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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-24

Judge Gavin was indisposed today, part
ly from overwork and need OF rest, and
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-24

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that the proposed Reed Aiis1a ea-attfs
ton. which ,ad t1en bFuuiag al csy
was OF, Their lat snost % zee tog, t.er
WAS made late In sta egenlag. u r.s-,i,ss
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supposedly acceptable ~ Ffgth fa~ftcra
ana said COMMITTEES named r 4 sIhy,if-,
OF GalYe5ioa. Eaw!ey d8n't Nglt ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-24

Ge4see+ f.otfcrt
Fl,se clo.Ds-; q oogp9ns srG place 20
tae creg. ~ SlfseG hlszAuGsf Your
f,lrse Jamie Mckee.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-24

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Ife1eter Nlrea = -IlsSr Efr Please
fae % eQabras t0f itsttie Wafters N ihe
e.efc-e OPP teff j.. s.. i<olof.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

state convention" The Free Press
ought to know what will surprise it and
what will not, but its statement on that
point, if not burst OF humor, would
appear to be either inspired by that
cbildlike confidence the heather
cbineen had in the result OF his little
game, or it is q case OF clear bluff. In
similar strain, not OF prophecy but OF
declared fact, the Monitor declares that
"the time now seems to have come
when the wish of large majority Of
the people of the state can be gratified
and the nomination Of Major Grout
made" When we're the people p lied
and this remarkable unanimityrecorded?
Who are "the people,? Is this "large
majority" evolved from the forty odd
thousand of the people who customarily
vote for republican principles, or from
the "four hundred" who sometimes
combine to control the states political
destinies9 Did these forty thousand
good men and true assemble on some
Runnymede, beneath the blue sky,
under the midday sun, to express their
swish" aud demand that "the nomina-
ton be now made"2 Or was the edict
issued by the political "four hundred
from some horse-shed's shadowy pre-
cincts2 The contemporaries confident
expressions are not simple buncombe.
They proceed from an assurance that
the job for Major Grout is 80 strongly
put up that the forty thousand of the
rank and file "cannot chuse but "
ratify the compact of the four hum
dred." In their belief, the wedding
guest was not more completely under
the spell of " the glittering eye" of the
"Ancient Mariner" than the great
body of the voters of Vermont are sub.
ject to the arrangements that have
been made for them in the matter of
the governorship. 1t is the business of
the freemen of Vermont to rip up these
arrangements, scatter them to the
winds, and assert and maintain their
sovereignty.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

this timer ls there any greater alb
surdity in the smokers in legislature
passing law making it crime " to
manufacture, sell or give away the
deadly cigarette" than in the rum
drinkers in a legislature making it a
crime to manufacture, sell or give
away, intoxicating liquors? TIE latter
is what happens in Vermont, but the
Monitor has never-and never ought
denounced it as absurd" Is the con-
temporary addicted to the soothing
and balmy cigar" but not the cup,
and so
"Compounds for sins he is inclined to
By damning those he has no mind to9"
The documents in his possession seem
to look that way. He ought to be thor
oughly ashamed of the wretched utter
ances he has loaded himself up with in
respect of legislation against the
ideally cigarette" 1t is the cups
twin demon. The smoker and the
drinker have the strongest reasons, and
possibly make the sincerest effort, to
save the rising generation from evil or
Improbable habits.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
Son OF Beiial.

