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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

country shall prevail is settled, the
American people, through their repre-
sentatives in congress, will refuse to
consider even 80 important measure
as the tariff. He recommends the adj
mission of New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Arizona TO statehood, on the ground
that the demand for their early admis-
sion is justified because of their inter-
ests, both political and federal. He
advises doing away with the permanent
office. holding classes in the civil service,
saying that such thing is not in har-
mony with American interests. In
place of the present system, he advo.
Gates fixed term of years in those
offices, unless otherwise provided for
by the constitution. The issue of bonds
during the past few years is strongly
condemned, and Mr.. Bryan states that
the right to redeem these bonds, either
in gold or silver, has been violated so
repeatedly that this country is at pres
ent entirely at the mercy of the manipu-
lators of the yellow metal. In summing
up, he displays some of the qualities
that have won for him the sobriquet of
"The Boy Orator of the Platte" He
dwells upon the weighty results that
will follow the decision of the voters in
November on the money question. He
pictures the people of this nation as a
judge in high court of justice, and
declares that it is cause in which
greed is prosecuting humanity, and
cause in which they must decide.
In closing, he bursts the dam of elo-
quence and dramatically declares that
the verdict that is rendered in Novem-
Der will either give inspiration and
courage to the toiling millions in this
country or will " forever shut the
door on millions of mankind"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

der value of which, TO be paid to all the
people engaged in all the industries of
the United States, is to be full dollar.
Our silver friends insist that the effect
OF such law will be to raise the price
OF silver so that it will be worth in the
market $1.29 an ounce, which is the
value required TO make the silver in a
dollar worth a dollar. If the price of
silver stated in silver dollars, the value
OF the same weight of silver in the sill
yer dollar or out of it would always be
the same, but such trick OF phrase
would be unworthy of a great candi-
date for great office, unless all tricks
are fair when war is carried on Gin the
enemy's country But we will have
the country TO suppose that the price
of silver under free coinage at sixteen
to one would rise to 81 30 per ounce,
paid for in gold. This result, if true,
would make the silver of the mine
owners and dealers, not only in our
country, but in every country, instantly
realize profit Of 100 per cent by act of
congress. DO the honest, intelligent
and industrious people of this country
believe that all the clamor of these peo-
pie for free coinage is either dsinter-
ested or honest?
In closing, Senator Edmunds said:
1t is as certain, therefore, as any,
thing that human philosophy and hu-
man experience can establish that the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
to l will produce an enormous depre-
citation in the value of the silver dollar,
and Immediately put the United States
upon the footing of silver standard
alone. And this standard will grow
more and more deprecated as the pro-
duction of silver is stimulated by the
right of every mine-owner and dealer
to turn his metal (worth only fifty.one
to fifty-three cents an ounce into a dol
lar, compulsory legal tender to every
man engaged in labor, trade or produc-
ton.
II is said that prices of everything
Will rise accordingly. If the prices Of
everything-labor, manufactures, food
products, and all-rise in equal proper
ton, what better off is anybody In
that case we should be just where we
are now, excepting that it will take
double the volume of money to do the
same amount of business. 1t was found
and was proved by statistics carefully
gathered, that during the war time in
flation (and since) the pay of the wage
earners did not rise in proportion to
the rise in the things they had to buy.
1t is true in such times, before the
crash comes, the rich and the sharp
specializing traders make money. They
can avail themselves of their oppor-
tunity, and they do it, especially when
the inevitable breakdown comes.
We could not 60 on coming the
silver dollar, even at the rate of 16, 000,-
600 year and continue to do the same
And it was found in 1898, when we
had reached the enormous coinage OF
silver dollars amounting, as l have
said, to four hundred and fifty odd mil
lions, that that volume could not be
further increased and silver be thus
practically kept at par with gold, and it
was this certainty that led congress
wisely, in 1898, to repeal the act provid
ing for silver and the coinage of more
dollars
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16
Two Letters of Acceptance.

