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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
The Real Issue.

From the st. JOhnSDury Republican.
The anti-Page papers have discoy-
cred that the growing extravaganza
in the matter of appropriations is
likely to be an issue which the over
burdened farmer will raise this year as
never before. They have discovered
that the people of Vermont have
strong faith that Mr.. Page embodies
the elements of character and expert
ence calculated to give a good bust
ness administration of State affairs
a thorough acquaintance with men
and affairs of the State; conservative
and level-headed ideas with reference
to financial matters, as shown in his
administration of the office of In
spector of Finance; loyalty to his
own State, as shown by his efforts to
build up a business in Vermont which
the great majority of business men
would gone to some trade centre to
do; and finally, general financial
ability as shown in the management
of his own business. Having discov-
cred this, these papers seek to divert
the minds of the people from the
main issue, as to who will as Governor
best remedy the evils of which the
people justly complain, by making
the personal element the leading one
in the canvass. They have therefore
commenced their attacks upon Mr..
Pages private life, and to do so are
forced to go back more than quar-
ter of a century and inquire into his
conduct while a minor acting under
his fathers direction
We do not believe that the people
can be thus misled from the main
issue.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
News and Citizen.
Thursday, May 8, 1890.
The State Committee's Work.


At the meeting of the Republican
State Committee last week in Mont
pelier some important business was
transacted. The resignation of c. S.
Page as Chairman and as a member
of the Committee was received and
accepted, the vacancy being filed by
the election of the Hon. 2. K Gleed
of MOrrisville. Gen. Geo. W. Grandey
of Vergennes, was elected Chairman.
The next State Convention, which will
choose a full State Committee and
put State ticket in the field, will be
held at Montpelier, June 10. The
basis of representation in the cOnven-
ton will be one delegate for each
town and an additional delegate for
every 100 votes or fraction of 100
over so east for the Republican can
didate for Governor in 1888. This
basis will make a convention of over
700 delegates The representation
by counties will be about as follows /:
Addison, II; Bennington, AZ; Gale
donia, IS; Chittenden, So; Essex, q ;
Franklin, 81; Grand Isle, II; La
mobile, %; Orange, IS; Orleans, A
Rutland, 90; Washington, So; Wind
ham, 46: Windsor, 80.
In the election of Mr. Gleed, La
noble county secures "a clean and able
representative on the committee, one
who will advance the interests of the
party by every honorable means.
The choice is a good one
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
From the Barton Monitor.

The new racket that is going the
rounds in regard to Mr.. Page as u
candidate for governor is the calf skin
racket. That is, it is being reported,
and by some who do not consider
the absurdity of the thing, believe
that Mr.. Page is able to buy so great
a number of skins in the worlds
market as to monopolize the bust
ness. This world is pretty wide-in
fact it is a great country. Mr.. Page
buys his skins in the worlds market,
brings them up to a small town in
the little State of Vermont, and there
asserts, prepares and fits them for
the worlds market. He buys where
ever he can buy, and sells wherever
he can sell. He is considerable of Il
man, but not quite big enough to
buy all the pelts of the world or to
fix a price on them. The truth is
leather, and especially tanned calf
skins, are in much less demand than
formerly, while the production of
hides increases with the immense in
crease of cattle, and there are too
many skins for the market, and hence
their low prices. Mr.. Page pays
higher price for calf skins than any
other man in this part of the country
and helps to make the sale of them at
even a low price possible, by opening
the doors of the foreign markets to
the use of hides which he prepares in
Vermont by Vermont labor If there
is any profit in the business the
money is all brought to Vermont
and becomes a part of the wealth of
a State that needs to foster every
new, and to maintain every old in
dustry. In any time except during
a political canvass, the man who
would maintain such a business as
Mr. Page maintains would be honored
and praised by the whole State.
Now, poor fellow in politics, he be-
comes a "monopolist."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
The Endless Question.

