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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-30
Note and Comment.

AFTER reading the entire article
Rutland Herald, all friends of Col
Onel Fuller will give thanks for one
single thing in its makeup, /. e., that
the Herald has definitely and positively
expressed lis opposition to him as a
candidate. This means much in his
favor-BellopS Falls Times.
THE Rutland Herald, which gravely
intimated that its efforts had resulted
in killing the Fuller boom, seems sur
prised that said boom will not lie STILL
The opinion is freely expressed that, if
the Herald is persistent enough in its
opposition, it will assure Colonel Fuller's
nomination for governor.-Free Press.
ROGER G. MILLS was last week Tues
day unanimously elected United States
senator by the Texas legislature. Mr..
Mills has been a member of congress
for about twenty years. His abilities
as a public debate were recognized and
acknowledged il the memorable discus
sion of the tariff question in the tif,ieth
congress.
RUDYARD KIPLING is said to have
taken great fancy to Vermont during
his honeymoon there. 1t must have
been on account of the sweet maple
strip and the sweet maple sugar, which
are two of Vermont's greatest products,
and just the thing to captivate a newly
married man who is sweet on his bride.
-New York Press.
For a state which hasn't enough
material for one democratic party, to
say nothing of two. Vermont witnesses
an extraordinary amount of democratic
squabbling. After Hiram Atkins and
his rivals have succeeded in splitting
the Green Mountain democracy in
twain, neither faction will have any
difficulty in getting together around the
stove in the corner grocery evenings
Boston Journal.
THE Northfeld Ners has perfect
right to say Whatever it chooses to say
of good concerning Victor |. Spear, but
it has no right to cast unjust insinua'
tions on Colonel Fairbanks or Colone
Fuller. We know all three OF these
men well, and the paper which has q
mean thing to say of either of them is
doing an injustice. There isn't sc
much difference in men in regard tC
desire for office. Our experience OF
about twenty years in a newspaper
office has led us to believe that mer
not only love office, but that the very
best and most conspicuous ones in gooC
old Vermont take, and have taken
some means to obtain the places
sought.-Barton Monitor.
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marched across them under the guidance of
a Christian church, and this reminded me of
another pilgrimage, though across the water.
/ refer to the Pilgrim Fathers. They, too,
went long way to escape persecution.
They, too, suffered hardships for a prin-
ciple. They, too, were fred with religious
enthusiasm, and sought freedom also to
worship God. In planting a colony, it is
the women who have the harder part.
They died faster than the men in Massachu-
sets. The great successful colonies of this
world are founded on religious enthusiasm.
Here you founded a colony that you might
worship God according to the dictates of
your consciences. Here in this valley has
risen the question Of religious liberty. In
Massachusetts all churches are equal be-
fore the law. There is no reason why this
religious liberty may not be enjoyed in all
the other states and territories as well as in
Massachusetts,. Let us devote ourselves to
this liberty, civil and religious, for assoca-
tions of every sort and for the individual
also. If could do something to unite the
elements in this territory and bring them to
seek religious liberty, as it is known in
other parts of the country, it would be to
me great reward"
President Eliot was interviewed at
San Francisco. He declared that the
Mormons have fully and sincerely
abandoned polygamy, and that polye-
amy is no more an issue in Utah to-day
than is the bloody shirt in national
politics. Leading citizens of Cam
bridge denounce President Eliot's ut
terances in unmeasured terms, and de-
clare that it is an outrage "to COM
pare the beastly Mormons to the
Pilgrim Fathers"
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voted "yea," and that II republicans
and 1877 democrats voted "nay." The
New England and other eastern demo-
Gratis voted "yea," except Rockwell,
from Hills district in New Yo k, who
voted "nay." Another New York
democrat was paired in favor of the
bill, but had Campbe I'll and Stahlnecker,
also from New York-who were alb
sent-been in their seats and voted, the
motion to table the bill would have
been carried. The IL free.silver re-
publicans came from the states be-
