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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
MOxie---Its Marvellous Work.

From one Of the great Chicago papers.
The Juice of this hitherto supposed insig-
nifcant plant is revolutionizing the habits
of the world. People who have madly dissi-
pated until they were wrecked; our heaviest
business men, who have been overweight
mentally until they were at the verge OF in
sanity; women who have worked and wor-
ried themselves into nervous prostrationi
and people who habitually overdo, take it
to save them and prevent a breakdown.
What else could they do? Stimulants mean
reaction, insanity and subsequent wreck.
Moxie has proved TO be harmless.
From the time it was first tried its use
has spread and travelled like prairie fire IN
drouth. To flavor il into a luscious bever-
age was happy thought Of its proprietors.
To sell dollar bottle for twenty-five cents
was another. They even ship case OF
twelve bottles, freight free, to any part OF
the United States for So, to make You sure
of getting the genuine article; for an army
of counterfeiters has followed its usefulness
and popularity, larger than that winch
swept down on slavery in Virginia with
Mcclellan in 1862, which is the highest COM
pliment it could receive The Moxle Nerve
Food Co., of Lowell, Mass, where IL origin
ated, are probably arresting 100 Of these per
day Many are now serving sentences for
obtaining money under false pretences. In
point of increase no business ever approached
IL. Eight wears old and 43S 900 cases made
and probably sold in 1898. This is the state
ment Of its general manager. Druggists
and grocers keep it, 1t is estimated that
Boston alone consumes over oOOOO cases,
which is nearly nine bottles for each man,
woman and child in that city 1t is a craze
in the East; which is no surprise, for
women say that they can do double work
and not break down while using three cents
worth per day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

The planters of Louisiana and the
wool-growers Of Texas are in open and
declared rebellion against the demo-
cratic party, and, on national affairs,
announce their purpose to enter the
ranks of the republican party. The
free wool provision of the new tariff
law the free sugar bill passed by the
house, and the refusal to pay the bounty
on the crop of 1894, are the causes of
this revolt. "Party perfdy and party
dishonor" are developing into very
practical results. The tariff was the
original cause of southern disaffection
with the North. There would be poetic
compensation in the fact if the tariff
should now become the wedge that is
to split the solid South.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

walls of the north, and the democracy
that follows his leadership awaits the
inevitable hour of its doom. A coun'
try whose industries are Frustrated,
which has read the presidents declara-
ton of renewed warfare, reiterated by
his lieutenant, upon its industrial sys-
tenn, interprets the full significance OF
this election and awaits with hope and
courage the promised hour of indus
trial and commercial resurrection. For
the democracy, destruction; for the
country, hope--this is what the Yer
mont majority means.
To the November states, greeting:
You have heard Vermont's bugle note.
She has set the pace by which your
march should be regulated. The la
mented Sedgwick's order when a march
to the front was begun and he in
tended to get there has adorned many
tale and enforced many moral.
The story is always equipped for duty
Put the Vermonters ahead and keep
the ranks we'll closed up" is marching
orders in this political campaign, The
| Vermonters are at the head of the col
umn. Now if the ranks of the states
who are to follow are kept closed up
the next national house of representa-
tives will have republican majority
Tom Reed will be speaker, and Presi
dent Cleveland and Chairman Wilson
may carry their declaration of further
warfare upon the industries of Thu
United States to the demonition bow
vows. Sister states of the North, keel
within earshot of Vermont's bugl,
| MOTEL
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
For Speaker.

