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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
The Issue of the Contest.

Quite full returns from all the towns
of the state have been received. Mon
day evening dispatch from Hyde
Park stated that 230 towns gave Page
$3.50 delegates; Woodbury., 3l9. On the
other hand, Burlington claims for Mr..
Woodbury. small lead. Allowing lib
orally for the bias that may influence
the reports of either side, it is clear that
Mr.. Page has very handsome advan-
tage over his opponent. From the
figures the Free Press itself gives,
when this tendency to appropriate
doubtful or unpledged votes is taken
into account, it is easy to see that Mr..
Page has not only clear majority of
all the delegates, but good fighting
margin beyond that. Let Mr. Pages
friends stand resolutely by their candi-
date and final victory will crown their
arduous labors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

prominent newspaper supporter of
acknowledgement Woodbury. has
been the advocate, either in its columns
or in the legislature, through its editor,
of every appropriation and every in
crease of official salaries that has been
made in recent years. What assurance
of economy and retrenchment would
Lieutenant-governor Woodbury's NOM
nation convey?
The nomination of Mr.. Page will
spike at once the guns the democracy
have double-shotted and trained on the
republican majority of Vermont. To
batter down that historic majority is the
long cherished hope of the democracy,
state and national, and the first point
to which their fire is directed in every
presidential campaign. The coming
state canvass, on the part of the de-
mocracy, is a skirmish for position in
1892 Carroll S. Page, by a fearless
act in the early hours of the campaign
of 1888, rescued that majority from inn
minent peril He guarded it with
sleepless vigilance to the last hour of
the canvass, and in September pre-
scented it to the national republican
party, its ample dimensions restored, ga
sign of hope and triumph high that
were fully realized in November. And
Carroll s. Page, chosen the republican
leader, will save that majority again in
1890 from the threatened assault of the
democracy. And his candidacy is a
sure guaranty of wise and econom-
ical administration of the state govern
ment. Every consideration, whether
of party advantage or the best good
of the state at large, demands the NOM
nation of Carroll S. Page by to-mOr-
rows convention.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
The Facts.

These papers, it now appears, did
not represent the masses in their own
towns, but have been repudiated in
both" Thus the st. Adams Messenger,
in respect of the st. Johnsbury papers
and the WATCHMAN. The Messenger
rushes to conclusions. Substantially
the same conditions prevailed in both
towns and like methods were employed
in both. In both the Page sentiment
was unquestionably in the majority.
In both there is strong Grand Army
post and it, with its auxiliary organiza-
tons, the Woman's Relief Corps and
Sons of Veterans, were worked for all
they were worth for Woodbury.. Their
members formed a strong compact body
of workers. In this fact and in this
organization has been Colonel Wood
bury's chief, and almost his only, hope
from the beginning. In Montpelier the
Page men were unquestionably in the
ascendant on Saturday morning. This
fact brought from Burlington the adju-
tant and nspector-general of the state,
T. S. Peck, Colonel Woodbury's first
lieutenant, by the morning mail. Sew
eral Grand Army men were known to
favor the nomination of Mr.. Page,
among them the commander of the
post. He had been selected for one
of the Page delegates to the state con-
vention. General Peck called him from
his workshop and, under the pressure
applied to him, he crippled, put on his
coat, came out, and began the work
of getting his comrades into line.
Women of the Relief Corps were on the
street, button-holing, importuning, i'm
plOring civilians and veterans to 90 TO
the caucus and vote for Woodbury. dele
gates. No considerations of the public
good or the comparative fitness of can
didates were presented. The claim of
comradeship alone was pleaded. The
Central railroad was on deck. Under
these circumstances, supplemented by
sharp practices on the part of ticket
peddlers and by running in men who
would not have been entitled to vote,
the Woodbury. ticket pulled through by
majority of just six votes, on total
of about one-third of the republican
voters of the town. This is Just how
the WATCHMAN " did not represent the
masses " of Montpelier. We had no
desire to go into these details, but since
the Messenger taunts us on the issue
we present the facts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
Press Notes.

