair count is per-
mitted by the bourbon democrats. The
same dispatch that announced demo-
cratic victory stated that the negroes
generally abstained from voting. They
have been repeatedly warned by certain
democratic papers in that state that
they had better let politics alone. Last
year South Carolina democratic paper
gave similar advice to the negroes, and
democratic orators declared that the
freedmen should have no part in popu-
lar government, save as an inefficient
and powerless minority. The practical
disfranchisement of colored voters in at
least five southern states, by unjust
registration laws, excessive poll-taxes
and various processes of intimidation
is an indisputable fact. 1t is matter
of vital importance to the nation
whether the democratic party shall be
permitted to elect president and
United States senators and members of
congress by such methods, and that the
republican party should be debarred of
the right to enter political contest
upon equal terms with the democratic
party. Until this issue of free ballot
is settled, and settled rightly, it cannot
be showed out of national politics. 1t
can be taken out of politics only when
the southern democracy is disposed to
abandon its purpose of multiplying the
Constitution and violating the freedom
and integrity of elections.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11
A Broad Farce and Its Purpose,

Just on the eve of the New York
election, Harper's Weekly said if Mr..
Davenport was elected that event would
show the popular demand for honest
government and approval of the efforts
of President Cleveland to secure it.
Such is the astonishing simplicity of the
mugwump mind And how strangely
the statement reads, in view of the fact
that the President contributed thou
sand dollars to the democratic cam
paign fund in New York; that he went
to his home in Buffalo to vote for Gov
ernor Hill, and that after the election
he telegraphed his congratulations to
Governor Hill upon his victory. Prob
ably no man in the country is less a
civil service reformer than Governor
Hill. He has been denounced by the
mugwumps as friend of the spoils-
men, as hostile to the Presidents re-
form purposes, and as representing the
worst and least progressive elements of
the democratic party. But it is evil
dent that there is no serious difference
of opinion between the President and
Governor Hill.
Here we have another illustration of
the cant and drivel and hypocrisy and
false pretence which has thus far
marked the so-called reform policy of
the national administration. The at
tempt of the mugwumps to impress the
country with the belief that the Presi-
dent is rigidly adhering to his civil
service policy will delude nobody, while
he goes straight on distributing the
spoils to the democratic victors. All
the political hypocrites, however, are
not confined to the mugwumps, who
still profess faith in the Presidents re-
form policy when he is furnishing so
many illustrations that he does not
mean to carry it out. We find Governor
Hill, who is denounced by the mug
wumps as an enemy of civil service re-
form, declaring, in speech to the DEM
ocrats at Albany, that " our victory will
strengthen the hands of our President
and aid him in his efforts for the purifi-
cation of the public service"
1t may be enquired, to what end is
this farce of deception being played?
That the President has pretty good
understanding with his party is now
very evident from the course of affairs
in New York. The indications are
that he is paving the way thus early to
secure denomination in 1888. AS all
the offices and patronage in the southern
states will be given to democrats, he
can have a "solid South to start
with and if the offices in New York
and few other northern states are so
filled as to satisfy the demands of the
democratic bosses, he will have little to
fear from any combination that can be
arrayed against him. 1t is true that he
limited in his letter of acceptance last
year that he favored the one-term rule
in the election of president, but his sin
certify in this matter remains to be
tested. But what of his mugwump
supporters, who have assisted him in
playing the reform farce? For their
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

useful and practical channels of study
and intoxicating a common-sense regard
of the demands of life. They are in
ducing many boys to pursue mechanics
as study, and by that means fitting
them for paths in life that are not al
ready choked up with futile toilers
after fame and fortune. But, after all,
more can be done by parents and teach
ers to induce the rising generation to
learn trades than can be accomplished
by any other means.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

benefit, and to keep them from return
ing to their former allegiance as long
as possible, it is probable that the
President will continue to make show
of observing the proprieties of civil SER
vice reform, but at the same time he
will continue to give the democratic
party-slowly, it may be, but none the
less surely-the full fruits of the national
victory they have won. The admins
tration is to be democratic, as the Pres
ident declared some time ago, and
everything else, sooner or later, will
have to be subordinate to that.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

