St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-12-28
Press Comment.
A Good Word for Lieut.. Gov. Bates.


Several state papers have announced
the name OF the person who is to be the
next governor OF Vermont. Go easy
boys, when the ticket is ready to be
made up the voters will take Il hand in
the work and especially the voters of
Caledonia county. There is only one
man right in line with the people for
governor OF Vermont and that is Lieut.
Gov. Henry c. Bates of Caledonia coun-
ty. Keep it as still as you mind, but he
is the only logical candidate for that i'm
portaut, honorable position. man of
and Tor the people, hampered neither by
corporations nor by political influence,
an able jurist, a scholar and gentle
man, why not Henry c. Bates for gov
ernor of Vermont? What man with
better legislative record in Vermont:
Not one. Keep an eye on what the
people want and you will observe that
there is demand for Hon. Henry {.
Bates of Caledonia county for governor
in 19O0.-[Hardwick Gazette.
THE People will Pay the Bills"
And il Dewey wants more ships, more
men, or more money, 1.-THE people will
pay the bills" in spite of the croakers.
They rather enjoy paying bills forpatrio-
tic purposes. and they have not the
slightest suspicion that Dewey will waste
their money by unreasonable or unneces-
sary demands. In fact, their faith in
Dewey is so we'll grounded that his
opinion as to the policy Of holding the
Philippines outweighs, in their estima-
ton, all the gloomy forebodings of the
anti-expansionists. 1t is not a great
stretch of fancy to imagine the patriotic,
hopeful millions OF Americans whose
faith in the future OF their country is
braced and buttressed by its glorious
past. uniting in grand chorus Tor the
edi6cation of Messrs. Cleveland, Hoar,
Edmunds, Boutwell,, Hale, and their
lutte band of gloom-stricken disciples,
and letting their souls break out in these
comforting lines:
eye fearful souls fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercies, and will break
In blessings on your head"
"And the people will pay the bills, de-
pend ont. - Washington Post.
SectionaIlsm is Dead.
Before the president visited the South
sectionalism was dead.
1t received staggering blow when
war with Spain was declared and volun-
teers from Dixie crowded to the recruit
ing camps to enroll themselves under the
| flag. 1t weakened when Mckinley, who
fought on the Union side, appointed ex-
Coniederates Lee, Wheeler, and Butler to
share in the command of the armies or
ganizing against foreign foe. 1t went
down when Hobson, that daring son OF
the South, scuttled the Merrimac beneath
an iron hail from Spanish forls. 1t per-
ished when old Joe Wheeler led his divi-
sion up the d, ably slope of San Juan Hill.
In his visit to Atlanta and other cities
OF the South President Mckinley has
rolled stone above its place OF sculpture.
May time nor any upheaval come that
shall ever threaten a resurrection.
The president has stirred the southern
heart by his gracious and patriotic utter
ances as it has not been stirred in many
years. When he declared in his speech
before the Georgia Legislature that 1.-THE
time has now come, in the evolution OF
sentiment and feeling. under the provi.
dence OF God, when in the spirit Of fra
ternity, the North should share with the
South in the care of the graves Of the
Confederate soldiers" he touched a
chord whose vibration may never cease
in the States, that thirty-seven years ago
espoused secession.
Surviving Confederates, their sons and
the sons OF their dead comrades in arms
no matter how they may differ from
Maj. Mckinley on questions of policy
and the practicalities of government
will never cease to regard him with
friendship and gratitude for the brave
and healing words he has spoken above
the grave of sectionalism.-ISt. Louis