GOVERNOR STEWART, in the eve of
his congressional service, is we'll filling
the role of Judge Poland in 1915,
showing himself large-viewed states
man rather than the politician of the
day. His attitude on the original pack
age liquor business is only one of sew
eral recent instances where he has ex-
hibted creditable indepe ndence. Re
former.
PRESIDENT HARRISON returns with
his veto bill making appropriation
for a new public building, and remarks
that in town of no great population,
where the whole public service requires
only postmaster and two clerks, there
is no need for costly structure. Speak
err Reed refuses to recognize a member
who pleads that he has only one bill for
a public building in his district, and is
sure that will pass if he can get it up,
whereupon the speaker blandly replies
that there are scores more in exactly the
same position. Meanwhile, a class of
newspapers which profess to be indie
pendent and non-partisan are publishing
tables of huge appropriations of this and
other classes, as if they had been made
though they have not, and are advertis-
ing for lost surplus.-Ne,o York Tri-
bune.
THE proposal to build a monument
at Chattanooga to General Lee and
General Grant seems to have seized
upon the southern imagination. Sew
eral thousand dollars have already been
subscribed, and there is every indica-
ton that the project will take form.
This monument would commemorate
striking historical event. On the day
after the surrender at Appomattox
General Grant rode within the confed-
crate lines and was received by Gen
eral Lee. For an hour or two they sat
together on horseback in earnest con-
versation, group of their gallant gen.
erals looking on. General Grant, it is
believed, was urging General Lee to
throw his great influence in favor of a
cessation of war, the establishment
and perpetuation of a peace which would
strengthen the Union. They separated,
Lee going to his home in Richmond,
Grant to Washington. There is no
reason why this memorable incident
should not be commemorated in bronze.
, The war furnishes no more suggestive
event, and the lesson to be drawn from
it would forever appeal to patriotic
hearts in the North and South.-Netc
| York Herald.
THERE is one feature of the recent
election in Oregon about which the
free-trade papers have been strangely
reticent. This is the fact that Oregon
is large agricultural state, and her
vote may fairly be taken as indicating
the response of the farmers, not merely
on the tariff issue in an abstract form,
but upon the republican policy as EN-
bodied in the Mckinley bill, If we
have read our free-trade contemporaries
Alright, the one thing for which they
have been longing more than anything
else has been the opportunity to take a
plebiscite of the farmers upon the So
called iniquities of the Mckinley bill.
AT the very first opportunity we have
been assured the farmers would ex-
press their indignation with that meas
ure. As for the farmers of the North
west, they were declared to be es-
pecially full of wrath. Well, the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
Page and Reform.

The tendency toward increased ex-
penditures in this state has never been
more stoutly opposed and more I'M
qualifedly condemned thap by the con-
sentative element of the republican
party, or, among the newspapers, than
by the VERMONT WATCHMAN. Car
roll S. Page is the representative of this
reform element and its candidate for
governor.
The democracy, as was foreseen,
will make the question of state expendi-
lures burning issue" in this cam
paign. With retrenchment for the
watchword, they propose to cut down
the republican majority and largely in
crease their representation in the next
legislature. The corporation tax would
nearly pay state expenses had not eek
travagance seized the helm" as
Farmer " put it in his forcible appeal
in the last issue of the WATCHMAN. A
direct tax of ten per cent had been i'm
posed in the first years of the operation
of the corporation tax law to exc out
the states revenues. Notwithstanding
the fact that the income from the cor
porations had increased more than
twenty-five per cent in 1888, direct tax
of twenty per cent was then imposed to
unload in part the increasing burden of
current indebtedness. A similar tax
would have been demanded for the
preceding biennial term had not the
Huntington bequest of over 5000 900
been covered into the state treasury as
a sort of permanent loan.
Great discomfort prevails in all parts
of the state by reason of this growing
burden and increasing rate of taxation.
The democrats, at their late convention,
and through their newspapers, were
prompt to seize this opportunity to
score a point against republican admin
istration. The answer of the conserv-
alive republican element to the demo-
cratic arraignment is that the party it
self will reform existing evils and re-
strain expenditures. AS a pledge of
the sincerity of its purpose this element
proposes to nominate Carroll S. Page
for governor, man whose whole ca
reer, public and private, is an all-sutii-
cient guaranty that the republicans will
assiduously attend to their own " house,
cleaning" as the esteemed democratic
Reformer of Brattleboro is pleased to
phrase it.
On the other hand, should Lieuten-
ant-governor Woodbury. be made the
leader in this canvass, what answer
could the republicans have to the dem
ocratc indictment? His political back
ing, his associations, his official life, are
all identified with the era of eXtrava-
gance. The st. Adams Messenger, the
organ of the Central railroad, whose
candidate Mr.. Woodbury. has declared
himself to be, is his foremost advocate,
and has been the advocate and apol-
ogist of every item of state expenditure
from the Grand Isle bridge appropria-
tons downward or upward. The Bur
lington Free Press has encouraged
every increase in state expenses and
has itself enjoyed, directly or in the in
situations of its town, large advantage
from the states prodigality. That To-
cality is in the market for more and
greater appropriations. Every other
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

