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The morning call., 1894-10-05
SCHOOL DIRECTORs.
SUPERVISORS.
THE SCHOOL BOARD.
Exciting Contest Over the Selection
of Nominees

Delegates to the Non-Partisan conven-
ton got to work shortly after 2 O'clock
yesterday afternoon and proceeded TO
complete their ticket with but little ado.
When the chair announced the convention
in order Frank J. Sullivan made motion
that the rules be suspended and the con-
vention proceed to ballot for School
Directors.
Delegate Cumming opposed the mot ion,
saying that he saw DO reason for not going
on With the regular order of business and
ballotiHg for Supervisors
Thomas Magee said that the selection of
Supervisors was an important M after, and
plenty Of time should be given delegates
TO make selections. He, for one, wanted
10 act intslligently. and could not do so
at the time. He favored letting the Super
yisors go until evening.
Upon vote being taken the motion of
Mr. Sullivan was carried and the chair
man announced that ballotng for School
Directors was in order.
Deega e j. q. Eastland, chairman of
the committee on Board of Education.
took the floor 20 take exception to one of
the lists Of School Directors submitted.
lie said on that list there was not name
recommended by his committee. 1t con-
talneu only iDose OF II. IL DOuBP, t. J..
Barrett, q. E. Dove II. c. Henderson, z
V. Maxwell, John A Miller. Robert Bragg.
A. Comte JI., t. r. Carew. DIR. f. q.
Stable, Hugh 1evis, DR.. C. A. Clinton.
The committees re OFT recommended
the following: Pelham w. Ames. e. j..
Bowen, Allan ST. j. Bowie Jr., a. Comte
.Jr, Samuel E. DuttoD, Gnstave Guisch,
". B. Harrington, T. A. Hyde, Charles A.
Murdoch. James Ii. Rosewaid. Charles b.
Stone. Frank j. Symmes. TIE other
names submitted were: Fred w. Warren.
Thomas r. Carew, Hugh Teyls, DR.. Fred
H. Stable, Ed Anthony. John f. Gray. Dr.
John A. Miller Franklin f. Lord. Thorn as
r. Knox. William Wallace. DIR. S. z. Tug
gle, j. j. Bowling. DIR. ID. Raglan, L. b.
Maxwell, A. I'iilman, L. e. Shnmate.
George Dahlbender, DR.. I. z. Muffe. Robert
Bragg.
Delegate Cumming said Delegate East
land had no right to object to anybody
submitting any names. The latter alt
mitted he hadn't. but said he merely
wanted to set the committee right.
Delegate Donovan placed in nomination
for School Director z p. Barrett. Or. A.
c. Hirst placed j. 81. Ellis In nominate
ID. l. Mahoney placed DR.. e.. A. Gin ION
in nomination.
Delegate LIE Breton moved that the rules
oil the convention be again suspended, and
that the twelve gentlemen receiving the
largest number of votes be selected as the
nominees Of the party.
ID. l. Mahoney Was opposed to suspend
ing the rules in any such iG POI tant matter
as School Directors.
DIR. Hirst said that he also was opposed
to suspending the rules.
FURTHER discussion on the matter was
cut off by Mr.. LIE Breton withdra wing his
motion.
Delegate Laton again placed Hugh Teyis
The morning call., 1894-10-05
THE TICKET NAMED
NOn=Partisan Convention
Terminated.
NOMINATIONS WELL MADE.
The Best Men in Both Parties
Are Selected.
STRONG BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Representative Nominees for School
Directors-Res oiutions on NUM-
cipal Affairs.
STRONG BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

