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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

spects and in his general administration
he is the best man that has held the
office of superintendent since the days
of j. S. Adams.
Great stress is laid by some on the
alleged necessity of having practical
teacher for a state superintendent. Mr..
Palmer has been teacher, and prac-
tical teacher in the true meaning of the
term, in the public schools of the state
1t does not, however, follow that be-
cause man is a good teacher, he will,
therefore, make successful superin-
tendent A writer of military tactics
is not necessarily great or successful
military commander. The duties of the
pedagogue in the school-room are one
thing; the duties of the executive officer
of state school system are another
and an entirely different thing, and de-
mand for their competent performance
not schoolmaster, but man of execu-
tive ability, wide general experience,
contact with men and familiarity with
affairs. These, with the qualities of a
scholar, and the possession of real
scholarship and bright intelligence,
help to make good superintendent
Such man is Mr. Palmer.
We are not moved to make these OBJ
servations from any fear that the legisla-
ture in this matter of a school super
intendeut is about to do the unwise
thing some people and some newspa-
pers are seeking to have it do, but we
feel moved, in the interest of public
education and in the interest of wise
public policy-and in obedience to the
request of some of the stanchest friends
of the public schools-to enter protest
against the raid that appears to be be-
gun from various points upon an office
that, of all the state offices, should have
first competent occupant, and, second,
a reasonable and wholesome perma-
nency of its tenure.
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long enough to destroy his personal
clientage-deprived him of his custom
airy sources of income-does it comport
with honor and fairness without cause
to deny him further reelection
1t is admitted on all hands that he has
faithfully and ably performed the duties
of his office. In administering a law
that left everything at sea, the schools
have gained in strength and efficiency.
The statistics he had gathered with in
finite painstaking have been the basis
of highly beneficial legislation The
adoption of the town system, among
other things, is the Legitimate outcome
of the statistical showing and educa-
tional work of Mr.. Palmer. The legis-
lation of this session introduces new
and vital changes into school admins
tration. Will the Legislature continue
in office the well-tried official, thor
oughly familiar by study and experience
with the intricate course of school af-
fairs during the past four years, and
well equipped for efficient work in the
future, or will it turn him out and put
in a new and untried man? Which is
the rational and business like course2
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Superintendent of Education.

Editor Wdtchmdn:-I have read your ed
itorial and commend what you have said
to the thoughtful attention of every men,
Der of the legislature. The scrambling,
wire-pulling and electioneering that is going
on for the office merits rebuke and conden-
nation. The candidates for the succession TO
Mr.. Palmer all seem to be self-apponted. The
spectacle of member of the senate button
holing members in the corridors, in the lob
bies, at the hotels, everywhere, and at all
times Of the day and night, for votes for the
office of superintendent is not an agreeable
one, and was never before witnessed in this
state. What is he here for? To attend to
the lawful duties of a senator, or to use the
Office to boost himself into another office
with fat salary? Burlington has or has
had, about all the state otfices-the agricul-
tural college, with its fat appropriations,
the secretary of the board of agriculture,
the office of adjutant and inspector general, a
acknowledgements, and has mortgage on
the next governorship. Does the town
want the earth2 Does the state want to
make Burlington the headquarters of all its
interests? The legislature had better settle
this matter by sending all the new aspirants
to the rear, and re-elect the old superin-
tendent President Lincoln used to say it
was bad business to swap horses in the mid
die of a stream, and it seems to me it will
be bad policy at this time to swap off an eX-
perienced superintendent for new one
when everything about the schools is in
transition state. Keep the old pilot at
the helm till the school ship is in still wa
ters. He has had experience, and it will
take time and money to provide new man
with experience. II will be an evil day for
the school interests when the legislature
permits the Office of state superintendent to
become the object of a scramble, or when
the policy of frequent change is inaugurated,
REPRESENTATIVE.
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braced the pillars of the national
strength and prosperity, and pulled the
magnificent temple down about their
ears.
In no part of the world, not even
among the democrats and mugwumps
of the United States, is the result Of
the late election hailed with such
transports of JOY as in England and
throughout industrial Europe. II means
there the reopening of the workshops
and factories the Mckinley act had
closed, the reminding of fires the re-
publican policy had extinguished, and
frantic democrats are now appealing
to their turbulent allies and followers
to save them from the consequences of
their own folly.
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The Mapleson Opera Company.

