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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
A Patriotic Call Not Fnllv Met.

PARIS Nov. 29.-In the debate in the Chamber
of Deputies to-day. on the Tonquin credit,
Prime Minister De Freycinet appealed to the
patriotism of the members, asking them to give
a unanimous vote, in order to show foreigners
that the French settlement in Tonquin had a
solid foundation. The total credit was voted
27S against 249. The Tunis credit was also
PASSED.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
RGER
Exclusive Halter and Furrier.
LECTURERS, READERS AND CONCERTS,

Painesville. Bodde is thirty-eight years Of age,
and a native of Holland. He formerly lived at
Fort Wayne, Ind. After an inquest in lunacy
ciently unsound mind to warrant his ncarcera-
tion in an asylum. and he was therefore senti to
the county poorhouse for safe keeping
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
GERMANY's AFFAIRS.
Emperor William Urges Passage of the Bill
Increasing the Empire's Army.

BERLIN, Nov. 29-Emperor William in re-
ceiving, to-day, the President and Vice-presi
dent of the Rechstag, referred to the work now
before the members as of the first Importance to
the empire. He hoped the military bill would
be- passed willingly. Other Parliaments showed
themselves disposed to meet the demands fos
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30

New HAVEN, Conn, Nov 29--Yales foot ball
team to-day refused to play another game with
Princeton on Saturday. They won the Thanks
giving game, they say. and to play again would
indicate that they didn't believe they wore en-.
titled TO the championship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
An Easv Hob.

RANGooN, Nov 29-The British troops in
Burmah. in recent encounter with the force of
Boshway killed l43 of his followers without
losing soldier. But three of the British troops
were wounded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
Not Genuine Cholera.

BUENos AYBEs, Nov. ga dispatch from
Rio Janeiro states that the cases of sickness an
nounced as cholera were only cases of cholera
inc. The epidemic is increasing in Rasario.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
An Prtanaad pnnnlaritu.

Browns Bronchial Troches have been before
the public many years. For relieving Coughs
and Throat troubles they are superior 10 all
others. Sold only in boxee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
THE ELECTION or 1876.


fore Its Settlement.
Washington Special.
Gen. John NJ Corse, who has been in the city
arranging matters preliminary to his taking
charge of the postofice at Boston, to which he
has been recently appointed, while here met
many friends and talked over old times He
served with General Sherman during the war,
and his close relations with Mr.. Tilden, suhse-
Quently, placed him in possession Of much val
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
MINOR MATTERS.

Major Mclxee's Compilation of Congress
sional Committee Reports.
Special to tho Indianapolis JournaL
WASHINGTON, Nov 80 The compilation OF
congressional committee reports, prepared by
authority of Congress- under direction Of Mai
T. H. Mckee, ready to-day for inspection
by Senator Msnderson, the chairman and other
members of the printing committee. The com
pilation on the part of the House consists of 335
volumes, of which ninety three are devoted to
the reports of select committees. and PIP 10 the
regular standing committees. The work begins
with the Fourteenth Congress. rs the Burning of
the Capitol by the British in the war OF 1928
destroyed the congressional reports and docu-
ments prior to that period. The method of the
compilation is to include every report made by
one committee from the Fourteenth TO the
Forty-ninth Congress, Inclusive seriatim in one
or more volumes. as may be required.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
another Kentucky Postoflice In Dispute.

Washington Spe cial.
Kentucky has been quite fruitful in postohice
contests, some Of which have resulted disas-
trously to those who have been engaged in than.
1t is soon to have another, which has some his
torical interest Those who are familiar with
the war period will recall that there was at diff
ferent times much comment the fact that
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had q sister who was the
wife of a prominent confederate. That sister
was Mrs. Helm, who is now postmaster at
Elizabethtown, KY, in Larue county, coun-
ty which has been cut off from Hardin
county, in which Lincoln was born. The
hushand of Mrs. Helm was the confed-
crate general, Ben Hardin Helm, q grandson
of the noted Ben Hardin and son of John L.
Helm, Ex-Governor of Kentucky. He was killed
at the battle of Shiloh, while leading q confed-
crate brigade. His widow was appointed post
master at Elizabethtown by President Arthur.
st the recommendation of Governor Knott, who
was supported by nearly all of the leading men
IN Kentucky in both parties. Hex term viii OK
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01

