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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

Lord Charles Russell, chief justice of
England, arrived at New York on the
steamship Umbria on Saturday, accom-
panied by Sir Frank Lockwood. They are
to attend a meeting of the American Bar
association at Saratoga.
Ex-senator Edmunds, who is spending
the summer at Devon, near Philadelphia,
will make his only speech in the campaign
at Berwyn, Penn, on September 8. Mr..
Edmunds is not in good health, and has al
ready expressed to Major Mckinley his re-
grets that he cannot take an active part in
the campaign. Berwyn is a suburban town
near Philadelphia, where many Philadel-
phia business men live.
Chairman Jones, of the Democratic ma
tional committee, on Saturday announced
that the headquarters of the committee
will be established at Chicago, with a
branch at Washington. John r. Mclean,
Ohio; D. d. j. Campau, Michigan; j. d.
johnson, Kansas; Clark Howell, Georgia
B. B. Smalley, Vermont, and Thomas
Gahan, Illinois, were appointed members
of the campaign committee.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
There Is a Very Real Duty this Yea

There Is Very Real Duty this Year.
1t is always customary, as the day of our
state election draws near, to admonish the
voters of Vermont, and especially the far
mers, of their duty to go to the polls and
"roll up an old-time majority" "set the
pace for our sister states" ETC., etc. Often
times this admonition is merely perfume
tory, but this year it has very real mean
ing. A crisis is upon the country of such
vital importance as the younger voters
have never known, and such as the older
ones experienced only in 1861. 1t is not a
question this year of party pride, or of
rolling up big majority over ones politi-
cal opponents. 1t is question of showing
to the country at large where Vermont
stands with regard to this issue which has
been thrust upon us so suddenly and so de-
family. The vote of Vermont will be ac-
cepted as an index of Eastern sentiment
upon this issue. The claim of the free
silverites is that their cause is the cause of
the "common people" and the impression
that the cheap-money heresy has gained a
lOOI-uOlu dlhOhS NNlhOhS AolhlOAS has
been diligently cultivated.
However the individual voter may look
upon his duty to go to the polls in an ordi-
nary year that duty is imperative this year.
1t is not question of trolling up" a major
ity of $4,000, or $4,000, or $4,000 votes
over the Democratic party. 1t is a ques-
tion of saving the country from panic and
disaster and of preserving the nations
financial honor. We have no fear of the
result if each Vermont Republican will
consider himself a committee of one to
look after his own vote and see that it is
put into the ballot-box.
Only let the votes be polled and we may
rest assured that Mr.. Bryan and the silver
mine owners will have a bad fifteen min
utes when they read the Vermont returns
on the morning after election.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
GROVER CLEvELAfrD.
The Example Of Mexico.

Today Mexico is on silver basis. A
draft on New York is worth premium of
81 per cent. The reason of this premium
is that Mexico must pay the difference be-
tween her dollars, not foated at parity
with gold and our dollars which, up to this
time, hold at that parity by the pledge of
the government, by the action of the pres
ent secretary of the treasury and by the
courage of Grover Cleveland, the president
of the United States. Illustrative of this
money fallacy is the position of the man
who works, who sells services or the re-
suits of services. Take the section men on
the Atchison and Topeka road who live
and work respectively in Arizona, on the
American side and in Sonora, in the re-
public of Mexico, upon the foreign extern
sion of that line of road. The American
section hands are paid ST. per day in our
currency, and after you cross into Mexico
on the same road the section hands are
paid for the same labor each one Mexican
dollar per day. The man on this side of
the line can step into Mexico and buy with
that S1.10 two Mexican dollars and have
two cents change in the bargain. Briefly,
one days work on the American side of
the line buys more than two days work on
the Mexican side.-J. Stirling Morton.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