The mugwump Is the true child of
Mephistopholes. The vote by which
the house entombed the vagrant SEN
ate's free coinage subst tute for the
bond bill called out his latest exhibition
of the evidence of his satanic origin.
Because Speaker Reed has not been
forever and aye proclaiming his views
on the subject of silvar coinage, the
mugwump, with his devilsh leer, has
been feigning doubt as to the speakers
financial soundness, and calling in ques.
ton his candor and courage at time
when he is the most conspicuous can.
didate for the republican nomination
to the presidency. Last week the re.
publican house of representatives re.
jected the senate's free coinage substi-
tute by the magnificent vote of 80 yeas
to 215 nays. Now the Boston Herald
finds in this utter overthrow of the
silverites in the house, action that,
louder than words, speaks of Mr..
Reeds opinions on the question at
issue, and his influence among his
party associates. And the Herald is as
merry as the devil in gale of wind
over its assumption that the free:coinage
men will hold him responsible for the
tremendous dimensions of their dis
comfiture." The reason of the mug
wump's joy is not because Mr.. Reed is
found true to his pol tical principles,
but because his rigid adherence to his
convictions in respect of silver-which
are the convictions also of the Herald,
if mugwump can be said to have any
convictions-may damage his chances
as presidential candidate by focusing
upon him the resentment of free silver
republicans. Mr.. Reed is speaker and
a man of great influence; Mr.. Dingley,
who led the fight against free sill
yer, as chairman of the co nmittee on
ways and means, is Mr.. Reeds per-
sonal representative on the floor of the
house. The sllverites will keep these
things in mind. They will blame Mr..
Reed and they will have logical right
to do 80. So Mr.. Reed will lose the
votes of the silver delegates. The
mugwump feigned to be wretched be-
cause Mr.. Reed was coquetting with
the silverites; now he is happy because
Mr.. Reed may get the grand bounc'
for his fidelity and his service to thu
cause of sound finance. The mug
wump is indeed true child of tn,
devil.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
Political Notes.

SOCIETY has done it's duty in the case
of Bat" Shea 80 far as he is con-
cerned. But its duty in the case is not
visit punishment upon the man who is
morally responsible for his crime. The
head of the democratic machine in Troy
cannot be convicted of murder in any
court. But Edward Murphy is morally
guilty of an attempt to murder sys-
tenn of government that can only live
when elections are honest. Public
sentiment should serve notice on the
United States senator from Troy that
he is held responsible as a partner in
the crime that was punished by the
execution at Dannemora.-New York
Evening Post.
THE declination OF Ex-Governor Dill.
lingham to serve as delegate at large al
the St. Louis convention lets down the
bars, inviting live contest for the
place. Hon. z. S. Stanton of Roxbury
is candidate. He is opposed in some
quarters because OF his active crusade
sg ainst violators of the prohibitory law
while he has been serving as states
attorney in Washington county. I'm
less there are better objections thar
this, be should not be laid on the shelf
He is not making the canvass on the
strength of his anti-rum record, but tC
turn him down on account of it woulC
hardly harmonize with the expressions
| of so many who are shouting to our Off
GERS, enforce the law"-Herald &
News.
The republican party stands for 6
foreign policy dictated by and imbued
with spirit that is genuinely Ameri
can; for policy that will revive the
national traditions and restore the ma
tional spirit which carried US proud,
through the earlier years of the cen
fury. 1t stands for such policy witt
all foreign nations as will insure boil
to US and them justice, impartiality, fair
ness, good faith, dignity and houor
1t stands for the Monroe doctrine a
Monroe himself proclaimed it, abou
which there is no division whateve
among the American people. 1t stand
now, as ever, for honest money and
chance to earn it by honest toll. l
stands for currency of gold, silve
and paper with which to measure on
exchanges that shall be as sound as tn
government and as untarnished as it
honor.-McKinley's speech at Chicago
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
Advertising AxiOms.

THE duller the season the more need
there is of advertising, and of good adj
vertising at that.
SINCERITY is an advertisement is the
continent which frequently makes an
otherwise unattractive business-liter-
airy" dose palatable.
No newspaper reader will ever be-
lieve "selling out below cost" an
nouncement unless adequate reasons
for the sacrifice are given.
NEVER sit down to write an adver-
tisement until you have thoroughly
thought out the subject and know ex-
actly what you wish to say.
THE bare statement that you sell
cheaper than any other merchant in
your line in town isn't worth the paper
it's printed on. Prove it by quoting
orices. -Octavus Cohen
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
Somewhat Previous.