The formal letter of acceptance of
Hon. Carrot A. Hobart of New Jersey,
the republican nominee for vice-presi-
dent of the United States, is published Oh
page three of this issue. 1t has the true
ring of the patriot and the statesman,
and will we'll repay careful perusal.
In words not to be misunderstood, Mr..
Hobart declares for honest money as
opposed to the proposed debased cur
rency of the silver advocates, and for
protective tariff, such as in the past has
insured prosperity to corporations and
individuals and to the country at large.
The letter of Mr.. Hobart shows him to
be in full accord with Mr.. Mckinley
and with all the distinguished leaders
of the republican party. The docu-
ment will 60 far towards strengthening
the confidence and assurance of the
voters of this country and is an i'm
portant addition to the literature of
this campaign. 1t is unfortunate for
William j. Bryan, the democratic NOM
inee for president of the United States,
that his letter of acceptance should be
given to the press on the same day as
was that of Mr.. Hobart, inasmuch as it
gives the newspapers of the country a
chance TO use the deadly parallel with
telling effect. 1t takes nearly six thou
sand words and four columns of solid
type for Mr. Bryan to give formal
notice of his acceptance. Shorn of its
verbosity and reduced to plain English,
the principal points in the letter might
be condensed into stickful. He first
declares that, if elected, he will under
no circumstances be candidate for re-
election, that he may not thereby be
tempted to use the patronage of the
office of president of the United States
to crafty or further personal ambition.
Every plank, board and nail of the
Chicago platform he unqualidedly en-
dorses, and attempts to enforce the
idea that democracy has no use for
rank or station, and ignores the differ
ence between wealth and poverty. In
an ingenious manner, he attempts to
get around the plank he Endorses in the
Chicago platform which declares against
the interference of United States
authorities in state affairs by saying
that this should be done only on appli-
cation of the legislature or the governor,
inasmuch as the people themselves are
better able to judge of the necessity
of federal interference than are the
authorities at Washington, In regard
to the tariff, Mr.. Bryan frankly declares
that, until the question whether free
and unlimited coinage of silver in this
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16
Obituary..

GovE.-Died in Marshfeld, September 3,
Mrs Lovina Cove, aged eighty-three years.
Seven children remain of her family-Wu-
liam r. of Marshfeld, Nathaniel and John
Of Pasadena, Cal, George e. OF Sheldon
Vile, Mass, Lovina of Marshfed, Mrs.
Sarah (Gove) Stone of Cabot, and Mrs.
Nancie (Gove) Bailey of Brattleboro Mrs.
Cove has nobly lived her more than four
her many weeks. She was much beloved,
and in her life there's was a golden smpli-
city which reached not to the outside world.
Content with her domestic duties, with the
love of her family and the good she might
do them, she moved ON with the passing
years. Those who knew her best loved her
most. God has called her home.
With hands folded on her breast,
We have laid her down to rest
Freed from all earthly care,
She lives in Gods pure air
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16
Where Is the inconsistency

The republican national platform
adopted at st. Louis, in it's financial
plank, declares: " We are opposed to
free coinage of silver except by inter-
national agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the earth, which
agreement we pledge ourselves to pro-
mote" In the spread-eagle speeches
that Mr.. Bryan is delivering right and
left through the country, he repeatedly
dwels upon this plank in the republi-
can platform and upon the alleged in
constituencies of the republicans in de-
claring for the maintenance of the gold
standard, and at the same time being
willing to adopt an international ar
rangement for the larger use of silver.
Several times within the last week has
he asked this question: eff the gold
standard is good thing, why do they
want foreign nations to help us to let
60 of it?" 1t cannot be that such
sophistry, even from such brilliant
talker as Mr. Bryan, can carry convic-
ton 10 many fair-minded men. The
plank in question is not looking for a
way to get rid of the gold standard and
cannot be construed to mean that the
republicans prefer double standard,
but simply that this government, when
ever the right time shall come, is will
ing to cooperate with the other nations
of the globe in fixing the market value
of the worlds output Of silver, under
conditions that shall in no way under
mine or endanger the permanency of
the gold standard. While Mr.. Bryan
is daily referring to this, he has failed
to point out any Inconsistency in such
position, and has failed to show that
the republican party is the enemy of
silver, or that, if all the silver that is
mined could be coined into dollars and
kept on parity with gold, the republi-
cans would not be glad to see it done.
The republicans of this country know,
all too well, that 10 adopt the free and
unlimited coinage of silver in this
country would destroy the one-hundred-
cent standard of the dollar and put it
on the ffty-three.cent basis, with all
the disastrous effects that would follow
such a condition. They understand
what the value of this deprecated cur
rency would be; but if the time ever
comes when the other nations of the
world will enter into an agreement
with America to do what no one of
them can do alone with advantage to
themselves, then they will find no OBJ
lection raised by the republicans of this
country to coming the whole silver
product of the world on terms that will
insure the continuance of the gold stan
dard. Until such time shall come,
Mr.. Bryan to the contrary notwith-
standing, the power of the republican
party in America will be exerted to its
utmost to prevent the experiment of
substituting a cheap dollar for one that
is now equal in value to gold one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16
Eminent Legal Opinion.

The calm, dispassionate, legal-like
open letter which Acknowledgement
Harmon made public several days ago
is by far the most important utterance
that has come from the administration
against Bryan's anarchistic tendencies,
not excepting the letter from Mr..
Cleveland. Mr.. Harmon's letter deals
exclusively with that clause of the
Chicago platform declaring against
what it termed federal interference in
local affairs, which everybody knows
to have been aimed at Mr.. Cleveland's
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16
Effects of Free Silver Agitation.

