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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-16

IHE treasurer of the Bricklayers' Union
OF Minneapolis, absconded with 5000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-16
DAKOTA NEWS.

The Glenrock Graphic threatens to
suspend unless it is accorded better
patronage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Notes and Opinions.

THE zeal of the mugwump, demo-
cratic and free-trade papers in behalf
of Gresham's candidacy will probably
make his nomination impossible.
A BILL to make the head of the de-
partment of agriculture member of
the cabinet has passed the house of
representatives by a practically unani-
nous vote. A bill of the same char
acter has already passed the senate.
THE New York Evening Post, though
a rabid free-trade paper, in one of its
lucid intervals admits that "the coun-
try has prospered under the present
tariff " and that protected articles are
cheaper than before they were so highly
protected"
THE Springfield Union says: "Now
that even the administration organs
have no possible occasion for further
questioning the sincerity of Mr.. Blaine's
Florence letter they can bend all their
energies to laboring with Mr.. Cleve-
land for some expression as to the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

lam Walter Phelps of New Jersey,
Joseph II. Hawley of Connecticut,
General John B. Henderson of Mis-
souri, and General Russell A. Alger of
Michigan. If in the multitude of can
didates the convention can not agree,
then it has the same right to command
the services of Mr.. Blaine, or any
other member of the party, no matter
how many letters they may write de-
clining the honor and responsibilities
of the position. The present situation
is an unprecedented one. 1t behooves
careful consideration on the part of
delegates to the convention. They
will assemble in frame of mind suita-
BILE TO exercise the highest wisdom in
the discharge of their duties to the re-
publican party of the nation. What
ever decision they may make, it will be
accepted by the republican voters and
nominees as law unto them and will be
implicitly obeyed."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

The republicans of Indiana know General
Harrison. He has always been in the front
line of the party battle. His republicansm
has never been doubtful. His opinions on
the questions that divide the parties are well
known. He is not a clark horse ~ in the
sense that his views on current issues are
underlined and unknowabe. He is abreast
of the best repubicanism of the day. He
is committed to the highest ideals of the
public service, and his career thus far is an
earnest of what the country could expect
were he to be placed in the presidential
chair. His character is as high as that of
any man in the nation, his reputation is
without heck and his life and nature are
without flaw. Where can man be found
under whom more aggressive campaign
could be made along the lines of ster-
ling republcanism? Indiana republicans
know these qualities of General Harrison,
and they intend to earnestly and unitedly
present them to the considerate Judgment
of the party and country. They have no
other choice for president. Their repre-
sentatives will go to Chicago for General
Harrison and for no one else. They will be
for no one else until, after persistent " and
honorable " effort to secure his nomina-
ton, the convention shall, in its judgment,
turn TO some other. But if, as we believe it
very likely to happen, the members of the
convention come to Indiana for candidate,
for the purpose of securing the fifteen cleo
toral votes of this state, the Indiana dele
cation will tell them, in manner that may
not be understood, that General Harrison is
the man. Indianapolis JOUndl.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
The st. Louis Convention.

The democratic national convention is
now in session in st. Louis. An Associated
Press dispatch Monday night says: "The
temporary craftsmanship goes to the Cali
fornia candidate, General White; General
Collins, permanent chairman German,
chairman of the committee on resolutions
the tariff platform to be a repetition of the
plank of 81 the president being endorsed
as a wise, faithful and patriotic executive in
another section; Scott to be chairman of the
national committee and manage Cleveland's
campaign. The ticket, of course, is to
be Cleveland and Thurman" Some COR
respondents, however, do not concede Thur
mans nomination. The chief objections to
Thurman are that he is too old and that
while he could not much strengthen the
ticket in Ohio his nomination would GER
tainly lose Indiana to the democrats. 1t is
also said that he is not in firm health, and if
elected could hardly be expected to live
through the term 1t is given out that At
kins will be the Vermont member of the ma
tional committee in place of Smalley. Gov
ernor Gray of Indiana is making a strong
fight for the vice-presidential nomination
but if found too weak his name will prob
ably not be presented. There is some pros
pect of fight over the tariff plank of the
platform Barnum, German and some 9TH
ers wanting to readopt their dishonest tariff
plank of 1884.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

result of accident, since the advance of
each army was cropping forward, not
knowing where the other was, and the
point where they CHANGED to find each
other was accepted by each as the site
of the great struggle for the mastery,
Meade's army being satisfied to occupy
the strongest position on Cemetery
Ridge and Lee to assault it there. Even
after this placing of the forces, Gettys-
burg would have been robbed of a
great part of its renown had Lee fol-
lowed Longstreet's advice and con-
tented himself with moving past the
Union left, thereby putting himself be-
tween it and Washington. Besides the
meeting of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac there will be meeting of
the Pennsylvania posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic and many dedica-
tions of battle monuments will also take
place. A somewhat difficult task is the
one imposed on President Cleveland.
He is to be invited to deliver an adj
dress on that occasion. The remem-
brance of the address of Abraham
Lincoln at Gettysburg, famous for its
eloquence, will make it hard contrast
for his present successor to speak there
but as if this was not enough of an
undertaking in itself, the programme
actually contemplates Mr.. Cleveland's
reading the immortal words of Lincoln
as preface to his own remarks"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Mr.. Blaine Can Not Accept.

