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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Col George " Hooker asks the fol
lowing pertinent question Why is
it that an lrishman, driven from his
home and country, where he cannot get
Ia living. because of free trade, should
come to America and b, his vote and
influence endeavor to inaugurate the
same state of things here? God Al.
mighty only knows - Exchange.
We won't have to 20 SO far as that
to find some one that knows " The
yeriest hod carrier of an lrishman
knows more than the colonel seems
to know about what ais his native
land. He knows that instead of be
ing free trade it was just the lack of it
that ruined Ireland. He knows that
the time was, less than century ago,
when Irish industries. in linen and
wuolens and various lines, were rapidly
gaining the supremacy and that Eng
lard by tariffs and practical laws of
forbidding the export of
products to any part of the world eX-
cept England and shutting them out
Of there 10y cxtortionate duties.
crushed out these industries, crushed
them out SO completely, and So relent
essy pursued the policy of forcing
The whole Irish people into agriculture, |
hat the recovery has been very slow |
iincc the prohibitions were removed. !
-hough Irish manufacturing indus
ries, as witnessed by the activities at !
Belfast and Dublin, are far more pros
lerous, many times over, than they
we're before free trade became the i'm.
,erial policy and they are steadily
progressing. The bright and quick
vitted colonel would better continc
himself to the things he knows"
rhen he undertakes 10 argue economic
uestions. For such an argument
S that only makes him a laughing
took
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Plat has given Mckinley a name
which he thinks will stick. the Dolly
Warden candidate in allusion to a
style of dress goods "a generation ago,
which included in each piece all the
eolors, styles and combinations ever
Known UP to that time. Platt doesn t
eed to explain that he means to call
Mckinley all sorts of candidate for
I'll sorts of men. There is considerable
10 the facts of the situa tion, whet her
Mckinley is personally at fault for
hem or not, that justifies the ep-
S.het. just now the Mckinley man
gers are issuing broadside for cir
Eulation in the East to show by quo
lations from his speeches that their
candidate is for sound money. Out
Vest they have been circulating an
gfher pamphlet, and used it effectively
Nefore the conventions in all the silver
Gates. to show by other quotations from
His speeches that he was silver man.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Tx Gov. Pattison of Pennsy Ivania is
an avowrd candidate for the Dem.
ocratic nomination for President. But
he doesn t want to hunco anybody into
his support or any misconception as
to his position on the most important
issue of the day. So he is willing to
express mis- opinion "a the silver ques-
ton. lie says:
II have but one view ON the money
question. That is in favor of the eN
listing standard. | am in hearty accord
with the overwhelming sentiment of
the East against the free coinage of
silver We want To restore the conf
dencc Of the business world and bring
about conditions that will end the
doubt that exists. That will insure
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
Cardinal Gibbons speak

Rev Dr. Stafford Of 81. Pat
ricks church Of Washington 4
prominent Republican who held Tor.
eign mission under President Harrison
recently addressed several questions e
Cardinal Gibbons relative TO attacks
OF the A. =. A. on the Catholic cit.
liens of the country. The cardinal
sent the following reply
1T is tho duty of the leaders If po-
litical parties 10 express themselves,
without any equivocation, on the prin'
ciples Of religious freedom which I'M
derlie our constitution. Catholics are
devoted 20 both the great political par
ties of the country and each individ-
ual is left entirely to his own con
science. We are proud to say that IN
the long history of the government OF
the United States the great Catholic
church has never used or perverted
its acknowledged power by seeking to
make politics subserre its own ad-
vancement.
Moreover it is our proud boast that
we have never interfered with the
civil and political rights of any who
differ from us in religion. We deman d
the same rights for ourselves and
nothing more, and will be content with
nothing less.
Not only is it the duty OF all par
ties distinctly to set their faces
against the false and un-American
principles thrust forward of late, but.
much as | would regret the entire
Of any religious body AS
such with any political party. am
convinced that the members Of relig-
ous body whose rights, civil and relig-
ous, are attacked, will naturally and |
unanimously espouse the cause of the !
party which has the courage openly to
wow the principles of civil and relig
rus liberty according to the constitu
ion Patience is "a virtue. But il is !
lot the only virtue. When pushed too .
ar it may degenerate into pusllanim-
tN -
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
II Nav 10 as Much for You.

