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The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03

WANTED-A young lady as book-keeper in
w fine retail store. Must be experienced,
graduate of P H. S. preferred. Address
stating references and salary expected to P. o,
BOX 739. 29-I
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TOILET.

Forty words inserted under this head
enc week for rs cents cash in advance.
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WANTFD-A competent second girl at 80
w SPRING EST. IL
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DICTURES! FREE! Pictures! We frame
i them! Those in want of pictures should
call on US before going elsewhere. The picture
frame. All kinds Of easels from soc I'D. E. D..
REYNOLDS. 593 Congress ST., next door to
Shaw's Grocery Store feb24w6
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EOR SALB-House, No. 90 Spring street.
Woodfords, fitted for two families, lot 7ox
1876. Will be sold at bargain if taken at
once. Inquire of E. VINTON EARLE, Deer
ing Centre. 28-1
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LOST AND FOUND,

Forty words inserted under this head
one week for rs cents. cash in advance
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MONEY TO LOAN-On first or second mort
w cages, on real estate, Stocks bonds,
life Insurance policies or any good securi ties.
Notes discounted at low rate of interest
l. p. BUTLER, As Exchange street. IA
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nR. E. b. REED, scientific and magnetic
~ healer, 113 Free street, corner of Oak
street, Portland, Me-, treats all diseases that
flesh is heir to. Second sight consultation
free. Office hours from a. m. tos12 m. p.
M, to p M. S-tf
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EOR SALE-New house of 10 rooms ard bath
room supplied with hot and cold water,
heated with furnace; stable for three horses
and carriages; corner lot 1OOx125; fine loca-
ton. Will sell or exchange for other property
Apply to e. VINTON EARLE, Deering CEN
tire, Maine. 28-l
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IF WE WANTED A CLOCK

WE Would go to Mckenney's because he has
W more up-to-date Clocks than all the other
stores combined. His 95c alarm clock is wax.
ing up the town. Clocks, 95c TO $1,000
MCKINNEY. The Jeweler. Monument Square
ian15tf
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WANTED-Situat by an experienced ship
w per. References if required. Address
SHIPPER 80 Free St, CRY. 22-2
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EoR SALE-5o loads of loan at corner OF
Vesper and Wilson Streets city INQUIRE
at the house OF of E. VINTON EARLE. Deer
ing Centre. 28-1
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NOR SALE-A paying fish route of about
L 200 customers. For full particulars ad-
dress FISH ROUTE, this office. 2s-1
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Il OR SALE-lsland in Caseo Bay containing
ABOUT 10 acres, used now for farming
mouse mouse ana barn pure we'll water, plenty OF fish,
cams Ga ana lo5sters; nice bathing beach steam
Price $500. W. II. WALDR0N & co, $50
MlQuIe 81 Dol
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

they will be again defeated and that
Mr.. Stickney will have the nomina-
ton. Rutland Herald.
THE BARBER-sHoP SYSTEM.
Now Mr.. Grout may be the best
qualified of any man in Vermont for
the Office of governor, but the people
rightly object to him as the candidate
of the "ring." They do not like cut
and-dried-politics, made up to order for
them, years in advance. That is not
their ideal of government for Vermont.
Accordingly, there were a year ago
mutterings of discomfort with the
Grout plan. A leader was wanted to
antagonize it. A fit one was found in
the person of Mr.. Stickney. The an
nouncement of his candidacy threw the
politicians into CONSERVATION. ooh,
he is good man, but let him wait his
turn" they said. Now this "turn !"
business is just what the people object
to, and when CIRCUITS supporters refer
to it as they usually do it shows how
different are their ideas. We do not
believe that the republicans of Yer
mont want to see the governorship
turned into a sort of barber-shop where
list of eligibles get into place and
await the command, "Next." They
want to be unhampered and left free to
make whatever choice they see fit. We
believe they are right, too. Mr.. Stick
ney has the same right to aspire to the
governorship this year as though he
had been considered prospective can
didate for four years past, but the
" bosses look upon him as an inter
loper. He will not be waved back to
his seat at their beck, but insists upon
letting the people decide the question.
Is he right? We look upon the issue
as square one. The politicians want
Grout; they don't want Stickney.
Whom do the people want?-Randolph
Herald and News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