PARIS, May II, 1888.

PARIS, May II, 1888.
WbjteiaV Reid, Esq.,, Editor New York
Tribune My DEAR SfR-Since my return
to Paris from Southern italy on the Sth in
slant have learned (what did not before
believe) that my name may yet be presented
to the national convention as a candidate
for the presidential nomination of the re-
publican party. single phrase of my
letter Of January % from Florence (which
was decisive of everything / had the per-
sonal power to decide has been treated by
many of my most valued friends as not alb
solutely conclusive in ultimate and posi-
bic contingencies. On the other hand,
friends equally devoted and disinterested
have construed my letter las it should be
construed) to be an unconditional with
holding of my name from the national con-
vention. They have in consequence given
their support to eminent gentlemen who are
candidates for the Chicago nomination.
some of whom would not, | am sure, have
consented to assume that position if | had
desired to represent the party in the presi-
dental contest of 1888. If / should now, by
speech or by silence, by commission or
OMISSION permit my name, in any event. to
come before the convention | should incur
the reproach Of being uncandid with those
who have always been candid with me. ]
speak, therefore, because | am not willing
| to remain in doubtful attitude. / am not
willing to be the cause of misleading a
| single man among the millions who have
given me their suffrages and their confidence.
| | am not willing that even one of my faith
! full supporters in the past should think me
capable Of paltering in double sense with
my word. Assuming that the presidential
nomination could by any possible chance
be offered to me, / could not accept it with
! ont leaving in the minds of thousands of
these men the impression that / had not
been free from indirection, and therefore |
could not accept it at all. The misrepre-
sensations of malice have no weight, but the
just displeasure of friends l could not
patiently endure. Republican victory, the
prospects of which grow brighter every day,
can be imperiled only by lack of unity in
council or by acrimonious contest over
men. The issue of protection is incalcu-
lably stronger and greater than any man,
for it concerns the prosperity of the pres
ent and of generations yet to come Were
| it possible for every voter of the republic to
see for himself the condition and recon-
pense OF labor in Europe, the party would
not receive the support of one wage-worker
between the two oceans. 1t may not be
directly in our power as phianthropists to
elevate the European laborer, but it will be
a lasting stigma upon our craftsmanship if
we permit the American laborer to be
forced down to the European level. And
in the end the rewards of labor everywhere
will he advanced if we steadily refuse to
lower the standard at home. Yours very
sincerely, JAMES G. BLAINE
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

The Republican Situation.

We publish elsewhere Mr.. Blaine's
letter to Whitelaw Reid which def
initely takes him out of the field as a
candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton. 1t was not the slightest distrust
of Mr.. Blaine's sincerity in writing his
Florence letter which impelled large
majority of his party to demand his
nomination in spite of his withdrawal,
but their profound belief that he was
the ablest and strongest candidate for
the republicans this year. This is the
plain fact, though the anti-Blaine men
have falsely and malciously repre-
scented it otherwise. Now that Mr..
Blaine decides that he can not be a
candidate under any circumstances, it
remains for the party to do the next
best thing. Referring to the senti-
ment of the delegates to the republican
national convention who had expressed
their preference for Mr.. Blaine, the
Tribune pertinently says: In looking
delegates will not forget the principles
which made him their first choice. If
there are candidates before the conven-
ton whose nomination would seem to
anybody to mean abandonment or
abatement of republican convictions
on this vital issue it is reasonable to
expect that the convention will take
care not to nominate either of them.
Among the candidates who do fully,
unequivocally and unquestionably rep
resent the convictions of the party the
convention will strive to choose the
man who will command the strongest
support in the doubtful states"
The question, who will be the
candidate ?" is now uppermost. The
friends of Sherman, Depew, Harrison
Alger and Gresham are of course Wig
orously at work for their favorites anG
are making many claims in regard tc
their growing strength, However, al
claims and reports from this time unit
the meeting of the convention in re-
gard to the progress of presidential
booms and the numerical strength o.
the several aspirants must be taker
with many grains of allowance, 1t il
more likely that nothing decisive vii
be known as to the actual strength o
the candidates until after the conven
ton assemblies. The Washington Ma
tiOnal Republican says of the situation
cit is true that majority of delegate
elected to the national convention pre-
fer Mr.. Blaine. 1t is also true tina
they will now seriously consider SOM
other republican statesman for tn
nominee of the party. Prominen
among them are John Sherman o
Ohio, 'Chauncey M. Depew of New
York, Benjamin Harrison of Indiana
William B. Allison of Iowa, Judg
Walter @. Gresham of Indiana, Will
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
The POpe and Ireland.