The labored perfunctoriness of the
Free Press declaration for Grout is
relieved by double leads and an occa'
sional flash of that uproarious humor
that CLEANS in the columns of the con-
temporary like a tallow dip in bank
of fog. The subjoined extract may
have been designed for humor, or it
may have been Intended for something
else: SIT will not surprise us if in the
end no other name is presented in the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

PRESIDENT DOLE has granted Liliukolani,
ex-queen of Hawaii, an almost uncondi-
tional pardon for her participation in the
uprising one year ago. The wording of the
pardon is as follows: With the advice of
the cabinet take pleasure in modifying the
restrictions placed upon your freedom at
the time of your release from confinement.
Until further notice, only the observance ON
your part of the following conditions will
be required by the government: Not to
leave the island of Oahu without the con-
sent OF the president or member OF the
cabinet. desire to express my appreciation
of the good faith with which you have OBJ.
served the requirements of former letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

OUR people are growing more and more in
the habit OF looking to @. Blakely, Druggist,
Montpelier, VT, for the latest and best OF
everything in the drug line He sells
ChamberliIs Cough Remedy, famous for
its cures Of bad COLDS, Group and whooping-
cough. When in need OF such a medicine
tive this remedy trial. You will be more
CHAN Pile sed with the result.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
ARTHUR ROPES, General EDITOR.

TIE subscription price Of the WArcHMAN
L. $500 q year. For cash, strictly in advance,
o reduction of fifty cents is made. Subscrip-
lions are reckoned by the month. To be en-
titled to the $3.50 rate, arrears must be paid
81 the rate of $500 a year to end Of month in
ssAtch settlement is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19
North Montpelier.

Walter Hammett of Philadelphia, Pa, is
here on a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. L. O. Ham,
NETT.
Mrs. Mary Choate, who has been in Barre
several weeks past on visit, returned home
last week
At this writing our esteemed neighbor,
George ID. Cutler, is still dangerously ILL.,
with some features of the disease little
more favorable toward his recovery.
New enterprises are materializing quite
fast in this village lately, the latest being
the putting in of general stock OF feed in
the rink building by William Kelley.
Robert Little and family are boarding at
the boarding house Rob, has his bar ber's
chair in the gentlemen's room there, where
he can be found evenings and Sundays.
The latest reports from Mrs. j. w. But
terrified are much more encouraging, and
| nothing seems to be in the way now OF her
speedy recovery. Her many friends in this
her childhood home heartily rejoice in this
favorable news.
The second annual fair OF the Independ-
ent Club, advertised for Tuesday and We'd
| nesdav evenings OF next week, has every
| prospect OF being grand success. All who
| attend are assured in advance OF grand
good time. Let there be general turnout.
Twelvs or fifteen couples of young folks
from this village attended the exhibition at
| Hardwick last week Friday evening, most of
them going in four-horse team driven by
Will Shorey of Plainheld. All are unani-
nous in their praise of the courteous treat
ment received at the hands OF mine host
! Spaulding of the Centennial House.
The Cooperative Creamery organized
temporarily, last week Friday evening, by
electing az directors George F. Sibey,
| l.. @. Hammett, W. @. Bugbee, l.. ID. Co
burn and G. p. HOLSTER, and board OF
three directors, and at meeting to he
holden this "Wednesday evening they are
TO make permanent organization. The
enterprise at present has every appearance
OF certainty
An acceptable term of school in this dis
trct closed last week Friday. We hear
nothing but words of praise Of the teacher,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

RUBBER STAMPS made to order by the
Watchman Publishing Company.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

cepted by our Sundsy-school, so the library
will open with at least 100 volumes.
Mr.. st. John is to sell his personal prop
erty at auction tomorrow (Thursday).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