William w. Stickney, representing
Ludlow in the legislature of 1892, and
speaker of the house of representatives.,
has been returned to the legislature of
1894. Precedent need not be invoked
in support of the proposition to re-elect
Mr.. Stickney to the speakership. Were
the legislature of 1892 re- elected in body
he would resume the speakers chair by
reclamation, and there would be moth
ing perfunctory in the volume of tone
in which the according ayes would be
registered.
Many of the members of the new
legislature know Mr.. Stickney, many
do not. To the former, no word of
commentator need be addressed. To
the latter, regard for such interests Of
the state as are affected by the action of
an official of so much Importance as the
speaker of the house of representatives
renders it duty to commend Mr.. Stick
ney, and to seek their favorable con-
sideration of his candidacy. 1t is as
sumed that Mr.. Stickney will be can
didate. If he is not, the state of YER
mont should draft him. In the office
of clerk of the house he acquired per-
feet familiarity with legislative business
and the rules of parliamentary proceed
ure. Elected to the speakership in
1892, he brought into play, in his ad-
ministration of the duties of the office,
that intimate knowledge of points of
parliamentary law and the ways and
means of conducting legislative bust
ness with accuracy and dispatch that,
from the clerks chair, had often piloted
his predecessor through the devious
ways that presiding officer sometimes
encounters.
Mr.. Stickney came to the chair in
1892 fully equipped for its duties. Un-
assuming, always courteous, ever on
the alert and ever ready for any emer-
gency, having always every matter and
every detail of business completely in
hand, combining rapidity and accuracy
in the dispatch of business, he left no
superior in the history of the Vermont
speakership when he laid down the
gavel at the close of the session of 1892
This is high praise, but it is highly mer-
tied. We have no doubt that the mem
bers of the legislature of 1894 will do,
after Mr.. Stickney has been tried and
proved in the speakers chair, what
their predecessors did without this evil
dence of his capacity to preside, ELECT
him to the speakership by reclamation
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
China, Corea and Japan.

Distance, Indifference to Asiatic
politics, the strange names of men and
places, imparting what in fact exists,
barbaric character to the contention,
awaken in America only casual inter-
est in the war between Japan and
China. The intelligent reader of the
news of the world seeks, nevertheless,
the cause of warlike strife wherever it
most conspicuously as the causes of the
war are in fact but the blaze of the
match that has fred the train leading
back to a magazine Of political explo-
sives.
Corea is the bone of contention.
Japan maintains that she is an indie
pendent kingdom and that she was first
introduced into the family of nations by
the advice and under the guidance of
Japan. China now asserts that Corea
is her dependency, claim she has sue
cessively asserted and denied dur
ing the last decade or more. Japan
has, however, in the past negotiated
treaties with Corea, in which the latter
has asserted her independence, enjoy
ing the rights of sovereign states. The
United States and other powers have
entered into agreements with Corea,
but China did not protest against Co
rea's assumption of her independence,
or demonstrate when she entered into
such agreements with other powers as
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
YermOnt's Bugle Note.

There was martial ring in YER
mont's voice and the sound of charg-
ing squadrons in the tidings that came
rolling in at nightfall on election day.
Patriotism wound her bugle horn and
the hills and valleys triumphantly re-
sponded to the summons.
AS in war time the yeomanry of Ver-
mont made their stern protest against
the political dismemberment of the
Union, so, on the fourth of September,
they proclaimed their righteous wrath
at the governments foreign "policy of
infamy" and the destruction of the
national industries by the same powers
that, generation ago, made war upon
the political Union. IL had been a
campaign of intelligence. Sober, unim-
passioned judgment was declared. The
voice of the campaign orator had not
been heard in the land. The blare of
brass bands, the CLEAN of torches, the
Indictment of marching columns-none
of the rousements of political cam
paigning had been employed to awaken
voters and send them to the polls; and
yet, in an off year, with no melting local
issue, solely in condemnation of way
ward and unpatriotic national admins
tration, the state gives larger republi-
can majority than atany general election,
save one, since the organization of the
republican party-and the party's ma
jorities, their size and undertaking con-
stancy, have made Vermont the Pole
Star of republicanism.
The republican candidates, all were
worthy; but the increment of their
vote above the customary off-year ma.
jority, they must allow, is theirs by
virtue of the incompetency and cussed.
ness of Grover Cleveland and the junto
of renegade republicans and democratic
politicians who have been prostituting
the powers of all the branches of the
government to the work of subverting
republicanism abroad and destroying
American industry at home. The
! judgment of Vermont, though not &C
heavy as the offense demands, i;
weighted with justice and exemplary
admonition.
The statistics of the election are
given elsewhere in this issue. Wood.
bury's plurality over Smith is %, 497
his majority over all is 27,425
The vote for all others is l,072
Compared with the last off-year cleo
ton, that of 1890, as this election
properly should be, the republican ma
jority gains l4,l80; compared with thu
last national election, that of 1892, thu
republican majority gains 9,S95-a phe
nomenal result indeed, the tribute Yer
mont pays to the "party perddy ant
party dishonor of democracy. Thu
statistics of the election show, further
a senate entirely republican in its mem
bership, and house of whose "a
members eleven lone democrats vii
respond to the roll-call.
1t is needless to formulate phrases t
show forth the meaning of this un
precedented majority. Every child I'm
derstands its significance. Every trav
eer by limited express, whose eye
are free from notes and beams, ma
read the meaning, so plain is it writte
over this land and punctuated by i'd
mills and ventures that have gone AYR
and lost the name of enterprise. Tn
stiffnecked lounger at Gray Gable
reads the handwriting on the gree
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