The mem bers of the Citizens Non-Par-
tisan convention worked hard all yester-
day afternoon and until II O'Clock last
evening TO complete the work Of getting
out a municipal ticket Yesterday was
the last day, as all tickets which are to
figure in the coming election must be filed
to-day.
The afternoon session was devoted to
School Directors, and every effort was
made to select twelve of he best men from
among the many who were anxious for
recognition by the convention. The CON-
mittee on Sch DOL Directors reported favor
ably on twelve names, among them being
six of the present board. In the latter
was that of F. a. Hyde, president of the
Board of Education. Mr.. Hyde's friends
made strong fight for him on the conven-
ton floor, but there was considerable op-
position. The contest for and against
Hyde waxed rather warm at times, and in
the end Mr.. Hyde failed to secure sufficient
votes to carry him through.
The School Board as selected is regarded
as good one, each member of it being a
representative citizen.
Last evening the same careful discretion
and judgment was used in the selection of
men recommended by the committee
were chosen. As stated by the chairman
OF the committee, it had spent hours in
going over the record of each person who
aspired TO the Office of Supervisor, and
particular care was taken to recommend
only those who were considered irreproach-
able.
The convention before adjourning also
took particular care to see that everything
was arranged for carrying out the ideal
principles of the party up 10 election.
Certain powers were conferred on
the campaign committee TO protect all
party interests until the day when the
voters OF the city will pass upon the ticket
Particular care was taken. too, to SO bind
nominees that the interests and principles
which they represent as candidates must
be carried out.
The convention also placed itself on
record regarding street improvements and
other municipal matters where reform is
considered necessary.
Taken altogether the ticket which was
completed last evening. and which will be
officially filed to-day, is a representative
one and worthy not only OF the citizens
who made up the convention, put Of he
suffrages of the voter who wishes on
election day TO express at the polls his
disapprobation of boss-ruie men as ex-
empli6ed in some of the nominations on
the Democratic and Repu blican tickets.
The following are the School Directors
and Supervisors selected. and which CON-
pletes the Citizens NOn-Partisan ticket.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Chairman Manley's Statement.

AUGUSTA, Me, Sept. 10.
Hon. Henry B. CledreS, Portland, Ne:
The Republican party came in power in
Maine in 1856 by giving Hannibal Hamlin
%, 900 majority. Twice in the history of
the party since that day it has given its
candidate majority exceeding 10000. In
1865 it gave Samuel Cony %, 700 majority
over his Democratic competitor, and in
1866 it gave Gen. Chamberlain majority
of 27,000 over his Democratic opponent.
Today ii has given you majority exceed
ing 81 600 over Mr.. johnson, your Demo
cratic opponent, being the largest majority
ever given.
Il We have carried every county in the
state, and will have at least 127 of the Isl
members of the house of representatives,
which insures the reelection of the Hon.
VIM. P. Frye to the United States Senate,
he having no competitor.
We have elected the Hon. Thomas b
Reed, the Hon. Nelson Dingley, the Hon
Seth L. Milliken, and the Hon. c. A
Boutelle to Congress by majOrites ranging
from 5000 to $500. The total vote viii
reach 10000. Your vote will exceed ~,
600.
The people of Maine have thus, in mos
emphatic manner, entered their protest
against the deadly blight of a policy tha
would destroy the industrial system bull
up in this country by the policy of protec
tion. j. H. MANLEY, Chairman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
The state Commlttee,s Work. .
From the Burlington Free Press.

From the Burlington Free Press
1t is evident that those who thought the
Republican state committee needed stir
ring with stick to see if it was alive,
during the Vermont campaign were fir.
ing at random. 1t was decided at the out
set by the committee and candidates, that
there was no need of campaign of the
brass band and pyrotechnic order, and the
result has shown that they were correct.
Those who are in a position to know, how
ever, are aware that effective work was
done. The plan of campaign agreed upon
was carried out to the complete satisfac-
ton of Gov.-elect Woodbury., as well as
other Republican candidates, and if they
are satisfied, our Democratic and Mug
wump friends certainly ought not to COM
plain.
Chairman Merrill struck for a majority
of 30, 900 and he just narrowly missed it,
record which has been beaten in a
gubernatorial election but once in the
history of the Republican party of Yer
mont, and it is worthy of note that the ex-
ception was in 1888 when Hon. W. P.
Dillingham; was elected governor and Hon.
Urban A. Woodbury. Acknowledgements,
with Hon. Carroll S. Page as chairman of
the Republican state committee.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14

