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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

lican press, and predicted that democrats
who follow this advice will be the most
lonesome crowd in the country after the
fourth of November next. He declared
that he had precious little respect and no
patience with democrat who proclams
himself superior to the best men OF the
country who were assembled at Chicago,
and who declares himself willing to lead or
follow third party. Such a man is a
traitor to the party that has done 80 much
for him. Mr.. McGettrick attempted to ex-
plain and ridiculed the idea advanced by
the republican press that because the demo.
Gratis OF Vermont in state convention as
sembled declared for gold standard that
now no self-respecting democrat can vote to
support the national ticket and platform.
He declared that the resolutions adopted at
the state convention were simply in the line
OF gratuitous advice to the delegates to the
national convention to be held at Chicago,
and that the delegates elected at the state
convention were instructed to abide by the
vote OF the majority, Had the speaker
looked up the record Of the state conven-
ton before he made this statement he would
probably not have made 1t, for he would
have found that the delegates went to Chi
cago absolutely untrammeled by any in
structions. Mr.. McGettrick declared that
no man is true democrat who does not
abide by the decision Of the Chicago conven-
ton and stand manfully by it. He closed
by giving some reasons, from his stand
point why Tree and unlimited coinage OF
silver would be a benefit to the working
people.
George w. Burleson of Fairfield was the
next speaker He regarded the money
question as the one national issue. He
traced the monetary legislation of the
| United States from 1861 to 1896, from a
democratic standpoint made an excellent
argument and wound up with Bryan's
crown of thorns and cross of gold smile.
| Mayor T. H Brown of Rutland made a
vigorous address, defending the platform
adopted at Chicago and discussing at
| length the benefits that would follow the
free and unlimited coinage OF silver
Mayor j. W. Gordon of Barre, well
known to be a pronounced hard money
democrat, was the last speaker Mr.. Cor
don spoke Of the increase in state expenses
in recent years, under republican admin.
istration, and urged the election of his
townsman for governor as a panacea for
this. He stated that he was open to con-
viction on the money question: was in nc
| hurry to decide the matter, but in no way
committed himself to the support of the
Chicago platform and nominees. His en-.
ergies from now to September 1 would be
put forth to secure the election of DR.. Jack
son for governor, or, IL that could not be
done, to reduce the majority OF the repub
lican nominee. The convention adjourned
after giving three cheers for the national
state and county tickets.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
Marshfleld Items.

The game of ball to have been played
this week with the St. Johnsbury nine has
been Cancelled for the present
Eleven two-year-old heifers, owned by G.
& #. Wooster, have died within the last
Ira Kicker OF Groton bought carload of
hogs in this town and Cabot last week.
He intends to be here once in two weeks to
purchase stock.
The Stars defeated the Plainfield nine at
Plainfeld last Saturday. They are to play
another game next Saturday on ID. Il.
Loveland's meadow.
Warren ID. Smith played baseball with
the Danville club against the Hardwick
nine last Saturday. He plays with the
same team next Saturday at Hardwick and
Morrsville.
Edgar Kidder and Arthur Sanford were
arrested last week for intoxication and
breach of the peace. They were taken to
Peacham, where they were placed under
bonds for appearance at court in that place
August Is.
Mr. and Mrs. II. II, and Oakley Meader
were called TO Danville last week TO attend
their brothers wife's funeral. - Cora
Preston is at home from Montpelier on a
vacation. - Mrs, ii. p. Martin is sick.
Peacham doing their haying. - Mrs.
Win Pitkin has typhoid fever. - Hattie
Cole il visiting her grandmother in Rox-
bury. - Alice English OF Montpelier is
visiting her aunt. Mrs. Warren Fifeld
Ross ensilage cutters can be seen at the
store of Barrows ~ Peck. Montpelier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
A Total MiscOnceptiOn.

A Washington correspondent who
describes himself as " a waiting demo-
crat" writes to us that it is not fair for
the republicans to expect that demo-
Gratis should join with them "to defeat
the anarchists under Bryan's lead, ;" I'M
less they also are prepared to make
concessions. " We are not SELFISH"
he says, 4" but let the other side CON
cede something" and the concession
he suggests is that Mr.. Mckinley
should decline in favor of "some mild
hammered protectionist."
That is totally wrong view. A
democrat who votes for Mckinley votes
"to defeat the anarchists under Bryan
lead" He makes no concession, and
why should he require any? He does
not vote for Mckinley as republican
but as the representative of honesty
against reputation, of business Sc
curity against business ruin. He votes
in his own interest as citizen to save
his property from destruction and our
political institutions from utter per-
version.
Our correspondent has not yet walked
up to an understanding of the actual
Sllua-lOu. lreineuuouo ioVoluoiou ir
threatened The enemy is at the
gates. 1t is no time to talk about
concessions among the defenders Of
the citadel of national honor and politi
cal security. All they need is leader
to follow, and they have him.
Every day between now and The
third of November the necessity fol
such union will become more apparent
New York Sun (dem,)
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