for the choice of delegates be held
simultaneously, on a certain specified
datep Is there more method in this?
The Free Press notices this departure
from the old way, with evident APP
proval, and significantly observes that
" caucuses will probably soon be called
in not few towns in different parts of
the state" There is suspicion that
some of these things have been man
aged in the interest of one of the can
didates for governor, and certain cir
cumstances seem to justify this suspi-
cion.
THE Mark Tapley of the Grout cause,
the editorial writer of the esteemed
Free Press, after Sunday of rest and
reflection, comes up with his customary
Monday morning effort to appear cheer
full. He is not so great success in his
role as his eminent English prototype,
but the situation in the Grout camp is
evidently more dismal than was the en-
vironment of the English Tapley amid
the fever and ague of the paper town in
the western swamp. So he should not be
blamed if righteousness crops out
conspicuously even in his most deter
mined attempts to put on a show of
cheerfulness. He labors under one
fatal embarrassment. Like a great
many other Burlington people, he is re-
puted to be very good Stickney man;
but his chief has his eye on the federal
collectorship, and to promote the sue
cess of that scheme, and to pay off past
scores, the man at the editorial crank
must grind out platitudes for Circuit.
We wish he would put into the hopper,
the next time the machine starts up,
some tangible evidence of the Oft
repeated declaration about Major
CIRCUITS "public services" which the
Majors cuckoo editors are ever repeat
ing-in large extra editions-but never
getting down to the business of specify
ing. There is great deal of doubt and
uncertainty about the extent and value
of the Majors "public services" but
none at all about his services for him
self. The cuckoos are showing discre-
ton and sound judgment in not tack
ling the standing challenge of the
WATCHMAN to "specify," and in disre-
gardng the instances of "practical
craftsmanship" with which his whole
legislative career is tattooed. 1t is a
case where silence is literally and fgur-
atively golden.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
Colonel Joyce for Lieutenant.
Governor.

Editor of Watchman:-Allow me to sug-
gest, in response to inquiries from Grand
Army men for soldier candidate for
governor, on the republican
ticket, in the approaching election, the
name of Colonel Charles H. Joyce OF Rut-
land. Colonel Joyce is an able man, and
aside from his war record he made popu-
lar and efficient speaker OF the house of
representatives, OF Vermont in 1902. He
made grand record the eight years he was
in congress from the First District of Yer.
mont, and 80 far as l know he has dis
charged faithfully and we'll the duties Of
every public office to which he has been
elected. If there are any political rings or
bosses in Vermont, Colonel Joyce is not of
them. The Republican candidate for gov
ernor will probably be Hon. W. W. Stick
ney or Major Josiah Grout. Major Grout
is soldier, while Mr.. Stckney not SOL
der HIMSELF is good friend OF the veter-
ans. The candidates two years ago, Wood
bury and Mansur, both soldiers, received
even in an off year, the largest republican
majority ever given in this state Vermont
ers appreciate the brave soldiers and delight
to honor worthy ones like Colonel Joyce,
who will make a strong second on the
ticket with either Mr.. Stickney or Major
Grout. T. j. DEAvITT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