From the Philadelphia Ledger s weekly review.l
The only cloud on the business situation
is the damage to the corn crop, and the ex-
act measure of this, and its effect on rail-
road traffic and on the purchasing power
of the people, are yet to be determined.
In other directions the outlook becomes
more promising every day. A big cotton
crop is predicted, and in the entire South
there is already revival of trade, which
is considerably in advance of the improve
ment in the North This is shown, among
other things, in the increased earnings of
southern railroads, and in the brisk de-
mand that comes from the section for dry
goods and other commodities. Taking the
country as a whole, the record is now one
of gains. Railroad earnings are increas-
ing, slowly to be sure, and with only a
small percentage over the panic year of
1898, when business was at its lowest
point, but still increasing. Gains are also
reported in the volume of bank clearances.
The movement of freight is beginning to
be larger than last year. The resources of
the treasury are on the gain. The gold
balance is steadily increasing by the daily
addition of small amounts.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
AND MAINE, TOO.
Pine Tree State Republicans also
"Set the Pace"

To the Tune of $4,000 Plurality---Re-
publican Congressmen Reelected by
Unprecedented Majoritles.
The pace set by Vermont last week was
followed by Maine with a vengeance in her
state election on Monday. The Republi
can managers counted on plurality of Is,
600, but these figures were almost doubled.
Returns from sos towns show a plurality y
of $500 for Gov. Henry B. Cleayes, the
Republican candidate for reelection. Full
returns will increase this to $1,000 or 3S,-
600. This is an enormous gain over the
most notable Republican success ever
gained in Maine, the high-water mark be-
ing Gov. Chamberlain 27,000 majority in
1866.
There were four candidates for governor
in the field: Henry B. Cleaves, Republi.
can; Chas. F. johnson, Democrat; L. c,
Bateman, Populist, and Ira G. Hersey,
Prohibitionist. The present congressman,
Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley, Seth L.
Milliken and c. A. Boutelle, were candi-
dates for reelection, and were opposed by
candidates on the Democratic as well as on
the Populist and Prohibition tickets. AS
congressman were chosen and the legisla-
ture elected will choose a United States
senator, the election took on national
character, and the result is therefore al
the more significant.
The four congressman are returned by
increased majorities. In the first district
Reeds vote far exceeds any ever before
given him, the indications pointing to q
plurality of over $500. In Biddeford, for
merly Democratic stronghold, his plural
ity approaches 500. The legislature will
be nearly solidly Republican. The Port
land Advertiser estimates that the hous'
will stand 1877 Republicans and IA Demo
Gratis. The last house was 107 Republi
cans and II Democrats. The last senat
had one Democrat. The next senate will
be solidly Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14

The Count of Paris, grandson of Louis
PHILIPPE, and Bourbon pretender to the
throne of France, died at his home sin
exile" in England, last Saturday, aged So
years. While never able to recognize or
acknowledge that the monarchical idea
was dead in France, he was sincere lover
of his country and a man of high charac-
ter and spotless life. Americans felt a
kindly interest in his career because he
came to this country and served on Gen
McClelan's staff during the war for the
Union and afterward wrote valuable and
impartial History of the Civil War in
America
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
MaIne's opinion OF the Policy of In
fanny.


The Boston Journal calls attention to
the fact that the sweeping Republican vic
tory in Maine was not alone a protest
against the Democratic tariff bill and the
record of Democratic incompetency, but
that it was also a condemnation of the pol
icy of the Cleveland administration toward
Hawaii and Samoa AS the home, both of
the Hon. John L. Stevens, our former
minister to Hawaii, and of the Hon. Har-
old NJ. Sewall, ex-consul general to Samoa,
Maine was bound to take special interest
in this phase of the political situation, and
the Democrats, by putting a plank in their
platform endorsing Mr. Cleveland's foreign
policy as "honorable, patriotic and hu-
mane," challenged an answer from the Re-
publicans which they certainly have got.
One of the spirited incidents of the cam
pagn was the withdrawal of Mr.. Sewall
from the Democratic party, of which he
had been an active and earnest member,
and in his appearance before great Repub-
lican mass meeting in Augusta, where he
delivered tremendous arraignment of the
weakness and imbecility of the Democratic
administration in its dealing with the two
Pacific archipelagoes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Another southern secession.

