The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-16

x-Gov. Flower of New York believes
Whitney is the man for the Democrats
in '96. He also takes rosy view of
the prospect thus
Every mill and mandatory in the country is
making Democratic voters The Demo
Gratis will win the next election, The Repnbi-
cans have not an issue left with which TO 90
before the people, unless it is free silver. That
is being lost sight of now, with the return of
prosperity
If everybody should strictly mind his
own business what. different world
this would be IL Springfield Union.
! The Tillman crowd in South Carolina
are cogitating another scheme to dis
franchise the negro. 1t is proposed to
give one vote to every man and an
extra vote to each one who pays taxes
on property worth $500 or upwards.
1t is evident that few Teddy
Roosevelts are needed in prohibitory
New England. 1t can be no more diff
ficult to enforce absolute prohibition
in Maine and Vermont than to enforce
Sunday prohibition in New York city.
If it is an absolute impossibility to
enforce the law, that is bad for the
law : and the people of Bar Harbor who
ask that the Maine law be suspend
ed during the summer season, and
the distinguished citizens of Vermont
who act as if there were no such law at
ALL ought to give this subject careful
and intelligent consideration. II Bos-
ton Commonwealth.
The state highway commissioners re-
port that the best six miles of road in
the state is that running from the
Barnard line through to Woodstock.
Bicyclists agree with them. A team
can go the full length of this road at
2 40 clip without halt and without
danger.
The United States district court in
Utah decides that the women of that
territory are entitled to vote on the
question of the adoption of the state
which instrument confers
upon them the right of suffrage
1t is stated that before the end of
this month new electrical locomotive
will be completed which can be used
on elevated railroads and in the su
burban service, and that as soon as
they are successfully applied in one
place their use will be universal.
The Mexicans don't want the Cor
bett:Fitzsimmons match. They are
pleased with bull fights but they draw
the line at prize fights.
Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire is not so much of silver man as
his colleague Chandler He writes to
the Keene Sentinel that he is in favor
IF international bimetalism but other
wise is opposed to the further coinage
If silver
There is to be big fight in the
)hlo Democratic convention next
week between Senator Brice and his
opponents. The unfortunate feature
S that Brice has managed to identify
lis name with the sound money cause.
Robert 7. Lincoln tells an interview
r that he is out of politics and not an
spirant for party's presidential nomi
ation. But he thinks there will be
lenty of material to select from be-
ween Morton, Mckinley, Reed. Harri-
on and Allison.
According to the bureau of Indian
fairs, 1879, 900 of the PAT. 600 Indians
I the country are self-supporting, and
I those 800 live outside of the res
rvatlons, pay taxes, and are counted
the general population. And yet
re see it constantly repeated that the
indian is incapable of civilization.
There is renewed excitement in Mani
Dba over the Dominion's threat to
ompel support of parochial schools.
DIR. George f. Root, who wrote THE
'attle Cry of Freedom Tramp.
ramp, Tramp, the Boys Are March
1g,' etc, died Wednesday at Bailey's
Stand, Me. He was well-known as a
luslcal author, published many col
ctlons of sacred music. He was the
rlglnator OF the normal musical insti-
ties, and when the first one was es-
lblished in New York in 1852 he was
ne of the faculty.