A DEPRECATED Gu r r E NCY
WOULD WORK DISASTER TO THE
INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE, AND
TO NONE MORE THAN THOSE OF
THE woRKINGMEN AND PRO
DUCERs LONG YEARS AGO DAN
lei WEBSTER SAID THAT THEY
WERE THE FIRST TO FEEL 1T AND
THE LAST TO RECOVER FROM IT
"a DISoRDERED CURRENCY" SAID
HE, us FATAL TO INDUSTRY, FRU-
GALITY AND ECONOMY. 1T FOS-
TIERS THE SPIRIT OF SPECULATION
AND EXTRAvAGANCE 1T is THE
MOST EFFECTUAL OF INVENTIONS
TO FERTILIZE THE RICH MANS
FIELD WITH THE SWEAT OF THE
POOR MANS BROW" -Recent Speech Of
William Mckinley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

THE WATCHMAN has once published
the names of all the nominees for Of
fee. In ample season for the full in
formation and guidance of voters on
election day, it will again publish these
nominations. This course was long
ago predetermined. The space here
tofore filled, week after week, by a long
list of names of candidates is more use
fully occupied by live, pertinent, up-to-
date political matter. The old custom
is waning and is observed by few if
any of great leading papers, and by a
part only of the state papers. Mean
while the American flag waves and the
American eagle screams for Mckinley
and Hobart, for the twin issues of pro-
lection and sound money, at the head
of the WATCHMAN column.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
East Montpelier Items.

Mr.. and Mrs. e, A. Arbuckle are the
parents of daughter, born last Saturday.
w. NJ. Clark and j. S. Wheelock have
built large and commodious storehouse
for grain and mill-feed.
Miss Mary Kelton is in Boston on visit
to her uncle, Captain ID. Ii, Kelton. She
will visit friends at FoXboro and Salisbury
Point, Mass, before her return. - The
many friends of DIR. and Mrs. L. w. Cate
OF Springfield, Mass, are pleased TO know
that the doctors health is improving in this
locality, warranting prolonged vacation
are at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. - L..
w. Sibley left last Monday for Brockton,
Mass, to enter the employ of retail cloth
ing. firm. - Miss Mabel Willard OF
Calais visited her sisters, Mrs. K. b. Ar
buckle and Mrs. James Warhurst, last
week. - Mrs. Ann Burnham and son
VIII of Burlington are visiting relatives
and friends in this place.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

THERE is being circulated in this
state a document bearing this title
"Republican Reasons Why Josiah
Grout Should Not be Governor of Yer
mont" The parentage of the docu-
ment is not set forth in its title. 1t is
evidently intended to be, and possibly
may be, misleading. The "reasons"
are cited from articles published in the
VERMONT WATCHMAN previous to the
meeting of the republican state conven-
ton at Burlington. The document ap-
parently assumes that reasons why the
republican candidate should not be
governor, are reasons why DR.. Jackson
should be. This sort of logic shows
the completeness of the democratic
conversion to populism, for the print
ing and circulating of this document is
the work of those consistent populist
democrats, or democrat-populists, who
at the recent state convention OF the
democracy, set upon and would fain
have mobbed Captain Monahan for pre-
senting in said convention resolution
demanding "the free and unlimited
coinage of silver into money of re-
demption at the ratio of Is to l."
Those same democrats, including their
candidate for governor, have suddenly
turned double summersaut and landed
in the camp of the populists, acceptin G
free coinage of silver, reputation of
honest debts, anarchism, and the entire
schedule of the populist beliefs. The
reasons why DIR. Jackson, nominated
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
The Difference 1t Would Make.