Laura Schirmer and the Mapleson Opera
Company arrived recently from Europe and
opened their season at the fremont theater,
Boston, October II, followed by long stay
at the Fifth Avenue theater, New York.
The opera is " Fadette," which has had one
of the greatest successes ever known in
Europe, where it has already been per-
formed over one thousand times. AS 4" Fa-
dette" Laura Schirmer-M apleson will ap-
pear to the greatest possible advantage,
both as a singer and as an actress Her cos
tunes are superb. The following strong
combination of well-known artists will sup
port her G. J. Campbell, the leading tenor
of the famous Carl Rosa Opera Company /;
Warwick Ganor, principal baritone of the
Royal Opera Company; Irene Jerome, the
new prima donna who recently made such
a success, and other artists of ability, will
complere this strong bill. The prominent
comedian role will be played by Charles
Ii Drew, who has a great part. The music
of Fadette " is very taking and melodious,
and the plot is full of bright, sparkling
comedy, as well as striking and interesting
situations. The production in America Of
Fadetre by the Mapeson Opera Com
plny promises to be memorable event in
the history of opera comique in this country,
and a great pleasure may be safely antici-
pated by all lovers of music. AT Blanchard
Opera.house, Montpelier, Thursday even.
ing, November H.
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Give the Average Farmer a Chance.

Vermont's Worlds Fair commission
ers propose to put $4,000 into build
ing and to spend some $4,000 more in
exhibiting at Chicago the states dairy
and maple sugar products, its horses
and sheep, but what part of this sum
does the commission propose to spend
in showing the states farm products
corn, grains, apples and similar prod
uctsp If anything has been set aside
for showing these products it has es-
capped our notice. We understand in
directly that it is not proposed by the
commissioners to undertake an exhibit
of these products of the soil. We trust
we are incorrectly informed. For the
credit of the state, and 10 justice to the
great body of farmers. who will pay their
share of the $4,000 that will be ex-
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Superintendent Of Education.

Editor Waterman Next Thursday the
members of the legislature will make their
choice of man to fill the office Of superin-
tendent of education. The two leading can
didates for the office are e. f. Palmer of
Waterbury and ID. j Foster of Burlington
For the past four years Mr.. Palmer has
filled this position in manner satisfactory
to the people of the state, and his report is
receiving favorable comment on every
hand. Mr.. Palmer Is a man who is in
every way fitted for the position. great
many seem to think that IL requires but lit.
tie time to do the work of state superinten-
dent; but here they are mistaken. In Or
der to do the work in a thorough manner,
a man must put not only his mind but his
entire time into the work, as glance at the
report will show. This a young man who
is working up a business cannot do. Such
a man would want the office only as a help
to something better. Now, the people of
the state do not propose to consider this Of
flee as stepping-stone. Mr.. Foster evil
IDENTIFY wants the Office very much but he
seems to forget that he is taking an unfair
advantage of his position. He knows moth
ing of the work of the office, and most GER
tainly has not the time TO devote to the
work required in that office. He would
either have to slight his own work or slight
the states work-and we know which a
man would naturally do. On the other
hand Mr.. Palmer has had four years of
experience and has performed the work
satisfactory to all. He is heartily in sym
patty with this line OF work, devotes
his entire time to it, and is certainly the
man for the office.
A MEMBER.
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A Very Important Pledge.

The infatuation that possesses a class
of papers called independent is one of
the peculiar features of the current
political era. These journals without
exception were the unsparing critics of
Grant, Conklng and their stalwart COM
patriots, in their day; to-day, these
same journals, in their fatuous idola-
try of Cleveland, have become the SER
vile allies and helpers of Tammany, a
democratic political machine in COM
parison with whose least blameworthy
practice the most reprehensible thing
ever charged against the Conkling lead
ership was an act of shining virtue.
The scandals connected with Mr. Cleve'
lands earlier private life have been by
common assent relegated to forgetful-
ness, but no considerations of charity
demand that the people shall be obliv-
ious of the fact of his contributions to
the success of Tammany in the New
York state election in 1891, or of his
abject surrender to this Infamous or
ganization in 1892. One of the fore
most of these independents, the New
York Times, is thus snubbed by the
New York Sun and reminded of very
important pledges made by Mr.. Clcve-
land on the opening of the campaign
in the Empire state. The Sun says:
Since the late election the Times has
courted Sleep and from its dreaming audi =
bly, of the downy days of 1884, we hear that
"Mr. Cleveland has returned to the presi-
dental office without one compromising
pedge-had he been capable of giving one.
as he is not--and without any promises,
save to be faithful to the principles he has
avowed." While our neighbor slumbers
the victorious democracy can joggle its Joy
with the recollection that at the crisis Of the
campaign Mr.. Cleveland pledged himself
most solemnly and sensibly to be in his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

