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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

The new third party managers propose tC
make a lively fight In Ohio and Kentucky thi.
fall and are Boosting tina. If Mckinley rims fol
governor in the. latter state they will bury him
under 10000 majority. The farmers union,
which claims to contain $4,000 votes mostly
former Republicans, met at Columbus Tues
day to start the campaign. and at Cincinnati
a great meeting Of 1000 workingmen was
held last week to endorse the third party
movement, and one of their orators. a me.
chanic by the name of Brass, drew this pic
ture of the future:
Hereafter, and from this day forth, silver
and gold are no longer needed as money. The
mighty steam engine driving the printing
presses will stamp the seal Of the govern.
ment upon God serving paper, which will re.
pay all the sons of toll for each drop of sweat
shed by them In the cause of humanity, . .
The day Of scarce money Is past and gone.
The light Of the golden morning of peace and
prosperity Is breaking over our hills. Here
otter, instead of q pitiful so cents a day, each
child viii receive $50 for each days work
done by II; hereafter each skilled workman
will receive S100 for each and every days
work done by him. Hereafter the farmers
viii bring their marketing to the city and re.
GIVE any price, that lney tnink Is necessary
to compensate them for their arduous toll In
producing the same.
But u extravaganza IS this OF course
viii play a small part In the campaign. The
tariff Is to be the chief issue. Jerry Simpson
has been detsiled as the chief representative
of the Farmers Alliance and he is to devote
himself chiefly to the Mckinley bill. The re-
seult In Kentucky ought to afford some indl-
cation of the strength the new party will
have In the south. IL has already put q state
ticket 10 the field and leading Democrats al
mits that il will have 3 large vote.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

IT needs the cool and ucid logic of Senator
Carlisle to demolish the ~fallacies of the new
party. A delegation from the Cincinnati
convention visited him last week to ask hi,
views about the various planks of the plat
form. He asked with reference to the de.
manG for government ownership of railroads
and telegraphs if it was proposed to conris-
cate them and on receiving a negative answer
said the only alternative was to buy them.
Then the figures alone were enough to settle
the matter:
"To buy them you must pay for them, and
to pay for them you must tax yourselves.
Have you any idea how much it would cost?
Our government debt at the close of the war
was more than Two thousand millions, and
we have been almost thirty years in paying
half of It. The railroads, telegraphs, tele.
phone lines and steamboats, In the country
represent about $40. 000, 900, 900 invested capt.
tai: 81, 600. 000. 900 is bonded Indebtedness
which must be paid. Are you ready to tax
Yourselves to raise this money! Then, after
you have got the property, are you ready to
tax yourselves to operate it, for the govern
ment never yet su~vccSea In doing business
at a profit! Consider another effect: such a
plan would add perhaps 1000 900 men and
women to the roll OF government employees.
How would you ever succeed In turning out
of power an administration with such re.
at Its commands? The more corrupt
1t was the more difficult 1t would be to dis
place it,"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
A GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, despatch to the

A GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, despatch to the
New York Times says:
Notwithstanding the Mckinley tariff. the
price Of wool In Michigan this year will be
lower than last, and last year 1t was lower
than long before the war. In 1889 washed
woods were quoted at 30 to 80 cents, and sold
readily at that price. Last year, after the
passage of the Mckinley Till, prices dropped
to 26 to 80 cents, and this was plausibly eX-
planned by the politicians with the statement
that the wooden goods market had been
glutted with European cloth rushed In early
to avoid the tariff. The season In Michigan
low those of last year. They will range from
% to % cents, and are more likely to 90 low
err than higher. II I The farmers are rap.
Idly getting their eyes opened to the ~fallacies
of the protective tariff. Their organizations
the Patrons of Industry and the Alliance
are serving a great educational purpose in
this regard. The country gentlemen get
together to discuss living topics, and, of all
the questions talked about, the tariff has been
foremost. The placing of sugar On the free
list has been In the nature Of a revelation to
them. and has made free traders or tariff re.
formers of hundreds of the younger men es.
pecially. If removing the tax will reduce the
price of sugar. the question naturally arises.
What would be the result or similar action
on clothing, machinery, lumber, and every.
thing else fhe farmers use? This question
has been presented and debated at rural
meetings all over the state during the winter
and spring, and will be discussed at every
meeting during the coming season
between no v and next election.
Such facts at these explain the develop.
ments Of the past few months Ia the west.
They make the future of the high tariff, law
lsh subsidy policy absolutely hopeless.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

