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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Are in Favor of Stickney.

Unlike its morose and discredited
contemporary, the Burlington Ne,os
accepts the result of the caucus in that
city like man, and gives the only ex-
PLANTATION that is consistent with truth
and fairness. The Ne,os says:
Roundabout and involved explanations
and the printing of figures to show the
number OF votes in the city do not explain
the situation. The fact is the caucus was
large and representative one, and it was
fairly carried for Mr.. stickney by hand
some majority. The republicans of the city
had ample notice of the caucus, and If they
stayed away it was from Indifference. The
Ne,cs gave notice on Monday that Stick
ney ticket would probably be put in the
field and that the friends Of Major Grout
must attend the caucus If they wished to
win. The Free Press yesterday uttered a
cry Of alarm and called upon all republicans
to attend the caucus. There was no lack Of
information and warning, therefore, and no
excuse for the absence Of any republican.
1t appears to US, therefore, that a majority
of the republicans OF this city are in favor
of Mr.. Stickney for governor. No other in
depreciation can be put upon the action Of
the caucus. 1t is idle to deny that the re-
suit Of the caucus will have great effect
throughout the state"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

are Stickney men. A "divided delega-
ton" indeedl Nine to one against
circuit, according to the valiant claim of
this leading bell-wether of the flock
South Burlington fires the first
gun in the campaign by electing dele
gates for Grout. Burlington will soon
follow with a broadside 10 behalf of the
popular candidate from Derby" ex-
claimed the preposterous old dame ed
itorially. Well, Burlington did follow,
but its broadside was fired into the
Grout forces and the Free Press wrthes
as if in collie spasms. 1t lost entirely
the top-lofty, condescending manner
which characterized it in the earlier
canvass, and from supercilousness and
insolence descended to haggish ugli-
ness. But great was her provocation.
Burlington had, indeed, followed with
broadside of sixteen delegates, but
they were all for w. w. Stickney, the
peoples candidate for governor The
trick of holding early scattered eau
cuses in what were supposed to be
Grout strongholds had not worked as
was expected.
And is it not now full time, Mr.. Ed
itor, for the rings and bosses, who are
trying to encompass the nomination of
Mr.. Circuit, to be told by the people
that their methods are not approved?
You appropriately keep at the head of
your columns Article Seven of our Bill
of Rights. AS is well said to the same
effect in recent decision by the SUI
preme court of Massachusetts, Pub
lie offices are created for the purpose
of effecting the ends for which govern
ment has been instituted, which are
the common good, and not the profit,
honor, or private interest of any one
man, family or class of men,"
CITIZEN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

fusion of well-laid plans need not be re-
told. Winooski, <sn the shadows of
Burlington, followed with a second
signal victory for Stickney. With
other towns in Chiltenden county
which had been reckoned as solid for
Mr.. Grout, twenty-four delegates for
the man from Ludlow have been gath
cred in. The first round for the
Derby candidate, fought on his own
chosen ground, from which he was to
pass on, with the prestige of victory, to
the conquest of Mr.. Stickney's strong
holds, ended in a disastrous knockout.
The earlier reports of caucuses con-
tinue to come in, for the most part,
from Mr.. CIRCUITS territories, in which
no contest has been made against him.
The Free Press publishes daily bulle-
tins of imaginary returns, favorable to
its candidate, which are consistent
with its policy of bluff, or which dis
close. as little real knowledge of the
situation as did its famous utterances
before the Burlington caucus. The
public has learned to receive the con-
temporary's statements with extreme
caution.
Now let Mr.. Stickney's friends push
the contest at the caucuses in every de-
batable town. This is the peoples
year. If any local leader, for personal
or selfish reasons, has espoused the
cause Of Candidate Grout, and con-
tracted to deliver to him the delegates
of his town, let the voters of that town
emulate the example of Burlington,
take their political affairs into their own
hands, cancel all contracts, and send to
the state convention delegates that
shalt represent them, not ga single
man, or family, or set of men," So
shall the purpose for which govern
ment was instituted be upheld.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
A Farmers Opinion,