AT the national convention of the
WOman's Christian Temperance Union,
just held in Philadelphia, a satisfactory
degree of progress was reported during
the past year. The Traveller thus COM
ments on the work of this organiza-
ton: "The Union was organized in
1874, and now numbers more than one
hundred thousand members, and its his
tory has shown that it stops at no labor,
however arduous, no effort, however
wearying. Not the least of its sue
cesses during the past year has been its
securing, at the hands of several state
legislatures, laws requiring in the public
schools instruction in physiology and
hygiene, with especial reference to the
effects of alcohol. But its work by no
means is directed solely to the securing
of temperance legislation. 1t organizes
Bands of Hope and White Ribbon
Armies among children; it visits the
sick in prisons through the flower mis-
sions it has established; it sends its
members to the polls to distribute
ballots in the interest of temperance;
it extends its hands to the fallen,
especially fallen women, lifting them
to better life. Its only failures are
when it has entered the field of parti-
san politics."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

THE Montreal Witness says the small
pox has prevailed in that city for six
months, and the mortality has steadily
increased, each month showing about
three times as many deaths as the pre-
vious one. The Witness thinks this
will not long continue, as the disease
will run itself out among the unvac-
cinated. But for the good results of
vaccination, it says, there would not
be living person in the city by the
end of February.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

THE New York Erening Post, a con-
spicuous free-trade and mugwump
journal, says that if prices are low,
particularly for farm products, it is a
good thing for consumers, and we are
all consumers while only part of us
are farmers. This is well answered by
the Tribune, as follows: cit is true
that low retail prices are help to con-
sumers, if the consumers are able to
buy at any price. But when low
prices are the direct result of the ina
bility of great numbers of consumers
to buy at all, because of the failure of
work or the reduction of wages, it is of
little use to them that prices are lower.
That is exactly the state of the case
within the past year. Consumption
has been forcibly cut down, because
100000 persons, more or less, were
thrown out of employment, upon
whom depended from 100000 to
100000 persons. In addition, a re-
duction of wages cut down by ten per
cent or more the ability of the re-
mainder to purchase. The inevitable
effect has been that producers have
suffered severely, and all the more be-
cause, in many cases, they had counted
upon some recovery from the great de-
preston last winter and had expanded
production. If any free-trader mag
ines that it is good thing for con-
sumers to have no work and no wages,
and then to have goods thrust under
their noses at low prices, little expe-
rience will cure him of that delusion.''
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

the voting places are distant. The
Boston Journal says: "The real cause
of the republican defeat 10 New York
is that considerable number of re-
publicans in the country, thinking that
the mugwumps numbered one hundred
thousand instead of fifteen thousand,
thought it would be safe for them to
stay at home, and thus avoid getting
wet. They will never again make such
a mistake"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

THAT excellent Massachusetts, maya
zine, The Bay State Monthly, has this
truthful notice of little mugwump
organ: "The Boston Erening Record
is sample of daily journalism that is
getting to be rather common now-a-
days. Like many other of its con-
temporaries, it seems to be impressed
with the idea that the province of a
newspaper is to coin facts rather than
to chronicle them, and that editorial
ability consists in getting away from
the truth as far as possible"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-11

The mugwump papers mistakenly
attribute the defeat of Davenport to
the speeches of General Logan and
Judge Foraker in behalf of honest cleo
tons. But it is shown that the falling
off in the republican vote was not in
the large places where these gentlemen
spoke, but in the rural towns, where
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
0aprittF z1lanirro.
Out in a Snow St0rm.