1t took only very few days after Mr..
Bryan's speech of acceptance in New
York to show that this much-heralded eff
fort had fallen like a wet blanket upon
the cause of the free-silver Democracy.
In place of the bold, brilliant, aggressive,
off-hand piece of oratorical pyrotechnics
which had been expected the speech proved
to be the specious and labored effort of a
man who felt himself to be on the defen-
sive, and who knew that he had already
burned the best of his powder. His man
ayers quickly realized the situation, and re-
fused to let him continue his journey to
Maine and afterward to Boston, as had been
planned. Instead they got him out of the
East with the least possible delay and cork
ed up his flow of eloquence. 1t is very
significant pointer that stocks on the New
York exchange advanced three points as
a result of the "boy' orators disappoint-
ing delivery.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
One "Debt-Burdenedo Farmer Heard

81 did intend to send some principal on
this pay day, but the free-silverites are
raising the very devil with business here in
Kansas, and for a fact all over the West.
and prices for all farm products are
ruinous. Corn, 124 cents a bushel;
oats, no sale; wheat, 40 cents per bushel
hogs, 81 to $3.50 per hundred; cattle, SO
to $3.50 per hundred; everything in pro-
portion. Horses sold here during Harri-
sons time from $50 to 500; now the
same class of horses bring from $40 to $40.
l fear unless the East and Middle states
have their senses and elect Mckinley we
will see still worse"
From what we read in the Bryan papers
and the Bryan speeches one might think
this to be letter from some "gold- bug"
'plutocrat," but it is not 1t is the post
script of letter written by a western
farmer who is in debt, owing a small mort
gage to a savings bank in this county. In
the letter he enclosed the six months in
terest due on his loan. He is not one of
the debt-ridden western farmers, of whom
we hear so much, who expect 53-cent dol
lars to pay off their mortgages and make
them rich by an act of Congress. We
suspect that farmers of that kind are
scarce West and East. Farmers for the
most part "have their senses" like all 9TH
er people who have living to earn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
Who Arc the "Credltor CInssi,,

1t is the evident and deliberate purpose
of the free-silver party in this campaign to
raise a sectional and class issue, and, while
pretending to regret that such an issue has
been raised, to encourage it and make
their fight upon it, At Chicago the cry of
the cause of the common people" Mr..
Bryan repeated this cry in his New York
speech, and steadily and constantly the
impression is given out that this is an ir-
repressible conflict between "the masses"
and "the classes" By "the classes" is
meant the moneyed men of the country,
those of the East especially-men who
have capital to lend or to invest. The out
cry, is, in short, against the "creditor
class"
Did you ever stop to think who consti-
tute the real creditor class of this country,
the men-and women-whose money actu-
ally keeps business in motion? 1t is true
that we have great aggregations of corpor-
ate capital like the Standard Oil, the Sugar
and the Whiskey trusts; great banking
syndicates have been formed upon occa-
sion, and there are immense private for
tunes like those of the Vanderbilt and As
tor families. But how much does the
money of these men and corporations have
to do with the real business interests of
the country, with the interests that employ
labor and help everyday men and women
to earn living? How much of it is be-
hind the manufactures, the commerce, or
the farming interests of New England?
How many men does it help to earn liv-
ing in the state of Vermont?
If you want money to help you to buy a
house or a farm, or to set up some kind of
manufacturing, or to help you over dull
spot in trade, do you 60 to any of those
sources for it, or does it come from any
1t comes from some man who by diligence
and thrift has accumulated little surplus
money; or from the nearest discount or
savings bank, or from some such purely
local source. 1t does not come from any
of those men or combinations of men whom
the free silverites and Populists are so fond
of calling "plutocrats."
If you have money deposited in a say.
ings bank, if you have life insurance
policy due you, if you own stock in build
ing or loan association, or if you have
made little investment from your saving:
in any one of a dozen entirely legitimate
ways, you are yourself one of the creditor
class; it is your money that is keeping the
wheels of business in motion; it is you
and your little capital against whom the
free-silver Democracy and the Populist:
are declaiming.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