Confused by the din of conflict raised
by the opposing champions of the plat
forms of the political parties con-
tending for the control of the gov
eminent, the novice in business and
finance asks, despairingly, " What diff
ference does it make whether gold or
silver is used for money!" The ques-
ton shows the vagueness of the gen.
eral understanding of the question that
is agitating the country, and its init
mate bearing upon the common affairs
Of life. The difference is varied and
complex, but in general way the eff
feet of the substitution of silver for
gold as the money of commerce in the
United States, in its simpler, but very
important bearings, may be easily COM
pretended.
Gold is the money of the world.
A grain of gold has substantially the
same money value among all CONNER
cial peoples. Gold is the money stand
ard of the great nations of the EARTH
1t ia the standard of value in the United
States. An American gold coin is cur
rent in foreign countries at its face val
ue, at the same value it has at home;
but American silver dollars are worth,
outside of the United States, only
about half their face value, which is
simply the market value of the silver
| they contain. They are treated lot as
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOT
ONLY BELIEVES IN SOUND MONEY
AND THE HIGHEST PUBLIC FAITH
AND HONOR ON THE PART OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
STATES TO ALL ITS CREDITORS,
BUT IT BELIEVES ALSO IN A
TARIFF WHICH, WHILE RAISING
MONEY ENOUGH TO CONDUCT THE
GOVERNMENT ECONOMICALLY AID
MINISTERED, WILL SERVE THE
HIGHEST AND BEST INTERESTS OF
AMERICAN LABOR, AMERICAN AG
RICULTURE, AMERICAN COMMERCE
AND AMERICAN CITIZ e N HIP.
SOME OF OUR POLITICAL OPPO-
NENTs ARE GIVEN TO SAYING THAT
THE TARIFF QUESTION Is SET
TIED. IF WE ARE NOT WRONG IN
INTERPRETING THEIR MEANING,
WE THINK THEY ARE RIGHT-AND
THANK THEM FOR THE CONFESS
SION. WE BELIEVE THAT TIL E
TARIFF QUESTION IS SETTLED
SETTLED IN THE MINDS AND
HEARTS OF THE AMERICAN PEG
PIE AND SETTLED ON THE SIDE OF
PROTECTION. - Recent Speech of WI
Ian, Mckinley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.

OUR APPEAL, THEREFORE, is NOT
TO A FALSE PHILOSOPHY OR VAIN
THEORIES, BUT TO THE MASSES OF
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHOM LIN
COLIN LOVED AND TRUSTED, AND
WHOM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
HAS ALWAYS FAITH u L L Y
STRIVEN TO SERVE William McKin-
lev's Speech Of Acceptdnce
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

on radical gold standard platform,
but who, between two days, fops round
on to free silver, debt.re pudiating
platform, should not be governor Of
Vermont, are so clear to the voters
that campaign literature will not be
needed to enlighten them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

to regulate the daily rise and fall of the
Atlantic or Pacific along the American
coasts, in defiance of the natural forces
that have regulated those movements
since the world was created.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05

w o demand { h o
mainte n ance OF a
gold 8 n d ard of
value, as being in the
true interests of all
our people = ="
and we are opposed
to free coinage Of sill
yer except by inter-
national agreement.
Vermont democratic
platform.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
The Deadly Parallel.

l can see no good
reason for any demo-
crat in Vermont to
bolt the nominations
made at Chicago, or
the platform h ere
adopted. l am ready
to roll up my sleeves
and do all the work
l can do in their sup
port.-Dr. Jackson,
democratic candidate
for governor, IN Mont
pelier speech.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
TRIALS OF HOUSE BUILDING.

The building of a house for Max Fem
stein, assNo. 2S Canal street, BY Constable
Charles e. Gudgeon, has produced finan-
cial difficulties which Chancellor McGill
will havf to, take a hand in straiehtening
out. About October, 1894, Gudgeonn
built the house for Feinstein' and n f9e
course Of its construction hired Henry
q. Weinert. the Greene street plumber. to
attend to all that branch of the work Az
ter this plumber had finished his work
he claims there was still due him a
balance Of. $25 and some extra work
subsequently, done to order swelled the
amount to $75.
When the house was finished Gudgeon
filed amechanics lien on the building III.
order to obtain his money from Owner
Feinstein. Joseph A. Nugert as referea
reported that he found $3.50 due to Gud
geon. The money was therefore ordered
paid. Gudgeon Immediately assigned the
amount to Vanderbilt and Schill the
Hoboken lumber dealers, to whom he was
indebted. - = -
Yesterday Chancellor McCill issued ~
order at the instance Of Co1lnsell0r Col
denhorn. who represented We:YleTf c1r,, M
pelling Gudgeon to show cause whv az
should not be deducted from the ar1onnt S,f
assigned to Vanderbilt and Schill III order
to repay Weinert ~ ~ n -
TO that end he orders Judge Seymour
to hold $50 of the $50 still In his possess;
sion pending his decision In the ease T5al
hearing IS yet down for Monday. As,,iI+
8, 10 Chaneery Chambers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
THE MAN WBPT.
After He Left the Gar All the Women
Followed Suit Out OF Sympathy.