iority, and getting out vote on last
election day thatamost reached the high
water mark of the popular Dillingham;
campaign, the republicans of the state
and indirectly of the whole country
recognize the fact that they owe to this
committee debt of gratitude. The
filings of " Gumption Cute" in his pop
gun sheet, will have little or no effect
upon the universal verdict of well
done" that the republicans Of Vermont
so generously and spontaneously award
to the members of the state committee.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

THE voice of Maine, as heard last
Monday in her protest against the dem
ocratic programme of ruin for Northern
industries, is grand echo of Vermonts
victory for republican protection re-
corded last week. With steadily fall
ing rain that continued during nearly
all the day last Monday, and which ex-
tended over the whole state, the repub-
licans carried every county in the state,
elected 127 of the Isl members of the
house of representatives, and swept
Governor Cleaves into the gubernatorial
chair by the magnificent majority of
$1,000, the largest on record in that
that state. The eyes of the whole
country were on the "down east y
state last Monday, and most nobly did
she respond. Thomas B. Reed, Nelson
Dingley, Seth l.. Milliken and G. A.
Boutelle were elected to congress by
majorities ranging from 5000 to 10000
Well done, Mainel
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

THE Vermont election, as a test of
the feeling of the country in regard to
the democratic party, gets a strong
confederation from Maine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

ANOTHER disastrous confagration is re
ported from Carleton, MINI. The fire burst
upon the place without warning. People
saved their lives by jumping into the lake.
1t is feared that many settlers lost their
lives.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

CHARLES O.. WILDER, aged twenty-one,
and Miss Jessie Clark, sixteen years of age,
both of Wilmington eloped last Thursday
and were married at North Adams, Mass.
The families of both parties are respectable
and prominent, and the clipping couple have
been invited to return and be forgiven.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

COLONEL GoULDINe, the governors
secretary of civil and military affairs,
recently appeared at Worcester, Mass.
as his excellency's representative at
the state agricultural fair. Governor
Greenhalge, Governor Brown of Rhode
Island, and other celebrities, had made
speeches of the conventional type when
Colonel Goulding was called on, as
Governor Fuller's substitute. The
colonel knows from experience what
farming is. He has been there. The
farmer boy of generation ago can tell
him nothing of life on a farm. The
colonel had no cut-and. dried speech, but
he sailed in and told the assembled agri.
culturists of the Bay State what he
knew about farming. They caught on
at once, and the colonel's points were
greeted with cheers and roars of laugh
ter. "To Wit" Goulding is a good
deal of wag, and when he talks of
his farming experiences he is close
second to Josh Whitcomb.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

In its editorial column last week the
West Randolph Herald and Ne,US says:
"The campaign just closed has been
the quietest on record. The state re-
publican committee has done absolutely
nothing except to order the town COM
mittees to make careful canvass of the
state and then order them to get out a
certain number of republican voters.
OF all the dead-alive committees the
party ever had, this is the worst" The
editor who wrote this, and allowed it to
appear in his paper, if he has any
knowledge at all of the way the recent
campaign was conducted, knows that
it is as false as it is uncalled
for and malicious. 1t is not neces-
sary here to specify in detail the
manner in which Hon. DIN Merrill,
chairman of the republican state com
mittee, and his efficient co-laborers
conducted the campaigD,-that is not
the point at issue. The results, as
shown elsewhere in this issue, are the
best possible refutation of the senseless
and scandalous fling at the state commit
tee quoted above. or course the ener
getic, well-directed work of this com
mittee is not the only cause for the
phenomenal majority recorded fol
Woodbury. and Mansur. The. slogan o
"two arms between them," and thu
fact that they both are men whom thu
freemen of the state delight to honor
helped to swell their rousing majority
But when the state committee has beer
largely instrumental in turning the tide
of notwithstanding republican ma
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