You'd the Mississippi and chiefly from
the mining regions. OF the so demo-
Gratis who voted "yea," some 20 at
least are reported to be in favor of the
bill, but from motives of policy are OPP
posed to consideration of the measure
until after the national election.
For this unexpected check on the
enactment of measure freighted with
disaster to the country at large the
credit belongs prim arily to the repub-
licans. Their leader at the very open
ing of the fight made the motion that
decided the fate of the measure. 1t
was a timely movement boldly and
skilfully executed, and initiated at a
time when the free-silver democrats
were indecisive and apparently waiting
in their trenches the onset of the
free-silver ranks. The advantage the
friends of sound currency thus gained
at the outset of the parliamen airy bat
tie was held to the end. The anti
coinage democrats are effusively thank
ing themselves for the repuse of the
free-silver hosts, but the hopors belong
primarily to the republicans, for their
tact, boldness and discipline, and, more
than all else, for the inherent opposi.
ton, on principle, that impelled them.
Even if the action on Friday shall be
the end of the struggle at this time; if
Mr.. Bland shall not again be able to
marshal his forces to renew the BATTLE
the voting last week has uncovered the
democratic position on the leading ma.
tional issue-the coinage of silver. 1t.
representatives in congress are shown
to be, in ratio of nearly three to one
in favor of free coinage; and the mos
conspicuous official representative Of
the party, the speaker of the nationa
house of representatives., by his vote
last week and by the assistance he 9th
erwise rendered to Mr.. Bland and hi
followers in the struggle, saved the
measure from certain defeat at thi:
session of congress. The analysis o.
the vote further shows that free
coinage gets its support from the states
that are surely democratic; that sount
money has its support in the states
that are surely republican and in the
doubtful states.
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vi tlG Cdldullly iOiOohduOWOu 10 ioi ulo-
tant. Indeed, it will never dawn.
Our contemporary at Ludlow, who has
gone stark mad in this anything-to-beat-
Fuller crusade, undertakes to "chop
logic" in the matter of his inconsist-
encies as presented to him by the
WATCHMAN last week. Our memory
is fairly good. The Tribune will hardly
need refresh it. We were in the Page
campaign. We have known something
of the political campaigns for decade
or more past, and of the men who have
been candidates for governor, their
methods, their ability, their character,
their observance of the proprietes that
should limit and hedge about ambition.
Our acquaintance with Colonel Fuller
dates from 1880, when he was senator
from Windham. He has never been
chairman of the state committee and
has not in that capacity rendered the
party the service the Tribune ascribes
to Governor Page, or in that school
learned the art of campaigning for 9TH
ers or for himself-and possibly the
people will think none the less of him
for that. But Colonel Fuller has in
many ways rendered important service
to the state, and it is our candid judy
ment that in actual and valuable SER
vices rendered the people of Vermont,
in ability and disposition to render
further important service, in equipment
for an intelligent, liberal and progress
sive administration of the affairs of the
state, he is the peer of any man who
has held the office of governor during
the past ten or twelve years. 1t is our
candid judgment further that he is
seeking the office in ways and by means
that are above criticism and which
unless every act of s,lf-seeking is to be
condemned-are far less Objectionable
ployed and have escaped condemnation.
On the score of ability, experience,
character, general fitness, ambition for
office or methods to advance that ambi-
ton, all this cutlery against Colonel
Fuller in certain quarters is without
reason or justification. 1t is as unwar-
rantable as it is disgraceful, and bears
upon its face the plain impress of its
hypocrisy, the stamp of personal pique
or selfish purpose. The people "can
see church by daylight" and they as
clearly discern the animus of certain of
these newspaper assailants of Colonel
Fuller. They like fair play, and decent
play. Guerilla warfare is repugnant to
Vermont republicans. The lessons of
the canvass of 1890, in this respect,
should not be lost on those newspapers
that are adopting the ways of guerillas
in this canvass.
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What Is Democracy =?

