Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-19

feeling which swept In on Its crest to the
White house a Grover Cleveland was sup.
posed to have brought profitable and
salutary wisdom to the republican party.
But Judging from recent events, the
same arbitrary spirit, the old radical no.
tions and WORKOUT theories are still be-
ing brought to the front. And besides
this, the republican party today, and we
say 1t with pain aud sorrow, is the rem
devious for legsllzed robbers and thieves
and hooters VINO are uting its heroic his
tory and magnificent traditions as a
means to advance their Ubiquitous and |
unholy schemes.
Stripping the mask from the situation, |
the horrd spectacle is presented of a
country fast IN the vice like grip of the
money power. Major Mckinley, an
amiable and, we may say, an intelligent
and well-intentioned man, is bound
hand and foot by the advance trades and
promises made by his agent and boomer,
Mark Hanna. In rounded periods and
unctuous platItudes he tells what he
will do for the public welfare; but grin
ming and sneering behind him are the
vissges of Mark Hanna, Phil Armour,
George NJ. Pullman, John d. Rockefeller
and score of other. billionaires who
bought and paid for his election. In
the name Of the national honor they adj
vised us to vote for the republican can
! dldate, and we did so because We could
not swallow the anarchstic doctrines of
J the Chicago platform. But now they
show the cloven foot, and stepping bold
= ly forward claim, like ShylOck, their
pound of flesh. Where are we to look
e for an avenging Portia to battle their
e unholy schemes? From the first inter
! national bimetallism is thrown to the
r winds. The promises of the st. Louis
e platform are laughed to scorn. A man
e from the West, the representative of the
: western money kings, is, against the
e wish of the presdent-elect, forced into
d his cabinet. Regardless of the views of
;, the president elect, this man from Chica-
d go proclaims war against the greenback
h from the start and declares for cur
r rency to be issued by the national banks.
s What are we to expect? Where will
e they land us next? Can the contraction
of the currency 60 on much further
l. without bringing upon us still greater
IS quota of misery and trouble? We be-
e lieve not.
d 1t is hard for US to prophesy evil, bu
& we must warn the republican leaders
h that they must do something toward In
y jecting new spirit Into their policy. The
it people are not looking forward to pro
W lection with any great degree of hope
t. The agricultural interests of the country
ID are more and more against it. One par
tie of the country will not stand forever thu
g. idea of being robbed that another sec
d. ton may become prosperous. 1t is cas-.
er to deprecate the division of the masse
ed and the classes, but this cry will no
he down. Like Banquo's ghost, it is tn
ell disturbing element at every political low
an feast in che land. Today there is
he spirit of unrest all over the Unite
ad States. 1t began on the plains of tn
far West, but now its cry for relic
ut meets with an echoing response fror
be every city and hamlet. We hope an
n pray that Mr.. Mckinley will see tn
of situation as it really exists before it
in too late, and that he will shake asid
er, these men who, if they are given tn
ch chance, will pull down the republica
party into one great ruin Bosto
rd Traveller.
an THE MAIDEN NAME OF ETHAN ALLEN
he SECOND WIFE.
a Some of our readers will remember
,w discussion in these columns some tw
lat years ago or more in regard to til
he maiden name of the second wife {
ms Gen. Ethan Allen. When he marie
hit her she was young widow, Mr.
W. Frances Buchanan. She died an
in was buried in Burlington and tt
yes inscription on the tombstone ovC
ire her grave gives her maiden name ,
nv Frances MonteZuma. Nobody now SUI
poses that that was ever her name.
90 H. Hall in his history of Eastern We
=, mont says that her maiden name ws
$50 MOntuZan and that she was the daught
:. of a colonel in the British service in tn
a. country, who was killed in the FrenC
90 and Indian war. Inquiries instituted
49, the editor of this paper of the State
49, brarian of New York, and in the En-
40. fish war Office in London, elected Il
49, facts that no such name as Montuzan
49,, Montezuma appears in the rolls of En-
'iu lsh officers engaged in the colonial wa
~ in America.
nE- We ventured at the time the surmi
'nH that Montuzan was a clerical or typ
'he graphical error for MontresOr. I'll
'e supposltion has been recently confirms
OH by Rev. j. NJ. Kerildou of Swanto
hat E,tbor Kerlidou's interest in historic