IN the eternal fitness of things that
will be observed in the reelection of
Mr.. Stickney to the speakership, the
reelection of George M. Powers, Esq,
to the office of secretary of the senate,
and Honest John Merrifield to the clerk
ship of the house, must be included.
Both have proved their efficiency as
scribes respectively of the senate and
the house. 1t is not in the interest of
good legislation to make frequent
change in the office of the recorder of
proceedings in either branch of the
general assembly. We hear of no rival
candidate for either of these offices,
and there is no room for successful
rivalry. -
A GOOD administration of a states
affairs is conducive to large and abid-
ing majorities. When we come to an
alyze the causes of the phenomenal re-
publican majority in Vermont, it will
be found that Governor Fuller's en-
ergetic performance of the duties OF
the chief executive office, his vigilant,
painstaking care of all the interests of
the state, his personal attention to those
things that work for the prosperity of
the state at home and it's good reputa-
ton abroad, has had much to do in re-
storing the normal off-year majority to
its old dimensions. To Governor
Fuller's administration of state affairs
during the past two years some just
proportion of Tuesdays majority is
fairly attributable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
RECAPITULATION.

Aggregate 1851 l4,lO l,Ul2 35,43O 1924 1855
WoOdbury's plurality .........2s4 97
Woodburys majority ....27425
The morning call., 1894-11-05
SOLID AS A ROCK.

A cartoon in Sundays CALL represents
Law as personated by Judge Wallace
against which a train OF suffers is dashed
to pieces. The cartoon suggests what a
grand thing law is when interpreted so as
to serve the interests of the people. By
stretch of imagination we might see Judge
Levy as the personation of Law in place
of Judge Wallace. Does any one doubt
but that in such case the nimble Levy
would get out of the way and let the train
with its load OF suffers pass on? On
Tuesday four Judges of the Superior Court
are to be elected from list Of fourteen
candidates. There are more than four
candidates who might safely be elected,
but from The fourteen the Non-Partisans
have named four-James V. Coffey, Ed
ward A. Belcher. William A. Daingerfield
and Felix III. Merzbach. Belcher and
Merzbach are on the Republican ticket,
Coffey and Daingerfeld on the Democratic
The politics of Judge have nothing to do
with his fitness. Judges are not called
upon to make law, but to interpret it,
Three of the Non-Partisan nominees are
now on the bench and Merzbsch is law
yer Of high standing.
The morning call., 1894-11-05
THE NEED OF VIGILANCE.

In this campaign the cooperation of re-
putabe Democrats with the Nou-Parti-
sans has exposed and prevented one of the
boldest attempts al political infamy ever
conceived in this country, one that had the
approval and assistance of the reputed
head of the Republican machine. Not
withstanding all the precautions taken to
prevent this crime, there are undoubtedly
quite number of the "stuffing'' element
who NAV yet make the attempt to earn
fee. With many of them Imprisonment
would be welcome recourse against the
prospect of a hard winter. Immunity
from punishment in case the Republican
municipal ticket prevails affords them ad-
ditional inducement to attempt to fulfill
their contract. However much their me-
cessities press them, they are already
aware that it is hardly possible now for
them to carry their work into execution
and elude arrest Should they still insist
upon doing SO there will be no sympathy
shown hereafter. In the meantime, there
must be no lack of vigilance on elect on
day from the moment the polls are opened
till they are closed. Untiring scrutiny
must be observed during the calling of the
names on the ballots and watchfulness
kept over the delivery of the ballot boxes
from the polling places to the City Hall.
Then there must also be a volunteer
guard stationed at the City Hall
until the vote Is finally canvassed and de-
clared. With all these precautions OBJ.
served we may have free vote and fair
c0uut.
The morning call., 1894-11-05
MONDAY. .....NovEMBER 8. lss
BUSINESS, NOT POLITICS.