"T here arc some things that leave indelible
marks on man'g memory. Nothing which
happens afterwards can efface them. And
when memory is perpetually assisted by some
bodily pain or trouble, it becomes all the
more vivid"
The speaker was Mr. Jonathan Sullivan, the
popular druggist OF oston. No man the
trade is better known there, or possesses Il
greater hort of friends. His place of bust
ness, at the corner of Beacon and fremont
streets, is a familiar landmark on those
crowded thOroughfa'es.
Continuing, Mr.. Sullivan said: AZ was in
the service OF the government during the war
those terrible years from 1851 to 1855. re-
member particularly one winter. A severe
snow storm was raging, and the boys keenly
missed the snug homes they had left in the
distant North. At the time | was suff ring
fro an external injury, and the exposure
gave me my first taste OF rheumatis m-some-
thing much worse ana more difficult 10 cure
than ANY ordinary wound. Few or US are
liable to be bayoneted or sbOt, but ever bpGy
everywhere Is daily IN danger OF contracting
rheu atism in n more or less modified rm.
Most pains-nOt clearly traceable to other
causes-are rheumatic. They may be IN tne
juntS, in the back or in any OF a hundred
places; they may come to-day and go tO-mOr-
row, or they may remain for years, or for
life"
Il hope yours ended with the war" sad I.
"Unhappily it did not" replied Mr.. Sulli-
van. II We suffered from it ever since.
Whether shall ever get rid OF it altogether l
can't ray. but one thing can say: that he
most certain, speedy and efficient re LET L
have ever found for it Is Benson's CapciDe
Plaster, / deal In medicines. as you know,
and am consequently acquainted with every
thing that Is used for all kInds Of maladie-;
ami, without denying the virtu $ of other
preparations, you may quote me as saying
that BensOn's asst, Is the safest, surest and
quickest. Yet every time feel Ringe OF
the d trouble / think Of that snow storm
during the war"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
4 Lesson in Finance.
HOsf0n RAcOFd.

Sons years ago there lived in village
which is now included within the limits
of Boston q blacksmith. He was a master
workman, his custom was large, and the
owners OF inc horses for miles around
were in the habit Of taking them to Green's
to be shod. One day a new customer, but
not "a stranger to the old gentleman, drove
UP. His name was Blodgett, but he had
passed a season abroad and had returned
considerably Frenchified, as well as An
glicIZed, and his name had been trans
formed into Blogee. He wanted shoe
set, and, after the job had been completed
in the usual excellent manner, he in
Quired:
CAV, how much is the change, Mr..
GreenT"
The reply came short and sharp, "Half
8 dollar"
"Hawf a dollar! hawf dollar Why,
weallV, Pve been out Of the country so
long that don't know what hawt = dollar
is, don't you know" answered Mr.. Bl0gee,
handing over a dollar bill.
The blacksmith stood a moment IN
speechlegs amazement; then, thrusting
the bill into one pocket, he brought forth
a quarter from another, and, handing 1t
over to BlOgee with the remark, 81 thought
every darned fool knew half dollar
Was ~ -SL.s," marched Lack &C lis Co.'S.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
vAssAR GIRLS APPErITEs.
4 Word of Caution TO MatrimonialIy In
cIined Young Men.