Three hundred of the leading Louisiana
sugar-planters met in convention at New
Orleans last week and declared in favor of
an alliance with the Republican party on
national issues, on the ground that "the
state has been betrayed and a blow has
been struck at its chief industry" by the
Democratic party to which the sugar plant
ers have always been loyal Through victory
and defeat" This movement betokens
the first serious break in the Democratic
party in Louisiana in twenty years. If
persisted in it will mean the loss of Demo
cratic representatives in Congress in two
and probably in three of the sugar-produc-
ing districts.
The feeling of the sugar-planters cannot
be wondered at. Under the bounty pro-
vision of the Mckinley law the production
of cane sugar became the largest ever
known, with every prospect of further
great increase The faith of the govern
ment having been pledged to maintain the
bounty for fixed term of years, the plant
ers were encouraged to invest largely in
machinery and other preparations for an
expansion of the business, and it is ques
tion which the courts will probably have tC
decide whether the United States can altel
its policy and its law without compensation
to those who have acted upon its pledges.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14

A labor strike with which all right-mind-
ed people are in sympathy is that of the
New York tailors and garment-makers
against the tyranny of the sweat-shop sys-
TEN, in which the strikers have won a COM
plete and decisive victory. Seven thous-
and workers struck against the system, so
often described and condemned in the pub
lie prints, under which the making of
"ready-made" coats and cloaks and other
garments was put into the hands of men
aud women, Russian Jews largely, who
did the work in crowded shops or filthy
tenements, at wages which scarcely held
soul and body together although kept at
their tasks eighteen hours out of the twen-
ty-four. The task system, one of the worst
features of sweating, required the finish
ing of, so many garments per day, and the
tasks have been gradually increased by the
greedy contractors until the men were al
lowed scarcely time to sleep and eat. The
strikers demanded to be paid by the week,
counting ten hours as a working day, and
their demand has been granted. This
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Maine,
From the New York sun.

The state election there on Monday was
a more sensational demonstration than the
national election of 1892. 1t was more
unusual in its character and more revolu-
tionary in its indications. 1t shows feel
ing on the part of the Republicans in one
of the oldest states of the Union that there
exists reason for an extraordinary pro
test against the politics ruling at Washing
ton, and on the part of the Democrats a
humiliating confession that they cannot
say no to it. If it foreshadows a general
spread of this indignant disgust at the
achievements of a so-called Democratic ad-
ministration that knows no law but itself,
and that is not warmed by single spark
of American Democracy, then the outlook
for the party now burdened with it is in
deed grave.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Sugar Trust Profits.
An Annual Dividend OF ass Ii per
cent Makes a Pretty Fair Investment.
rn,rnr, thn Nn,,. Nnrl N-nrld

From the New York World
The sugar trust pays enormous dividends
on watered capital. Its immense revenues
are out of all proportion to its investment.
They make possible the payment of large
dividends and the purchasing of legislation
by means of which the revenues them
selves are obtained. They operate in a
vicious circle.
The American Sugar Refining company
is capitalized at $75, 100000 Besides this
stock S10,000,000 of bonds were issued.
OF the stock half is preferred and half is
common. The interest on the preferred
stock is limited to seven per cent. That
on the bonds is six per cent. Thus organ
lied, the trust has been in operation since
early in 1891. By taking in Spreckles,
paying him S25, 100000 in stock, the trust
effectually destroyed competition. This
competition had reduced the margin be-
tween raw and refined sugars to 90 cents
per 100 pounds. The suppression of it in
creased the margin to S1.035 in 1892, and
81. 10 in 1898. The cost of the plants rep
resented by the S75 100000 of stock was be-
tween $15, ,0O0,0 900 and $20,OOO0 900. Their
worth at the time of the organization of
the trust was about S10000,000.
The old sugar trust, organized in 1887,
paid 274 per cent dividend in 1888, 23.9
per cent in 1889, and GA per cent in 1890.
In 1891 the American Sugar Refining COM
pany paid its first dividend-seven per cent
on preferred and PA per cent on COM
mon stock. The London experts who ex-
amined the books of the trust reported
that no working capital had been paid
in, but that S10,000,0O0 bad been bor-
rowed for that purpos This was the val
ue also of the investment. The dividend
paid, therefore, was at the rate of about
"A per cent on the money actually invested.
In 1892 the dividend was equal to $50 per
cent, and in 1893 to 165 per cent on the
| investment.
While the sugar schedule was pending
in the Senate the trust did not hold its an
nual meeting, but it is calculated by ex-
perts that its annual average profit is $685.
532, 900, nearly three times its actual in
vestment, or 2S54 per cent. No wonder
that this arbitrary monopoly" can afford
to buy tariff favors from corruptible legis-
| lators.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
A Good Administration Helped.