The time has not yet come to make con-
fident predictions about the result of the
presidential election, but it is a fact that
the Republican committeeman and Repub-
lican leaders in all the great Central and
Western states, where the battle for sound
money must be fought and won, are feeling
encouraged over the outlook, and they be-
lieve that the free-silver craze has reached
its height and that the return wave of san
ity and common sense has begun to set in.
But they all add that it is time for work
and not for confidence or prophecy. To
whatever help or encouragement there is
in this hopeful situation Republican work
ers everywhere are entitled.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

The underlying doctrine set forth by the
free-silver advocates is that, because of the
demonetization of silver, gold has appre-
ciated in value until the dollar which we
now use is worth about twice as much as
it ought to be. What this doctrine means
is that any man who has earned by his la
bor aud laid away in the savings bank or
invested in a'life insurance company or a
building association 500 has twice as
much in that 500 as he ought to have,
and it is the purpose of the silver men to
reduce its value to $50 or to $53. The
savings bank deposits-a great majority of
Them being in the industrial centres of the
East-are $3.50, ,597, 900; the policies of
life insurance companies, fraternal and CO.
operative associations, and the like are
$13, ,04S, 452, ,664; the investments in build
ing associations are more than $S00,000,- =
600. These vast investments, upon which
millions rely-the savings mainly of work.
ing men and women-and also the veter-
ans pensions of Sl40,000,000 year, Bry-
an and his followers would cut down to
half their present value, because, they say,
the money was deposited or invested in
dollars which were worth twice as much
as they ought to have been. 1t is this
doctrine, among other things, upon which
the voters of Vermont will express their
opinion the first day of September.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

Ex-Congressman Bourke Cochran ad-
dressed a great Democratic meeting in
Madison Square Garden, New York, We'd
nesday night, in reply to the speech of
William j. Bryan delivered in the same
place one week before. The attendance
was the largest at any meeting ever held
in the garden, about $4,000 persons being
present Great enthusiasm was shown
and Mr.. Cochran held the attention of his
vast audience to the very close.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
President Cleveland on Boilers.
Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass,

July 16, 1892.
Clark Howell. ESD: Ny Dear Sir-The receipt
of your letter has gratitied me exceedingly. 1t
has a tone of true Democracy about it, and is
pervaded with the sort of Democratic frankness
which is very pleasing. | think the underlying
principle of party organization is what you so
admirably express as an acceptance of the arbi-
trament of the convention. On the other hand,
it is as fully the duty of one opposed to shut his
mind and heart to any feeling of irritation or re-
sentiment that might be allowed to grow out of
opposition, based upon honest judgment and
conscientious desire for party success
l am not surprised, though am gratified. by
the announcement that from this time to the close
of the campaign your own service and invaluable
influence of the constitution will be devoted to
the fight for Democratic success. 1t honestly
seems to me that Democrats who are not at this
time loyal to the cause recreant to their
country. Personal advancement of man is moth
ing; the triumph of the principles we advocate
is everything. Hoping that may congratulate
eachother on the glorious result in November next,
l am yours sincerely
GROVER CLEVELAf7D.
The Massachusetts Democrats WIN are
bravely trying to swallow the Chicago
platform and candidates are bracing them
selves by the republication of t. is letter of
President Cleveland, written f)f' years ago.
They are entitled TO whateverV omfort it
affords them, but they should lut into it
what Mr.. Fellows said about the claims of
"party regularity the other night.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

The basis of sound trade is sound money.
Money which is intrinsically valuable;
money which, like the gold coinage of this
country, the government could not affect
if it tried to. can take $40 gold piece,
and can defy all the power of all the
governments of this earth to take five
cents of value from it. Having earned it
by the sweat of my brow, having earned it
by the exercise of my brain, having earned
it by the exchange of my commodities,
can go to the uttermost ends of the earth
and wherever present It its value will be
unquestioned and unchallenged.-Bourke
Cochran.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

In the coinage of gold the government
stamps it at its intrinsic value. Why should
it discriminate in favor of silver and stamp
it at twice its value? 1t would give the
owner of the silver mine two dollars for
one. The owner of the copper mine might
with the same propriety ask the govern
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
Relief In Six Hours.