"THEY are passing law out in Iowa
making it crime to manufacture, sell,
or give away the deadly cigarette, y
a very absurd thing to do, when it is
probably true that three out of four of
the members of the legislature are
users of the soothing and balmy cigar"
We find the foregoing in an editorial
paragraph in the Barton Monitor, which
that paper had apparently cribbed, la
bor-saviDg way the contemporary seems
to have of making up it's editorial page.
Hasn't the Monitor swiped boomerang
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

Livingstone was declared the NOM
the caucus.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

julius Salna has again taken up his resi-
dence in our burgh.
#. K. Brown from Williamstown has
moved to Mrs. A. @. PERKINS, farm.
The conditional gift OF Miss Minnie
Everett of Brooklyn, N. Y, has been ac-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29
THE SOLIDARITY ON POWER,

The negroes of Abyssinia licked the
stuffing out of the Italian army bent on
plundering the people Of their land and
liberty, killing over $4,000 of them
They are robbers and deserve their fate
Men who will at the pleasure of any
king or despot, try to reduce any other
people under their own servile yoke de-
serve just such fate. Italy has no more
right in Africa than the Africans have to
Italy. But ho, this must not be allowed
Africans must not be allowed to rule
their own country. England has or
dered troops up the Nile-not to help
the Italian cause, oh, no-but just to re-
dress some fancied grievance by striking
the AbyssinianS in the rear. Kings al
ways stand together when the common
people claim any rights. The European
despots are dividing up Africa among
themselves. By what right? Why, by
the right that an armed footpad holds up
the lonely traveller. America has too
many million AngloSaxons for Europe
to try that game on us-but by bribing
our law makers she is collecting her
tribute from us every year and that by
thousands of millions of wealth., too
How binder than the Abyssininas we
are.-The Appeal to Reason.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29
Copy Every House the Nation Trial Subscriptions Three Months Cts Clubs More

outside of Jail, but favor driving the la
bOrer first to Imprisonment where he
may work as the slave of the state. To
this end they enact SO called vagrant
laws, by which all men without means Of
support become criminals, and when ar
rested and forced to prison for the crime
OF poverty, the usurers favor furnishing
public employment in prisons to the vic
Tins whom they have forced to that
prison.
This is the situation, and the prob
lem we are called to face in the year
1896. Therefore we are now face to face
with the crisis of the ages. We enter
upon this irrepressible conflict, from
which we are to emerge with victory
and industrial freedom, or in defeat and
hopeless slavery. If we will rise to the
occasion the contest cannot be doubtful.
The usurers have frankly stated the pro-
cess by which they have enslaved the
people, in the famous Hazard circular
issued by the London capitalists to the
New York bankers in 1862, which said.
Slavery is likely to be abolished by
the war power, and chattel slavery de-
stroyed. This l and my European
friends are in favor Of, for slavery is but
the owning of labor, and carries with it
CHe Care VI lHe ldDOrer, Wnlle the EURO
pean plan, led by England, is capital con-
troll of labor by controlling wages. This
can be done by controlling the money"
1t is, therefore, the control of money
which they confess has been the chief
weapon in destroying our people. This
control of money has been possible only
because these same despots have con-
trolled our government, and our people
can never end their slavery until they
hurl from political power the organiza-
tions which have given, and now give to
usurers the control of money. Mr.. R.
NJ Widney, a banker, said in 1891: "A
corner on money is a corner on all other
corners combined and can control the
social and political as we'll as the pro-
ducing labor and property interests of
the nation" This is the testimony of
every honest statesman and of all human
experience. We must have financial
system which will place the control Of
money forever beyond the power of any
combination or class The remedy must
be adequate to the occasion and system
which will destroy usury is the only one
which can meet the demands of this
hour.
San Francisco, April l, 1896.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29
FAVOR COOPERATION
Iowa POpulists in Convention Vote
For Union of All Reform
Forces.
(Chicago T:mes.Heraidl

