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The morning times., 1896-11-08

Ihere were others, ne doubt, in the house.
hold who were interested in the Jump Of
coal which had been performed presumably
by the same providence.
We take the liberty at this time of re-
Vising one Of SolOmon's speeches, in which
he Is alleged TO have told improvident
people To 20 to the ant for a lesson and fur
thermore addressed hi s audience as
sluggards. Our shibi oleth is. look at ths
squirrel, ye SlusgarlS, and es!,cciaIly
at the wise fellow with the cGFled tail, who
has been boarding his rcvrnues for the
fine days OF this winter. He has been
all autumn si wing wood and gathering
nuts, while other people have been pick
ing golden rod, celebrating flag days,
figuring up the electoral vote and squan-
dering the price of Overcoats and red wool
undershrts on cold bottlesof beer
PUSH IT ALONG.
The current advicei is to get down to work
even If You have TO get on your knees and
assist in the unpacking OF the old trunks.
1t will go hard with Il great many of us
that any old thing will have to do. There
is no stalled OK and herbs to come down
in showers at this present forecast, but
the reports are that there is enough and
to spare Of the old-fashioned Kentucky
COW and Maryland lentils to burn in
the Washington market
If we were challenged To produce the
first sign. of prosperity, We would point
10 our living picture OF the same at the
top OF this pa sc, our Old friend, the natty
bicycle girl. She tolls not, but She does
spin, and Solomon In all his glory was
not marker to her quaint suggcstiveness
of a return tn the golden age, when woman
was not dressed like Il domino from head
tn foot.
1t Is consoling to reflect that IL was
woman who first. ut the close OF the
Nineteenth century. went in far the genuine
Jeffcrspnian simplicity and economy. IL
Is true that our particular sign post of
prosperity would haze shocked the prudish
wife of Thomas jefferson, hut that is not
To :lfe point. There is some hope for man
kind when their Collective wife at thirty
has learned the lesson of economy so We'll
that she Is satisfied with the style that
was in vogue when She was only thirteen.
The morning times., 1896-11-08

are net confronted with the problem Of
sewing new cloth on old garments or burst
ing cid wine bags with new wines. These
people know, however, absolutely nothing
of the annual happiness of putting up the
stove in rooms which are high enough above
the street to be out of range OF the radia-
tors or the furnaces.
This is one of the real delights of the ap-
preaching winter, although it does take a
whole day off for the fellow who is to be
the victim Of the next four years of gov
eminent by injunction. He is depicted in
the act Of having been served with the first
writ Of the season by the Gpverncss by in
junction, who hands him the stovcppc
elbow.
1t is safe bet to wager that of all the
male kind who have backed their political
Judgment with money not one OF them was
freakish enough to bet any amount of
money against q new Suit Of camels hair
inside economy. These unfortunatcs were
very much like the people in the New Testa-
ment who needed not the fact that the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
The Farmers and Free Silver.

The sweeping republican majorities
in Vermont and Maine, unprecedented
in the history of these states, have evil
IDENTIFY led the advocates of free silver
to give up all serious ideas of carrying
any eastern states, and, while they
claim the silver-mining states and some
in the remote West as assuredly theirs,
they have evidently determined to con-
centrate the remainder of their cam
paign in the middle western states.
1t is to the farmers in particular in
this section of the country that they
are addressing their appeals, and it is
only by winning the farmer vote that
Bryan can hope to carry either Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Wisconsin or Michigan. In the large
cities in these states, as well as in the
East, the gold standard has such sup
port among business men and wage
earners that it discourages all attempts
to win them to the cause of free silver.
But it is no compliment to the sturdy
farmers of the West that the Bryan
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
Fitting and Eloquent Words.

Nearly a hundred thousand visitors
were in Canton, o., last Saturday to
pay their respects to Major Mckinley.
In response to various addresses,
Mr.. Mckinley made over dozen
speeches, each one of which was a
model of its kind. To his comrades
and citizens of Allegheny county, Pa,
he said
"My Comrades and citizens
1t gives me great qualification to
meet at my home my fellow.citizens
and old comrades in the war from Allie
gheny county and the state of Penn
sylvania. l appreciate the kind and
generous messages which have been
presented to me in your behalf, and am
glad to be assured that in Allegheny
county in the year 1896 you are faith
full to republican principles and are
deeply interested in the success of the
republican cause. No other state in the
Union knows more about the great
doctrine of a protective tariff than the
state of Pennsylvania.
"No other state in the Union has
ielI lls UeueHle more IMAM yours, ana
no other state in the Union has suf-
fered more from its withdrawal than
yours. No other class of our popua.
ton has suffered 80 much under rev.
enue tariff policy as the laboring peo-
pie of the country. think that you
want the return of that splendid pro-
tective policy under which for more
than thirty years we enjoyed prosper
| ity and under which we made this the
| greatest mining, the greatest manufac-
turing, and the greatest agricultural, ma
ton of the world (applause), and I'M
der which the manufacturers of this
country were enabled to pay better
wages than were ever paid under rev.
enue tariff policy in the history of our
| country (applause).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