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great surprise on account of its exceeding prompt
ness In relieving pain in the bladder, Kidneys,
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male and female. II relieves retention OF the
water and pain In passing it almost Immediately
If you want quick relief and cure this is your
remedy. Sold by George, e. Greene, Druggist
Brattleboro, vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
wIndham County Nominations.

The price of silver dropped to Go cents
an ounce Tuesday, the lowest of the year.
With bullion at this figure the silver in a
standard dollar is worth only 81 cents.
This is one of the arguments not likely
to help the free silver cause.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

Mr.. Hanna makes definite announce
ment that Maj. Mckinley will not go upon
the stump and will not address any public
meetings during the campaign. His only
speeches will be such as as he has already
made to delegations visiting him at his
home in Canton.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

Mr, Bryan fshed half day at Upp er
Red Hook and did not catch a fish, while
Mrs. Bryan caught two. This is another
indication that the wrong member of the
Bryan family is at the head of the ticket.
PhiLddelDbid LedOer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

1t is an encouraging fact that gold is to
be imported for the first time since the
bond issues early in the year. One New
York firm has ordered the importation of
50, 900.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

My countrymen, the most un-American
of all appeals observable in this campaign
is the one which seeks to array labor against
capital, employer against employed 1t is
most unpatriotic, and is fraught with the
greatest peril to all concerned. We are all
political equals here-equal in privilege
and opportunity, dependent upon each
other, and the prosperity of the one is the
prosperity of the other. 1t is as Mr.. Lin
coin said to the committee from the work.
ingmen's association of New York in the
campaign of 1864: property is the fruit
of labor. Property is desirable; it is a
positive good in the world. That some
should be rich shows that others may be-
come rich, and hence is just encourage
ment to industry and enterprise. Let no
man who is homeless pull down the house
of another, but let him work diligently and
build one for himself, thus by example as
suring that his own shall be safe from vio-
lence when built.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
Proposals.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
OFFIcF OF PosT OFFICE INSPECTOR

OFFIcF OF PosT OFFICE INSPECTOR,
Boston, MASS, Aug. 13, 1896.
Sealed proposals win be received at this office
for Post Ofice purposes at Brattleboro, Vt, for
term of five years from Nov. 80, 1896 The pro.
posals should include the complete equipment OF
the office, boxes, fixtures, furniture etc. and II
possible, heating and lighting of the office; Fur
ther information may be obtained Of the post
master at Brattleboro, or at this office
1856 WIN. A. BROWN, Post office Inspector
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Mckinley to Delegation of Colored
Men Last Tuesday.

We want in the United States neither
cheap money nor cheap labor. We will
have neither the one nor the other. We
must not forget that nothing is cheap to
abroad when it entails idleness upon our
own laborers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
Gbe 0ernrunt @9b@mi1.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1896.

Republican National Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GARRET A. HOBART
OF NEW JERSEY.
Republican state Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOSIAH CIRCUIT,
OF DERBY.
FOR LlEUTENANT-GovERNoR,
NELSON W. FISK,
OF ISLE La MoTTE.
FOR STATE TREASURER,
HENRY F. FIELD,
OF RUTLAND
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
CHAUNCEY W. BROwNELL,
OF BURLINGTON.
FOR STATE AUDITOR,
FRANKLIN D. HALE,
OF LUSENBURG.
For Member Of Congress- I'd District,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

This money question presents itself to
me in this homely fashion: If free coinage
of silver means a 53-cent dollar, then it is
not an honest dollar. If free coinage means
a 1O0-cent dollar, equal to a gold dollar, as
some of its advocates assert, we will not
then have cheap dollars, but dollars just
like these we now have, and which will be,
as hard to get in which case free coinage
will not help the debtor or make it easier
for him to pay his debts.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
For Member Of Congress, I'd District,
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT,