sometimes, but the mendacity of the
Free Press in its treatment of the
charges against Mr.. Edmunds seem
to surpass anything that Eli has been
able to produce in that line. We are
unable to discover that the Free Press
has disproved anything; it has nothing
better to offer than its own unsupported
statements, and the utter worthlessness
of its statements is apparent to every
person who is acquainted with the facts
in the case. The only danger is that
its statements may obtain some Gre
dence among people who have not had
an opportunity TO learn the truth about
either the Free Press or Mr.. Edmunds.
If the Free Press had any desire to
state any part of the truth about the
matter in question, it might have pro-
cured and published the letter that
Senator Edmunds addressed to the
president of the Vermont Woman's
Christian Temperance Union last
spring (Which appeared in some of the
papers in garbled FORM, in which it
is stated that Mr.. Edmunds admitted
using alcoholic stimulants because of
physical infrmities." What those
physical infrmities are we do not
know, but it appears that they are
sufficiently severe to require the con-
slant use of heroic remedies! In view
of all the circumstances, we must con-
fess to some establishment that the
Free Press should resort to the desper-
ate and debasing expedient of foisting
wretched deception upon the public,
for it is one that must sooner or later
be exposed in all its enormity and can
only result in covering its author with
shame and confusion and defeating the
purpose it is designed to promote.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Vote the State Ticket.

Before the next issue of the WATCH
MAN reaches its readers the freemen of
Vermont will have cast their ballots
for the men of their choice for the
various positions to be filled at the
state election. The state campaign has
been one of unwonted quiet even for
an off-year. There have been no mass
meetings held by republicans and no
effort made to bring out full vote.
The warm contests that are likely to
occur in many towns over the election
of representatives may serve to secure
large attendance of voters at the polls
and thus augment the vote on the state
ticket. There are indications that the
democrats will make strong effort to
bring out all their available strength,
and they are confidently expecting to
give their candidate for governor a
larger vote than they have polled in
some former elections and reduce the
republican majority considerably below
the average figures in the off-years.
The effect of such result upon the re-
publican cause in other states might be
not little discouraging, and for this
reason we trust that the republicans of
Vermont will endeavor to make the
best possible record on their state
ticket, or equally as good as in other
years when no more important issues
were at stake. The republican ma
jority OH governor should not be less
than $4,000, though we do not expect
over II, 000 There is no good reason
why the voters should not come out
and vote this year as well as another.
Whatever divisions may occur among
republicans in the choice of town rep
resentatives or upon local issues should
not prevent their harmonious and united
support of the state ticket.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Strabismus of the Conscience.

This is the peculiar moral malady
from which some of the Edmunds or
gaDs appear to be suffering most
grievously. Our friend of the Barton
Monitor, who does not scruple to i'm
pute unworthy motives to republicans
who do not believe that it would be
sound party policy to re-elect Mr.. Ed
munds, seems wholly unable to dis
cover anything in his advocacy of the
senator's reelection that is inconsistent
with certain high moral principles which
he has so often inculcated in relation
to the support of candidates for public
office. He is compelled to make a COM
promise with his conscience in order to
give his support of Mr.. Edmunds a
reasonable appearance of consistency.
Does he seek to know the truth in re-
gard to Mr.. Edmunds' public and per-
sonal career? Not bit of it, He has
simply treated all statements and
charges published in relation to Mr..
Edmunds as false and slanderous, and
ignores and suppresses all facts that 90
to support them. This is character
istic trick of INSCRIPTIONS and narrow
minded partisans, but we did not think
that the editor of the Monitor was one
of that kind.
Certain things have been published
about Mr.. Edmunds that are strictly
true, and certain other things that have
a strong basis of probability; but his
newspaper organs have generally evaded
or misrepresented them, and when they
discuss them at all they have no'fairer
comment to make than that they are
fabrications and calumnies. Their ex-
traordinary course is due either to want
of candor or objectionable ignorance.
1t can hardly be the latter, for in our
small state no live newspaper man can
have any excuse for not being well in
formed in regard to public men and
affairs. The obliquity of their moral
vision is shown by the flippant manner
in which they have treated the grave
charges against Mr.. Edmunds and
lauded the purity of their own motives,
while they can see nothing but high
handed wickedness in the motives and
methods of his republican opponents.
1t must require an elastic conscience to
justify the campaign of trickery, decep-
ton and falsehood which these Ed
munds organs have made. If they are
the victims of the moral malady to
which we have referred they may be, to
some extent, eXcusable, but they can
hardly claim immunity for their con-
duct on the ground that the unpleas-
ant facts about Mr.. Edmunds are I'M
worthy of serious and candid attention.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01