Nearly all the papers in the State
are still whooping it up for Governor.
Those working for Woodbury. seem
to be specially venomous, although
so far the virus has failed to take
effect. The latest hiss is to the effect
that Page has brought down the
price of calf skins, much to the detri-
ment of the farming class. Ofcourse
this is nonsense and only deserves
a passing notice. The milk in the
cocoa nut is the indisputable fact
that leather from these hides has
fallen largely into disuse, goat, kan
CARGO and porpoise taking it's place,
and as a consequence the price of the
rough tanned skins have declined
from 60 to CT cents in 1879 to % to
26 in 1890. Had Page continued to
pay the old prices for calf skins up to
the present time, instead of being the
prosperous business man he now is,
he would now be on the town of Hyde
Park, and it wouldn't have made any
difference about his war record, as
abject poverty would have taken him
out of the gubernatorial race. Per-
haps this is why the Woodbury. people
feel so bad about it. Who knows?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
STATE NEWS.

The grounds of the Vermont Semi
nary at Montpelier are undergoing
great Improvements.
Samuel Martin s housein St. Johns
bury was burned Friday from a Chin
ney fire. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Mason S. Stone, Supervisor of Ed
ucatiOn in Orleans county, will hold
a summer school for the benefit of
| the teachers in his territory begin
ming July 81
A st. JOhnsbury man was so hard
up for rum that he took the alcohol
out of spirit lamp in his possession,
diluted and drank it. Later he paid
the regulation 1851.
The building OF the Woodbury.
branch road to the Hardwick quar-
ries is an assured fact. The branch
will be two miles long, and although
it will terminate at no one quarry
will be a great help to ALL
Two passenger trains, the Air Line
and st. JOhnsbury and Lake Cham
plain, collided in the depot Friday
evening from an error in signaling.
The engines and one mail car were
badly damaged. One of the firemen
was injured.
The maple sugar exchange at Brat
tleboro, which has done a large bust
ness this season, for the two weeks
from the 10th to the 25th of April
reports the sales of 1850 pounds of
sugar and S45 gallons of syrup This
means 153 sales, aggregating $500.
Muskrats are not as plenty along
the Otter creek as in former years.
They seem to have emigrated to the
tributaries, as Kingsland and Rus
sell, professional trappers, have sue
ceeded in capturing 40 of these ami
mails along the banks of Lemon Farr
branch in Bridport The skins were
sold to a Montreal firm at a remuner-
ative price.
A boat containing four men was
capsized on Lake Memphremagog
Tuesday night of last week, and three
of the occupants were drOwned-Ed
FOss. clerk at the Memphremagog
House at Newport, Ned Green, an EN-
plOye of the house, and Joe Robitaile.
Arthur Moore, the fourth occupant.
swan ashore. The boat was capsiz-
ed by the attempt of two of the men
to change places.
The huge granite soldiers monu-
ment made in Barre for Winchester,
Ind, is nearly ready for shipment.
The base is 81 feet square, and the
entire monument is 81 feet in height.
On the four corners of the bottom
die are carved statues of soldiers in
cavalry, infantry and artillery uni
form. The weight of the entire struc-
ture is 243 tons, and it will require
% cars to transport it toits destina-
ton. Its entire cost is $500.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
At Home.

In polite circles when q marriage
occurs, it frequently happens that
the happy pair go on their wedding
journey leaving behind them cards,
announcing that they will be "at
home" to receive their friends from 6
to 10 o'clock in the afternoon OF
Thursdays in June or at some other
stated times. In this connection we
are requested to say that, though
H. NJ Mcfarland is nOtrecently mar
ried, and though he is not about to
return from a wedding journey, yet
he has removed to his new office on
the second floor Of the block on the
corner of Main and Church streets,
Hyde Park, Vt, where he will be cat
home" to his business and other
friends six days in the week through
out the year We are asked further
to sayto those who live alta distance
and may desire to see Mr.. Mcfarland
rather than Mr.. NOyes that he in
tends to be in his office personally ev-
cry Saturday. Call in and see him
whether you have business or not.
He will be glad to see you.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
PIanks for the Platform.