Followed Suit Oul OF Sympathy.
A man who was weeping bitterly at
tracted the attention of the passengers
in trolley car. bound for Bayonne
about four o'clock Thursday afternoon.
His eyes were red and his nose was,
too, and he held a handkerchief, crum-
pied up like mop, in his right hand,
which HE occasionally pressed to his
eyes to dry the tears that welled up in
them and ran over ON his cheeks Some
times he held it to his mouth and bit
It IN his efforts to repress his grief e
AS the car drew nearer to the NeJ
York Bay Cemetery. his manifestations
of deep grief seemed to increase, and his
efforts at repressing them were more
strongly exerted and less successful
Finally he fairly sobbed aloud In this
pitiable condition he dismounted at the
cemetery.
Then peculiar thing happened The
car was crowded so that one or two
schoolboys We're standing. Two-thirds Of
the occupants We're women. They had
regarded the man very solemnly while
he was in the car, but the few men on
board We're not prepared for the outbreak
which followed. After the unknown IN
dividual had left each woman in the car
ven and pressed her handkerchief to her
eyes. In moment every lady in the
car was in tears In another everyone
was sitting upright again, red-eyed and
abashed.
The phil0sophic conductor on the rear
platform remarked well, If THE women
don't beat all. Everyone of them was
at all II that blolxe struck them for
quarter apiece he'd been that much rich
er. tell you women are easy once you
reach their hearts,,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
MALE VOICES IN CHORUS.
Liederkranz GesangvereEn to BE in
GreenvEIIe Next Month.

The entertainment Of the Greenville
Liederkrantz Gesangverein, to be held in
Geilbels Hall. No. "a Danforth avenue,
on Easter Monday, April 6, will be the
first of its kind in the Greenville section
for several years. Not since the annual
concerts were abandoned in 1889 has
anything in the nature of choral enter
talnment with male voices been at
tempted in the neighborhood The reason
for this was the non-success of those con-
certs. President Schaefer believes this
was due to the classical nature of the
music presented.
The programme this year is made up Of
more popular music. and the interest al
ready displayed promises success. One
oi the signs OF the renewed popularity of
the Kranz is the support accorded by the
forty associate members. The programme
in full for the concert follows:-
ira; German Folk-songs of Buhr, by the
Liederkranz duet, from the opera Of
Martha by Messrs. Carl Bleidner and
J. Schmidt; solo. Fuerst's s. Mailuefertl, .
by Carl Vonnegut; trio, s'Dfe DriIlinge'' Of
Genee,- by Messrs NJ Schaefer. r
Schmidt and NJ. Schmidt; selection. bv
the orchestra; duet, from F1otow's opera
of "stradella.' by Messrs. NJ. Schwarzen- ,sl !.
beck and J. Schmidt: tenor solo, Lassen's
Still as the Night by Carl Bleidner:
Quartette. Elm Neuer Saengerkreig auf
schaefer, Carl vonneguf + Richard msSIfs and ~
Julius Schmidt: selections By the orches-
ira; concluding with "An Hour in a SING
ing Society," which requires the com
biped voices of all the Kranz members.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
ONE OF THOSE WESTERN EPISODES
What Old Grover Had in Mind In His
Home Mission speech.

GUTHRIE, Ok, March 28 1896.-The in
formation has reached here of an affair
on Thursday near Fort Sill Indian Agency
in which over $4,000 in money on horse
races changed hands, two Indians were
killed, a Federal officer was wounded and
two spectators were hurt. Last week the
regular annuities due the Apache, Kiowa
and C0mache Indians were paid by the
Government, the aggregate of money
paid out being $125,000.
After the payment at Fort Sill the
young bucks and an army of gamblers
and confidence men retired about six miles
from the Fort and inaugurated a series
of horse races. The race track was on the
prairie, one mile to O. haystack, around,
and then back After twenty races
had been run and an enormous amount
of money wagered. won and lost, a gem
eral fight was precipitated by an Apache
Indian accusing a gambler of doping
a horse which had already run six miles
and won several Races.
Some of the Indians sided with the
whites and for forty minutes a terrible
riot ensued in which Little Horse and
Charley Leftshoe, Apaches, were killed.
A soldier from the barracks and two
spectators of the races were wounded
by random bullets.
Agent Woodson is investigating the
matter and will arrest all parties Dur
ing the races some of the reds after
losing from $500 to$ $500 wagered and
lusteven the provisions and blankets
which had been issued them few hours
before
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
SLAUGHTER OF MATABELES
Bn Cable 70 ths United Prsss.