party in return for the honors it has con-
ferred upon him.
The republican party is morally
bound not to disregard the contin-
gencies of the future. Itwould appear
that those republicans in Vermont who
are proposing to re-elect Mr.. Edmunds
upon the delusive grounds of state
pride and his reputed leadership in the
senate are taking no heed for the flu
ture. Does any one doubt if Mr.. Blaine
is again the national standard-bearer of
the republican party that Mr.. Edmunds
will prove as recreant to his party OBJ
legations as in 1884? 1t is true that his
influence has rapidly declined, and he
may be unable to sacrifice the whole
party to crafty his personal feeling;
but Vermont republicans would be none
the less Inundated in the eyes of their
republican brethren throughout the
country in having United States sena-
tor who could do no better or higher
service for the party than to stand as "a
passive spectator in the campaign and
leave others to carry the burden of the
conflict. Therefore the only safe course
for Vermont republicans is to elect a
successor to Mr. Edmunds who can
perform more effective service in re-
storing the republican party to the con-
troll of the national administration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
The Edmunds Campaign.
IRON the Rutland Telegram


There has not been a day in the past six
weeks in which ii has not been possible to
see the steady growth of the ant-Edmunds
movement in Vermont. little over two
months ago the organs of Mr.. Edmunds
were sending word to the country that his
reelection was unopposed and as certain to
be accomplished as the sun was to rise.
Now they are whining piteously to voters
for help to sustain their falling idol.
The Edmunds machine in this state had
been built up through official patronage and
careful manipulation, as well as by strik-
ing down every man who had dared to
say that his soul was his own, until there
were very few counties in the state in which
the machine has not been dominant. The
opposition to Mr.. Edmunds was unques-
tionably in the minority, but it was grow
ing and healthful minority and with view
of preventing its growth to vigorous man
hood, where it might become a controlling
element, these conventions were called at
early dates, were packed by the henchmen
OF Mr.. Edmunds, manipulated and con-
trolled i'll his interests for the purpose of
securing effect in the more important con-
tests Tor representatives. But right and
justice can never be defeated by such
means. Opposition TO Mr.. Edmunds is the
sternest justice. He deserves defeat. 1t is
impossible to give him victory without con-
doning an offence and vindicating an action
which was repulsive to the whole republic
can party, which continues to be repulslve,
and which ought not to be condoned or for
given without the preliminary step of the
offender asking for such forgiveness. The
friends of Mr.. Edmunds demand vindica-
ton and every vote for an Edmunds man
as a member of the legislature of Vermont
is a vote that rings the death-knell of the
republican party, because to vindicate him
is to destroy all party fealty. 1t is vote
which says that treachery shall be rewarded.
Under such conditions il is not to be won
dered that the opposition to Mr.. Edmunds
has grown and thrived. 1t is becoming
stronger. 1t is already sufficient as a mi
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
An Impudent Threat.

