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

which swings upon a hinge, and is covered
with the arms af the state OF California sur
! rounded by the stars and stripes. Under
meath is square box divided by bars of
gold into nine separate compartments, each
containing pure specimen Of the varieties
OF ore found in the country. On the inside
II the following inscription; Presented to
Franklin Pierce, the Fourteenth President
OF the United States'"
| A FOOLISH and futile attempt has been
made, since the parade Of last Friday even
ing, to make political capital by the asser-
| lon that among the transparencies carried
in the procession were several A. p. A EN-
pIems representing the Little Red School
House," and that score of Roman Catho-
lies were inveigled into carrying them.
The transparency in question may be seen
at the store OF A, G.. Stone, who furnished
| them to the city committee. 1t is two
story-and.a.half brick house, with mansard
| roof modern curtains and street number
over the door. bearing resemblance to the
" Little Red School House " with its story
and -half, pitch roof and chimney only in
color. Mr.. Stone has sent TO the firm in
Pennsylvania from whom he procured them
Tor genuine transparency of the Little
Red School House," and, when it arrives,
any one who feels 80 disposed can go to his
store and be convinced that the statement
that they carried an A. 7. A. emblem in
the parade OF last Friday evening is silly
hoax. 1t seems hardly necessary to assure
the hundreds OF good democrats, many of
whom are devout Roman Catholics, who
voted the republican ticket for the first
time last week, that those who had the
| parade in charge had not the slightest in
tention of insulting their patriotism or
their religion by offering them an A. p. A.
symbol to carry The republican party has
no use for such methods. The fact that these
lanterns were bought June IL last by Mr..
Stone OF ID. Z. Rhodes of Syracuse, n. Y,
and have been in his store ever since that
time also explodes the report that they were
ordered by the republican city committee
expressly for this parade.
GovERNoR-ELEcT CIRCUIT arrived in town
last Thursday evening, on his way to his
| home in Derby. He was waited upon at
the Pavilion by j. W. Brock and l.. Bart
Cross and invited to visit the republican
| club-room on Main street, where he was es-
corted, shortly after eight o'clock, by Mr.
Brock and Mr. Cross. Several hundred re-
| publicans had hastily assembled there to
greet him. and he was received with three
rousing cheers as he entered the hall In
the absence of Professor DeBoer, president
of the club, Major Grout was introduced to
the company by e. A. Mutt, secretary of
the Young Mems Republican Club. When
the applause that had greeted his appear
ance had subsidized, Major Grout said lone
OF the conditions on which l came here to-
night was that / should not be asked to
make speech, and l must be excused from
| making any extended remarks; but will
say that | thank you very sincerely for this
most cordial and kindly reception-not so
much personally, but in behalf of the dis
position shown on the part of the state of
Vermont as regards the sentiment of this
| campaign; that is, we must have in this
country-not only for Vermont but for the
whole country-absolute honesty. Early in
! the campaign the issue seemed to be the
old issue between the republicans and dem
ocrats on the tariff question, between free
| trade and projections but later the issue of
| honest mOnaV raispI a ChinaOn
| Vermont took part in the national cam
paign-and the push and organization with
which it has since been conducted was
shown by the splendid results on Tuesday.
| This simply shows what the people Of Ver-
mont mean in that respect. The news of
our election of last Tuesday has gone
| through the states of this Union and il en-
courages them as nothing else can do For
tunate indeed is it for us that we can stand
as a beacon-light for other states. and more
| fortunate that the interest to hear from us in
creases from year to year. / have received,
since election, many congratulatory dis
patches from the Middle and Western
| States which / take not as congratulating
the stand Vermont has taken In this issue"
Major CIRCUITS remarks were received with
applause, and at their close he was intro
duced to more than 800 members of the club
| by the secretary.
THE splendid results of the election on
September l were celebrated in Montpelier
| last Friday evening by monster demon
stration the like of which has never been
seen in northern Vermont. Fifteen hun
bred enthusiastic republicans with torches
and transparencies, followed the line of
march, which extended through the princi-
pal streets of the city. The Republican
Club of Barre, two hundred strong, with
the Barre Cornet Band, the Young Mems
Republican Club of Mortified, with the
Northfeld Cornet Band, and large delega-
tions from Berlin, Waterbury, Middlesex
and East Montpelier, helped swell the
great parade and the cheers for sound
money and protection. The Montpelier
Military Band led the parade and
the Capital Drum Corps did good SER
vice.. Charles A. Smith, LIST, was chief
Boutwell,, Harry Lowe, and g. c. Bancroft
as aids. Red and blue lights blazed along
the entire length of the route, and every
republican flag under which the procession
passed was loudly cheered. The places of
business and residences of both democrats
and republicans were very generally IL
Illuminated. The city was blaze of light
from one end to the other, and more than
noisy with enthusiastic cheering. The
transparencies, of which there were scores,
contained many bright hit on Bryan and
his followers. The procession was nearly
mile in length, and the streets along the en-
tire route were packed to the curbstone by
thousands of interested and happy specta-
tors. A striking feature of the parade was
the monster float of the Lane Manufacture
ing Company, drawn by four heavy horses
and loaded with employees of that firm
On one side, in huge letters, was inscribed
Vermont's Contribution to Free Silver
$500 Republican Majority" and on other
sides equally catchy and truthful inscrip.
tons. McKinley's coach to the White
House was another taking feature 1t had
large portraits of Mckinley and Hobart on
its sides and was marked "Canton to
Washington" On this coach were twelve
young men in gold-colored hats and sur
pl ces. 1t was the largest kind of cele-
bration, and one that will not soon be for
gotten. A large force OF extra police was
on duty under Chief of Police futile, but
they had little to do, as no disturbance of
any kind occurred.