After a generation of agitation, and
decade of acute discussion before sue
cessive legislatures, bill making the
town system of school management the
law of the state has passed both branches
of the legislature by very gratifying
majorities. The result is a matter
for sincere congratulation. Vermont
will soon be placed abreast of her
sister states in this matter of school
management. With the town system
fully established, the see-saw policy in
state legislation and the distractions in
towns arising from the agitation of this
feature of the school question will end,
and under wise and stable general
management the schools must begin an
era of decided improvement.
The point in the original bill over
which there was the greatest divergence
of opinion was Section 2, providing for
the equalization of the values of the
school properties of the various districts.
This section was finally stricken out
and the following substituted:
Section 1.-The several towns shall take
charge of the school-houses and property
belonging thereto within their respective
limits, and all debts outstanding that have
accrued for the purchase of land, erection
of school-houses and repairs on school
houses shall be audited and paid by the re-
spective towns All other Indebtedness of
any school district shall be paid by said dis
trict in the settlement of its pecuniary
affairs.
The remaining provisions of the bill
are substantially the same as those of
former measures for this purpose, and
the same as those of the optional law
which has been so long law of the
state. In the action of the legislature,
Superintendent Palmer's recommends
tons have been again adopted, as they
were by the legislature of 1890 in the
enactment of the five per cent state
tax law. Mr.. Palmer was an original
town system man. He has enforced
his views by facts and reasons, candidly
and fearlessly given, and must, with
other friends of better schools, feel a
pardonable pride and satisfaction in the
triumph of the measure he has sus-
tanned.
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A Political Bull Run.

The election of November S was a
sort of Bull Run. The democrats are
as much surprised at their triumph as
the republicans at their defeat Neither
party seems to have sensed the real
situation. Mr.. Cleveland appears to
have to his credit some 2G9 electoral
votes, Mr.. Harrison 100, Mr.. Weaver 20,
with 26 votes in doubt, 90 of which are
those of Ohio. The latter state is ex-
ceedingly close, and is claimed by both
the democracy and the republicans by
very slender pluralities.
What is the cause of the disaster to
the republican party? "Protec ton, "
seems to be the general answer. The
"force bill and fear of "negro domi-
nation" says the New York Sun. The
result is apparently one of those IRA
tional, unaccountable and uncontroll-
able stampedes. that sometimes seize a
people. When they recover their self.
possession they are astounded by the
absurdity of their fears aud appalled, al
the consequences of their foolish trepi-
dation.
For no reason that now commends
itself to the mind of rejecting man
the country has been led into wild
raid against the existing industrial pol
icy, and those who have been among
the foremost in egging ON the masses
to rip up the entire fabric the party
in power has reared are now standing
aghast at the evident consequences Of
their own consummate folly. Like the
blind Samson of old, they have em
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16
4" Eyerlastingly Right"

Editor Wdtchmon:-You are everlastingly
right in what you say in your article about
the Office of state superintendent OF schools.
| am stoutly opposed to any member OF house
or senate using the advantage his office gives
him to work up boom for himself for the
office of state superintendent of schools or
any other office. This thing has been done
to a scandalous extent in former legisla-
lures. The best way to settle this scram-
rebuke unseemly office-seeking. Mr., Palmer
has proved himself the real friend of the
common schools and the common people. I
have read his report and am convinced by
the ability and faithfulness that document
shows that, for the present at least, he is
the right man in the right place.
A MEMBER
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This Picture and That.

The New York Herald, one of the
most conspicuous of the independent
journals that are always closely allied
to the democrats, spent the closing days
of the national canvass in examining its
editorial page with bogies of deluge
of skilled English labor as one of the
consequences of the continued opera
ton of the Mckinley tariff, as that
measure was closing English factories
in every department of industry and
the workmen had no alternative but to
come to America. The election past,
the Herald, in an article on emigration,
declares that Americans
Must say to the world; " If your people
want to come to America send the best you
have and we will receive them; If you send
your worst we will reject them. This coun-
try is no nations cesspool. You can't empty
your alms-houses on these shores. We are
not dumping-ground for your criminals,
your paupers, your lame, halt and blind
yoltr ten-dolldr immigrants"
In another article, rebuking Mr..
Howell, the rather fresh " editor of
the Atlanta Constitution, for his impul-
sive demand for an extra session of
the Fifty-third congress to repeal the
Mckinley act, the Herald says:
The people don't want the Mckinley law
repealed 1t must be shorn of its worst
features but that will all come in good sea-
son. To repeal the law or to chase con-
gress on to tamper hastily with its provis-
ions would disturb business, depress stocks,
unsettle values. upset industries and throw
the country into such panic as it has not
experienced since 1857.
And the Heroh adds:
The people have just won great vic.
tory, and they don't want it turned into a
great disaster by excited politicians, eager
free traders, youthful editors, aspiring ora
tors or meddlesome pamphleteers.
The conservatives on the one hand,
and the " excited politicians and eager
free-traders" on the other, constitute a
Scylla and Charybdis between which
it will be fine navigating to steer the
democratic bark. From a partisan
point of view, we sincerely hope Mr..
Cleveland may be persuaded to call his
congress together in extra session and
repeal the Mckinley law. If he was
elected on the tariff issue, as all demo-
Gratis claim, and if he and his party
were sincere in their campaign utter
ances, Mr.. Howell of the Atlanta Con-
Stitution was right in his demand for
an extra session of congress and the re.
peal of the Mckinley act
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aolattbmaa 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1892
Governor Fuller's Proclamation.

