The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-20

the governorship, says: cit seems to
me that Lieutenant Governor Fletcher
makes mistake if he allows the news
papers to fool with him." And that is
just the size of the matter.
SENATOR MORRILL, observed his
eighty-second birthday on last week
Thursday, and received a veritable
ovation from his friends and the press.
In reviewing his record, the Washing
ton Post says: {" 1t is record from the
outset not only of consistent devotion
to the principles of the party with
which he is affiliated, but of usefulness
and honor to his country, and all men
of all politics will join with the Post
in wishing him its prolonged continu-
ance."
AN esteemed farmer correspondent,
writing upon the affairs of the state,
concludes as follows:
Among the many good names already
before the people for governor it is a hard
matter to choose. Among them we are
pleased to notice that of Hon. William
Chaplin Of MiddleseX, a man of thorough
honesty, integrity and ability, of long ex-
perience in wrestling with the problems to
be worked out upon the farm and in the
halls of legislation, well fitting him to think
and act correctly and wisely. He is typi-
cal Vermenter in possession of full, ripe,
unimpaired mental vigor, who will by his
candidacy enlist the largest vote for repub-
lican principles at the polls next Sep
tember."
THE editor of the Rutland Herald
sent vociferous dispatch to his paper
from Montpelier, last week. To his
disordered vision the woods were
swarming with Fuller workers. The
fellow follows up his long-distance boot
ing, in Mondays issue, with column
and half of editorial rhodomontade.
He bellows " facts" by the column, all
coined in the mint of an evil and super
heated imagination. The editor is
plainly frightened out of his wits-if he
ever had any-and is hollering" to
keep his courage up. The extent to
which he is ratified is disclosed by his
baby plea that the WATCHMAN has
abused the Herald. Impossiblel
COLONEL E. II. POWELL announces
through the Free Press his withdrawal
from the canvass for the Office of aud
itor. Colonel Powell was first elected
auditor in 1878, and has held the office
continuously since that time. He has
been an efficient officer. The wheels
of time that have rotated other state
officers into private life have for four
teen years left him in the enjoyment of
the emoluments of the most lucrative of
the state offices-a tribute to his eff
cheney and popularity, and the prime
cause also of his abdication. G. w. Wing
of Montpelier, F. d. Hale of Lunen-
burg and Norman Paul of Woodstock
are candidates, with the chances in
favor of Mr.. Wing.
SIX HUNDRED workmen have been
discharged from the establishment of
the Landore tin-plate company, the
oldest and largest works of the kind in
South Wales. The measure was due to
the depression in the trade, resulting
from the operation of the Mckinley
tariff law. The Landore company has
hitherto been notable for keeping its
forces at work when other employers
in the trade had stopped operations.
The tin-plate trade is now paralyzed
throughout South Wales, and every
week numerous tin-plate workmen,
formerly employed in the factories in
that region, are emigrating to the
United States. The " tin plate liar ="
has joined the democratic party.
ACCORDING to the statistics of the
year lS90-91, which have just been
tabulated, there were enrolled in the
public schools of Vermont for that year
60, 225 pupils; there were sos male
teachers and 1858 female teachers en-
ployed in the public schools, and the
total expenditures for school purposes
amounted to S574,033.2 "a. There were
1925 scholars attending school in the
academies, seminaries and private
schools, and 1894 scholars in the
parochial schools, making a total of
IS, 5S5 scholars in the schools in this
state, outside of the colleges and
higher institutions. There was, last
year, total Indebtedness of the school
districts of 1926 ,664 67. The estimated
value of the school-houses of the state
is 1859 $50.
AT the State Convention, last week,
Colonel Forbes instituted kodak can
vass of the preferences of delegates for