The editorial columns of some of our
republican exchanges and the utter
ances of some of the republican speak
ers during the recent campaign in Yer
mont would lead one to think that the
silver craze is only scare and that no
serious results will come of it. But if
it were possible to gather statistics and
correctly state the losses that have,
either directly or indirectly, been
brought upon the country by the silver
plank in the platform adopted by the
national democratic convention at Chi
cago, the total sum would be surprising
if not appalling. A study of the news
columns of the daily papers tells of
repeated failures, of reduced output, or
of actual stoppage, OF mills and facto-
ries, because of slack trade, and skilled
mechanics and daily wage-earners liv-
ing in enforced idleness because of the
uncertainty that prevails in the country
at the present time. Another phase of
the situation is that manufacturers do
not dare make contracts that are offered
them until the question is finally settled
whether gold or silver shall be the
standard of value of this country.
Should these large manufacturers con-
tract al the present prices and such
calamity as the election of w. j. Bryan
to the presidency occur, and it should
follow that this country makes silver
instead of gold its standard, these con-
tractors would inevitably lose large
sums. A case in point is shown in the
large ship.building firms and corpora
tons who have, in the past, built the
warships with money that has been
appropriated by congress. The sum of
S13, 100000 was appropriated by the
last congress for the building of dozen
of the best types of torpedo boats and
three large battleships. The navy de-
partment, some time ago, advertised
for bids on these ships, and stated that
they would open the bids next Saturday
and Monday of next week. Several of
the leading ship-builders in this country
have sent petition to the naval author
tiles, asking them to postpone the
opening of these proposals until after
the November elections, because the
unsettled condition of money affairs in
this country renders bidding on such
large contracts risky and unadvisable.
The navy department has replied that
it has no discretion in the matter and
that the bids must be opened at the
time named in the advertisements. The
ship-builders then attempted to get
around the matter by inserting in their
bids provisos that, if the contracts are
awarded, the payments shall be made
in gold. To this the naval authorities
again replied that they have no author
ity to make any such arrangements,
and that, should the successful bidder
insist upon gold guarantee, the entire
list of bids will be thrown out. This is
only one of many instances that go to
show that the silver craze, or, in other
words, the silver plank in the national
democratic platform, is something more
than scare, and that its disastrous
effects are already far-reaching in this
country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

nerve and are now in doubt about what
to do, and bets have been made that
they will wind up by throwing Sewoll
overheard.
The only question as to the result
of the election in Maine last Monday
was the size of the plurality that would
be given for Hon. Llewellyn Powers,
the republican candidate for governor,
over Hon. M. p. Frank, the nominee
of the silver democrats. The story of
The election, told elsewhere, shows that
the sturdy republicans of Maine have
kept the pace set them by the Green
Mountain State, and the manifestations
of their loyalty to republican principles,
as expressed at the polls last Monday,
are most assuring. The nomination of
a Maine man as democratic candidate
for vice-president gave an impetus to
the democrats of the Pine Tree State,
but the hook was not well baited and
few voters were caught. Even in the
home city of Mr.. Sewall. unprecedented
republican gains are reported. The
silver men were the most hopeful for
the eastern part of the state, but the
republican gains seem to be universal,
and the size of the republican plurality
is fair index of the number of sound
thinkers and patriotic citizens in that
state.
THOMAS E. WATSON, the populstic
half of the tail of the popocratic ticket,
has presented his ultimatum and has
read the riot act to Bryan and his man
ayers. In speech delivered last week
at Dallas, Texas, Mr.. Watson said: 81
will pledge you my word that Bryan will
speak out and that he will accept me.
Mr.. Bryan cannot throw away 100000
votes. He will accept me as his run
ming mate. If he does not, the ticket
will never be elected. Every man
ought to know that if Mr.. Bryan is to
elected, he will be elected by the votes
which the peoples party gives him.
If he carries Nebraska, where he lives,
it will be the Tom. Watson populists
who will carry it for him." Surely
Candidate Bryan's tribulations deepen.
He still continues to dodge the popu-
list notification committee, knowing
that, it he accepts the nomination for
running mate they offer him, he will
lose thousands of his present demo-
cratic supporters, and that, if he re-
jects it, he will repel practically all
the populist vote. The news of the
overwhelming reputation of Sewall in
his own state last Monday would seem
to indicate that the head end of the
democratic-populistic combination must
soon make his decision. The slaughter
of Mr.. Bryan in the strife between his
running mates, while he was doomed TO
defeat under any circumstances, would
bring to a somewhat serio'c comic end a
campaign which for complications and
picturesque oddities has no precedent
in this country's history.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1896
ARTHUR ROPES. General Bditor.

