The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21

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Ireland thinks Minnesota is safe.
"WAIT a week." says Senator Quay,
referring to the republican national
committees claim of 270 votes for Nc
Kinley in the electoral college. ave
may have some changes to make, but
not a vote will be taken from our Nc
Kinley claims"
A NEW YORKER wants to bet mil
lion dollars that Mckinley will be
elected, and says the cash is ready. His
name is E. r. Chapman, of the firm of
Moore & Scbley. He puts halt mil.
lion benin his opinion that the popo-
Gratis wi not carry single state east of
the Mississippi or north of the Ohio, and
another half million that Mckinley will
carry Kentucky. Big bets on dead GER
taintes are safe, and neither money
nor courage is needed to make them.
IT is positive fact, says the Chicago
correspondent of the New York San,
that some of the silver mine owners
from whom contributions were ex-
pected have closed up their pockets,
and one of their friends declared to the
Sun spondent: "The mine owners
are tired of their speculation. Bryan
is wilful, and shoots around the country
in strong Mckinley states and has
wasted much time. His would-be ma
tional managers are incompetent AS
/ said before, the mine owners are
tired of their speculation"
MCKINLEY remembered the Sab
bath day t, keep it holy" attended
church and visited his mother-two
good and Christian acts. He was up
bright and clipper, early Monday
morning, and counted up thirty dele
cations that were scheduled to call on
him during the week, with a dozen or
fifteen more in prospect. These will
come from all parts of the country.
They are chiefly from the masses that
Bryan is seeking to array against the
classes. Miners, mechanics and work
ingmen are listed for several days; citi-
zens, veterans, colored men and com.
mercal travellers, "old folks" from
different places, and the men from At
lanta who follow the banner of Nc
Kinley. The national cause is literally
marching on"
The old theory of the silver advo-
Gates, that the market price of bushel
of wheat is always substantially the
same as the market price of an ounce
of silver, has just now got an ex-
ceptionally black eye. On the thir.
teenth instant, the spot cash price of
No. red wheat, in New York, was so
cents--the highest price it has reached
in the present upward movement-and
silver was 641 cents an ounce. The
day before Bryan vas nominated, silver
was 6SH cents an ounce. 1t has there
fore declined A cents during his cam
paign. On the same day, wheat was
63s cents bushel 1t has therefore
advanced 16s cents. The gap in the
relative prices OF wheat and silver has
widened to 203 cents. 1.-The stars in
their courses are fighting for the
cause represented by Mckinley and
Hobart.
WrrrTAM MCKINTEv payar cold n
truer thing - and he has said many
true things-than this: 81 am very
glad, young men of Canton, to meet
you at my home tonight, and con-
graduate you upon having enrolled
yourselves on the side of the republi.
can party. The young men are al
ways an inspiration to me. They are
the hope of the community, the stat o
and the nation. In little while will
fall upon them the duties and respon-
sibilities which are now borne by those
who are older l love to have the
young men about me, and | can do no
better than to say to each of you tc-
night-those Of you who have your ca
reers yet to make and your fortunes
yet to build, and your places yet TO
find-I can do no better than TO say to
you that there is nothing in this world
that will serve you so well as good char
acter, clean in morals and In life. do
not care what you may conclude to do,
whether you engage in business or a
profession, what you may choose as
your occupation, there is nothing that
will count 80 much, or mean 80 much,
or wear so well, as good habits and a
spotless name. You have done well in
this first voting to enlist under the ban