The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-01

commission has appointed ex-senator
Edmunds counsel for the government
| f. he habeas corpus case OF Thos. y.
Brown. auditor Of q Pennsylvania rail
road, imprisoned for refusing to answer
questions relating to alleged VIOLATIONS
Of law BY the corporation.
Ex. Gov. Campbell ia still firing not
sh 81 among the Republicans In his Ohio
campaign. He declares that the last
Ohio legislature was the most corrupt
body that ever assembled f0r icglsia /.
tive purposes in Ohio. The last
Ohio senate was oragnized to rob the
people, Y he said at Cleveland, Satur-
day night. No bill, good, bad Or m
different, went through the last senate
OF Ohio unless it paid tribute to that
body. There was not bill that passed
that was not accompanied by the cor
ruption Of money. = And in later
speeches he has given names and
amounts. Speaking Of the Cincinnati
Tammany he says that George 3. Cox,
the Republican leader OF Cincinnati,
was "a corrupter Of morals and q
keeper Of a dive SO degraded that q
crap shooter would not enter 1t. \
IT looked at one time ms if the
chances were insfayor Of Tammany in
New York's election, Judging from ap-
pearances at this distance, but 1t Is
now plain that the tide is turning.
The committee OF fifty are now said to
be assured Of victory. 1t is believed
that 60 per cent. Of the German vote
will be cast for the union ticket, and
the people are SO we'll pleased with the
improved city government that Tam
many, which cast vote of 100, 600 last
year, will, according to estimates, 90
well to secure 75, 600 next Tuesday.
Senator Proctor tells N. Y. Sun
that he does not think a
third term possible for Cleveland nor
does he believe the president wants it
or ii he did that the party would give
him the nomination. He thinks Vim.
G. Whitney the most likely candidate
for the Democrats, but he will not
venture an opinion yet as to the Re-
publican ticket.
The able and eloquent Senator
Palmer Of Illinois announces that he
will retire from public life at the end
If his present term, because he says
The position needs man 20 years
Younger than he. He is now engaged
ID writing book OF recollections Of
ais political life.
One objection that may count a
little against Senator Allison as Re
publican presidential candidate is
hat he was born in Ohio, as were
Grant and Harrison while Hayes and
Garfield were Ohio men. Seventeen I
If 20 years Of Republican occupancy Of
he presidential chair are figured to be |
Ohio's share.
Ex-senator Chas. ii. Van Wyack OF
Nebraska, whose career in the senate
vas notable for its radical anti -mnnop
,lyism, died last week at Washington /
rom apoplexy at the age of n. He |
vas native Of Poughkecpsie. N. ",
graduate Of Rutgers, served with /
.redit in the war, coming out brig I
ldier general, was congressman from
Scw York twice, two terms before the
var and two after, and after going
vest once from Nebraska. being finally /
lectcd senator from that state in /
881 and serving one term.
The Utah Democrats are now charg
ng explicitly that there is bargain
'etween the Mormon church and the
republican leaders Of the state. by
Which the two have agreed, in view of
mutual considerations, to act together.
hey point as evidence OF the fact to
he disciplining of churchmen, who
ave accepted Democratic nomina
ions, particularly the candidate for Il
enator, and who have been ordered by II
he church authority to take their Il
ames from the ticket. Although I,
resident Woodruff explains that this
ction applies only TO the priesthood.
/ is significant that no Mormon Re-
ublican candidates, of whom there
re several, have been disciplined in
his way. And ii is still more signifi !,
ant that several Mormon church
,aders who had previously acted with
ne Democratic party have gone over I
, the Republicans.
After years Of growing popular favor.
lat beautiful American flower, the /
is getting itself disliked in !
where the state veterin-
rian, DIR. G. +. Scott. has come out
i the newspapers against it, He !
aims that when eaten by horses. it I
reduces fatal disease similar to con
imption.
a party OF California mining experts 1
ill sail in few days for Barney ! !
arnato's country Of gold in South
frica. }. H. Tibbits is the chief /
but with him is Col. John / d
who owns several claims, Ia
'gether with Charles Stocks of Grass I
alley and Louis M. DeMuart of Paris.
almond has notion that there's
ore gold in South Africa than even =
arnato dreams of, and his party is c
ling into the interior 400 miles from =
'hannisberg. c
The, recent meeting of the weather /,
ireau chiefs at Indianapolis cogitated q
scheme to have the local weather I
recasts for the next "a hours stamped d
every letter received in every post Z
ice in the United States large Il
ough to employ letter carriers n
The coal combine seems to have gone n
liberately to work to crowd up 81
ices. regardless of anything but its O
ospective profits. Supplies have s.
en- kept short, apparently with G
lrpose. and retailers compelled to
" on the terms and conditions die a,
ted by the ''barops. Prices have n,
vanced 80 cents ton within n,
,nth, and the prediction comes from n,
w York that another equal advance n
soon to follow. Il,
There was TO be a Cuban day. on
exposition grounds at Atlanta,