The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-01

t Senator Quay of Pennsylvania predicts ths
silver will 0vershadow the tariff In the ia
. elections.
( Mr.. Gladstone had an operation performe
last week for cataract on the eye and It wa
, completely successful. His general health
excellent since his relief from the cares of OF
= flee. a..t
| Experiments in London Monday with Her
Dove bullet proof coat showed that It cou
successfully resist shots that pierced elm log
30 inches thick through and through.
Now st. Adams is reported to be following
st. JOhnsbury and perhaps Brattleboro II
forming lodge of the A. p. A. 1t is said nov
to have some 80 members. So. SALISBURY ha
about 40.
The striking miners at Clarified, Pa, hay,
asked Gov. Pattison to act as arbitrator, bu
the operators refuse to submit their case Il
arbitratOrs.
Both the Methodist and Presbyterian
churches south have refused to unite with the
northern organizations from which they sepa
rated before the war on the slavery issue.
The SOth anniversary meeting of the Amer.
lean Baptist Missionary union was held at
Saratoga this week.
Rodney Whittemore the prohibitory candi-
date for Governor was born in st Adams in
| 1920. He was wing in 1910 and became a
member of the Republican party in 1856. In
1884 he parted company with that party and
adopted the prohibition faith. He was county
commissioner for three terms, from 1925 !;
assistant judge of the Franklin county court
| 187S-S0, and prohibition candidate for con-
gress from the LIST district in 1892.
Col. b. B. Smalley, who is back from u
short stay at Washington, predicts as result
of his interviews with senator's. that the tariff
bill will pass in a few days that the house will
concur in its amendments and that it will go
into effect by July list. If the house should
not happen to concur Col. Smalley does not
believe any tariff bill will be passed by the
present congress.
There seems to be considerable doubt in
the minds of the officers of many towns as to
their duty to remeasure the road mileage and
send new certificates to the secretary of state.
1t is evident that very few changes have been
made and the law is very plain that returns
need be made only when new roads have been
opened or old roads discontinued. Secretary
of State BrOwnell has sent out no new blanks
because it was thought very few would be
required and the originals which are record
ed in town clerks Offices will furnish the form
used and to be used
The federal supreme court has this week
overturned the first of the rulings of
the lower courts against the interstate
commerce law. This was Judge Gresham's
decision in the case of the Illinois steel COM
pany sustaining its officers in refusing to APP
pear or answer questions before the inter-
state commission on the ground that section
IL Of the act was unconstitutional in lending
to the commission the power of the court.
The supreme court with Justice Brewer alone
holds that thi, requirement was
within the legislative power of congress. The
case is of particular interest in Vermont be-
cause it was under the action of Commission
er Veazey that the question arose.
Governor Flower has vetoed the bill to pre-
vent the display of foreign flags on public
buildings in that state. In his veto message
ism which seeks the enactment of such bills as
this. 1t is un-American in spirit and is OPP |
posed to the liberal traditions and progressive |
aims of the American people. 1t is based on
'ickly sentimentality and should find no sup t
port among broad-mined and sound-bodied |
Americans. Let us not restrict the display I
If bunting on gala days. Let us hoist the |
he stars and stripes float above all colors
md emblems; we shall best symbolic the
'aried, yet homogeneous. character of our
population.
The convention railway of railway employees
las been held at New York this week, and
dopted platform condemning some of the
ecent decisions of federal judges about
trikes and favoring compulsory arbitration
aw and the electionlof railway commissioners
" direct vote of the people in the various
tates instead of their being appointed as at
resent.
Henry NJ. Arms of Springfield writes, as he
J reported, that he does not wish to be con-
idered candidate for lieutenant governor
his year, because Windsor county has already !
cen SO well provided with offices. But the
armers Advocate thinks that when another 4
iennial period rolls by "Mr. Arms will be a
lndidate for the first Office, in which case he 4
ill not be handicapped by having served in
he second position" 4
AS fuller returnsIfrom the spring elections
Colorado come in, they demonstrate anew
,e falIacy of the idea that the ignorant
omen will be the first to rush to the polls. {
he reports say that ''almost no Mexican
omen appeared at the polls, as their hus- 3
lnds objected" On the other hand, "about
ghty per cent. of the American women C
Dted.' In the cities, the three classes of
omen who almost universally stayed away o
ON the polls were the very ignorant, the
and the demimonde. As in h
yoming, the women generally voted for the
ndidates of the best character.
The program for the meeting of the Frank q
county road commissioners at Sheldon
xt week will include addresses and papers r
"What good roads would do for the farm
and others by +. A. Wood of Fairfax 4.
he present highway; its good and bad fea-
res" by Hon o l. Kinds of Highgate;
iced of organizations and associations of
engaged in road work. by r d McClare =;
Highgate; "The selection and use of road -
lterials" by j. w. Votey of Burlington. ri
Judge Bishop of the superior court at Bos-
1 has Just decided case against a man who
ight to avoid the payment of u ailroad
e because the company did not provide Il
n with seat. The case was test one to y
ermine the company's obligation in this
pect and the court gives a verdict against
n.
iov. Pennoyer, the Populist-Democrat of
egon, is making campaign to carry the
It legislature for his ambition to become n
tied States senator and the Republicans
greatly alarmed.