THE Boston Herald says: "Murat
Halstead, who has been on the ground
in Maine, says that the republican can
didate for governor is not popular, but
he allows that the ticket is not going
to be ignored on that account. 1t is
issues rather than men in Maine this
year, and that is going to be the case
elsewhere later on"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

A COOP RRMEDY.-Neurot Oil heals the
sick. 1t makes the ailing well. 1t is a
pains and diseases of the head, throat and
internal organs. 1t will cure every case of
cramps. dyspepsia diarrhna and cholera
as well as a hundred other common com.
plants. No family should be without it for
day or an hour. AT druggists and gem
eral stores.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

AN extraordinary spectacle was wit
messed at Canton, Ohio, last Saturday,
when more than thousand lifelong
democrats from Chicago called on Major
Mckinley and rendered him their sup
port, because, as they expressed it,
they believe that his election "will best
subserve and maintain the honor and
integrity of our country, and restore to
our people confidence and prosperity"
The spirit that animated thousands of
loyal democrats at the recent Vermont
election, and other thousands in Maine
last Monday, seems to be spreading
throughout the country. The issue this
year is one in which republicans
aud high.minded, keens sighted, large
Drained democrats are alike combining
to save this country from financial
disaster and anarchistic rulers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

THE one living ex-president, Cen
eral Harrison, and President Cleveland,
although they belong to different par
ties, are in exact agreement as regards
honest money. Could the whole line
of ex-presidents of the United States
who have joined the silent majority
speak, what one of them would favor
or tolerate the idea of degraded dol
lar? 1t is safe to say not one would do so.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

WHO will muzzle Tom Watson? That
is just now the question of questions at
every secret conclave held at popocratic
headquarters. Watson is as autocratic
in all his dealings with the members
of the populist national committee as
Bryan is with the members of the dem
ocratic committee, and his demand that
Sewall be taken off the Bryan ticket to
make room for him has reached stage
where it can no longer be ignored.
The popocratic managers have got to
do something very soon, and they are
at loss to choose. Their original
intention was to bunco Watson, and
there is reason to believe that Senator
Butler, chairman of the populist ma
tional committee, was a party to that
intention; but Watson has succeeded
in stirring up the populists in portions
of the South and West to such an ex-
tent that the popocrats have lost their
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

THE full report of the reception of
the Vermont delegation at Canton, last
Friday, published on page three, will
be read with interest by every loyal
Vermonter. While it was hardly nee
essary 10 run special train to Ohio to
announce to Major Mckinley the re-
suit of the Vermont election, it was a
pleasant and graceful compliment to
pay him, and was the means of giving
to the country another of those excel
lent addresses that have already made
Major Mckinley famous as an orator,
and that have done more effective work
than all the oratorical pyrotechnics of
the democratic candidate for president.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

Hon. HENRY G. BATES of st. Johns
bury is republican candidate for presi-
dental elector. He has recently been
elected representative from the town
of ST. Johnsbury in the legislature of
this state. Under these circumstances,
it is probable that the state committee
will find it necessary to name candi-
date for elector in the place of Mr..
Bates, as the holding of the state Of
fee, it is believed, would invalidate his
election to the Office of presidential
elector. Vermont will not wish to take
any chance in this matter. There are
enough men to fill all the offices with
out mourning the danger of illegal COM
plications.
GOOD news continues to be about the
only kind received at the republican
headquarters at Washington. 1t comes
from every section, and indicates that
the reaction against the free and indie
pendent coinage of silver at ratio of
16 to l by this government is steadily
becoming stronger, even in states into
which the republican managers have
sent neither literature nor speakers,
because they believed them hopelessly
given up to free-silver sentiment. This
is, of course, pleasing, but no rainbow
chasing is being done by republicans.
Their efforts are being confined to
states which they have reasonable
right TO believe can be carried by Nc
Kinley and Hobart.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-16

nerve and are now in doubt about what
to do, and bets have been made that
they will wind up by throwing Sewoll
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-30
CoNvICTS IN MADAGASCAR.

inhabited the central province of
Imefina since they came over the sea
from nobody knows where, perhaps
Malaysia, apparently acknowledge
French sovereignty. But they form a
small proportion of the Malagassy
peoples. Some of the tribes have
armed their fighting men with mus
kets; many of them still use the orig
inal native weapons, the spear and tho
shield. In the dense forests the blow
gun is used with patient skill.
When Mr.. Taylor, who comes of a
New York family, landed at Tamatave
In 1891, he had already, at the age OF
thirtv-seven, seen a good deal o. the
lar corners of the world. His desire
for travel had been strong since he left
New York and Joined Red Cloud band
stof Ogallala Sioux at the age of fifteen.
From Dakota he rosmed to the edge
of the Arctic Circle, and was next
heard OF in the Society and Hawaiian
Islands. Japan, Ceylon, the West
Indies aud South America came next
in his itinerary. Strange adventures
fell to his lot in the Chaco region, in
particular, hundreds of miles inland
from Buenos Ayres, and by the time