Mr.. Editor:-The question is often asked,
What is democracy? and you will get as
many answers as the individuals you ask
But think Senator Hill and the Southern
bourbons are able to answer that question.
Senator Hill in his late wandering through
the Southern states, stopped at Savannah,
Ga, and the report of the proceedings, as
reported in the Boston Journal Of March Is.
1892, reads as follows: Savannah, Ga,
March II. All the way from Sharon to
Savannah, whenever Senator Hills train
made brief stop, some of the people
crowded it to shake the senator's hand. At
half-past one o'clock the party took dinner
at Wadley. The proprietor of the hotel
presented miniature bottle Of whiskey to
the senator, with the remark that he had
been reading some of his speeches and
want ted him to put little more democ-
racy into them The senator laughingly
accepted the souvenir" Here We have a
definition of democracy from the highest
authority in the Union. Does pure democ-
racy exist in bottle of whiskey7 Is
whiskey the soul of democracy? Is that
the reason that Brother Atkins is so dis
turbed at the raids, as he calls them, on the
ground that every drop Of whiskey destroyed
| Is the destruction OF so much democracy
IL that is his belief. 1t is a reason for
his opposition to the destruction Of whis.
kew. w.
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Concerning the GOvernOrship---Again.

The esteemed contemporaries have
made some futile attempts to assail the
WATCHMAN's position on the govern
orship, as set forth last week, but their
efforts only serve to make more clear
the fact of its impregnability. The
Messenger undertakes to dispose of the
WATCHMAN's statement that if the
choice of candidate for the presidency
is satisfactory to the people of Yer
mont, the states customary majority is
assured, by declaring that this is merely
an expression of the WATCHMAN's
opinion. If the WATCHMAN is wrong,
and the Messenger is right in its belief
that the selection of the republican
candidate for governor is the important
factor in determining the republican
majority, it must follow that Colonel
Farnham, who in 1880 was given ma.
jority of over $4,000 in the vote for
governor, stood higher in the estimation
Of the republicans of Vermont than did
Colonel Pingree, whose major ty in
1884 was less than $4,000. This of
course is not the case. The explana-
ton of the reduced majority for Colonel
Pingree-gallant soldier that he was,
high in the confidence and regard of
the people as he was,-is found in the
dissatisfaction that then existed with
the republican nomination for president
in that year In the canvass of 1884
strong appeals were made not to stuff er
dissatisfaction with Mr.. Blaine's candi-
dacy to recoil upon Colonel Pingree.
The answer was, in effect, one vote for
Colonel Pingree is ten votes for Mr.
Blaine; and for this reason thousands
of republicans who loved Pingree and
would have been glad to vote for him
stayed away from the polls. The
WATCHMAN's opinion rests on very
substantial foundation of cold fact
Another sensitive contemporary of the
y-thing-to- beat Fuller class, is shock
ed at the WATCHMAN's position in thil
matter, and AYERS that, if we are right
"any jackanapes" may be nominated
for governor in presidential year. TIL,
WAToHMAN reposes great confidence
in the representatives of the republican
of Vermont, and when their six hun
bred delegates in convention assembl
nominate a jackanapes " for governo
it will be because he is the proper thin
} to lead the party. The contemporar.
7 and his sympathizers who make thi
3 answer to the WATCHMAN's statemen
, are not yet in the majority, and the da.
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Give Us the Best.

Notwithstanding the strong efforts
made to down Colonel Fuller by insin-
uation and innuendo, the fact remains
that he does not down. Neither is he
the weak candidate the Herald would
have people believe him to be. Rather
is he strong in many of the things that
the people respect and admire. He is a
self-made man, and man that has
been more than usually successful. He
is one of the forem ost business men of
Vermont, and as such is fully con-
versant with the needs and require
ments of the people of the state. He
has had legislative experience and
would appear to be particularly fl ted
for the office of governor and as such
would materially advance the interests
of the STATE as much, if not more, than
any other of the candidates now before
the people for the highest Office within
their gift. The cry everywhere now is
for the best man for governor. Colonel
Levi K Fuller is the best all around
man for the position yet named. Give
us the best.-Fair Haven Era.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-30
Grade HOlstein- Friesians as
Dairy Cows.