Much irritation has been caused in
Ireland by the papal rescript condemn
ing the nationalist plan of campaign,
and all explanations and reported modi-
fications of the documents for some
time failed to mitigate its serious effects
upon the Irish national cause. Thomas
Mayne, one of the Tipperarv members
of parliament, speaking at a public
meeting, admitted that a good deal of
dismay had arisen among the nation
alists in consequence of the papal re-
script, and that he could not persuade
himself that the decree was not plain
and unequivocal political manifesto,
directly in the interest of the coercion
party. On the other hand, it has been
reported that the pope would issue a
supplementary letter, advising the peo-
pie of Ireland that his rescript was not
intended to interfere with their legiti.
mate aspirations for political liberty
Meantime the Irish Catholic arch
bishops and bishops have issued an
address declaring that the pope's de-
cree affects morals only and does no,
interfere with politics. They warn
the people and the league leaders
against speaking with irreverence Of
the pope, who has assured them thai
he does not intend to injure the Irish
national movement, but desires to re-
move the obstacles in its way. 1t i;
stated that the pope, through English
bishops, has repeatedly asked the Brit
ish government to mitigate the rigor o.
its measures in Ireland in order tC
facilitate the conciliatory object of the
rescript. Rome is thought to have
taken alarm at the protests heard il
Ireland. Nevertheless not one wore
of the rescript is withdrawn, and the
bishops themselves affirm its authority
That the pope meant to condemn " thu
plan of campaign and boycotting
is clear enough; but as it became evi
dent that direct and positive ISSUE
between his authority and that of TIL,
national league was to be the resul
more prudent counsels were allowed t,
| prevail
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
The Gettysburg Reunion.

The house committee on military
affairs has agreed upon favorable
recommendation on the proposal to APP
propriate S25, 900 to pay the expenses
of the Gettysburg reunion next July.
There are those, however, who ques-
ton the propriety of such an appropria-
ton on the ground that the occasion is
not to be governmental celebration,
but only the annual meeting of the
Army of the Potomac Society. The
celebration, to be held on the LIST, I'd
and Sd of July, is that of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the great battle. The
invitation to the gathering includes
also the survivors of the confederate
armies, so that the coming anniversary
is expected to be the greatest reunion of
the soldiers on both sides since the war.
The programme of exercises includes
an address of welcome by Governor
Beaver, response by General Abner
Doubleday, and speeches by War Gov
errors A, G. Curtin, Austin Blair, j.
Gregory Smith, S. j. Kirkwood, Fred
erick Holbrook, William Sprague and
Frederick Smythe, Generals John c..
Robinson, James Longstreet, Lucius
Fairchild, j. II. Slime, James A. Hall
Joseph Dickinson, and j. p. Rea,
commander-in-chie of the Grand Army.
The Traveller says Gettysburg will
be the greatest battlefield of the war in
the view of history, although the strug-
gle for secession continued nearly as
long afterward as it had before. The
effects of Gettysburg, however, on the
conduct of the war were felt to the end
and are even more obvious now than
they were at that time. Important as
this battle proved, its occurrence at the
obscure Pennsylvania village was the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Southern Elections.

In the current number of the Forum
Senator Wade Hampton of South Caro-
lima argues against the right of the
negroes to rule, even when they have
the majority Of votes. He portrays the
''evils " and " dangers of "negro
domination " in the South, and the
inference is plain that he believes that
any means, however dishonest or brutal
or in violation of the law and the Con-
stitution, is justifable TO maintain
white supremacy. He does not deny,
nor could he deny with any color of
truth, that the right of suffrage is
denied not only to the negroes, but to
white republicans as well, in large
section of the South. Take, for in
stance, the first congressional district
of Alabama. In 1886 it contained &c.
920 voters. OF these 1850 were
colored and 1901 white. The entire
vote cast for James 7. Jones, the demo-
cratic congressman of that district, was
4,236-iust a trihe over one-third of the
whole white vote. There were no re-
publican votes at all, although it must
be clear to all that the colored vote was
practically all republican and that some
of the odd 5000 white voters were also.
The same state of things existed in two
other districts. In the last Louisiana
election in Bossier parish the total
vote returned was 705 more than the
total registry, and although the republic
can vote was known to be in the ma
iority only ninety-five votes were al
lowed for the republican candidate.
The same thing was proven of several
other parishes. In the contested cleo
ton case from the seventh South Caro-
were 6,304 white voters and 81 ,203
colored voters. And yet a democratic
congressman was returned by vote of
6,493 democratic to 1861 republican
votes. The evidences of fraud were so
glaring that the Greenville (South
Carolina) Ne,cS, democratic paper,
was constrained to declare that the seat
occupied in congress by the democratic
candidate Colonel ElliotD was stolen.
The same paper expressed the belief
that the democratic party of the South
could not afford to accept the re-
sponsibiity for this election. 1t is by
such frauds that the democratic party
elected president in 1884 and ma
iority of the national house of repre-
sentatives in 1884 and 1886, and this
party expects to win success by the
same infamous methods in 1888. How
much more desirable for the country is
white supremacy in the South, main
tanned as it is by violence and fraud
than the "negro domination " which
Wade Hampton pretends to believe
would bring disaster to southern
| interests?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Prohibition National Convention.