A LONG fight over the mercantile agency
system Is eliminating In Massachusetts,. The
lower house OF the legislature Tuesday
passed the bill requiring the agencies to be
held responsible to the same extent as indi.
vid uals for any injury done by their reports
either to tbelr subscribers or any one else.
The noise that Is being made over the matter,
and the extent of opposition developed, Is of
itself proof of the need of a correctly. The
agencies have become indispensable to mod
ern business. unquestionabiy, but this affords
no reason for exempting them from the same
responsibility any one else would take, In the
work for which they get good pay. Under
the bill only malice or carelessness or lack of
reasonable diligence in reports on the part of
the agencies or their subordinates can render
tn EN- liable for damages; and what earthly
reason is there why they should not take this
liability? 1t is said IN their behalf that it is
only rarely now that they do any wrong, as
Is undoubtedly true ;but that means only that
their own interests have led them to do what
the law should require of all operations be.
tween man and man.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
&1OO Reward. 500.

The readers of the REFORMER will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been able to
cure In all Its stages. and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure IL the only positive cure
now known to the medical fraternity Ca
tarrh being a constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby DESTROYING the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting nature
In doing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in Its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that
1t fails to cure. Send for list Of testimonials.
Address. F.. j. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O..
EY~ Sold by Druggists, 75c.-adv.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
The Philadt lphia Revelations

Ir Is a vast amount of r~ascality that Is be
Ing uncovered In Pennsylvania and PhiladeI
phie, and right at the heart of the Republl
can organization of the state. 1t began will
the exposure Of the McFarlane s~tealings tina
wrecked a bank and an insurance company
followed by the fall of Delemater, the lat,
Republican candidate for governor. will
hundreds of thousands of other people,,
money spent In his campaigns ;and now.comes
the collapse OF the Keystone and spring Gar
den banks. and the disappearance of SAL, OO(
of city money and nearly a million of state
funds In the shape Of state taxes collectt d
but not paid over. 1t Is a nest Of thievery,
beside which the operations of Tweed with
his Gould and Erie railroad annex seem am.
dent has skipped the country mas been rotten
with robbery for years. The previous presi.
dent who died a few years ago had looted II
for hundreds of thousands, with the knowl'
edge OF several other officials, and they
have continued the work, c0ncealipg It by
tearing out leaves of ledgers and borrowing
from other banks to fill the hole when the
examiner came around. 1t appears now to
have liabilities ST 80, 100. 900 without assets
enough to pay 10 per cent. 1t was pub
lie funds. of which the amount was
Systematically falsifed, that have kept
1t afloat. The extent of the guilt of the
city treasurer, John Bardsiey, cannot be
told yet. There Is we'll towards a million Of
money vet to ne accounted for. One haul Of
$39, 900 can be traced directly to him. 1t Is
proved, by the testimony Of the president of
the collapsed Spring Garden bank and of the
Third National officers that he eXacte6 money
on public deposits, an indictable %.otfence.
He Is under arrest though too Ill to be moved
from his house. There Is reason also for
believing that the defaIcation was a legacy to
him, that the shortage has existed for years
and hat 1t was a condition of the nomina-
ton of successive treasurers that they should
cover it up.
1t is all the legitimate fruit of Pennsy lvania
politics. For years the people of that state
have condoned fraud upon the public treas
ury and rewarded 1t. They made Matt Quay
their senator with full knowledge of his abb
of vast sums from the state treas
ury. The corrupt ring that ruled Philadel-
phia has been known of all men tor years.
1t has maintained itself in power by fragrant
In elections winked at by citizens of
eminent responsibility because the frauds
helped the Republican party. No man who
stopped to think about 1t. can have had any
doubt that the things now exposed were
going on, or that thieves were the custodions
Of public money, or that the system under
they were living was one of or
corruption.
If men will sustain such thiHgs for the
Jake Of partisanship they must expect to feel
he consequences sooner or later.
A state treasurer Is to 0e elected this fall
nd 1t will then be seen whether the limit of
has been passed or not.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
An epoch.marking event is the conc