Mr.. EditOr:-Mr. Wright of Illinois reports
the following as the annual yield of his
herd: Twenty-seven grade Holstein- Friesian
cows, three of them two-year-old heifers
produced 219,000 pounds of milk, an average
of s .107 pounds each. The milk was taken
to a cooperative creamery association fac
tory and netted S263S TO- an average of
S97 IS per cow. This is exclusive of calves
and pigs raised and sold. The cows, on an
average, went dry sixty days, making an
average per head of over 265 pounds per day.
He raised nearly all these cows, using the
best Holstein- Friesian bulls he could get,
always selecting the best heifer calves.
For the succeeding year his cows averaged
$3.50 pounds of milk per head, which sold
for over 81 ,000
Mr.. Cole reports in Hoard's Dairyman that
he kept in one year forty-four native cows,
and their yields of milk at the factory for
seven months and nineteen days was 16S,
200 pounds Not satisfied with that yield,
he changed his dairy to forty-four Holstein-
Friesian cows, five of them two-year old
heifers. Their yield, as taken from the
books of the cheese factory for seven
months, was 2696l9 pounds, being 10l ,419
pounds of milk in favor of the Holstein-
Fresian grades in nineteen fewer days.
1.-THE dairies," he says, "were fed alike,
neither having been fed any grain after
turning to grass. | think / would have done
still better if l had raised thoroughbreds
instead of grades, as there is as much differ
ence between the thoroughbreds and grades
as there is between the grades and natives.
use thoroughbred bull in my dairy"
A difference of four quarts of milk per
day, at the low price of two cents per quart,
makes twenty-three dollars for three hum
bred days, W hich is the interest on 500 for
year. This does not represent the entire
difference in value, as the progeny of SUI
perior mixers will be worth many times as
much to raise as will those of the inferior
animal. No farmer is rich enough TO keep
poor cows
The following is the (actual, not esti-
mated,) butter record for the first year of
the thoroughbred herd of Holstein- Friesans
owned by T. G. Youmans & Son of Wal
worth, n. Y: TEN two-year-olds aver
aged eleven pounds and fifteen and one half
ounces per week; four three-year-olds aver
aged twenty-one pounds and two and one
| half ounces per week; fourteen over three
years old averaged twenty-one and eight
| and four tenths ounces per week. The en-
tire twenty. eight, of all ages, averaged
| seventeen pounds and twelve and five
seventies ounces each per week. The best
| twelve averaged twenty-five pounds and
six ounces each per week. The best five
averaged twenty-four pounds and one-sxth
! ounce per week. One COW made 3O4 pounds
and five and one-half ounces of butter in
ninety da 8. One three year-old made
twenty-four pounds of butter in seven days,
and ninety-four pounds and six and one
half ounces in thirty days"
MORTON MARVIN.
Montpelier, March %, 1892.
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Persist, il Sincere.
The st. Adams Messenger says:


"All that the WATERMAN says in regard
to William Chaplin, of Middlesex, is fully
endorsed by this paper, which has several
times urged the consideration of his name.
That it has not been more persistent in this
regard may possibly be attributed to the
fact that, as long ago as the Sd of February,
the WATCHMAN announced that Mr.. Chaplin
must not be considered in connection with
the governorship, as so said the WATCHMAN
We nominated him last summer for repre-
sentative in congress, and that is the place
for him."
Nevertheless, a representative of
Franklin county politicians, bed-fellows
of Editor Childs, has said if this same
William Chaplin had been more pliable,
if he had been less aggressive, particu-
larry in respect of corporations-from
which we do not exempt the agrcul-
tural corporation at Burlington-he
might easily have been the candidate
for governor of Vermont in this year
of grace 1892 Possibly, like the temp
leT VI Olu, tiiio ihuiNiuuoi may h"'S
been promising what he could not give
or could not deliver; but if all the po-
litical kingdoms of Vermont had been
at his disposal, Farmer Chaplin would
have put him and the Kingdoms behind
him, if acceptance had compromised
independence. Farmer Chaplin had
rather be right than be governor. Four
years ago the republican party broke
into Washington county for candi-
date for governor and took one without
80 much as saying 4" By your leave"
Washington county was not asking or
desiring the governorship. 1t is not
now; but no considerations of this kind
should deter the party from taking its
candidate second time from the CAPT
tai county. If it is necessary to save
the state and nation, we have no doubt
old Washington could make another
sacrifice; and, if the Messenger is sin
cere and honest in its advocacy of 6
representative farmer" it should take
the representative farmer, and that man
as it practically admits, is William
Chaplin. The liberals of England would
not think of substituting for Gladstone
leadership that of John Morley o.
James Bryce or any other lieutenant
So let the Messenger, if it is sincere
rise to the full height of its conviction
and demand the nomination of William
Chaplin. 1t will then command respec
and may succeed. 1t will certainly de
, serve success.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-30
The Battle for Free Silver.