A good administration of states affairs
is conducive to large and abiding MAORI
ties. When we come to analyze the causes
of the phenomenal Republican majority in
Vermont, it will be found that Gov, Full
ler's energetic 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 its good reputation abroad, has
had much to do in restoring 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.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
The Democratic Day of Judgment.
From the Boston Transcript

The Republicans held an election in
Maine yesterday, without reference to their
Democratic opponents, who hardly made
themselves perceptible as a contesting par
ty. The stupidity, blundering and inca
pacity at Washington disgusted even the
Democratic rank and file to an extent that
thousands of them omitted to vote, and
other thousands expressed their feelings
by voting Republican tickets outright. By
all appearances it will be just so in every
northern state which elects congressman in
November. just think of Tom
Reed being reelected by 5000 majority in a
district where more than once he has had
to scrabble very hard to secure his return
Governor Cleaves's plurality over the Dem
ocratic candidate is likely to be larger than
the whole Democratic vote in the state
and amount to 7,000-nearly a third
larger than any previous Republican plu
rality. Very few Democrats will have the
privilege of holding seats in the mex
Maine legislature. The cities go all onC
way, and the small towns follow suit. 81
there is no question about this being a yer
liable uprising of the people moved by
purpose to rebuke decidedly the men nov
in power at Washington.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Thomas Is. Reed OH the Result.

The completeness of the Republican vic
tory cannot be realized. The result would
be surprising if it had been hard fought
campaign on the part of the Democrats,
but a notable thing is that there was no
disposition on the part of the Democrats
to vote, and no special effort, except on the
part of those Democrats who desired to
vote the Republican ticket. The result
shows profound disapproval by the Dem
in the past year and a half. There has
been an exceedingly expensive lesson
brought to the homes and bosoms of men.
The result in any district so far surpasses
the result of 1890 that it leaves nothing to
be desired. If the rest of the country
does likewise, it would be a great thing for
the material prosperity of the land.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Give the Young Men a Chance.

The St. Adams Messenger makes a
strong and we'll grounded plea for some of
the state offices at the disposal of the legis-
lature, the governor and other officials, for
the coming two years, to be given to young
men of the Republican party. The Mes
senger recognizes the fact that experience
and proved ability must have the due weight
when the minor state offices are filled, but
it also believes that, because a man has
once held office he is not thereby given
lifelong and perennial claim to preferment
Political action in Vermont is very rarely
affected by the hope of securing official
station, ''but none the less there is very
proper feeling of resentment among the
the younger element of the party that the
rewards of office are to so large an extent
given to the same hands year after year.
1t certainly will be in the line of good party
policy, and the public interests will not
suffer, if the suggestion of the Messenger
is needed that, "Given equal ability, equal
good and manly qualities, some of the ap-
pointments for the coming two years ought
to fall to those members of the party whose
names have not borne upon the civil list OF
the state for quarter of century oI
longer
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-14
Gbe Uernrurt 99b@mfT.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1894.

A writer in Outing shows that the Ro-
man Catholics are not the only Christians
who may be criticised for favoring the sa-
loon. He says that vestrymen in IA Phil
adelphia Episcopal churches have indorsed
applications for saloons. An elder in the
Bethany Presbyterian church (Mr. Wan
amaker's) was a signer, and several mem
bers of the Methodist church and two Bap-
lists are recorded as signers. OF the school
trustees of Philadelphia, 145 are reported
as signing applications for licenses.