AN epoch-marking event is the conclusion.
with a complete victory, of the great politl'
cal strike of the Belgian workingmen. The
revision of the constitution, especially with
a purpose Of granting universal suffrage, has
been conceded. The property qualification
for voting Is so high In Belgium that out of a
population of 5000, 900 only 133, 900 persons
had the suffrage. They were the landed pro.
p~rietors and the great manufacturers, and
like all oIigarchies, particularly those founded
on money, they have determinedIy clung to
heir exclusive privileges. King Leopold,
who Is really quite a decent and intelligent
man for a monarch, has long been inclined to
a broadening policy, and so has the church.
Since the fall of the Frere.Oban ministry, a
new radical party has grown up to fight the
cause of the people, the great strike of the
miners was inaugurated to emphasize the de-
mand, and 1t grew In strength and determin.
alton until revolution was imminent. King
Leopold became so frightened that he Is
said to have asked aid of Germany In case the
revolt finally broke out, Things looked so
badly a little while ago that a large part OF
the national reserves were put under arms;
but this only made matters worse, for 1t still
further paralyze industries of all kinds and
made the business situation more desperate.
In the meantime the workingmen became
more turbulent, and the dissatisfaction
spread to the reserves, until 1t was doubtful
which side they would take SHOULD a revoIu-
tion break out. 1t was only when this crisis
had been reached that Leopold could induce
the conservatives to yield their monopoly of
power. Belgium in the accomplishment of
this great reform follows the victory in Spain
year. Both have become Republics 10
realty. with monarchical f1ummery only In
So has England nearly. The power
OF the Braganzas iniPortugal Is tottering to
Its fall, after that of Its kinsman In Brazil.
The French Republic Is waxing stronger
with every year, even while little Switzer-
land begins to prepare for the celebration of
Inc GOth anniversary OF its freedom. A new
Republic of continental dimensions Is rising
N the south seas In Australia, to offer greet.
.ngs to the two continents of America, every
loot of which Is now dedicated to self gov.
eminent, except Canada and the Guiana colo.
lies. Even ancient Japan feels the great i'm.
,ulse of progress. Of all the nations Germany
md Russia are the only ones that are at.
empting to restrain 1t, and they only make
he end more sure. 1t Is indeed a great sge
hat we live In. {
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

LORD SALISBURY has through Minister
Pounceforte sent an apology for his delay IN
replying to our governments proposition for
a close season against the catching of seals
in the Behring sea. The amount OF 1t Is that
he would like to make an agreement, but he
is greatly troubled by the storm which the
proposal has aroused in British America and
he don't know what to do. Meanwhile large
numbers of poaching vessels are sailing from
BritishColumbian ports. The cabinet has had
the matter. under discussion this week and the
conclusion Is believed to be to let the Alaskan
company 60 on its catching according to Its
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