Mr.. Fred Miller, Of Irving, ILL.,,
writes that he had Il Severe Kidney
trouble for many years, with severe
pains in his back and also that his
bladder was affected. He tried many
so-called Kidney cures but without any
good result. About year ago he be
gan the use of Electric Bittcrs and
found relief at once. Electric Bitters
is especially adapted To cure all Kidney
and Liver troubles and often gives
almost instant relief. One trial vii
prove our statement, Price only Soc
Al f. II. Holden a Go. S Drug Store
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
THE REFoRMER: BRATTLEBoRo VT. FRIDAY MAY 22, 1896.
The New York World has been inter

The New York World has been inter
viewing the leading Mckinney men IN
the states and territories which de-
clared for Mckinley and free silver, to
learn whether their advocacy Of him is
based on the belief that he is SILVER
man. Several answer yes not ono says
no. IN Nevada Mckinley Is hailed as
the best available man for silver. EX'
Secretary of State Gray says: Though
not so pronounced friend Of silver as
is desirable, he s held TO be accept
able as compromise. II is not gen
orally believed that he would veto
any silver bill" In Idaho, Gov Me-
Council. Lieut. Gov. Bierhower, George
Stewart W. Scott Neal, Gen. Parsons
and +. c. Ramsay all said they regard
ed him as the least iminical to silve
of any Of the Republican candida ties
while of course they all applaud his
hi. h tariff views.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

There were Democratic state conven
tlons in four states Wednesday. Two
New hampshire aud South Dakota
pronounced for the gol Id standard. and
two, Iowa and South Carolina.
silver Cleveland was Kissed
two latter and cheered in the form.r
but IN neither state platform. nor :,
the speeches of the sound monoy -
ators was there hint If a third tam,
Russell was plainly the fayor;to =.
New Hampshire, Boise the only cho;nn
OF Iowa and Senator Tillman dom;n.,
ted the South Carolina convention AMI
assaiied the President witbout 70
straint The New Hampshire deleyates
at large are Frank Jones. Alyab "
Suiio"ay' Irving ". Drew. Charles
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

q Through the exertions of the Cit
1 lens League of New Orleans, trouble
$ts been averted over the results of
ae late state election and the enor-
@ous frauds that very evidently char
&terized it. Murphy Foster, the Dem
cratic candidate, was seated as gov
lsnor with the agreement that an Aus
allan ballot law shall be passed. a
Snstitutional convention called to he
.ansider the qualifications for voting
Sd a new state election held The
lYte as counted stood 1l6 226 for Eos
u to 30, 1888 for Pharr, the Republican
indicate who also had the support of
e Populists and the Democratic SUI
III planting interest. This combina-
pn for Pharr was sufficient to carry
b him the % parishes that contained
Barge majority of white votes, but
Iey were offset by "A "a, 900 Dmocratic
u jority returned from the black
ut. There is considerable Dem
sfatic negro element in louisiana,
10 nothing like what these returns
Owed, where in some parishes the
s8mocartic votes were more in num-
"a than all the voters registered, and
some precincts four or five times
IRE than all the males of voting age.
&e present 90 stitution of Louisiana,
Ia result of the great shame of 1876.
bids any going behind the returns
ssan election, so that a fraud once ac-
xnplished at the ballot box is i'm
sgnable. That there were wholesale
buds was hardly denied, and the e1
20 was the old and familiar one of
/ necessity of preventing negro su.
macy, of saving white men from
ing ruled by "Senegambians, as a
re committee circular expressed it, |
hugh as matter of fact it was ne |
& supremacy of d fraudulent kind, /
inst the wishes apparently of the ma
Aty of white men that the Democrat
sNictory represented. In other words
sFas reduction to an absurdity of
& old cry. Still it is always dan
bus remedy for election frauds to
ZINE to reverse their results. and the
fZens League has done work of
Hsnanent beneficence in bringing
sut the settlement it has. The Aus
Jan ballot is the best protection
;ible against an ignorant as well as
3 nal vote and it is one of the anon
5 of the time that Southerne-s.
lie expressing such fear OF negro
ination and making IT the excuse
such crimes against elections. have
+, the most reluctant of all the
erican people TO adopt the new bal
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
Memorial Day Exercises.