Two official positions TO be filed by to-
morrow's election are absolutely outside
Of politics-the Railroad Commissioner
and the members of the Board of EQuali-
cation for this district. The Non-Partisan
convention put on its ticket for Railroad
Commissioner Alfred l. Marcus, the nomi-
nee of the Traffic Association. He will
without doubt get the full Non-Partisan
vote and also draw heavily from the
Republican and Democratic candidates,
neither of whom has any qualifications for
the Office.
For member Of the Board OF Equalization
there are two leading candidates between
whom the contest lies. One of them is A
Chesebrough. He is reputable business
man, against whom nothing can be said
except that be would be an untried man
in such position, and that he has the
misfortune, as candidate for the Board
Of EQualZa to be connected with the
transportation business. It would be IN
fair to Mr.. Chesebrough, an barass-
ment TO him in the conduct Of his business,
to ask him 10 sit in judgment on assess
ments which affect the railroad company
with which his own business affairs are
SO intimately connected. The most up
right and independent minded man in the
world would find such a situation emf
nenty difficult
The only other candidate for the Board
Of Equalization in this district who has
any show of election is James G. Nealon.
He has record which gives him a claim
on the suffrages Of independent voters.
He was Assessor OF this city and county
from 1886 to 1890. He discharged the
several duties OF his Office in a saiisfac-
tory manner. In particular he was able
with the help Of Gordon E. Sloss, our
representative on the State Board, to so
influence the board that during bis four
years in office the assessment of the CITY
was not raised. During many wears the
State Board has made an annual business
of cinching San Francisco. While Mr..
King represented US in the board from
1879 to 1882 Ger assessment was so raised as
10 take S116,360 from US III taxes over
what we should have paid. From 1882 to
1886 we were represented by MI Gildea
and were cinched for S402, $50. During
the last fonr years with Mr.. Swan as our
representative on the State Board the case
has been worse than ever. The city has
been mulcted to the tune of SS0S. go by
virtue of "equalized" assessments.
Our bsst guarantee againsta continuance
of this system OF robbery is TO elect Mr..
Nealon to the State Board. Our people are
interested in bis success to the tune of
more than 100000 a year. This is busi-
ness. not politics, and San Franciscans
should look at it from business point of
view.
The morning call., 1894-11-05
TO MAKE YOU SMILE.

"Were those relatives of JIngle's that he
went to the station TO meet?"
Yes"
"Well, be acted mighty queer, then"
what did he do?"
"He seemed delighted to see them."-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Weary Watkins - It's machinery that is
takIn' the grub from so many honest workin'-
men.
Hungry Higglns-You sucker; you got it
right backwards. Some day they will be a
electric wood saw invented, and then the farm
ers won't have left no excuse at all fer not
giyin' US a handout.-Indianapoli Journal.
Dusty Rh0des-FilZey an l was par tners for
years, but had TO scare him away.
Weary Walker-Did he do wrong?
Dusty RhOdes-Yep; lie got so he'd sit by the
roadside for hours, takin' what he called a "sun
bath."-New York World.
First Tramp-If had my way I'd have 365
national holidays In the year.
second Tramp-You would, Ell? And then
there would be one working day every four
years. On, you are nice one, you are! You
would make galley slave of the poor laDoring
man, wouldn't you ?-Tammany Times.
"Cephas." said his employer, you haven't
put the whlewash on those walls evenly. You
have smeared IL on in chunks and daubs"
eyes. sah," said Uncle Cephas. 'Pse not a
scrub whitewash, sab; Use an Impressions"
Chicago Tribune.
She stayed outdoors till her skin was brown
For man that she didn't win:
Now the tennis MEETINGS are taken down
And the hammock Is taken In,
And the maiden's mad is tempest tossed
AS she sadly signs for a season lost.
New York Press