1t is believed that the platform OF
the Republicans of Vermont this year
will speak manfully in favor of bal
lot reform, protection to American
industries, prohibition, and economy
in State expenditures.
No better issues could be named on
which to go before the people of Yer
mont. Ballot reform, affecting the
purity and strength of our whole
system of government; protection to
American industries, the great ma
tional system which must be the
policy of the country for many years
to come if prosperity is to be the
nations handmaiden; prohibition,
long grated on the legislation of the
State, long fixed as the policy of Yer
mont and now assailed in the very
house of its friends; and last but by
no means least, that economy which is
extravaganza appropriations make
necessary in order to relieve the bur
den of taxation which bears so heav-
lily on every farmer in the Green
Mountain State.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Just as True To-day.

From the st. Johnsbury Caledonian.
The principal objection to electing
Col. Pingree Governor-and perhaps
the only one-is the danger of estab-
fishing a precedent of taking the Gov
ernor from the Lieutenant's chair
Such a precedent once established will
have to be broken by the people or
all spontaneity and enthusiasm for
the nomination of Governor will be
destroyed and the principal thought
and care will be conferred upon the
nomination of Lieutenant Governor.
And this paragraph must not be con-
sidered as any reflection upon our
present worthy Lieutenant who has
heretofore succeeded to the Govern
orship.
The above editorial appeared in
the CaledOnian in its issue of May Is,
1884, and is reprinted at this time
because it applies SO well to an unde-
sirable feature in the present contest.
A Governor should be chosen by the
people and not by promotion. This
is an additional reason why we sup
port Hon. Carroll :. Page for Gov
ernOr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Both Legs Broken.

| From the Express u Standard.
The article on our first page to-
day, combined with personal Observ-
alton of thoughtful people will be a
complete answer to the charge that
Mr.. Page is responsible for the low
price of skins. Anyone who will take
the trouble to inquire of dealers in
| footwear will find out that very
many more shoes than boots are now
sold, and that there has been a steady
increase in shoe wearing for years,
while boot wearing has correspond
ingly fallen off. Inasmuch as three
times the leather is necessary to make
pair of boots that is used in a pair
of shoes, anyone with half an eye can
see that the demand for calf leather
for this purpose must be greatly
diminished And as this has been
the chief purpose of its use, with the
cessation of demand and no diminu-
ton of supply, there must be a sur
plus of product leading inevitably to
a reduced price. This is the universal
| law of trade, whether it be skins or
wooden yarn, shawls or gem puzzles.
The opposition to Mr. Page has
been just two-legged affair from
the start. One leg was the assertion
that he ran away to Canada during
the war; the other that he was OPP
pressing the farmers in the calf-skin
monopoly. The first assertion has
been shown conclusively to be false,
and the proof we gave in our last
issue. That the second assertion is
equally false is shown in our issue of
to-day. And with both legs thus
knocked from under them the opposi-
ton is making a most ridiculous APP
pearance in its laundering 1t has
no new arguments, and the more it
repeats the old ones, the more feeble
they become.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Go to the Primaries .