The exercises appropriate to Memoria
Day will cummenc" on sunday morning
next, May 2ith, Selgwick Post.
Woman's Relief Corps. Sons of Veterans
and Ladies Aid Society will attend SER
vices at the tniversalist church ut 10 80
Il, m. the pastor, Rev. Hal u. Maxwell
officiating. On Friday the Post. ut the
invitation of Principal Beverage. will
attend the exercises at the high school
building at 10 a. m. In the afternoon
different members of the Post will
speak 10 the scholars of the several
schools OF the lower grades. On Satur-
day morning at 0 the Post will visit the
cemetery at West Brattleboro and deco
rate the graves there with appropriate
exercises.
The afternoon exercises will be held
at the Auditorium at o'clock. and will
consist of music by the band PRAYER.
singing by a male quartet. addresses by
Col Geo w Hooker. recitation by Miss
Alice Willard. At the close of the cX-
crcises the line will be formed in front
of the town house in the following order
First Regiment Band. Chief Marshall
Col ThoS Harmon and aides. Estey
Guard as escort. Capt J Gray Ester
Committee of arrange
mcnts. Scdgcwick Post G 4 Il. RS
Chase commander, Old soldiers and
sailors, Boys Battalion, speaker. invited
guests and disabled veterans in carriages.
The line of march will be MP main
street to the common where the soldiers
will he decorated with
appropriate exercises. The march |
will then he resumed to the !
where exercises will |
De held. Graves will he decorated. |
including those in the Catholic Gene !
cry. The ranks will then be reformed. |
md the processio:l will return to the |
Town House where ranks will be hrok-
N.
contributions of flowers from the
chool children and citizens are solicited.
o be left at the stage entrance of the
auditorium Friday afternoon or early
saturday morning
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

The Mckinley men profess to be
greatly tick led at Tom Platt's assault
on Mckinleys silver record They say
it has had the effect to rally to his
support IA strong column uf valuable
friends. This would naturally be so
among the silver men. and out West a
lot is being heard just now about the
attempt Of Wall street to bulldoze
him" and the conspiracy of bosses
andDemocrats' to- force Il declaration
from him, with "A corresponding admi
ration of him that he won't yield.
But besides this it looks very much
as il il had also strengthened the Ohio
major even in the East. There is a
sense of fairness to which tirosvcnor
appeals when he says that after the
fight has been fairly made and tri-
won by one candidate the
friends OF other candidates should not
join to weaken the victor before the
people, and II takes expression in
New York where Warner Miller comes
out il an interview pronOuucing
Platt' charges untruthful, Infamous
and outrageous, false and unfair. and
declaring thatPlatt' has not solid del
egation back of HIM when he starts an
Infamous attack on an able and splen-
iid Republican. Miller says that az
A consequence half the New York del
gates viii support Mckinley at St,
Louis.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Judge Wheeler in his orders guiding
the Central Vermont receivership, is
apparently atiording grateful con
trast to the usual receivership meth
dds. He is holding strictly to the true
principle that the business of IA receiv
ership is to receive, not to expand
and swell with fresh debt. If this
rinciple had been adopted with the
of 1878 it would have
saved the state the most shameful
chapter of her history.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

|. Nothing to say is Candidate Nc
|Kinleyley's logged reply when appealed
Ito for an expression of opinion and
purpose on the most important and
difficult issue OF the time, one of whose
right decision theme whole business
health OF the country depends. There
is nothing in your constitution and
principles but what | can fully EN-
Horse is his prompt response to the
catcchism of a. p. A. blgotry, intol
FRANCE and un-Ameircanism. The
.ontest is worth STAYING.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
Ill. +. TAYLOR.
X. Z. GORDON. Com.
4. ii. WARD.
los. Harmon. Chief Marshal.

There 6 more catarrah in this sec
ton OF the country than all other dis.
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be in
curabie. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced il a local disease, and
prescribed local remedies. and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment. pronounced il incurable.
Science has proven catarrah To he a
constitutional disease. ana therefor
requires constitutional treatment
Halls taiarrah Cure. manufactured
by +. j. Cheney ~ CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
is the only constitutional cure on the
market. II is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops 10 teaspoonful Ii
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. They 1fr,r
nne hundred dollars for any case il
fails 10 cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials. Address.
+. j CHENEY Il ca. Toledo. O.
=" Sold 10y Druggists. T5c.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Some of the A. p. A. leaders feel
very compacent over the smoking
out of Mckinley this week. AS one
of them says:
t"The Mckinley men thought they
had pleased the A. p. A.. without
Catholics knowing it, and the Cath
olics without the A. p. A. knowing
it,
But it is game that won't work
any more
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