The national convention of the "prohibi-
ton party " in indianapolis last week, after
transacting the usual routine business, nom
mated General Clinton b. Fisk of New
Jersey for president by reclamation and
John A. Brooks of Missouri for vice-pres-
dent. Fisk's nomination caused great en-
thusiasm. A cloth which concealed beau
tiful floral emblem was pulled aside, reveal
ing the words Hail to the Chief-Fisk.
The swinging of hats and cheers followed
until the delegates We're tireu and hoarse.
a call of the states was then begun for the
nomination of candidates for vice-president,
and John Il. Tanner of Alabama, q. w.
Balm of Kentucky and John A. Brooks of
Kansas City, Mo, We're nominated. All
other candidates withdrew and the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Brooks was made by acclama-
ton. After a stirring speech from Mr.,
Brooks the convention adjourned sine die.
The platform declares the manufacture of
and traffic in liquor should be made public
crimes and punished as such; that prohbi-
ton must be secured by state and national
constitutional amendments; denounces the
license system and democratic and republi-
can parties which uphold it; urges the abo-
lition of the internal revenue system; favors
tariff revision as to the removal of duties
from food, clothing and the necessaries of
life favors strict civil service rules declares
for woman suffrage; demands the abolition
of polygamy denounces trusts; favors strict
Sunday laws; recommends arbitration in
the settlement of labor differences; demands
that public lands shall be reserved for
actual settlers; demands stringent immigra-
ton laws; opposes importation of criminals
or contract labor and concludes with an in
vitation to full party fellowship to those
who desire to forward the obliteration of
sectional lines and promote the unity and
welfare of our native land Clinton Smith
and &. W. Wyman are the Vermont MEM
bers Of the national committee.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

GENERAL SHERIDAN's condition con-
tinues precarious. He had a hem
orrhage Monday, which induced a
recurrence of the heart failure, and
was on the verge of dissolution. From
this attack he rallied with the greatest
difficulty and up to midnight had been
sleeping restfully. His recovery is not
now regarded as probable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

Both houses of congress passed the
bill to make acknowledgement Sheri-
dan a general; the president at once
made the nomination. as requested in
the bill, and the senate confirmed it.
Senator Frye delivered powerful
speech on the fisheries treaty. The
senate passed the Indian appropriation
bill. In the house the first paragraph
of the tariff bill was adopted. A motion
to postpone the application of the free
list was defeated. The legislative ap-
preparation bill was passed; also the
land department bill
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06
Republican State Convention.

The republicans of Vermont, through their
delegates, are hereby requested to meet in
convention at Montpelier on Wednesday,
June 9th, 1888, at ten o'clock A. NJ, for the
purpose of placing in nomination candidates
for the offices of governor, lieutenant
governor, treasurer, secretary of state,
auditor of accounts and two presidential
electors-at-large, to be supported by the
freemen of the state at the next September
election. Towns will be represented in
convention on the basis of one delegate
from each town, one for every one hundred
votes and one for every fraction of one
hundred votes exceeding fifty cast for the
republican candidate for governor in 1881
Delegates will be chosen at primary meet
ings called by republican committees in
each town and city, and will provide them
selves with proper credentials, signed by the
secretary of said primary meeting at which
they are elected, and present the same to
the state committee at their headquarters
the Pavilion Hotel-immediately upon their
arrival The usual courtesy of fare one
way will be extended by the several rail-
roads in the state. Explicit directions for
securing round-trip tickets and return
checks will be given upon the blank Gre
dentias sent each town committee.
CARROLL S. PAGE,
FREDERICK w. BALDWIN,
G Gl,,ss " X Wr,,yMo Republican
FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS,
NJ. A. BINGHAM,
S. ID. HoBsoN, Ctoto
OLIN MERRILL,
A. II. MANNING,
JOHN G. STEARNs,
WILLIAM r. PAGE, (,o,,,,,i,,oo
PERLEY =. PITKIN,
LEvANT NJ. REED,
LUTHER O. GREENE,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-06

THE National Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation adopted resolutions mildly condemn
ing the administration.