81 HAVE KNOWN THE MANAGERS
AND OFFICIALS OF THE CENTRAL
VERMONT RAILROAD IN BUSINESS AND
VARIOUS OTHER WAYS FOR THE LAST
SIXTEEN YEARS, AND | AM NEITHER
AFRAID OR ASHAMED TO SAY THAT
HOPE | SHALL RECEIVE THE SUP
PORT OF AS MANY OF THEM As
THINK ME WORTHY OF IT."-Candi-
date Woodbury..
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

Both Chicago and st. Louis say
their populations have not been fully
counted by the census enumerators.
This was to be expected. one or the
other will show the smaller population,
and there must be some explanation,
you know.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

SEVEN thousand more pensions have
been granted in the first ten months of
this year than were granted during the
whole of last year, exhausting the APP
preparation for the payment of PEN
sions, The Concord agency is SAB, 900
short in its June payment. All of the
widows and part of the invalid PEN
sioners have been paid the June in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
Wattbman 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE IS, 1890.

"I WILL NOT, EVEN FOR THE SAKE
or BEING GOVERNOR, TIE MY HANDS
IN ANY WAY OR PLEDGE SUBSERVI-
ENCY TO ANY INTEREST" -Candiddte
Pare.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

JERRY BRADLEY, a negro charged with
the murder of Maggie Shea at Stamford re-
Gently was tried at Manchester last week
The Jury, after being out all night brought
in verdict of murder in the second degree.
Exceptions have been taken, and the case
may be carried to she supreme court
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

A YOUNG girl named Clemmons fell into
the river at South Lebanon, Ohio, on last
week Tuesday but was brought to shore by
her mother, who witnessed the accident.
The child was beyond resuscitation, how
ever, and the sudden excitement and grief
was too much for the mother, for She, too ,
died shortly afterwards.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

THE Boston Record says that " the
Rutland Herald, which is a Chief-jus-
tice Royce man, is sanguine, some
how" What fine thing it is to be
sanguine. The Herald was san
guine" that high-license had caught
Vermont, but some way it did not rev.
olutionize public sentiment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
Editorial Notes.

SENATOR EDMUNDs introduced last
week bill providing that all property
belonging to the Mormon church be
devoted to the public schools of Utah.
No better use could be made of it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
The Latest !
Page, 397; Woodbury., 333.

Dispatches received at the WATCH
MAN office late last evening, covering
all the towns of the state, give Page 397
delegates and Woodbury. 1888.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

AN explosion in mine near Pttsburg
Penn, on Monday entombed and caused
the death of about forty miners.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