S CAPE TOWN, March %, 1Sss-A force
OF British troops under command of Cap
tain. Spreckeys, defeated large body Of
Matabe1es on Thursday, killing large
number of them. The British force lost
no men
A despatch from Buluwayo under yes
terday's date represents the situation as
being Of the gravesr character. A thous-
and women and children burned a store
forty miles out from Buluwayo on Thurs
day and performed dance around the
flames. Many murders of whites, of the
most fendish character, are reported
Cecil Rhodes is expected to arrive at
Salisbury on Sunday. It is learned that
the native police induced the Matabeles
to revolt and Joined them with $50 rifles
and a large quantity of ammunition.
r. G. Selous, the African explorer, who
started from Buluwayo at the head of
a force OF men 10 put down the revolt
OF the Matabeles, has had an engagement
with the enemy, many OF whom were
killed. More murders of whites by the
Matabeles are reported The transport
riders are abandoning their wagons and
hurrying into the towns for safety The
rebellious Matabeles have raided almost
every estate in the disturbed district and
carried off all the CATTLE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
ALL In HARMONY.
Democratic City Committee
Adjusts Protests and
Comp1etesathe
Ticket,
GOOD WILL ALONG aHE ZINE
Opening Of the City Campaign
BY the First Ward Club-Bad
Work IN Hoboken.
GOOD WILL ALONG aHE ZINE

Inc Democratic City Cenrnittee met
iast mgnt IN Fischer's Hail. and dssposeA
p lne protests Of the defeated ca15aflates
ior Aldermen fn the Second ana with
Maros. The meeting was q hot 5ias : ana
onaarnan Michael L Fagan mad hard
tinne Keeping order. The meeting room
was. packed to overlooking with the4frfends
OF the successful and defeated candi-
dates
The fight in the Fifth ward was taken
up first
Snalses or irregularities and wholesale
oeparture from party customs vera
charged by Donnelly and Murphy. who
nao been supported by the friends Of John
MnlVaney. The followers of Tracy ana
maxwell put in a general denial of all the
onarges- It developed that the Donnellv-
Murphy faction were not partio,,larlv on
posed to Tracy and Maxwell personaliv
put put objected to men from other wards
The en,,1g.s4t 1s,ng ~ the naming Of candidates.
SION. sn and decided that Charles WsxS1ai1
siaonfa sdo oe the regular nondnee for ff1a one
year tsnh tsrn aaa 5s 5shn A Tracy for the two
adjust the difiouIty anon aeetvns tha,s,'nii VIII
ana ana work like beavers for fhe s,Iacess -
tne entire ticket success VI
ne1f aRe secopd waEd protests were taken In
made but in Important resoests were thse
1IaSheq IailA corroboration. AS a, conseouercss
3UaH inaliJ. :. f1eavey was given the regular nom,
7 afion IIs Ior The two year term ElsSrir
nee. 1he coistapulary nomf-
;. with these differences asfusted m.
.ast trace of trouble in the nartv a;soI1 ol1o
be N sda IN every ward a red hot tight viii
ussHxeIop sHep are doomed to disappointnen+ 4io
ts3l ito3nignt the First Ward Club viii 5sva
vii nig Time. A banner is to be raised. n
Nh NIL oe suspended from the ciuhhouse a.
Mmoonlgomery and Warren streets across
AZ ..,s, M.o,sn,lSomery Street Ito the FsranirIir
~ p.iiding on the opposite corner. The hsn-
LIZ L. is Ixi2 and bears the names Of
f fHslntze and Boltwood for Street aod ID
and Mdeer W3i3s R9srd re Gandtdates of James Burns
didatess and of John II. Masker the the csn- cs1,-
olnate G,l;ls for constable. They are, the banner
VIII announce, the Citizens and TsxnaTl. nav
ers nominees There will be fireworks
and . speeches and a jolly time eenersilv
Al a are invited and Joseph Whalen, nns
01 O1in fne e. most active workers. says guests
night ~ the Club viii receive the returns irTs
ana nave them shown on a transparency
TOT tne benefit of the public S'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
MORE TROUBLE FOR LANaDoN.

PHILADELPHIA, March %, 1885,
Samuel P Langdon, who is in custody
under suspicion that he is responsible
for the death of young Annie j. McG-
rath, was today visited by Deputy Sher-
riff Smith, OF Clearfield county, who
served upon him, as President of the
Altoona and Phillipsburg Connecting
Railroad Company, an injunction issued
yesterday by Judge Cyrus Gordon of that
county. The action was brought by
George W. Dickey and five other per-
sons who are creditors of the company
and who applied for writ to restrain
Langdon or amy of the officers of the
company from disposing or incumbering
the property. The complainants allege
mismanagem in conducting the road
and the move Is regarded as the first
step towards having the company placed
in the hands of a receiver.