Since the beginning of the senatorial
contest we have seen from time to
time in the pro-Edmunds papers some
thing in the nature of threat that if
Mr.. Edmunds is defeated for reelection
he may retaliate for his disappointment
upon the republican party in 1888. 1t
has been said that she would make it
warm for Mr.. Blaine " if that gentle
man should again be nominated for the
presidency. AT least one Edmunds
paper in Vermont has said that his de-
feat would "make democrats. If any
republicans who are supporting Mr..
Edmunds could not accept his defeat
with as good grace as his republican
opponents would accept his reelection,
and still remain in the party, the sim
cerity of their devotion to republican
principles and their fealty to the party
may well be questioned. Mr.. Edmunds
is not the republican party, and he has
shown that he cannot be trusted to
guard the interests of the party in a
critical emergency. We have no knowl-
edge, however, that he would take the
course in the next presidential cam
paign that is threatened by his Jealous
partisans. We assume that the main
purpose of the threat is to bulldoze
timid republican voters into his sup
port. Recently some of the Edmunds
papers have copied an article from the
Rochester Herald, which discusses The
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
The Best Party Policy.

1t is very evident that good many
republicans in Vermont have resolved
to promote the reelection of Senator
Edmunds with too little thought of its
effect upon the future prospects of the
republican party 1t is possible that
Mr.. Blaine may not be the republican
presidential candidate in 1888, though
all the probabilities are now strongly
in his favor. But if he is not, it is
certain that he will have a potential
influence in determining the choice of
that candidate. Therefore it will not
be wise for the republicans of Vermont
to elect man to the United States SEN
ate who would "sulk in his tent" in
the event of the nomination of Mr..
Blaine or of man who represents the
so-called Blaine interest, or who, in the
event of his election, would be likely to
embarrass his administration. While
not every republican senator would be
hearty supporter of such an admins
tration, it is certain that Mr.. Edmunds
would be unfriendly to it on personal
grounds. The great majority of re-
publican senators would, doubtless, do
all in their power to make the admin
istration successful one, not less for
the interests of the country than for
the interests of the party.
1t is argued by some persons of mug
wumpian tendencies, and as an apology
for Mr.. Edmunds' inaction in the cam
paign of 1884, that a United States
senator is not elected to serve the in
terests of party, and that he is under
no personal obligation to work and
speak for his party. Now political
party represents certain principles and
policies which its adherents believe
will best promote the national welfare.
But these cannot be made successful
unless the party can secure control of
the government, and this cannot be ac-
complished except by political work.
No professed member of the party,
from the least to the greatest, is alb
solved from the duty of doing all in his
power to secure its success. A United
States senator in his official capacity is
in duty bound to serve the whole coun-
try, but he is none the less under obli-
cation to serve his party and his con-
stituency. Unless a servant is to be
regarded as greater than his master, a
senator certainly owes something to his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01

attitude of Mr.. Edmunds in the pend
ing contest and in reference to Mr.
Blaine. Among other things, that
paper says:
If, with no special personal provocation,
the latter (Edmunds) could in 1884, simply
by maintaining silence, divert many votes
from the Blaine ticket, one cannot doubt
that his active hostility, not to speak of the
resentment of his friends throughout the
country, would inflct vastly greater damage
on the Blaine ticket of 1888, If there should
be such ticket.
This would seem to indicate that the
threatened detection of Edmunds and his
personal followers, in the event of Mr..
Blaine's denomination, is not altogether
piece of gasconade. A similar threat
has been made by leading mugwump
journals with whom Mr.. Edmunds is a
particular favorite, doubtless because
of their common dislike of Mr.. Blaine
and Blaine republicans. But these
threats should have no other effect
upon loyal republicans than to arouse
them to the imperative need of pro-
tecting the interests of the party from
mugwump influences. 1t is better for
the republican party that its enemies
should be known and marked as such.
Republicans should give no heed to the
bombast of INSCRIPTIONS politicians
who threaten disaster to the party if
they cannot successfully use it for the
accomplishment of selfish purpose.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Vermont Republican Nominations.

FOR GOVERNOR,
EBENEZER J. 0RMSBEE of Brandon.
FOR LIEUTENANT-G GOVERNOR,
LEVI X. FULLER of BrattlebOrO.
FOR TREASURER,
WILLIAM H. DU BOTS of Randolph.
FOR AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS,
E. HENRY POWELL of RichfOrd.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
CHARLES W. PORTER of Montpelier.
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS SECOND
DISTRICT,
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT of Barton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Republican County Nominations.