The WATCHMAN receives many let
tiers from a large and intelligent
farmer constituency. They are of one,
uniform tenor, opposition to the ten
dency of political rule in this state.
The general sentiment is forcibly and
compactly stated in personal letter
received on Monday: cit seems to
me that the election of Grout would be
the ratification by the republicans of
Vermont of ring and boss rule. The
republican candidate is sure to be
elected, and if the bosses can force a
candidate upon the party, where is po-
litical freedom? All the voters can do
is to conform to the will of certain self
constituted leaders"
This is the case in a nutshell. The
ring is putting forward this year, as a
stalking horse to deceive the farmers,
an alleged farmer candidate, one who
was born in Canada, who is a manu-
ufacturer at Moline, ILL.,, where he has
spent his winters and from whence many
of his letters soliciting the support of
Vermont people for his candidacy for
the governorship were written. Ver-
mont is his political stamping-ground.
He made money here from federal
office-holding, before going West, and
a farm descended to him through his
marriage. Then he took up farming
as an avocation and has for some years,
since the governorship fixed his gaze,
posed as farmer before the people of
Vermont. This is the "single man"
whom "a set of men" is now trying to
force upon the republicans of Vermont
as their candidate for governor. He has
uniformly opposed in the legislature
every measure of real progress and re-
form, whether for the benefit of the
farmer or for the common veal, and
for years has persistently opposed, and
done what he could to block, the can
didacy of farmers {" to the manner
born in order to keep The track to the
governership clear for himself, the
only farmer in his estimation fit to sit
in the chief executive chair. This is
the kind of candidate the farmers of
Vermont are asked to support, and to
support because he is farmer.
"'Taint KNOWN kind o. cattle
Thet is ketched with mouldy corn"
is what the farmer is murmuring as he
eyes askance this device of the enemy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Once More to the Breach, Dear
Friends!

The time for argument and discus
sion in the state canvass for the repub-
lican nomination to the governorship,
has passed. 1t is now the time for ac-
ton. The caucus management of the
Grout candidacy was cunningly de-
vised for moral effects" The earlier
of the Grout Caucuses was called in
Burlington, the city having the largest
number of delegates and believed to be
a Grout stronghold. There, since Jan
uary, two daily papers and three week
lies, constituting the entire republican
press of the city, with the redoubtable
and veracious Free Press at their head ,
had been making sonorous campaign
for Mr.. Grout. Flushed with the VIC
tory at Burlington, the Grout hosts
would 60 forth conquering and to con-
quer.
The story of the great slump and con-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Government for the People.

Article Seven, Bill of Rights, Consti-
tuition of Vermont, declares "that gov
eminent is, or ought to be, instituted
for the common benefit, protection and
security of the people, nation or COM
munity, and not for the particular emol.
ument or advantage Of any single man,
FAMILY, or set Of men, ,Cho are part
only Of that community; and that the
community hath an indubitable, I'M
alienable, and indefeasible right, to re-
form or alter government, in such man.
ner as shall be, by that community,
judged most conducive to the public
veal"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Sizing Up the Letters.

A correspondent Of the Herald and
Ne,oS, Randolph, very accurately sizes
up the letters of Candidates Grout and
Stickney, in reply to Mr.. Messer's in
quiry as to their views on the subject
OF state expenditures. The correspond
ent says:
1t seems to me that these letters oonsti-
tute good index to the traits and capaci-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Where Are We At?

Editor Of Vermont Waterman The
attentive reader of the Burlington Free
Press must be making the above in
quiry after the last weeks experience.
On Monday it gleefully announced the
first gun for Major Grout in the cleo
ton of two delegates from South Bur-
lington, but failed during the entire
week to record the fact that on the
same Saturday evening four Stickney
delegates were elected from Poultney.
1t was oblivious to other triumphs of
the people at primaries which had
chosen Stickney delegates, or was i'm
pudently claiming them for Grout. 1t
speaks of the Colchester caucus as
electing a "divided state delegation"
but afterwards comedies that four of
the five delegates and all the alternates
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

Nearly one-half of the votes credited
to Stickney have been wrested from the
counties which had been conceded to
Grout. The bulk of the caucuses thus
far held are in CIRCUITS territory; rela-
lively few delegates have been elected
in the Stickney counties. There Stick
ney has held his ground and CIRCUITS
captures are insignificant. The Derby
candidates largest success was in st.
Adams, nine delegates, town which
has all along been conceded to him and
where no contest was made against
him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

ties Of the two men. In Major CIRCUITS let
ter you cannot fail to see the politician and
the demagogue. Note the expression
toward the close, and being farmer, 1
sincerely sympathize, etc. He seems to be
afraid that the people don't believe that he
is a regulation, bona .fde farmer, and entitled
to all the privileges and immunities of that
class SO he deems it necessary to assert
that he is, and that his sympathies are with
that down-trodden and oppressed class.
Mr.. stickney's letter, on the other hand, is
Just such reply as one would expect from
a sensible man of affairs. Business-like and
right to the point, it contains no sickening
rant and is not marked by any cheap gush
designed to catch votes"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Campaign Notes.
MAKES A SPECTACLE.