1t is condition of things which the
real friends of the college deplore, for
they see that it puts progress out of the
question. While rival institutions are
welcoming improved methods and are
gaining the enthusiastic moral and
financial support of their alumni, Dart
mouth hardly does more than hold its
own. The feeling of the Boston
alumni was expressed at a recent dinner,
at which strong resolutions we're passed
protesting against the old fogyish
policy of the trustees. A suggestion of
the Springfield Republican is better
than passing resolutions. 1t is that the
legislature of New Hampshire be petit
toned to change the charter of the col
lege so that the alumni can elect part
of the trustees. This is practical and
practicable. Some New Hampshire
alumnus can immortalize himself by
pushing the suggestion to an issue in
the next session.
DECISIONS in " original package "
cases will soon become voluminous.
There have been a number in Iowa
and Kansas courts, in some of which
the decision of the supreme court is
taken as authority and in others the
decision is ignored or defed. A Penn
sylvania judge gave an interesting de-
cision last week. An agent of brew
cry company of Hamilton, Ohio, set up
an original package store at Leech-
burgh, prohibition town. All he sold
was in original packages of some kind,
either kegs, barrels or something of
smaller size. He was promptly arrested
and tried on the ground that he was
violating the laws by selling liquor
without license; also that he had sold
liquor to minors and to men of known
Incorporate habits. The judge, in his
charge, said it was mere question of
fact for the jury to determine whether
the packages were the identical and
unbroken cases shipped from Hamilton.
If the jury were satisfied that these
were the original packages, then the
seller had right to make the sale, and
did not violate the Pennsylvania liquor
law in selling without license; but, if
found guilty of selling to minors and
Incorporate men, he would come I'M
der clause of the Pennsylvania laws
prohibiting such sale. The jury ac-
quilted the man of selling without a
license and to minors, but found him
guilty of selling to persons of known
Incorporate habits. Pennsylvania is a
high license state, and the logical in
ference from this decision is that a
dealer can sell legally without license
if he is careful TO keep his liquors in
their original packages. 1t is certainly
far-reaching decision.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
stallment. Those unpaid will have to
wait until after July /, when the new
appropriation will be available.

LET there be no tampering with the
verdict of the caucuses. The people
have made their choice of candidates
Let that choice stand. Let no addi-
tional element of division and bitterness
be added to the canvass, to impair the
harmony and efficiency of the party in
the future. Let the victorious party
enjoy the fruits of victory.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

II. X. SLAYToN, the veteran dairy
man of Manchester, n. H., native of
Washington county, and well known in
Vermont, writes in private letter:
hope G. S. Page will get the nomina-
ton for governor, for he is a good bust
ness man and will be able to make sug-
gestions that will help the farmers"
SO hope and pray thousands of good
men of all occupations all over the
state.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

YEAR after year the alumni of Dart
mouth College ask the trustees to give
them some recognition on the board,
but that body regularly snubs them,
and when vacancy occurs man is
elected who will vote to continue the
old policy of conservatism. This year
Judge Nesmith's death was the occa-
sion of another appeal, but the board
refused, as usual, to change the policy.
, 1890-05-27
he HLIS W MARK.

F. ". Hamilton Of the Western Emf
grafton aud Investors Bureau, of Chica-
90. who Is also the agent OF the Cheyenne
Board of Trade in the Lakeside city,
writes a long letter to Secretary jeffrey
on the subject. of advertising. The point
which he makes in regard to advertising
is one too little appreciated by even intelli-
gent. advertisers. As a matter Of fact
the enterprise of a community is guag-d
even BY those tolorably familiar with it by
the newspapers which it Supports II
these show evidences of prosperity
they are the best index TO the
business prosperity Of the town
in which they are published. On Tue
LEADER subscription lists arc found the
names of a number Of shrewd foreign in
vestors. By a study of its columns they
find a truer knowledge of the situation OF
affairs here than they could hope to se-
cure in a brief personal visit, for its ad-
vertising columns daily tell the story Of
the enterprise Of its merchants while its
local page is a mirror Of the events tram
piring here.
The extract given from Mr.. Hamilton's
letter will be found interesting and in
structive.
| am glad to hear that The LEADER
is getting out a big edition. illustrated. for
1 am a firm believer in the good a local
a. -bcp molly gotten nm and
, 1890-05-27

The first number OF the Derrick. Gas
per's new paper has just reached us. It
is edited by W. S. Kimball and is printed
from new type on a new press AID in Il
well appointed office. Taken altogether
it Is noE the haudsomcst weekly paper IN
Wyoming. 1t is sparkling with news aud
loaded to the muzzle with information of
value to the inquiries about Wyoming.
Such a paper is an extremely creditable
local representative. We hope to see it
as literally patronized as 1t deserves, in
which event lis owners will have no com
plant to make regarding the 6ckleress Of
fortune.
, 1890-05-27