FOR SENATORS,
WILLIAM CHAPLIN, Middlesex;
FRED E. SMITH, Montpelier.
FOR ASSISTANT JUDGES,
ZED S. STANTON, Roxbury;
IRA S. DWINELL, Calais.
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE,
HIRAM CARLETON, Montpelier.
FOR STATES ATTORNEY,
e. w. BISBEE, Barre.
FOR SHERIFF
FRANK II. ATTENTION., Duxbury.
FOR HIGH BAIL1FF,
JOHN L. MOSELEY, Mortified.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-18
Couldn't Get In.

'What class do you enter your horse
:" said the president of the agricul.
raj fair, as he met the honest farmer
at the gate.
"Enter my boss ? l amt got nc
boss to enter anywhere"
"Don't want to put either of your
horses on the track ?"
"No, sir"
SCOT wheel of fortune or any such
thing you want to set up?"
"Naw ~
"Then what are you driving in with
the team and wagon for ?"
"Why, I've got a pnn'kin here four
feet high and lot of big corn and
some o. the best squashes in the whole
county, and there's a 2-year-old steer
tied behind the wagon that beats any
thing you ever see, L kno ~
"That may all be, my friend, but
this is no place for you. If you've got
a horse that you want to put on the
track, or any kind of a confidence
game, you might come in, but as it is
we have got no room for you. Come,
move on there, and give Colonel Toe
weight chance to drive in. Go and
feed your garden truck to your big
steer"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-18
Gov. Ormsbee's Thanksgiving PrOcla-
nation.

In accordance with the time honor
ed and revered custom, and in unison
with the president of the United States,
l do hereby appoint Thursday, the
25th day of November, instant, to be
observed as a day of thanksgiving and
praise to Almighty God. And, here
by enjoin upon all the people of this
state that on the day thus set apart,
they omit their ordinary and secular
employments, and give special thought
and attention to religious Observances
and duties and to that end, | most
earnestly recommend that all of the
people of this state assemble on that
day in their accustomed places of wOr-
ship, and there make humble and rev.
erent acknowledgment to Almighty
God, for his goodness to them and of
their dependence upon him, and join
in expressions of devout thankfulness
for his many special blessings and
mercies to our commonwealth. And
in our devotions that day, let us not
omit to make earnest and devOut pc
tition and supplicatiOn that the hearts
of men may be so changed that there
will be no place for hypocrisy and evil
thought; that there may be more
charity for others that there may be
a better observance of the golden rule;
that honesty, temperance and virtue,
may everywhere prevail.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-18
SQUIBS.

GLOW many women marry good,
sensible man ~ asks Kate Field. On
ly one, if the man can help it Phila-
delphia American.
"Why don't you mind what say p
said an Irish mother to her child.
"YOu pay no more attention to what
say than if [ was a dumb haste talking
to ye."
"What's the matter, Uncle Erastus ~
he asked facetiOusly as the old man
came limping in, "gOt the govt ?" "No,
sab, Ise got de bill fo' dat whitewash-
in what | did fo' yer las yeah. Life.
An irate female seeks admittance to
the editors sanctum. "But l tell you,
madam" protests the attendant, "that
the editor is too i'll to talk to any one
to-day." "Never mind, you let me in.
I'll do the talking" Puck.
A citizen of Durham, Me-, has
reached the advanced age of 1O2 years,
but retains his memory remarkably.
Many years ago he and another man
caught 1860 Goldfish in a single day, and
he told the tale this week without for
getting a fish. A fisherman's memory
is kind to the last Boston Record.
A nurse girl in Newark desired to
walk with her beau, and so she left a
o-years-old baby in its cart in a
park. The mother came along and
took the child in, and when the girl re-
turned she simply said: "a man
chlOroformed me and run aft with the
child, but you can probably get it back
by advertising. Can go to the ball
tonight 2"