managers assume that they are any less
familiar with the principles Of sound
finance than are any other classes of
people. Democrats who are stumping
these states are asking the farmer to
vote for free silver because it will bring
higher prices for his products, and they
use the exceedingly low prices that
have prevailed in recent years as a
lever. They use the old stock argu-
ment that there is not at present
enough money in circulation. Recent
advices from some of these states, how
ever, show that the intelligent farmers
of those localities are not to be caught
with any such chaff. They understand
perfectly well that if their products
were dependent upon the amount of
money in circulation they would be
getting higher prices now than they
were twenty-three years ago, and they
know that the price of their farm
products has gone steadily down, while
the amount of money in circulation has
been steadily increasing. The farmers
| Of the states mentioned who are not
lost to reason or blinded by prejudice
can never be made to believe that the
prices of their products can be advanced
by another increase in the volume OF
the money of the country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

"The graduates from the Normal Schools
in this state do not, on an average, receive
greater pay than graduates from our acade-
mics and high schools The Normal Schools
in this state are not in close contact with
our public school system, and the state has
but little control of their methods. At the
present time there is no adequate system
for training teachers in this state. Under
the present system, the Normal Schools
in this state are no more entitled to state
aid than other academies and good central
schools throughout the state. The Normal
Schools in the neighboring states, while
exhibiting great divergence in methods and
efficiency are practical training schools for
teachers, and, as such, are superior to the
Normal Schools of Vermont. We unani-
mously recommend that all state appropria-
tions for the benefit Of the Normal Schools
in this state cease, and that the present
Normal School system be abolished"
The commissioners have apparently
made their task as light as possible.
Aside from their expenses, which were
not to exceed $3.50, they were to work
without compensation. Either this
fact accounts for the brevity of the re-
port and the neglect to comply with
the letter and spirit of the resolution,
or there may be an African in the wood
pile. In the latter event, the people
of Vermont may hear him "holIer "
later on. Instruction in the art of
teaching is a necessity, as great as in
struction in the art of healing or in the
practice of the law. The legislature
should provide for adequate instruction
in this art, and the state should have
the supreme control of the school or
schools in which this instruction is
given. Whether the best good of the
state will demand one or two or more
schools, is question for careful study
and impartial elaboration. However
deficient the commissioners report may
be in other respects, it will open up
this broad question for consideration
and decision.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

concentrations, no one has been salts
fed with the partnership between these
schools and the state. This dissatisfac-
t;on eliminated at the legislative ses-
sion of 1894 in the adoption of the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved by the senate and house Of
representatives: The governor Is hereby
authorized and requested to appoint a
commission OF five members, whose duty
IL shall be to investigate the Normal
Schools OF this state, the efficiency and
methods of their work in comparison with
the similar schools of neighboring states,
and to make such report as in their judg-
ment shall be expedieut, to the next leg
islature OF the state of Vermont. And II
1t shall become the judgment of said com
missioners that a single Normal School, di.
rectly under the control Of the state, would
best serve the cause of public school educa-
ton they shall prepare bill for the estab-
lishment OF such school, and embody such
bill in their report"
Governor Woodbury. appointed as
commissioners Fred Arnold, senator
from Windsor county and chairman of
the senate committee of education,
and Senator Frank Kenfield from La
noble county; Representatives Dean
of Bristol, Bingham of Bennington
and Rich of Swanton. The commission
has make the subjoined report:
1--WE find that this state has no interest in
any realty connected with the Normal
Schools in the state. There is no uniform
system of teaching or training in the Nor
NAL Schools in this state. The graduates OF
Normal Schools in this state have cost the
state, on an average, S120 each per year for
the last seven years, as shown by the fol-
lowing list of amounts paid each school and
the number of graduates, residing within
the state, each year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
A Child of Altgeld's Brain,