For Presidential Electors.
MARSH o. PERKINS. of Windsor.
L. BART CROSS. of Montpelier
HENRY c. BATES. Of st. Johnshury.
FRANK d. WHITE. Of Rutland.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21
Things Will Go Wrong
LIFE IS A BURDEN

But we try not to make it
a burden to our customers.
1t is a good time to look
over your business sta
tionery and make sure
that you have a fullassort-
ment of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-21

In these stirring times of
politics and out door sports
don't forget we have the best
poster outfit in Vermont.
The herald., 1896-08-02
A Word to Men
A Fair Sample

.ssso . Q 0 ess
The herald., 1896-08-02
THE WIFE OF THE CANDIDATE
Is a New Woman but Not of the
Sensational Kind
A LAWYER AND ATHLETE
Mary Baird Bryan Believes In the Ad-
vancement of Women
Fitting H.Ipmeet for Future President-is
n Good Speaker Herseii-The
A LAWYER AND ATHLETE
Fitting H.Ipmeet for . Future President-is
Good Speaker Herseif-The
Brysn's at Homo

When the campaign now started gets
fully into its stride, and when the friends
and supporters of the two racing can
didates are fighting at fever pitch. with
their bodies and souls in full possession
of the political bacili, a new and potent
element will loom UP in the midst of the
strife.
This latter will be Mrs Mary Baird
Bryan. wife of William Jennings Bry
an. Mrs. Bryan has made no plans for
her part in the campaign, but those who
know her best say 1t will be impossible
fer her to sit idly by and do nothing
while her husband is in the center of the
whirlpool of a national campaign. For
Mrs. Bryan is not passive woman.
She is a veritable steam engine in the
matter of energy, Calling gun in the
matter of action and an Edison in the
matter of ideas.
She is a new woman--not In the bloom
er-wearins, notoriety- seeking sense of
the term, but womanly new woman.
She is a member of many women's
clubs.
The herald., 1896-08-02

way. So she studied, first under her hus-
bands tuition, and later passed an ex-
animation at the same Chicago law
school of which he is graduate.
KEYNOTE OF Her LIFE.
In speaking of this, Mrs. Bryan says:
Il never had any idea of practicing
law. L wanted to be thoroughly in
touch with my husband in his work and
to assist him. l have always submerged
my life in his interests my ambition has
been for his success"
This last sentence forms the keynote
of Mrs. Bryan's life since her marriage.
How much of his success has been due
to her the husband of every valiant
hearted, unselfish woman can picture
Inc II. ~''~-- ---'''
Among other progressive belongings,
Lincoln has SorosiS club, fashioned up
on the same lines as the mother organi-
cation in New York. Mrs Bryan was one
of it's rirst presidents, and is still one OF
its most active members. She is be-
lever in womens clubs, and on several
occasions has mounted the platform to
say so and give her reasons. She is
much better speaker than the average
woman, as she possesses the faculty of
sticking close to her subject and saying
what she intends to say in terse, we'll
chosen language.
Internationally, Mrs. Bryan had the ad
vantage only of the average girl reared
in small town. IF she were man, it
would be said of her that she was self
educated. The little town of Perry, ILL.,,
in which she was raised, is mediocre in
all things and does not differ whit from
the thousand other towns of its size.
Unlike most women, she has not an
atom of superstition in her composition.
She laughed when asked if the nomina-
ton of her husband on Friday did not
worry her. AT the same time she brought
into view a finger ring set with an opal
and diamonds.
Mrs. Bryans Lincoln home is pretty
| place the most notable room in the house
being a combination of study, library
! and Office. 1t holds two large desks, one
| of which is presided over by the husband
| and the other by the wife
Besides Ruth, the 11year-old girl.
| there are two other children, William j.
| Jr.. years old, and Grace, 8 years old.
| Mrs. Bryan never serves wines or liquors
| of any kind on her table, and her hus-
band is just as much opposed to their use
as she is.