Rawlins-or perhaps we shoCld say
Carbon county-Republicans do not be
lieve in allowing any Of the loaves and
fishes in the way Of the peoples money
over which they will have control yet Tor
a short period, I slip through thcir
fingers. Mr.. Craig, county attorney,
engaged Mr.. Blydenburgh to assist
him in the prosecution of one or
more criuinal cases. This. how.
ever, dil not suit the dispensers OF the
peoples money. Mr.. Craig was politely
but firmly notified that if he insisted on
retaining Mr.. BlYdenburgh he would have
to compensate him out Of his private
funds, as the county would not pay the
bill; but if Mr.. Merrell, who Is a republ-
can, was ret lined the bill would be al
lowed. As is was public business that
assistance was required for. Mr.. Craig ac-
guessed, and Mr.. Merrell was retained.
, 1890-05-27

Colin HUNTER returned yesterday
from New York. having seen his family
safely aboard the boat bound for Scot
land. He speGt three days 10 Washing
ton where he met among other former
Wyomingites Major Shannon, Judge
Fast and Bob Law. Ex-SecretAry Shan
non is doing what he can to help alonG
the Wyoming bill. Mr.. Hunter me
Delegate Carey who expressed the mos
absolute confidence in the passage Of tn
statehood bill As far as Mr.. Hunte
could learn there was no opposition to tn
measure, which it is confidently expecte,
will pass soon after it is brought up. |
is expected that the bill will be reachc,
early in June.
, 1890-05-27
Project the s,.tem From Malaria.


1t is possible to do this even in regions
| of country where miasma is most rite, and
where the periodic fever which 1t causes
assume their most formidable types. The
immense popularity of Hostetter's Stom-
ach Buffers is very largely attributable to
the fact Of its efficacy as a remedy for
chills and fever. bilious remittents and as
a preventative of the various forms OF
malarlal diseases. In those portions Of
the West and South where complaints Of
this nature prevail. and In the tropics. ii
is particularly esteemed for the protective
influence which 1t exerts; and it has been
very widely adopted ASA substitute for
the dangerous aud comparatively i%neffec-
tive alkaloid, sulphate of quinine. Ply
sicisns have not been among the last to
coucede its merits. and the emphatic pro
fessioDal endorsements which it has re-
ceived have added to the reputation it has
obtained at home and abroad.
, 1890-05-27
SIORAGE

For household goods or
merchandise OF amy de-
scripfioa. Terms reason
able and insurance effected
tchen desired. W,drehoHs, s
ora Cheyenne s. Northern
track. Call and get esff-
mates. Cheyenne CONNER
cfaI com 0auU.
, 1890-05-27

Commencing May "a the limited fare
from Cheyenne via the Union Pacific rail
way to Sioux City will be sI4 and to
Council Bluffs, Omaha and Lincoln sl3.
This will not effect the ~presentlow through
rates to Chicago, Peoria and st, Louis.
@. W. SWEET, Agent
, 1890-05-27

the interior today and entered a strong
support of the senator's recommendation
to locate the land Office for the new dis
trict in Northeastern Wyoming known as
the Crook district at Newcastle which is
on the new branch of the B. & M. rail-
way.
, 1890-05-27

INV VTINWIT ININW@T
From the list of questions to be pro-
pounded to the public 10 taking the cen
u this year we conclude that there will
be a lot OF enumerators around in the
country suffering from a virulent attack
OF punched nose, and they are going to
contract il in us most aggravated form.
, 1890-05-27

The original package is already in
Burlington aud on sale in convenient aud
inviting doses. We were shown yester-
day a neat little package" a miniture
bottle containing one ordinary drink OF
pure rye. 1t was neatly labeled and
tin-foiled. and only nseded a glass and
sorkscrew Is make the outfit complete.
, 1890-05-27
The Shoe on the Other Foot.

TEVanstOn ChIeIthIn-T
Our Republican friends must have
been hard pushed to excuse their defeat
in the recent municipal election when
they charge the same to the action of the
Latter Day Saints in supporting the
Democratic ticket At Rock Springs
they supported the Republican ticket
solidly, yet we hear no adverse criticism
on this account. The fact is, at both
places, they supported the candidate Of
their choice, which thev had a rig
to do.
, 1890-05-27
STORAGE

For household goods or
Herch aHdfse OF amy de-
scrtpffOn. Terms reason
able and Insurance erected
lChen desired. " arehOhtses
on Cheyenne q N0rfherH
track. call aud get esft-
mates. Cheyenne COM
nierciat company.
, 1890-05-27

From present information there will
not be over half a dozen bills for the
grand jury to act upon at the present
term Of court.