On Thursday of last week Mr.. Bland
moved the previous question upon the
bill for the free coinage of silver.
Pending that motion Mr.. Burrows, re-
publican, from Michigan, moved to lay
the bill on the table. Under the rules
of the house the latter motion had
precedence. and on the call of the yeas
and nays 14S voted "yea," 14S voted
"nay," and there were 80 absent or
not voting. When the roll-call had
ended it appeared from the tally
sheets of members that the motion of
Mr.. Burrows had been carried The
speaker directed the clerk to call his
name, and he voted "nay" Mr..
Bland, under the impression that there
was still maj )rity for the motion to
lay the bill on the table, the effect of
which action would be to dispose of the
bill, changed his vote from "nay" to
"yea." When, however, it appeared,
after all corrections had been made,
that the vote was tie, he withdrew
his request tie vote being equivale Mt
to a negative vote. So the motion to
table the bill, which was test motion,
revealed degree of strength on the
side of the opponents of the measure
that was a surprise to them and that
| filled the friends of the bill with con-
sternation. During the recapitulation
of the vote a scene of excitement such
as is rarely beheld prevailed in the
house of represen atives. A motion to
adjourn was rejected. A proposition
by b )utelle of Maine to proceed to
vote by yeas and nays upon the bill
was objected to. After a period of
great confusion, motion to recon-
slider the vote by which the house re-
fused to lay the bill on the table was
agreed to by vote of yeas, $50: nays,
14S. Confusion COMPOUNDED prevailed
during the call of the roll on this mo.
ton. The speaker announced the state
of the vote before recapitulation had
been made, and loud demands were
made for a recapitulation for the cor
rection of mistakes. In this emer
gency ex-Speaker Reed came t.
Speaker Crisp's assistance and helped
him out of an embarrassing dilemma
The motion to reconsider having pre-
vailed, the question then required t
the motion of Mr.. Burrows TO Law tn,
bill on the table, which was rejected
by vote of yeas, 145; nays, 14S. Tn
, parliamentary battle ragged till abou
, half-past twelve O'Clock on Frida,
, morning, when Mr.. Bland, realizing
: the impossibility of passing the bill a
, that sitting, moved an adjournment
| The house had been in session sine
: noon of Thursday and had been swep
7 continually by parliamentary blizzard
8 An analysis of the test vote on MI
{ Burrows motion TO table the bill show
7 that 68 republicans and so democrat
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THE Jester of the Rutland Herald,
with his sword of Hath and shield of
pasteboard, is still prancing around the
political arena, exciting the merriment
of the groundlings and causing the ju
dicious to grieve. Guiteau was aptly
described as person having an "ill reg
ulated mind" but his intellect was a
marvel of balance compared wi h that
of the fellow who is now turning the
crank of the Herald. The latter is,
however, less dangerous member of
his class because he knows less and has
less courage. Guiteau assailed with fire.
arms, but the Rutland crook seeks to
assassinate with blab. He shows much
of the cunning an vicious disposition
of bumptious and obstreperous idiocy,
but "the FOOLS bolt is soon shot" No
mischief has been done. The animus
of the opposition to Colonel Fuller has
been disclosed. No matter whom these
malcontents may support or by what
tumble of words or tricks of alleged
logic they may seek to mislead and i'm
pose upon the people of Vermont,
the only effect will be to strengthen
the candidacy of Colonel Fuller, to
turn to him the support of all men who
value decency and love fair play in pol
itics as well as in the other aft hrs of
life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-30

A WONDER WoRKER.-Mr. Frank Huff,
man, young man of Burlington, Ohio
states that he had been under the care of
two prominent physicians, and had used
their treatment until he was not able to get
around. They pronounced his case to be
consumption and incurable. He was per-
suaded to try DR., Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coughs and colds, and at that
without resting. He found, before he had
used a half-dolar bottle, that he was much
better. He continued TO use it and is to-day
enjoying good health. If you have any
throat, lung or chest trouble, try 1t. We
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle free at
q. Blakely's Montpelier, VT
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President Eliot on Mormonism.

Harvard College was excited last
week over the report of speech by
President Eliot before the Mormons in
Salt Lake City a week ago. His words
are said to have been these:
GAS l came over the plains thought of
that early journey when the first colonists