"South Burlington leads off in the
procession by electing delegates favor
able to Major Circuit for governor. AS
goes South Burlington so goes the
state" -Northfeld News. The brother
should not be too rash. A prophet
who doesn't know sometimes makes
a spectacle OF himself. -Middlebury
Register.
WATERMAN EXTRA.
The Burlington caucus moved the
Montpelier Wdtchman to issue an ex-
ira, which had a big doub le-column
head, caucus news in double leads and
Joy and gladness everywhere. The
Wotchman is an ardent supporter of
Candidate Stickney, and has caused a
deal of worry by attacking Candi-
date CIRCUITS record in the legislature.
Rutland Herald.
sAssING THE ORGAN.
Another thing that hurt us here was
the fact that the Free Press is recog-
nzed as the machine organ, and any
candidate it supports is supposed to be
machine candidate, and we were so
unfortunate as to have the advocacy of
that paper for Major Grout, and the
fact was freely commented on at the
caucus, and assigned as reason for
not supporting the Circuit ticket
Farmers Advocate.
NO GOOD TO GET MAD.
Our amiable contemporary, the Free
Press, mustn't lose its temper and say
ugly things because the republicans of
the Queen City want Mr.. Stickney for
governor This is the peoples year and
they seem determined to get Just the
man they want, whether he be McKin-
ley or Stickney, without regard to any
political foreordination. 1t does no
good to get mad over it; better put
cheerful countenance on and jump into
the band-wagon-just as the Free Press
did after the recent tumble at Mont
pelier.-Ludlow Tribune.
THIN-sKINNED JOURNALISM.
Now as to Mr.. Grout. Because some
OF the Stickney papers have given their
honest opinion of his candidacy, finding
no especial fault with his abilities, but
deprecating his methods and particu-
larly his association with the political
ring that for most of the time in recent
years has managed our state politics,
these papers are accused of using argu-
ments /" utterly unworthy of Vermont
journalism" and in default of any other
point of supposed vuInerability an eff
fort is being made to turn the alleged
fault of his supporters to Mr.. Stickney's
injury.-Herald and News.
HIS GOOSE is COOKED.
There's many true word spoken in
jest The Deerfeld Valley Times, vii.
one of the subsidized Grout
organs, in the subjoined extract tells
more truth than it intends to: "The
Stickney newspapers have been vainly
searching for some substantial issue
upon which to base their campaign
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

MOTHERS will find Chamberlain's Croup
Remedy especially valuable for Group and
1t will give prompt re-
lief and is safe and pleasant. We have used
1t for several years, and it has never failed
to give the most perfect satisfaction, G..
w. Richards, Duquesne, Pa. Sold by c.
Blakely. druggist, Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Caucus Returns,

A fair summary of the returns from
the caucuses by counties is the follow
ing:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

PREPARING for the inevitable: Ma
jor Grout has had steel roof put on
to his house. derby Items, Barton
Monitor.
THE WATCHMAN is giving its ex-
changes and correspondents the floor
this week, and they are making an en-
tertaining exhibit.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.

THE subscription price of the WAToHMAN
is $500 year EQE.s scyfI ely in ddudnce,
e'eaucuou Aity cent? IS maue' gu Tup ,l
Nous aie rech oned by< We n'o'''" 10 % en-.
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at The rGte u SO. 90 a year to end of month in
NS'ch 'eoeSrfeM is made
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

AFTER two weeks of time for DELHI
Grafton and for making the necessary
connections, we observe that Candidate
CIRCUITS personally conducted" Emp
tgprise of Barre is again in eruption. We
grieve to say that the contemporary
for revenue shows the last sure symp-
tom of losing fight, anger. We flee
from its whitening sarcasm and take
refuge in silence, simply remarking
that the contemporary is bucking its
head against stone wall of incontro-
vertible truth and fact, and the wall is
enduring the bucking without injury
and with complacent good nature.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03


this week, and they are making an en-
Pertaining exhibit.
HAS the Office of state treasurer been
abolished? Is not Vermont to be rep
resented in the next electoral college?
Or, did the state committee, in it's con-
Stunning zeal for Major Grout, forget to
include those officials in the list of Off
GERS to be nominated at Burlington? 1t
is quite remarkable that the committee
thought of any Office but the governor
ship.
To the Poultney Journal, the Fair
Haven Era, and the ever-esteemed
Free Press, whose constituencies send
solid Stickney delegations to the state
convention, the WATCHMAN sends con-
dolences, and "points with pride " to
Montpelier's solid Stickney delegation,
and the vote of five to one, in large
caucus, by which the delegates were
elected.
VERY few of the Grout organs have
heard of the Burlington caucus and the
drift of towns in the Grout strongholds
to Stickney. The Barton Monitor, pub
lished on Monday, four days after the
Queen City slump, had not heard of the
affair. Suppression of all the plain
facts of the canvass is followed by an
attempt to suppress the unfavorable re-
ports from the caucuses.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-19
FREE COINAGE MEANS REPUTATION
LExchange.l