1t turns out that Uncle Sam and
Spain were at the very brink of wal
over the Competitor case. When the
naval court martial condemned the
captured men, disregarding the pro,
tests of Consul General Williams at
the overriding of their treaty rights, it
was with sentence that they should
be shot at sunrise the next morning
Mr. Williams was in constant telegraph
ic correspondence with the state
department at Washington. and acting
on Olney's instructions as soon as he
learned Of the verdict, Williams went di
rectly,to CaptaipGeneral Weyleir's pal
ce and notified him that his instruc-
tions were, if the men were shot, to i'm
mediateiy demand his passports and
that the CnitedStates would hold Spain
responsible to the utmost. Weyler
was intleXible and declared that the
sentence should be carried out regard
less of consequences, The president
and judges of the supre me civil tribu
nal of the island, the chairman of the
leading conservative parties and the
managing director of the Spanish
bank were called into consultation 10y
Captain General Weyler and Admiral
Navarro. Most of them advised sus
pension of the execution, but Weyler
still said No. and vowed that he
would resign if the sentence was not
carried out But in the meantime
Minister Taylor at Madrid was enter
ing the same emphatic protests there
and the result of them was that the !
home government proceeded to over
rule Weyler without waiting for his |
report, ordering him to suspend all !
and transmit all doc.
lments to Spain, and also telling him
to await more opportune moment to
give up his command. as for diplomat
C reasons the government could not
,trord at this crisis to have him sud.
lenlv resign.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

mes L. Francis, Alderman, Chica-
says: II regard DIR. Kings New
eovery as an Ideal Panacea for
CHS, Colds and Lung Complaints,
ng used it la my famll. for the
five years. 10 the exclusion IF
ician's prescriptions ,f oil
arations.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

There is imminent danger of the
final abandonment Of the Irish home
rule cause by the Liberal party in
England. Lord Roseberry has never
been very cordial to ii and the facticn-
Al fights among the Irish members,
breaking into three fragments the solid
phalany Mr.. Parnell once SO splendid
~ led, has greatly lessened their value
as political allies. Now the action Of
the Irish members in solidly support
ing the Tory educational bill, which
secures important advantages both to
the Episcopal and Roman Catholic
churches and establishes the evil
principle of sectarian control OF educa-
tion, has greatly exasperated the Lib
erals, who were AS consequence bur
led under vote of 423 to l56 on the
second reading of the bill last week.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt and John
Morley are reported to stand out res
olutrly against the betrayal of what
they regard as "A great principle of
right regardless of any consideration of
partisan advantage. But the develop
ments on the school question have
given fresh force and intensity to the
old argument that "Ilome Rule mean
Rome rule and this is an especially
effective cry with the non conformist
churches who have hitherto under
inspiration, been the
allies of the Home Rule |
cause, but who regard the Tory educa,
ton bill as the concentration of all |
The course events are |
taking is most unfortunate. meaning |
mother long postponement of Home
Rule, even though it be a cause that
must eventually triumph. But it is a
development to which events have been /
plainly tending for the past three
ears, and one for which Irishmen
themselves are to blame in large he
,rec
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

"Pudd 'nhcad wilson wins again.
The civil service commission Of New
York adopts his doctrine by requiring
candidates for the police and the fire
departments to furnish imprints upon
paper of their thumbs.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
TINE REFORMER.
FRIDAY, MAY ~, 1896.

Mckinley not only voted for the
Sherman law in 1890, AS the next best
thing to free coinage, but a ftef its re-
peal in 1893. he bcrated the Dem
ocratic Congress for striking down
ailNNr "
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

The highest of high tariff, silver
stradde, and \, p. A. prescription
seem to be the three cardinal prin-
icples on which Mckinley and the Re
publican party are planning to go into
the coming campaipn.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

ciples, Republican legislation and Re-
publican rule have inflicted on the
country all the evil il has suffered
with silver and are really responsible,
as we believe, because of this fooling
and compromising, for the prevention
or postponcment of an international
So 'ement Of the great question. liar-
rison ran successfully in 1883 on u plat
form drawn up by Mckinney, as free
silver man IN the West and sound
money man in the East. The Job is II
good deal more difficult one this year,
but it is evidently determined to at.
tempt it, until after convention any
WAY.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Rev. John Burgus. Keokuk. Iowa.
writes: Il have been Minister Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for 10
years or more, and have never found
anything so beneficial, or that gave me
such speedy re- lei Us DIR. Kings New
Discovery. Try this Ideal Cough
Remedy now. Trial Bottles Free at F
II. Holden 4 Co. s Drug Store. adv
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
Constellation

Causes fully half the sickness in the world. II
retains the digested food too long in the bowels
and produces bihousness, torpid liver, indi-
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

results, easily and thoroughly. &c. AlIdrnggsts.
Prepared by {, l. Hood & Co. Lowell. Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarssparilla.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

Dove written.
EeEileT.
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