are the mugwump publications, with
here and there a democratic paper.
Papers like the Springfield Republican,
Boston Herald, New York EUening
Post, who have denounced Platt and
piled upon him every terra Of oppro-
brium, are his most active allies and his
busiest and most sympathetic helpers.
Meantime McKinley's eagle is still
soaring with eyes fixed on victory's
SUM-" All the powers of the American
political hell shall not prevail against
him. Their envenomed shafts shall
not reach him. 1t is too late to inn
pugn McKinley's ability or assail his
soundness on any economic or none
tary question. 1t is poor compliment
to the now apotheosized Tom Reed,
who made William Mckinley chairman
of the committee on ways and means of
the fifty-frst congress, intrusted with
the high responsibility of putting into
law the chief tenet of the republican
faith as declared in 1883, to now stig-
Matte the head of that committee as a
"political accident" Tom Reed chose
"nonentity," a man who was simply
an amiable gentleman" for the head
of the ways and means committee, in
trusted with the heaviest and gravest
responsibility, to party and countryp
Mr.. Platt and his mugwump and demo-
cratic bed-fellows must invent some
other fable with which to tax the
credulity of an intelligent people. Nc
Kinley was famous as a champion of
protection, as a man of unusually bright
promise, before Tom Reeds star was
above the national horizon, before Gov
ernor Morton was known far outside
of the regions of Wall Street. On the
currency question Mckinley is neither
more nor less "sound " than the best of
his " sound money" compatriots and
rivals for the presidency. In this coun-
try, from the days of the war, the cur
rency question has been one of evolu-
ton. We have all been bi-metalists,
we have all been for the largest posi-
BILE use of both gold and silver, biding
the time when international agreement
shall establish on solid basis the
monetary relation of the two metals.
1t is too late in the day to impeach Nc
Kinley on this score, or to shake public
confidence in him. The scheme TO
sidetrack the tariff issue and put the
currency question on the main line will
miserably fail. Mckinley and Protec-
ton is the watchword of the campaign.
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Mortified Items,

c. c. Baldwin and wife of Barton spent
Sunday in town.
Mrs. M. s. Gilchrist and Levi T. Cross are
grading their lawns.
Miss Cushman gave musical to her
friends at her home Monday night.
The street sprinkler has been idle for the
past three days. 1t was never more needed.
Chauncey Denny and wife have returned
from Florida and will spend the summer
here.
The child of Richard Luther of Goulds-
Vile was buried in Greenwood Cemetery on
Friday.
The Epworth League celebrated the
seventh anniversary of its organization
Sunday evening.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Hovey and Miss
Agnes Dooley will give a musical to their
friends at No. 10 Vine street, Friday even
ing.
Dorothy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John
son, died of diphtheria last Sunday night.
Another case Of diphtheria was reported on
King street on Monday. AS precautiOn
the Grammar School has been closed for the
present.
The sensation of the week has been the
embezzlement of Wilbur E. Shepard. Mr..
Shepard was clerk in Dutton & Richmond's
store working on salary of SIS per week.
During the last two years he has built the
finest house in the village, had spent money
loosely in other directions, and had recently
bought pair of horses. Last week Tues
day the firm, in casting the balance upon
their invoice, found a large deficit. Sus-
pecting Mr.. Shepard Of taking funds they
instantly discharged him. He stoutly de-
MED his guilt and said he could explain the
source of his income, but failed to do So.
Friday morning, however, he confessed the
theft but declared that he could not say
what was It's extent. Both he and Mrs.
Shepard turned over all their property to
make restitution, and Saturday night he
ran away He was member of the Meth
odist church and held several offices. His
life was in every other respect exemplary
and he had been greatly trusted. Upon de-
mand OF the church he withdrew from it's
membership on Saturday morning.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
Tall Blumng.