"A Farmer Reader" writing from
Vermont to the New England Farmer
urges the farmers of the State to ego
to the caucus and the nominating
convention and make their voices
heard"
The News AND CITIZEN wishes to
REINFORCE this appeal by adding an
urgent word to the farmers on the
Importance of attending the party
primaries. As long as parties exist,
and they will be co-existent with pop
ular government, caucuses to choose
party candidates will be necessary.
That these primary meetings of the
parties are largely left to politicians
to manipulate is the prime cause OF
many of the political evils of the day,
and particularly of the fact that
party candidates are in too many
cases not the peoples choice.
The duties of citizenship in this free
country are progressive. They begin
in the home, pass through the school,
take specific shape in the caucus,
and find fruition at the polls. VIII a
house built on an insecure foundation
be a safe one in which to live? The
foundation of the final act of citizen
ship at the polls is laid when the eau
Gus names the candidate. If the
foundation is poorly laid the super
structure will be insecure.
These facts are of especial force in
Vermont Nothing is much more
certain than that the next Governor
of the State will be named at Mont
pelier on the 10Th of June. Compared
with the definitive work of that con-
vention the vote to be cast in Sep
TENDER will be purely formal. Every
one knows this and yet a few local
politicians will be allowed to meet in
each town to choose delegates to this
convention which virtually names
the next Governor Two or three
thousand men, more or less, will set
tie the question of who shall be the
Governor of Vermont for the next
two years, and next September forty
thousand or so of the sturdy yeo-
many of the State will leave their
work on farm, in shop, or office, go
to the polls, ratify the choice of the
two or three thousand, and think
they have done their whole duty as
citizens. If the people of Vermont
allow this they have no right to COM
plain if taxation is burdensome and
the policy of the State is inimical to
the best interests of its largest indus
try. They must attend the caucuses
to secure the right men for official
places.
The News AND CITIZEN is perfectly
willing, and believes that its candi-
date is also perfectly willing, to
trust his cause to the honest ex-
preston of the sentiments of the
great mass of the people of the
State. 1t asks no more than that
such an honest expression should be
given in regard to his candidacy
1t therefore says to the farmers, to
all the Republican voters OfVermont,
attend the caucuses and see that
they register the popular will. Re
publicans of Vermont, the party pri-
mary is your real election.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08

The leaven of Republicanism is
working in Delaware. The Laurel
DEL Gazette, hitherto Democratic
journal, announces its reputation of
that party and its purpose hence
forth to advocate the principles of
the Republican party. Anthony Hig
gins is thefirst, but the signs indicate
that he will not be the last Republi-
can Senator from little Delaware.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Too GuileleSS.
From Bellows Falls Times.

The woods are. full of candidates
for Lieutenant-GovernOr, and yet
how little are their qualifications be-
ing discussed, or even thought about.
Not but that they are all good men
and true" but they are not weighed
with an eye to the contingency that
has arisen in New Hampshire. We
venture to say that not one voter in
one thousand considers the POSSIBLE
ity of the candidate being "called up
higher" when he casts his ballot for
Northumberland. The few who
do canvass this contingency are the
machine politicians, who take advan-
tage Of the public's apathy to work
in their man." and then insist upon
his promotion at the next turn of the
wheel. This may or may not be the
case in the present instance. We
have not sufficient personal knOwl-
edge of Col Woodbury. to judge; but
the charge is openly made, and, OF
course, on the other hand, denied.
All we have to say, on this head, is,
that a candidate who processes igno-
rance of any rings" in State politics
is altogether too guileless, not to say
green, to be entrusted with an i'm
portant charge among the Legisla-
tive wolves that semi-annually con-
gregate at the State capital.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
A Debt of Gratitude,
From the RriatoI HnraId

The farmers owe Mr.. Page a debt
of gratitude for providing a market
for calf skins, as these calf skins are
now used for drumheads, pocket
books, gloves, mittens, etc He has
done more than any other man to
make market for these skins, which
would otherwise be valueless.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Estate of Fanny Dow.