The 'oft-repeated declaration of Mr..
Bryan that he endorses every word of
the democratic platform adopted at
Chicago includes, of course, the free
riot, or anarchistic, plank which is a
child of the brain of Governor Altgeld.
The adoption of this plank was hailed
with delight by the unruly elements of
society in every state of the union, and
all elements of unrest have, since its
adoption, found their chief incentive TO
working for the Chicago nominees in
that plank. The foolish attempt which
has been made in some quarters to
make it appear that this plank is only
the expression of what the democratic
party calls traditional " states rights
falls short of the mark. To Governor
Altgeld, and to him alone, is due the
credit-if credit it be-of that plank,
as it originated solely in his brain. The
cowardice and disloyalty shown by him
on the recent occasion in Illinois, when
railway trains were blocked and
wrecked, has never been repented of by
him. In that crazy Chicago convention
he found his opportunity for vindica-
ton, and this plank was adopted solely
as an endorsement of the course he
took in the Chicago riots, and at the
same time to condemn President Cleve-
lands action in suppressing these riots,
in which the people of the United
States, irrespective of creed or party,
stood close behind him. 1t was severe
blow to Altgeld when he at last dis
covered that in stopping the passage of
the United States mails and in inter-
fering with interstate commerce the
anarchist demonstration, of which he
was the supporter and leader, had gone
too far, farther than he could sustain
it. He was compelled to witness the
injunctions of the court enforced
against the rioters at the order of Presi-
dent Cleveland, by regiments of United
States troops and to see, regardless of
his remonstrances, the trains quickly
set in motion, law and order restored,
and the red flag of anarchy run to cover.
When the convention met in Chicago
his brain was still fired with resent
ment at the suppression of this an
archistic rising at Chicago, and the
hypnotic influence that he exerted over
the democrats in that convention re-
suited in the adoption of this plank. To
Altgeld alone should the credit, or
rather the dishonor, of the adoption of
this plank be awarded, and not to any
honest democrats who might possibly
have viewed it in the light of states
rights " declaration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

often and fully contributed your part, has
ever been wanting in your prompt and cor
dial cooperation. We regret your de-
parture Tor this reason, also as direct loss
TO certain local interests, not easily TO he
supplied. We shall remember with proper
pride the work which you have done here
and the growth OF your reputation abroad,
1t would be gratifying to u.s. before your de-
parture, If you would give us, on such date
as you may designate, one of your lecture
recitals at the Blanchard Opera House. We
extend the invitation, hoping that you may
find it possible to accept it. In presenting
you with the pledge of our esteem, we ais
express best wishes for continued prosper
ity and success" Signed by George o.
Stratton, A. II. Webb, w. j. O'Sullivan, A.
n. Lewis, j. Edward Wright Norman
Seaver, and others. Mr.. Bancroft made
the following reply: Your letter of Sep.
TENDER 16 touches me more deeply than
words can express. l can but return my
heartfelt thanks to you and to the many
other friends who have helped to make my
life in Montpelier happy one. The wish
Of my fellow citizens, so heartily and so
unanimously expressed, may not be ignored
nor denied, and therefore take much pleas
ure in accepting the honor you are pleased
to confer upon me. ] would suggest the
lecture recital, Songs of Home and Coun-
try, as being particularly appropriate to
the occasion, and will name as the date
Wednesday evening, September 80"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
The Normal Schools.

The three subsidized academies of
the state, called Normal Schools, have
been, from the time of their endow-
ment by the state, objects of solcitude
to themselves and of worriment to their
creator. They have been the subjects
of constant discussion and of ceaseless
legislation. Excepting, possibly, the
immediate beneficiaries of the states
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

The work of these schools is confined
chiefly to the usual studies of our common
schools, and their pupils are largely from
the locality of each school and its imme-
date environment. The following list
shows the number of graduates from each
school, each year, for seven years, residing
~ in the same town, (2) in surrounding and
neighboring towns, and (3) in towns more
remote in the state
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

A COMPARISON with larger states
gives an intelligent idea Of the size of
the splendid republican majorities cast
in Maine and Vermont. Should the
percentage of gain be as large in New
York as it was in either of these states,
it would result in republican majority
of ,000-fgures so immense that
they seem impossible.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

The men of Vermont, the men of
Maine, are simply men of common
sense; but in the possession of that
substantial quality they do not differ
from Americans generally. In other
words, Organism is not likely to trouble
us after the third of next November
New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

THE whole system is drained and under
mined by INDECENT ulcers and open sores
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve speedily heals
w. e. Terrill & Co.. Montpelier. Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