Grout heelers and shouters in Wash
ington county, and elsewhere in the
state, are now stalking everything on
the success of the big game of bluff
they are playing. Their latest fairy
tale is that Speaker Stickney, finding
his prospect of being nominated hope
less, is about to withdraw from the
canvass. They are not putting this into
their newspapers, but they are whis-
pering it in the ears of the msin-
formed, the timid and the faint-hearted,
peradventure they may deceive some.
Now let all the people of Vermont
understand, and know of surety, that
all these inflated claims of the certainty
of CIRCUITS nomination, all these stories
of Stickney's waning fortunes and
pending withdrawal from the fight, are
bluff, pure and simple. They are the
last desperate devices of the enemy to
buoy up CIRCUITS sinking ship, to stem
the advancing tide of Speaker Stick
ney's popularity. Not only is Mr..
Stickney not about to withdraw and
abandon the field to Major Grout, but
all the signs of the political times are
pointing straight to his triumphant
nomination.
William Wallace Stickney has in
him the stuff of which the Scottish pa
triot whose name he bears was made.
That is not the kind of stuff that backs
out. In natural beauty and attractive
ness, Vermont rivals the land for
which Wallace fought. Vermonters and
Scotchmen have many admirable quail.
tiles in common, chief among them de-
votion to the cause of truth and liberty.
In this campaign, in this great cause,
the "Scots wha haze VII Wallace bled +"
are marching to "gory beds
or to glorious victory" The people
may have little for which to thank the
dominating power in the state commit
tee in this canvass, but they thank the
committee for choosing June II, the
anniversary of Bunker Hill, for the
time of the meeting of the state con-
vention. 1t will be also the Bannock-
burn of Vermont's political liberty.
AS "the front o. battle lours" our
William Wallace, our Robert Bruce, is
flying no signal of retreat or surrender.
On the contrary, at this stage of the
battle, his cheering summons to every
freedom-loving Vermonter is, scale
DOMAIN, on VII mel"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
Plainiield Items.
Work has begun on the hotel.


A Memorial service will be given at the
Congregational church next Sunday morn
ing.
The neighbors of Newcomb Kinney,
whose loss by fire has been reported turned
out on Monday and helped put in his crops
II. T. Batchelder died last Wednesday,
after long illness. The funeral was at
tended on Friday at his late residence, Rev
A. l.. Cooper officiating. Wyoming Lodge,
#. & A. NJ, of which Mr.. Batchelder was a
member, conducted the ceremony at the
grave.
Bert Batcheder has moved to the house
vacated by Harvey Kizer, - Will
Brown and wife OF Boston were called to
town by the death of Mrs. Browns father,
III. t. Batchelder. - A. j. Batcheder
has added a double portico to his house,
which improves its appearance much.
g. w. s. Martin, Jr., of Manchester,
n H., visited relatives in town the first OF
the week.
A. l.. WOOSTER, prominent citizen OF
Osseo, Mich, after suffering overwhelmingly
from piles for twenty years, was cured in
short time by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve, an absolute cure for all skin diseases.
More of this preparation is used than all
others combined. w. e, Terrill IL Co.,
Montpelier, Vt,
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which was made part of the constitu-
ton of the state, declares

which was made part of the constitu-
ton of the state, declares
"That government is, or ought to be, in
stituted for the common benefit, protection
and security of the people, nation or COM
munity, and not for the particular enlolumem
or advantage Of any single man, FAMILY, or
set of men, who are part only Of that COM
ulunitv: and that the community hath an
indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible
right. to reform or alter government, in
such manner as shall be- by that commu-
nifty, Judged most conducive to the public
veal"
The clause we have italicised was
clearly framed with direct reference to
a possible condition that has actually
come into being in the early part of the
second century of the states constitu-
tional existence. There appears the
single man," the family" and the
"set of men" who seem to assume
that government was instituted for
them, "a part only of the commu.
nity," not "for the common benefit,
protection and security of the people,
nation or community" Individually
and collectively, certain " family"
appears to look upon Vermont as it's
political principally, and official power
as private snap, not as something de-
rived from the people; and \" set of
men," bound together by the cohesive
power of public plumber, by the hope
of emolument or advantage to be
derived from federal collectorship or
other federal Office, from staff appoint
ments and appointments on state
boards and commissions, are allied for
the subversion and prostitution of the
constitutional function of government
as defined by the fathers. 1t is the
indubitable, unalienable, and indie
feasible right" and the imperative
duty, of every Vermont community to
rip up and scatter to the winds these
plans for the perversion of the funda-
mental functions of government, this
conspiracy against I" the public veal"
This they can do by refusing to be-
come the promoters of Josiah CIRCUITS
long-formed and persistently worked
scheme to procure his nomination to
the Office of governor, with all that
his swoop would imply, scheme that
is not justified by any public SER
vice Mr.. Grout has rendered, or by any
promise of service deducible from his
public career.
There is we'll founded impression
abroad that this family" has had all
the public honors its merits and SER
vices entitle it to, and that it is time to
"reform or alter" course of proce-
dure in political affairs that has be-
come inimical to the best interests OF
the state.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
Fighting Mckinley.
the state