Nearing the close of year of marvellous
prosperity and numberless blessings, with
freedom from " the pestilence that walketh
in darkness" and "the destruction that
wssteth at MONDAY" mindful of the watch.
full care Of our Heavenly Father, in accord
ance with the custom of our people, hereby
appoint Thursday, the twenty-fourth day OF
November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, as
day of public thanksgiving.
On that day let us lay aside our usual
labors, and in public worship render thanks
to the Giver of all these mercies; let chill
dren and kindred gather around the hearth
stone, and with united hearts bless COM
mon Lord; let the stranger within our gates
join in songs of praise, and all gratefully re-
turn thanks for the blessings of the year.
Amid a season of plenty, let us not for
get the poor at our doors, the prisoner in his
cell, the unfortunate in trouble, but with
kindly deeds cause all hearts to go out in
thanksgiving and praise.
Given under my hand and the seal of the
state, at Montpelier, this tenth day of No
vember, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of
the independence of the United States the
one hundred and seventeenth
LEVI X. FULLER,
BY the Governor:
j. II. GoULDING,
Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs.
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future relations with his party faithful
and loyal democrat Although this agree
ment was made in the presence of the New
York leaders only, 1t was a sounding signal
to the organization throughout the country
that it held good for ALL 1t provided one
of the most pleasing certainties with which
the democratic party united to overwhelm
the republicans, and the satisfaction over it
outlasts the election.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

GENERAL demands are being made
throughout the New England states for an
advance in the wages of operatives of cotton
mills. The demands are being made in ac-
cordance with plan outlined at the last
meeting of the national mule spinners' or
ganizaton, and their enforcement will de-
pend on circumstances which none of the
leaders can foresee at this time
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

IT is reported that there are five cases of
cholera on board the Allan steamship " Cir
cassian," now off Father Point, near Mon
treal, and that orders have been given to
stop her at the Crosse Isle quarantine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

DURING the democratic celebration at
West Point, Miss, last Friday night, can
non exploded, killing Warner Ware, mayor
of the city
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THE Duke of Marlborough was found
dead in his bed in Blenheim palace on
Thursday morning.
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j. II. GoULDING,
Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs.

THE friends of the normal schools
make out good case in their request
for $1,000 annually in addition to state
aid they now have. The legislature
does not often listen to requests so
modest for purpose so wise.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

THE grand jury began its hearing in the
Lizzie Borden case at Taunton, Mass,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

WINSTON N. c., had half-million fire
Sunday night.
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RUBBER STAMPS made TO order by the
Watchman Publishing Company.
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AT this writing the indications are
that Vermont has chosen republican
electors of president. The returns from
the municipalities of Baltimore and
Somerset have been delayed, under the
operation of the new ballot law, and
when the result there is officially deter
mined, Vermont's locality in the politi-
cal landslide can be definitely deter
mined. AT present, in the regions out
side of Somerset and Baltimore, the
republicans seem to have majority of
about 10000. -
"CLEvELAND's luck" was never more
conspicuously illustrated than in the
late election. 1t is a clean sweep in
the broadest sense of the term. Even
Ohio now apparently belongs, by plu-
rality of less than 900, in the demo-
cratic column. The old steadfast re-
publican states of California, Illinois
and Wisconsin are democratic by de.
cisive pluralities. Indiana and Con-
necticut are democratic by large plu-
ralities. Kansas has apparently chosen
populist electors and e-elected Sockless
Jerry Simpson to congress. In con-
gress the democratic majority will be
maintained in the house of representa-
tives, and very likely the small republi-
can majority in the senate will be swept
away by the democratic avalanche.
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THE name of Rev. 1. L. Booth, the
member from Northfeld, has been
mentioned in connection with the can
vass for the Office of state superintend-
ent of education. Mr.. Booth has had
no part in the use made of his name
in this connection, and he has asked the
WATCHMAN to state that he is not
a candidate for the office and does
not desire the use of his name in
the canvass. Mr.. Booth expresses his
firm belief that the best interests of
the schools and the cause of education
in the state require the reelection of
Superintendent Palmer and is heartily
in favor of continuing that official in
the good work he has been doing. Mr..
Booths position and action in this mat
ter do credit to his judgment, his
candor and sincerity, and his sense of
the proprieties under all the existing
circumstances.