THE recent election in Maine is an
excellent indication that personal con.
siderations will cut no figure in the ma
tional election in November. A fell
low churchman of Mr.. Bryan in Lin
coin is quoted as saying that, while the
nominee is personally popular, not a
single member of the church to which
he belongs will vote for him in Novem-
Der. This supplements the somewhat
melancholy fact, as stated by demo-
cratic paper, that the election in Maine
demonstrated that Mr.. Sewall could not
"carry his own family
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

it enables them to go home and tell
their friends that there is no danger of
over confidence on The part of the men
who are managing the campaign.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

ABOUT the most notable thing con-
nected with the appearance of Mr..
Bryan in Washington, last Saturday
night, and his speech upon that occa-
sion, was his gall in making the fare
well address of George Washington the
basis of his speech, which endorsed the
Chicago platform. Even the heavens
weep" said gentleman present, when
the rain-storm put sudden stop to
Bryan's speech. Washington said
ain contemplating the causes which
may disturb our union, it occurs as a
matter of serious concern that any
ground should have been furnished for
characterizing parties by geographical
discrimin Northern and South
ern, Atlantic and Western-whence de
signing men may endeavor to excite a
belief that there is a real difference of
local interests and views" Designing
Mr.. Bryan is seeking the presidency
through arraigning class against class
and section against section. Again,
Washington said: AS very impor-
tant source of strength and security,
cherish public credit" Mr.. Bryan's
principal business is the advocacy of a
deprecated currency, which will injure
both private and public credit.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

The populists are condemning the
"gold bugs" right and left for the low
prices of farm products, but they fail to
say anything regarding the reduced
rates of interest. They make no refer
ence to the fact that when an honest
money standard is maintained in rich
country like the United States the rates
of interest are always low, because the
investors believe and know that their
debtors will pay their obligations in
sound money. Should this country go
upon a silver basis and debts could be
paid in money worth one-half its face
value, corresponding rise in rates of
interest would come at once. In such
an event as that, the farmers in this
country, to whom Mr.. Bryan is at pres
ent 30 frantically appealing, would
have a practical lesson in finance,
should they need to borrow money,
that would open their eyes in regard to
the repeated assurances of Mr.. Bryan
that fifty cents are as good as a dollar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

If the populists still refuse to en-
dorse Sewall, it must inevitably result
in placing four sets of electors in sew
eral states, not counting those on the
prohibition ticket. This would result
in the choice of Mckinley electors
in doubtful states, or in states where
the republican ticket receives only a
trihe more than one-third of all the
votes cast. In this way the nomina.
tons made at indianapolis and the
grand kick Mr.. Watson is making may
prove effective in preserving the coun-
try from a free-silver conspiracy. In
order that Mr.. Bryan may get major
ity of the votes in any state, they must
all be on one ticket; and if half the
votes cast for him in any state are of
the Bryan and Sewall com animation, and
half for the Bryan and Watson end of
the ticket, it would surely result, unless
the names should be identical, in de-
feat for Bryan electors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

THE better the news the harder we'll
work, is the motto which governs re.
publican headquarters at Washington,
and it is being lived up to. The silver
men are on the retreat in every state
in which the republican national and
congressional committees have made
a real fight for Mckinley and honest
money, but as yet the retreat is orderly.
BY redoubing their efforts, the repub-
lican managers believe they can make
it complete rout on the third of
November - so complete that the free
coinage of silver by this country alone
will never again be made a national
issue; and nothing less will satisfy
them. They are working with all the
vim and energy they could put into the
campaign if the chances for republican
victory were doubtful instead of the
victory being assured, as il is. This
pleases all the visiting republicans, as
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

THERE have been some more or less
amusing stories in connection with Mr..
Bryan's going to Washington to make
a speech. In the first place, there was
no end of trouble in getting place for
him to speak; then there was more
trouble about the distribution of tickets
for seats and about music. The local
committee seemed to fear that some
unauthorized band might get into the
baseball park, in which the speaking
took place-and which, by the by, was
paid for by two saloon-keepers whose
places are opposite the main entrance
and play some piece of music that
would give Mr.. Bryan the razzle dazzle
right before the crowd. There was a
crowd, just as there would have been
at any other free show, and the pro-
prietors of the bar-rooms who paid for
the park made good speculation, even
if the crowd was not up to expectations
in size.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23

OF II. ID. Blackwell, a Prominent Business
Man of Montpelier-Foul Play Feared
He Was Last Seen on the Streets of Bos-
ton - His Accounts Investigated and
Found Correct-Search for Him Still in