The financial troubles at Vassar Col
lege, says the Troy Times, have been the
subject of much surprise and regret.
The regret still exists, but the surprise
has vanished in the light of recent stat
istics. The sad revelation Of the enor-
nous appetites of the students explains
the disastrous showing Of the treasurer.
The college consists of 900 female col
Iegians, that they are all hungry. In the
last year they not only ate up all the
profits, but actually left the college $i0,-
600 behind. The public has an impression
that Vassar girl is an aesthetic, ethereal
creature, more interested in the declina-
ton of the stars or Greek verbs that IN
beefsteak and clans. Her declining ends
with her studies, however, and at table
she refuses nothing. She is an enormous
eater. Last year the raVenous 3OO-ipS
a shame to give the figures, but il must
be dOne-devOured /, 582 gallons ofOysters.
That is over five gallons per girl. The
figures for clans are not so startling.
During the year the college used $4,000
clans. This is only 100 year for each
student, but is good showing when adj
ded to the five gallons of oysters. But it
Is when the 800 attack fresh meat that
they show what they can really do. The
Ill, 439 pounds, or 81 pounds for each
gili Great Scott! is it any wonder
Vassar girls don't marry? A man own
ing a cattle ranch might afford to support
q wife form this hungry institution, but
most men nave neither that nor butcher
shop at their disposal. The 300 girls
drank during 1884 10000 quarts of milk,
or 800 quarts apiece. Fortunately for
the milkmen of POughkeepsie the Hudson
River was near at hand. Up to this
point the statistics are doubtless correct,
but the few remaining figures given are
evidently defective. 1t is stated that the
girls ate during the year 1O4 pickles. AS
this Is little more than a third Of pickle
apiece there is apparently some mistake.
1t should probably read ''104 pickles per
day" Even this is small allowance,
but the 300 redeem themselves amply
when apple sauce comes in. The figures
show that each girl ate nearly two gal
Ions Of apple sauce during the year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
A CREOLE BOOK SHOP.
The Queer Sort of things the Wayfarer
May Find in New Orleans.
Ne'o Orleans Letter.

Suddenly my foot struck against some
thing. 1t was book. | picked it up,
glanced around me and found myself in
front of an Old-yes, very old-French
house. the open door of which, giving i'm
mediately on the banquette, showed
whence this adventurous volume had
strayed. Despite the semi-obscurity Of
the room | saw books, books everywhere.
They were heaped In irregular masses on
the floor; they were piled on tables, on the
few tOttering chairs, and mounted IN
double, nay, sometimes triple, rows on
shelves that reached the ceiling. They
were all, like the volume l held in my
band-Which was minus half Its cover and
with several torn leayes-Old books.
There was no sign of human life in this
mysterious abode; no creature stirred on
the sun-lit street outside. With one short
step l found myself in the room. How
strange it all seemed If there were any
windows, the moldy old books had hidden
them so long that all memory Of them was
lost. In distant corner was door OPEN
ing into another room even more shadowy
than the first. Yet after had looked over
the curious cid books awhile, from the
dim twilight of the farther room one
shadow gathered more distinctness than
the rest and approached me through the
open door. j. Wa :a4I, gaunt woman,
whose fiOW,n.- TN,,eO of black hung in great
folds about neT form. Her eyes, tar-seeing
and inscrutable, pierced my very soul;
her hair, dressed IN some weird fashion
about her ears, made me know her at
once. 1t was the Sphinx. l addressed
her In a trembling sentence of English.
No answer; only that unfathOmable gaze.
In my fright forgot the words of Egyp-
tian had learned from Ebers' novels; but
remembering in time that the Pyramids
had studied French under Napoleon, l
essayed remark in that language. In
full, deep tones, that seemed TO come
from several thousand miles away, she
answered me.
"Where is the Carmelite Convent?' 1
asked.
"Go down two squares" she said, "and
you will come to la Rue Quarter"
"Quartierp' / calculated; where is
thatp'
1.-THE next street is la Rue Bayou, the
next la Rue QUARTER" she made reply.
'tYOu must be mistaken" said; ttthe
next street is Hospital, the next Bar
racks"
"Je ne COMMAS pas ces noms' i do not
know those names }, she answered, with
naughty contempt,
''Since my time they have changed
everything, even the names of the streets.
La Rue Condo, am told, is now called
la Rue Chartres.''
To appease her wrath asked her the
price Of the book l still held. AS she
vOuchsafed me permission to lay the sum
named in the depth Of a hand hidden
until now beneath the black folds OF her
robe, emerged into the street, feeling
as If / had walked out Of q dream.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
THE WIDOW DISH MES RINr.

