The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

way Company's fast train between Lon
don and Aberdeen covered the distance
between those points, $40 miles, in 512
minutes on Thursday night of last
week. Part of the journey was made
at the rate of rs miles an hour, and the
average speed was 63.47 miles. This
run eclipses everything before recorded.
There are four regular stops for fast
trains on this road, and it is supposed
the train made them all.
POLITICAL parties in the Empire
State are lining up for the contest this
fall. Only the minor state officers are
to be chosen, but lively interest is felt
in the constitution of the new legisla-
ture, which will choose senator to
succeed David B. Hill Sharp contests
have been had at the primaries over
the denomination of the senators who
obeyed Mr.. Platt's commands at Albany,
last winter, and defeated important re-
form legislation for New York city.
One has been renominated, but the
others have been very emphatically
turned down. All together the fall
elections will have an exceedingly lively
interest.
EX-GOVERNOR JAMES E. CAMPBELL
is the lamb the democrats of Ohio have
appointed for sacrifcial honors in No
vember. One good thing about Camp
bell is he is a pronounced "jingo," as
iingoism has now come to be con-
sidered, by the Interpretation cuckoos
and mugwumps have given the term.
Governor Campbell made a ringing
lingo speech at the Tammany celebra-
ton in New York, on the Fourth of
July, and he secured the adoption by
the Ohio convention of resolution
stoutly reaffirming the Monroe doctrine,
Senator Brice, the democratic boss of
the state, ruled the convention and car
ried it against the silverites.
The platform of the Kentucky dem
ocrats has been tumbled down by
candidate Hardin, and its sound money
plank split up to kindle the fires of a
red hot free silver campaign. In
recent speech, Hardin unfurled the free
silver banner and Haunted it defantly
in the face of the "gold bugs" He
has bluntly refused to resign his candi-
dacy at the invitation of the state COM
mittee. Two democratic newspapers
in Louisville have withdrawn his name
from the ticket. There is a general re-
volt among the real sound money dem
ocrats, and the election of Colonel
Bradley, the republican candidate for
governor, is now confidently predicted.
Candidate Hardin refuses to wear
mask or to be muzzled. He was put
forward to play the part of bunco-
steerer, to lead both sound money
voters and free silver voters into the
democratic camp, but he declinesj to
play that disreputable role. Possibly
he knows too well on which side of the
money issue the rank and file of Ken
lucky voters will line up on election day.
AMERICAN ship-building won dis
tinguished triumph in the English
channel last week. The new liner,
"St. Louis" was tested to ascertain if
she could develop and sustain the speed
required of vessels which transport the
mails, the rate demanded being twenty
knots an hour for four consecutive
hours. The "St. Louis" carried the
stars and stripes over the course laid
out for her faster than any other ship
had ever carried any Gag in those
waters. Her average speed for more
than four hours was twenty-five and
three-tenths knots an hour. In the
outward trip she made twenty-three and
six.tenths knots. 1t was the finest
measured record ever made, and wins
for the gallant craft a ten-years' con-
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of war this ship and her three COM
panions Of the American line, the
"Paris," New York" and .'St. Paul."
would be at the service of the govern
ment. They are capable of receiving
an armament that would make them
efficient commerce destroyers. Their
speed would enable them to overhaul
any merchant vessel or to make good
their escape from an enemy's cruiser
with which they would not be able to
cope in battle. Every American re-
CARDS with personal satisfaction the
brilliant success of these experiments
in the marine architecture of the times.
American in design, material, construc.
ton and crew, they foreshadow the
recovery of that supremacy in naval
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