tExchange.l
Keep il before the people, urge IL con-
stantly upon your readers. force 1t home
to the minds OF the voters, that the free
coinage of silver never did and never
will increase the volume OF our money
in circulation. or what authority do
assert this? On the records OF the
United States treasury. From 1892 10
1873, under 81 years of continuous free
coinage. there were coined for circula-
ton less than 100000 silver dollars
about TWO cents for each person of our
present population. And even that was
not the amount per annum; il was the
total aggregate. lsita two-cent increase
in the volume of money that the free
coiners want2 And will they be will
ing To wait 81 years for the total aggre-
gate to reach that sum?
DO you ask me why silver was not
coined under free coinage laws? / an
swer because silver was at premium,
and il required silver bullion to the val
ne OF 81 O6, 81. 05, $1.04 down TO $1.01 TO
make silver dollar. Such dollars were
not wanted-there was no fraud in
them. Then why are silver dollars so
furiously demanded now? ] answer,
because silver is now at n discount; the
dollar can be made from SO cents worth
of bullion; in 1894 IL could have been
made from 40 cents worth. These
would have been dishonest dollars
dollars with which the debtor could rob
the creditor under cover of the law.
Hence the frantic demand for them.
Who would profit first under such n
condition? Those persons would profit
first who had previously contracted
debts in honest dollars and who could
pay them afterwards in dishonest dol
lars. II would be in effect an act OF uni
versal bankruptcy under which every
debtor could, without process Of law.
pay one-half OF his debt and legally re-
pudiate the other half.
And VIII this nation ever sink so low
We will get our answer on election day.
a. NJ WARNER,
New York July 90
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-19

~ Farmer" assumes that the person
who holds mortgage on his place will
contentedly watch his $4,000 fade away
to 81 900. His business il not his moral
sense should teach him better. The
mortgage would take the first oppor-
tunity to foreclosc his mortgage before
the silver era set in. He would have
plenty OF time to do this after cleo
ton. The arrangement OF business
would make IL difficult TO secure new
mortgage. and the result would prob
ably he that the farmer would have
the experience and the mortgages the
farm. Where would the surplus $3.50
be then? The other alternative would
be for the mortgage TO renew his mort
gage with gold clause inserted.
Would the farmer be any better off un-
der these conditions?
As TO the wage-earner, IL farm prod
ucts go up, why not rent and every
thing else in proportion? Assuming
this 60 be true and that his wages will
he doubled. where will he be benefited?
A little careful thought with prejudice
left out would save much trouble.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-19
HON. G. NJ. LAMBERTS0N,
OF Lincoln, Neb., Hurls a Lance Fair
In the Face of Free Coiners.
The Task of Restoring Silver Too
Great for the United States.

That grand passion of patriotism
that fills the breast Of every American
should not respond too readily TO the
frenzied Qualification Of our great coun-
try by big-feeling orators who touch
responsive chord for political ends.
We are great country, but we cannot
force the leading powers TO the adop-
ton OF n monetary policy that expert
ence has taught them 10 condemn,
neither can we restore the price of sill
YER single-handed and alone.
We have trade relations with all the
world; our commerce with other ma
tions has been expanded TO extraor-
binary proportions; II will grow as we
grow, and for the sake of this interna-
tional trade and commerce we should.
when IL is possible 10 do so without
cndangering our domestic affairs and
interests. adopt uniform usages. Gus
toms and methods of business and unite
with other nations in some arrange
ment for the use Of both gold and silver
as money at ratio which approximotes
the commercial value of the metals. IL
we insist upon this attitude we may
force Germany and other foreign states
TO call for another conference. These
countries have each of them large
stocks of silver which is worth half
what IL was 20 years ago; they are be-
coming more anxious for an arrange
ment which will rehabilitate silver. As
long as the United States was buying
S5O,0O0,000 of silver annually and rus
tanning the price Of silver as best II
could, Germany, France and England
refused to make any change. AZ the
monetary conference their attitude
was n negative one. Now they are
ready to take the initiative and invite n
conference of the great powers.
The agitation in England, France and
Germany since the repeal of the Sher-
man act has been great.
If the United States would only main
tain its present status and attitude
there is hope for international bimctal-
lism; IL on the other hand i'm obedience
10 the vocal patriotism OF free silver
advocates. we venture on the task alone
then bimetallism Is doomed for many
years. both here and abroad. In the
leading powers abroad goldmonomctal-
lism will be the policy. while America
will be degraded to silver monometal-
lism. As between the two standards.
| am frank 10 say that prefer the gold
standard; as matter OF patriotic pride
| prefer to see this great nation stand
with England. France, Germany and
the more enlightened peoples OF the
world with whom we have trade rcla-
lions rather than 70 see the United
states descending to the rank of Mex
leo. China and the South American re-
publics with whom our commerce Ia
comparatively insignificant