GEN. BUTLER brought the case of Mrs.
Clarietta johnson before Judge Nelson al
Boston Wednesday on a writ of habeas cor.
pus, but was again defeated, the motion be
ing denied. The case Is a strange one, Justi.
flying sympathy. she procured a pension as
The widow of Edgar G.. Johnson when she
was In fact the undiyorced wife of Samuel e.
Stevens of Newbuay. She was a daughter Of
Chase H. Ring, who lived In Bradford 10
1856, ana In The spring OF. that year, hired
Stevens to work for him. mr.. Ring was Nv.
Ing with his second wife, and Clarietta was a
daughter by the first. After her return from
school she did not get along well with her
step-mother. The result was a marriage the
18th of the next September between Stevens
and Ciarietta, when they were going to a cat
lie show at st. Johnsbury, Stevens being %
years and the girl IA. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. FL. NJ. Burton. at that
time Congregational preacher at Newbury
street, and was witnessed by Miss Mary +.
Stevens, a sister of Samnel. She lived with
Stevens in extreme poverty unit two children
we're born 10 them. their first residence be-
ing with the grandfather OF Stevens In New
bury, their next a deserted house In Brad
ford, and their next a deserted dwelling In
Newbury, and then In East Waterford and
Barnard. In the spring of 1862 Stevens en-.
listed, and the did not see him again
until the war was over, only a Few letters
passing betweea them. He left her without
a dollar, and all his personal effects brought
only $3.50 when sold al auction; she also re-
ceived $40 from the town, as aid due to the
wife of a solder. Her father had
claimed that the alleged marriage was
she claims to have belived so, and
Stevens returned from the war a sapa'
ration was amicably arranged. This was IN
1868. The woman went to Massachusetts,
aud from there 10 Nashua, N. H.. where she
married Edgar c. Johnson, a railroad man
about her own age. This latter marriage Oc.
Cured Nov. %, 1868. In 1882 she was forced
co leave johnson, because of his Incorporate
and soon sfterward he died.
In the year of 1885 she made an 1
application for a pension as bis wild.
Nv, and in her affidavit swore that her |
marriage with I'm was her first matrimonial 1
The pension was granted In 1887. I
md September 10, 1890, she was arrested on . G
'harge OF having committed perjury. AT her
rial amuel G.. Stevens appeared rs a wit =
less, and among the other witnesses for the
J nlted states were Mary Z. Stevens, his sis
er, and Horace W. Bailey, Town Clerk of e
She was convicted and April 81, 7
entenced to siZ months imprisonment In the II
enal Institution of Sherborn, Mass.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

a new organization, the National FEEDER
atlon or America, has been formed IN rstso
iunds 10 assist the people of Ireland IN shtatn
nu,no rug. II owes allegiance TO neither NJ
ne "a, ma,hentarV factions. It's sole pIrnose
Is 10 furnish the needed aid TO Tho IA. ~ pose
eVicted tenants In Ireland. ''"siins
The marriage of Miss Elaine coo,.,o a.,
poet, ana Or. Charles A.. Eastman rha .ne
inu'an' VINO graduated from Dartmnn,b 'onuH
'ese III 1885, VIII take place June TX JUL
secretary OF the Treasury Fos,er h.a
pwns.u commission composed of ey.Con-
sressnlan Charles IL. Grosvenor of Ohio H.
waller hempstdr, the noted expert On inson.
15y sahu Mr. Powderly, a brother of r. ".
fowderly, to proceed to Eurone an' =. "
gate the immigration problem. The cn moes,l-
sion VIII sail about the middle of June.
Several more vessels besides the J,.,. .,o
reported TO have been chartered TO convav
arms 10 tne Chilian insurgents.
INC friDce of Wales Is llkelv N he nnt 1, a
Ia.ner embarrassing position by the prosec,,.
tioh OF tne Gordon Cummings case. growing
out u a hlgh-toDed gambling scandal Cum,
mlngs IN his desperation proposes to shelter
ns'h hS oy making the Prince of Wales stand
a. nus samohng sD0nsor and to put him on
IN h.if . ,hs stann 10 admit that he has played
!" na'i the gambling bells of Europe.
Ar organized effort is apparently making
DcuOCTalS 10 get a line
OF declarations for free silver from state con.
ventons before the national convention
meets, In hope of staying the sentiment
aroused BY Cleveland's bold declaration. Ken.
lucky led OF and Senator'S Col1uitt. Brock.
snrldge and Pugh have taken up the slogan.
Ev,n Carlisle yields SO far as to saw that he
'ene'es Tree coinage ought to be tried.
Inc Charleston reached Callao, Peru.
the It..es "itnout having seen anything of
The grand jury at New Orleans has found
lnuIctments Tor Jury bribery In the Italian
cases against two Of Detective O'MaIley,s as.
sistants. ' o 20
H;O. West, a son of a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Greenfield. Mass. arrived
al oalt Lake, Utah, last week Monday accom-
panied by a recently married wife. who ia
SAID 10 be the daughter of a prominent citI-
zen OF st. Louis, Mo-, and was arrested upon
a charge of having obtained a large sum of
money on a forged check.
Mrs w A Uptegraff, insane because of
poverty, .llled her three children at Topeka,
hamsaS, wednesday and then burned their
and herself.
A strange pathological case Is found In Rev
DR. Thos Fits who died In commissions at
Pittsburg Pa, this week. When the skuIJ
was opened a bony plate was discovered, two
inches In length, "a of an inch in wi 9th
ana or a very rough surface, and occupying
a part OF the meinbraneOus partition between
the two he~mispheres of the brair.
Little Pasquallna Robertiello, who shot
her betrayer at New York a few weeks ago
because he would not fulfil his promise to
marry her, was acquitted Wednesday. The
ease mas excited much sympathy and inter-
esq inc more so because after this terrible
strain the poor gill Is to become a mother in
a few weeks.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