Herod and PLATE were made friends
in a cause that doomed the ignominious
alliance to the unending obloquy of
Christendom. In like manner Tom
Platt-the type of all that is pernicious
in the political boss, and the free trade
democrats and mugwumps-the worst
development of political character of
modern times, are joined in unholy but
congenial friendship and alliance
against William Mckinley, whose star
as the candidate for the republican
nomination to the presidency is high in
the ascendant.
Mckinley, the incarnation of the
protective principle, is peculiarly the
object of the animosity of the free
trader, be he mugwump or democrat.
Nothing would 80 shock one of the po-
litical faith that hailed with thanks
givings and hallelujahs that were bar
barrie in their fierceness the republican
reverses of 1890 and 1892, as the reten-
ton of the tariff at the front as ma
tional issue, with the much condemned
Mckinley carrying its banner and lead
ing its forces. So Thomas b. Reed,
but yesterday-to the mugwump vision
the embodiment of everything that
was abhorrent in political morality and
political economy, is now hero, a
statesman, a financier of the straightest
sort, everything that is lovely and of
good report in person and politics. All
this is true of Mr. Reed. Even the mug
wump eulogist, inspired by his dercest
malice toward Mckinley, cannot paint
Mr.. Reed in colors too glowing.
Mckinley has never been the favor
lite of Tom Plat, or the peculiar school
of American statesmen of which Mr..
Platt is the most conspicuous and not
altogether lovely type. The later de-
velopments of McKinley's deep-seated
popularity, as shown by the marvellous
enthusiasm and unanimity of the re-
publicans of Vermont at their recent
convention, followed by the emphatic
endorsement of the great states of Hi.
nois, Michigan, Indiana and California,
aroused all Mr.. Platt's malignity, and
during the past week, like maddened
copperhead, he has been thrusting his
fangs at the Ohio statesman. He has
been assailing his record on the money
question and sowing the seeds of doubt
and distrust broadcast over the land
He is seeking to make, not the tariff
but the currency question the leading
issue, and on this issue is impeachine
McKinley's soundness. He has sent
his circulars to every bank president
and monied institution in the country
His aim is TO array against Mckinley
the money interest of the country and
through this power prevent his nomi'
nation at st. Louis. His newspaper
allies are--not reputable republican
journals - but chiefest among them
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
For What Is Government Instituted..-
A Single Man, Family, Set Of
Men, or for the People!

The constitution of Vermont con-
tains a statement of the purpose of
government that illustrates the pro-
phetic wisdom of the men that were
reared amid the despotic conditions
against which they successfully re-
belled, and their jealousy of every in
fuence or tendency that should endan-
ger the existence of the government
they established. Article Seven of "a
Declaration of the Rights of the In
habitants of the State of Vermont"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

THE state committee has issued the
call for the state convention. June II
is the date and Burlington is the place.
The allotment of delegates is the same
as for the convention recently held.
The time is some two weeks earlier
than usual. The explanation is that at
later date in June Burlington's ca
pacity to handle crowd would be pre-.
occupied by the occurrence of com
mencement, or something of the kind.
This was as well known two months ago
as it was when the time and place for
the convention were fixed. What was
to hinder holding the convention for
choosing delegates to ST. Louis at Bur-
lington, and the coming convention at
Montpelier? In former years this divi-
sion of these assemblages has been
made. Was there method in the plan
to determine the place and shorten The
canvass? Again, why has the state COM
mittee abandoned the wholesome Gus
tom of recommending that the caucuses