The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-26
NOTINGs.


the silver plunge and he could not act
tremendously with it in that case.
One Of the Virginia sound money Dem
ocratic congressman has taken the
same STEP.
the Republican state convention
forgot about the mountain rule"
last week and chose three of its four
presidential electors from the east side.
Utah is the first state to adopt an
eight hour labor law, and now en-
ployes in mines and man lfacturing
are inquiring whether the law forbids
them to work more than eight hours if
they want to.
The Republican state committee or
ganized last week with the choice of
Olin Merrill OF Enosburgh for chair
man and +. f. Burgess of Burlin e
ton, secretary. The executive com
mittee is Olin Merrill of Eposburgh.
JIG. Foster of Derby, j. Brock of
Montpelier, Ira r. lien of Fair Haven
and F. E. Burgess of Burlington.
"Denouncing their own party" is
the way the Atlanta Constitution de
scribes the preamble to the Republi-
can platform. This of course refers to
the amusing paragraphs where Cleve-
| land is denounced for what he has
done in behalf of monetary policy
which the platform in another place
| Endorses.
A fight on Quay for his political life
is announced from Pennsylvania, the
opposition counting on the influence
of the Mckinley ticket for aid. 1t
seems to be the same old fight re-
vamped.
Ex-Gov. Russell of Massachusetts at
the earnest request of Mr.. Whitney. is
going to Chicago to help in the fight
against free silver, and to make his
work all the more effective, because
free from suspicion of self interest, he
takes the same, ground as Whitney
and announces that he will not permit |
his name to be presented at the con-
vention. Il
Judge.Lyman Trumbnll is reported |
to be i'll with cancer at his home in |
Chicago, without hope of recovery.
The nomination of Napoleon" Nc
kinley was made on the anniversary
of Waterloo.
Mr. Hanna should Immediately send
his candidate off fishing. No man can
be trusted to say Just the right thing
day after day all summer long while a
crowd of politicians is trampling down
his rose bushes and his lawn. -
Springfield Republican.
The Illinois supreme court sustains
the local option law of that state.
One of the interesting episodes of
the st. Louis convention was the hiss
ingswhen Senator Proctor announced
the eight votes of the state for McKin-
ley. The Reed men felt very ugly over
what they called the desertion" of
the:New.. England candidate.
Venezuela has adopted the gold
standard.
The latest estimate of the loss of life
from the recent earthquake and tidal
wave in Japan Is 10000, making it
one OF the most appalling catastrophes
of the kind in history. In 353 A. ID.
1900 people were drowned by an inun
dation in Cheshire, Eng. At bort,
HOLLAND 100, 900 people were drowned
by the sea in 1921. The breaking of
the dikes in Holland in 1880 is esti
mated to have cost 400, 900 lives.
Over. SO, 600 persisted in Catalonia in
1917. In 1913 there were 10000
in Silesia. In 1864 the Brad F,
field reservoir at Sheffield burst and
destroyed 20 lives. This suggested to
Charles Reade the foods in Put
Y ourself in His Place. 4 thousand
lives were lost in Spain in 1879. In
our own country the Mill river food,
the YOUNGSTOWN disaster. and the Sea
island inundation, which drowned 1000
people are still fresh in memory.
Senator Proctor who is very apt to
have a leading hand in Republican
politics seems to have done so with
the gold plank at st. Louis The
plank is now said 10 have been decid-
ed on June -. and he was the only
Eastern man present at the confer
ence.
Hon.vE. J. Phelps, ex-minister to
England, has an article in the July
Atlantic in which he treats at length
IF arbitration and our relations with '
that country. He reiterates his we'll ]
known position with reference to the
matter. and thinks his
fiew will help in maintaining those
friendly relations and that kindly in
.ercourse which subsist between ma
ions supremacy great. whichrespect and
rust each other. and who do not seek
% infringe rights which by cit her
tide, as both we'll know. would be
defended if it unhappily be
zane necessary. Then he goes on TO
lrgue that the arbitration principle is
If comparatively little value and will
,ever supplant diplomacy, and the lat
er being the thing on which to de-
,end, he laments.we have no permanent
diplomatic service, that our diplomacy
urns on domestic politics and that
wen our state department is largely
BODY of clerks presided over by chief
Who may be turned out on any day
when the executive so wills or party
policy so dictates. He would tn ere
ore, divor e the service from politics
md he would do away with the neces
Iity for the ratification of treaties by
rote of the Senate. Generally his
goes to support the charge
hat was made against him when he
an for governor of Vermont, that he
iidn't believe 10 republican institu
ions at all.
The Republican national committee
organized at st. Louis FRIDAY with
he election of Mark Hanna chairman
"a choice that was made at the spe-
ial request of Gov. Mckinley. A stiff
,ush will be made to remove the head
quarters of the committee to Chicago,
tut the chances are that New York
will be taken. Hanna wants to adopt
he California pampas plumes AS the
mbleni of the party.
Gen. B. H. Bristow, secretary of
he treasury under Grant, and who
made the great war on the whiskey s
ing in 1876, died Monday at New York,
there he has been located in the prac-