THE New York Herald published a sensa'
tIonal report this week that Mr.. Blaine was
repedly breaking down, no longer being able
to carry on a consecutive train of reasoning;
for a few minutes on meeting people ''he
flashes and sparkles, and then, on a sudden
becomes silent, moody and hypochondriac,"
and with a sudden loss of interest In all he
has been chatting about. Both Mrs. Blaine
and the Secretary's friends at Washington
health is doubtless precarlous, and this is the
reason he would not take his party's nomi-
nation for the presidency in 1888, blu. menta[-
ly he is still the strongest aud the tarthest-
seeing man In the Republican party.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
THE Pension office continues to be the c,

lhE cLsiOn OLlCC COutlDucS W ue tQe CeUs
ter of unsavory revelations. Several cases
are reported to 5ave been unearthed where
chiefs levied assessments on subordinates by
borrowing money Of them, neglecting to
pay 1t and then keeping the subordlnates
quiet with threats of losing their places. As.
istant Secretary Chandler accused MAJ. Bar.
ker of doing this, but Barker's brother.
in.law, Assistant Secretary Bassey, held
an investigation and acquitted him on
evidence that does seem to excGlpate him,
but to show another guilty of the same trick.
Another of young Raum's ways Of turning a
penny develops 10 the case Of an old soldier
who, TO save the exorbitaut fees of the attor-
neys ,preser ted himself at the bureau with an
application for a pension carefully filled cut,
and Raum sent him to an attorney on the
pretense that 1t was not properly done when
1t was. Civil Service Commissioner Roose.
welt has demanded the prosecution of young
Raum for the frauds exposed, last week.
1t is humiliating business all through
from the time the elder Raum was found
"placing" hi refrigerator stock whit en-
ployes and getting bis notes endorsed by a
notorious pension agent, down through all
these minor mangverfngs which were only
limitations OF the methods Of the chief.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

A conference of the leading Republican mem
bers of the Massachusetts legislature has de-
cided by a vote of 4S to SO, against the redis-
tri ,ting bill recently reported and to try to
a. the whole subject over to the next legis.
ture when 1t Is hoped the Republicans will
e able to control things. The present bill is
beyond question a fair one. it was reported
under instructions to prepare a non partisan
plan, and with one house Republican, the
other a tie, and the executive a Democrat,
1t is just tine time to pass a bill that will be
clean from the modern meanness of gerry.
Wandering. But this is just the thing the
Republican legislators have shown by their
vote that they don't want. They think this
tr ansparent trick Is cunning. 1t is marvellous
how obtuse the politician can be.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

George c. Cooke, 50, a farmer and NOR.
chant of Corinth, died of apoplexy at his
home Wednesday forenoon. He was the only
son of Daniel r. Cooke. He inherited a large
fortune and continued the business In the old
brick store at Cookville, built by bis grand.
father in 1918. and managed ever since by a
member OF the family. He was town repre-.
sehtatlve In 1874 and postmaster during the
Cleveland administration. In 1865 he was
elected town clerk and treasurer. and has
been constantly Reelected since, except in
1888 and 1884, when another was chosen
treasurer. For ten years he has been a d.
rector IN the First national bank of Chelsea,
and since 1876 a justice of The peace. He
caves y and two daughters.