whlshs, there! Mary Murphy, dosn think me
But Tn Sfyin' ter tell We of Widder O'shane:
she a, lives in the attic next mine, doan ye
An ne fo,ne washin' fer ould histher
shReW.
W. aiVer a chick nor a chlld ter track in,
Scr kitchea is ALWAYS As nate a. a pin;
Az Aer Gap an her apron Is always that
oiane-
esh. .ightT foine gurrul is the Wilder
OsHADe.
An wud y behave me, on Saturday night
We heard ROACH slip cOmin' over our flight;
An Nike, me Ould man, he jlst no Tered TO
''LOS3 Oas aV the door an zee who it moight
TO-"
An looked. Mary Murphy, an save me If
Wusa't Thomas Malone on the uppermost
sgair,
mes the landlord; ye've seen him yerself'
AM he knocked on the door Of the Wilder
O'Shane.
An I whispered to Michael, NOW, what can
It
Thst AS Torsaip is calling on Wilder
ant day comes Friday wild us, doan We see.
50 kaew thst IL Wusn't cO.hctin' he'd be.
III must be she owes him some money fer
unt,
ThOush the neighbOrs do say that she pays to
the clint;
Ysu take care OF the baby. Michael Brady"
says L,
An m pc pe through the keyhole. will, if
die"
The hovly saints bliss me! what shudn't I
zee
But the Wilder o'shane sittin' pourin' the
tea.
An tGe landlord vus there, Misther Thomas
Malone,
A-sitIin' one side ov the table alone.
An he looked at the Wilder O'shane, an SCI
ne privilege great that ye offer ter me;
FER I've ret once sat down by fair womsn's
Since sat down by her that I once called me
AN is it ye're poor now, Vidder O'Shsneg
Telrs \ daoeRt woman. both tidy an ciane;
AM we're both SV us here in the wurruld
wus ye t6.nk of unisIn' wild Thomas Ma
hone?"
Tnef the Wilder O'shane put the tea kettle
An she says, "Aiisther Thomas, yer name is
crown;
take Is mot gladly''-au' then me Guild man
IIOLersd- Bridget, cum IN here, quick rs yer
can"
20 FAeH. Mary Murphy. I riz on that floor.
An THu into me attic an boiJed the door;
An s,z 10 me Atshaei, "NOw, isn't It name?
Shs'li have no Tint 10 pay, VIII that ldder
O'SkaBe." -I0Hth's Companion.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08

The Voltaic Belt Company, of Marshall,
Mich, offer to send their celebrated Flee
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No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
CHILDRBN'O & MISSES SUITS

Will sell Children's Cashmere Suits at 81
that were 81 so.
I will sell Chlldren's Cashmere Suits at
81 % that were -.
I will sell Childrcn's Cashmere Suits at q
that we're 81 Is.
1 will sell Misses Flannel Suits at 50 that
were 81.
will sell Misses Flannel Suits at 50 70 that
were 81 70.
L will sell Misses Flannel Suits at SIS that
were 81 30.
will sell Misses French Cloth suits at So 30
that were sig.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
one Feels the Lu1ury Of nenevolenee.

Many thousands of visitors to the great
Industrial Exposition at New Orleans
view the far-fsmed Charity Hospital there
with delight. feel that they too have
heritase and share in the beneyolence
by which it is maintained, as the Louisi-
ana State Lottery, contributed in one
donation Of one million dollars, payable
in installments for its maintenance.
about which NJ. A. Dauphip, New Or
LEAFS. La, VIZ give any Information.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-08
HORsFORD's ACID PHOSPHATE.
Decided Benefit.

DR.. John 2. Wheeler, Hudson, N. Y,
saws: 81 have given it with decided
benefit in a case of innutrition Of the
:. 49,, .I~AAi aa.ASs " s.iVvl4Sl,2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-23

THE WHOLESALE DEPOT FOR SALT sALINA ROCK
Nephi Table
Sack PEOPLES
WAREHOUSE
Straight Faulty Xxx hp
$l.60 to rcwf.
Wholesale for Kinds Of
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