L ~
Des Moines, April 22.-Gen. James B.
Weaver today recovered the ground he
lost year ago and easily controlled the
Populst state convention, which was the
largest and most enthusiastic yet held by
the party in this state. There were only
9S votes, about One-fourth Of the actual
delegates present, for the resolution to
instruct the national delegates to stand
by the Omaha platform in full.
Gen. Weaver thinks there is a chance
for the Populists to win this year and
says it IS now or never; if they fail this
year, the cause is doomed, he is sure. He
made speech to the convention in the
morning as temporary chairman, which
was one of the most effective of his ca
reer. After having presented the impor-
tance of the money question, he urged for
conservative action by the Populists so
that they could unite all discontented
elements that were in favor Of financial
reform. By the money question he said
he meant not silver alone, but free COIN
age at 16 to 1, not waiting for the consent
of any other nation; legal tender paper
money issued by the government: abol-
ishing national banks and the issuing of
bonds. He begged the convention not to
put more in the populst platform to re-
pei than to attract. He claimed that the
situation was the same now as is 1860
with the slavery questionable old parties
ready to break up, divided on the money
question.
The committee on resolutions was d.
vided, seven to three, on this issue. Only
one short resolution was reported by the
majority, of whom Gen. Weaver was one,
irstructing national delegates Ito secure
the union of all reform forces On COM
mon ticket on common platform found
ed on the fundamental principles of the
Omaha platform" with the initiative and
referendum added. The minority wanted
the full Omaha platform indorSed. After
a heated discussion, in which it was said
that the Omaha platform in full would
drive "away the very men we are after"
the majority report was adopted by about
three to one.
Chairman Taubeneck, Of the Populist
national committee, and General" J. II.
Coxey made speeches, the former favor
ing the majority report and the latter
arguing for other issues. Mr.. Taubeneck
claimed that 85 per cent of the Populists
were in favor of making concessions for
fusion purposes. Some of the delegates
wanted land and transportation issues
made prominent
Following are the delegates who will
represent Iowa at the national conven-
tion July % in St Louis:
Delegates at-large-General James B.
Weaver, Jasper; A. w. c. Weeks. Madi-
son; w. H. Robb, Union; f. F. Roe, Mono
ma; w. B. Emerson, Cass; c. B. Fisk, Leo;
J. E. Anderson, Winnebago, and A. w.
Kicker, Johnson.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-29

their protecting arm more than another,
and all are taxed according to their means
for it's support. The postoffice depart
ment is an accommodation to the great
mass of our people, but not an absolute
necessity; private means could as WE'LL or
better, be adapted to the transmission Of
our mails and in the opinion of the writer
of this report, could be done so much
more cheaply, with quicker dispatch and
better satisfaction to the people,
Maudlin sentiment, forsooth. Oh, ye
gods Is this not on par with the ex-
PRESTON why don't they eat grass"
When the people of this country COM
plain that the appreciation Of gold under
the single standard has reduced the value
of their property so per cent these sleek
hirelings of the money power call them
"cranks'' When one Of their victims
goes in search of work, they sneer at him
as "a tramp" When poor E: ri, unable
too keep body and soul together on the
scant wage obtained Under their damn
able system, sells her body to one of the
plutocrats engendered by that system,
they style her prostitute. And now
they propose to take from their victims
their one hope of rescue and salvation, a
free press, they poofl-pooh their opposition
as "maudlin sentiment"
So far the people have been patient
and long suffering, praying God for re-
lief, and trusting to the unbribable men
who conduct the reform press to lead
them out of bondage. Will they tamely
tolerate the perpetration of this iniquity i?
Will they see their last hope shattered?
Will they become bondsmen and slaves?
Never! not If there flows in their veins
one drop of the blood of those who won
the battles of Bunker Hill and New Or
leans But remember my words, the pass
age of this bill will mark the flight of lib
erty from these shores, and her cry of
regret will be drowned. by the walls of a
betrayed people when they learn that
they are enslaved forever
-Brabster West.