The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1893.
ARTHUR RoPEs.............."...Mo Montpelier, w.
General Editor.
7. II. HOSKINS, M. D......,.......Newport, VT,
Agricultural Editor.
"THE day we celebrate " is taking
on yearly an increasing volume of bar
barrie din and becoming to millions
"the day we dread"
THE silverites are sharpening their
lances for the battle TO which President
Cleveland has challenged them. A
grand rally of their forces is called at
Chicago, July 25. Their voice is loud
for war in defense of the white metal.
AFTER the repeal of the Sherman sill
yer purchase act-what? The govern
ment has nearly five hundred million
fiat silver dollars, coined and in bullion.
Will the universal decentralization of
silver produce a reaction and bring the
leading nations to agree on some plan
of coinage at common ratio? That is
a contamination very devoutly to be
wished. -
VERAGUA, Columbus descendant,
goes home without 80 much as a thank
you for the princely entertainment given
him. The stolidity of the subject is in
strong contrast with the bubbling en-.
thusiasm of the Princess Eulalia, her
expressions of appreciation of honors
rendered, and tokens of remembrance
literally scattered among those who en-
tertained her. -
THE contests in the senate which
were pending when the extra session ad-
iourned in the case of the senators from
Montana, Wyoming and Washington
will have to be settled before the senate
gets down to business. Each is the
appointee of the governor of his state.
Two are republicans, one fusionist-
democratic and populist-and all are
for free coinage.
The bright and enterprising ST..
JohnSbury Republican scored clean
scoop last Monday on all Vermont
newspapers, and The Boston dailies as
well, by publishing the particulars of
the declination of Rev. DR.. Hart of
Trinity College of the bishopric of the
Vermont diocese to which he was re-
Gently elected. The daily paper pub
lished at the home of the late Bishop
Bissell, and in the city in (which DIR.
Hart was elected to the position, was
just twenty-four hours behind its newsy
contemporary. -
THE sensation of the week is the par
don, by Governor Altgeld of Illinois, of
the anarchists Fielder, Schwab and
Neebe, convicted of participation in the
memorable Haymarket massacre in
Chicago, and sentenced, the two former
to death, the latter to a term of i'm
prisonment. Governor Oglesby, in a
moment of weakness, had committed
to life Imprisonment the death sentence
of Fielder and Schwab Governor
Altgeld now sets the Infamous trio free,
and there is loud-mouthed exultation in
the camp of anarchism. In the last
canvass the republicans charged that
the democratic candidate for governor
was under pledge, if elected, to par
don these men. In an Incorporate
message of 1900 words, Governor
Altgeld adds to public injury a grievous
insult to all concerned in the arrest, trial
and conviction not only of the three mall
efactors he has pardoned, but of those
also who on the gallows paid the pen
atty of their heinous misdeeds. In one
form or another, the harvest of the great
democratic landslide of last November
is coming in. Murderous anarchists
are turned free upon the community,
and anarchy paralyzes finance and bust
ness. Indeed, it was a glorious demo-
cratic victory!
On whom rests the responsibility foI
the disastrous collision between the Vic
toria and the Camperdown? The
fleet was sailing in double column, the
Victoria and Camperdown leading
the two lines being about two thirds
of mile apart. Admiral Tryon from
the Victoria, the flag ship, gave the
signal for change of formation. TIC
execute the order the vessels in the
parallel lines would turn their PROV;
inward on a certain circle. Admira