State of Vermont, District of Lamoille. S.
In Probate Court, held at Hyde Park, in said
Dist, on the 18th day Of April, A. u. 1890.
Dow, late of johnson, in said District deceased
presents his administration account for eXami-
nation and allowance and makes application for
a decree of distribution and partition of the
estate of said deceased. Wherrupon, it is
ordered by said Court, that said account and said
application be referred to session thereof, to be
held at the Probate Office in said Hyde Park on
the 9th day of May, A. ID. $780, for hearing and
decision thereon And, it is further ordered. that
notice hereof be given to all persons Interested by
Nv in the News and Citizen, a newspaper pub
lished at Morrsville and Hyde Park, previous
to said time appointed for hearing, that they
may appear at said time and place, and show
cause if any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed and such decree made.
BY the Court.-AtteSt.
25 II. S. PAGE. Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08

The Democratic papers, with one
accord, all attribute the cause of the
present agricultural depression in this
country to the tariff But they are
careful not to tell their readers that
this agricultural depressionis general
the world over and thati in Free Trade
Great Britain it has been more severe
than in any other nation But this
is the plain, undisputable fact, and
one of the great causes of the severe
depression in that country is that the
farmers there are open to the compe-
tition of the whole world, unrelieved
by any duties on imports whatever.
But Free Traders dishonesty ignore
or try to conceal such facts as the
above.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Guardian Notice.
LICENSE TO SELL.

State of Vermont, DiStrictof LamoilEe, SIS. Ii
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park, in sale
district on the 9th day of May A. ID. 1890.
G.. L. Mudgett Guardian of Horace A. jackson
makes application to said Court, for license to sci
the following described real estate of his sale
ward. to wit: All the real estate belonging to his
said ward and all his wards interest in any rea
estate situated in Hyde Park, VT, representing
that the sale thereof for the purpose OF putting The
proceeds of such sale at interest in
Vesting the same in stocks or real estate, woulC
be beneficial to said ward WhereupOn, it is or
dered by said Court, that said application
be referred to session thereof, to be held at the
Probate Office in said Hyde Park, on the 23rd day
of May, A. d. 1890, for hearing and decision
thereon: And, it is further ordered, that all per
sons interested be notified hereof by publication
of notice of said application and order thereon
three weeks successfully in the NEWS AND CITI
ZEN, published at MOrrisville and Hyde Park
before said time of hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and if they see cause
object thereto. BY the Court.-Attest,
q X. S. PAGE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
The Nub of 1t.
From the Bellows Falls Times.

The nub of the whole situation is
Shall we return to the old method OF
rotation in the high and responsible
office of Governor of the commons
wealth, with all the opportunities it
presents for ring manipulations and
propagation of political mediocrity
or, now out of the rut, shall we stay
out, and thus avoid the humiliating
experience of being kicked by our own
mule. in the sharpening of whose
shOe-calks we have taken especial
pains? Let demagogues crate and
fire-eaters howl! but don't lose sight
of the fact that the gubernatorial
canvass of 1890 is one of measures,
not men.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08
Estate of Arson whittemore.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

NOIIJE
State of Vermont District of LamOille, sS.-In
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park. in said Dist
on the 18th day of April, A. ID. 1890
w. G.. BaSSett. Administrator of the estate of
Arson WhittemOre, late of Eden, in said
District, deceased, presents his admin
StratiOn account for examination and allow
ance and makes application for a decree of diStr-
button and Partition ofthe estate of said deceased.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court, that said
session thereof, to be held at the Probate Office
in said Hyde Park. on the 10th day of May. A.
it is further ordered, that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested, by publication of the
same three weeks successfully in the News and
Citizen, a newspaper published at MOrrisville
and Hyde Park, previous to said time appointed
for hearing that they may appear at said time
and place, and show cause, if any they may have
why said account should not be allowed and
such decree made.
By the COurt.-AtteSt.
% II. S. PAGE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-08

The undersigned having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Lamoille, Commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of j. r. Tabor, late of Morris
town, in said District. deceased, and all claims
exhibited in offset thereto, hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purposes aforesaid
at the Town Clerks Office in Morris
town, on the 24th day of May and 26th
a. m, until four O'Clock p. M. each of SAID days
and that six months from the First
day of May, A. d. 1890, is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Morrstown, this 9Th day of May,
AID. 1890. |. \. LEBAROS, | C,,,,,,,i,,io,,o,.,
q a. 0. GATES. (CohihilSSlollelo'