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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29
Orange County Court.

The case of State VS.. Alden Aldrich was
given to the jury on Tuesday afternoon,
June q, and after two hours deliberation a
verdict was rendered that respondent was
guilty of the lesser offence, that is a breach
OF the peace, the Indictment having been
for an assault with intent to kill, and the
defence being insanity. States Attorney
Hale K. Darling and John II. Watson for
the State, R. M. Harvey for the respondent.
On Wednesday morning was begun the
trial Of State v. Homer N. Young, an ap-
peal from a Justices judgment Of last Octo-
Der upon a complaint Of the States Attor-
ney alleging intoxication of respondent at
Tunbridge fair on Sept. 90, 1897. This trial
occupied the remaining part OF last week
and will probably not reach the jury till
Wednesday, June %, many witnesses being
examined. States Attorney FL. X. Darl-
ing and John II. Watson for the State, W.
W. Lapoint, John W. Gordon and George
L. Stow for the respondent. The next case
will be State v. Amos B. Wright, an indict-
ment for rape Of an eight years old girl in
Chelsea upper village in February last.
States Attorney Darling and r. M. Harvey
for the State, John Fl. Watson for the re-
%spondent. Other State cases are: Amos j,
Chamberlin burglary; Charles B.. Hoyt,
peddling without license; Edward r. Cor
iiss, burglary; Herbert s. Colby mi Nora
A. Pepper, adultery; Frank Broughton and
Benjamin Parker, breach Of the peace; Da-
vid Lutez, assault; Richard Kennedy, sell
ing liquor; Homer Alger, breach Of peace;
Eugene Ilsley, assault with intent to kill
Alexander Wilson, breach OF peace.
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East Brookheld.

Mrs. W. w. Sprague visited in East Mont
pelier last week.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Course last week.
Miss living of Barre visited her aunt,
Mrs. A. G. Hubbard, last week.
Oliver Dutton visited his sister, Mrs, John
Buzzell, OF Marshfeld last week.
Miss Lila Smith Of Willismstown was a
guest at w. #. Medcalf's last Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Sails Of Burlington was the
guest OF Mrs. W. III. Sprague last week.
Children's Day was observed last Sunday
with appropriate exercises by the little
ones.
Mrs. Mary Sargent was called to st. Johns
bury last Saturday to attend the funeral of
f, z. Sargent.
J.. ". Parmenter and George X. Sprague
attended the district convention at Mont
pelier, the former as delegate.
Mrs, ID. NJ. English returned the first of
the week from Everett, Mass, where she
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. French.
DR.. and Mrs. III. l.. Newell and daughters
OF Rutland are in town, guests at the homes
OF w, A. Robbins, Georgs and Silas M.
Wells.
W. w. Sprague, j. NJ. Angel and W. II.
Sprague attended the Republican State con-
last week, the latter as delegate.
Stop that coughi Take warning. 1t may
lead to consumption. A 25c bottle OF Shl-
loh's Cure may save your life. Sold by w.
e, Terrill & Co.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29

legislation at the session OF 1896, credit
for which is now claimed for MIR. Hoar.
These horses travel in opposite direc-
tions, and Mr.. Hoar can hardly ride
them both. These are current matters
of discussion in the papers of the
county. The WATCHMAN is response
BILE for none Of them. If Mr.. Hoar is
nominated, and faithfully and to the
best Of his ability executes all the laws
of the State, is true to his oath of office,
he will have no more earnest supporter
than the WATCHMAN. This paper has
no partisan feeling in the matter what
ever. But his record and qualifications
are things into which the delegates to
the convention, if they do their full
duty, will inquire before they nominate
a candidate for States attorney, and
they will be under bonds to no town
caucus in making their selection. The
whole county is before them. So far
as Mr.. Laird is concerned he accepts
cheerfully and in good faith the stu
alton created by the Montpelier caucus
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Senator Morrill, Opposes.

Senator Morrill, read from manuscript
q speech of some two hours length in
opposition to the Newland resolutions
concerning the Hawaiian Islands Sub
Joined are some of the points made by
the senator against annexation:
l am unable to concur with the
learned committee on foreign relations
in regard to such annexation, whether
by treaty, by joint resolution, by fla
grant executive usurpation or in any
manner which leaves an open door for
their admission into the Union as a
State.
The undesirable character of the
greater part of their ~iligathered races
Of population, gathered by contract to
serve long years of semi-slavery by
sugar employers, does not warrant and
never can entitle them to an equal
representation in the Senate of the
United States with Virginia and Mas
sachusetts, or with Illinois and Colo
RADIO, nor any other State. A new men,
Der, as a business matter, ought not to
be pushed into the Union without the
consent of all the present members.
We can be their friend without taking
them into our family. The Hawaiian
annexation scheme hardly belongs to
the present administration or to the hui
manitarian war, and the time may come
when even it's present boldest advo-
Gates may not be unwilling to have it
more Justly known as an untimely
seven months offspring of some pre-
vious administration.
My firm conviction, however, is that
annexation of distant islands is not in
harmony with the Constitution of the
United States, but is conspicuously re-
pugnant thereto; nor is it in harmony
with the history or even with any of
the recorded opinions OF our earliest
and ripest statesmen.
The Hawaiian Islands, If annexed,
would prove as barren OF military i'm
portance as of commercial, which is
wholly based on our unfortunate grant
of a free market for their sugar, and
their annexation would be a source Of
weakness and no more desirable for the
defence of the Pacific Coast than the
back side of the moon. IL annexation
is to be our fate, at least two or three
of our vessels of war, including n Of
our best battleships, should be sent
| forthwith to Honolulu, unless we in
tend to leave the islands as an easy
prize to some idle Spanish gunboat.
The formal annexation of Hawaii,
under a one-man power, under a re-
public in nam or whatever form OF
governmental experiment we may
choose, or be compelled to prescribe,
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"The Winning Side."

The Vermont Watchman must have been
inspired from some questionable extra
mundane source to commit so many hor-
rible political blunders as it has perpetrated
in the campaign which has closed this week.
Ordinary and unaided human intelligence
could not have achieved such dire results.
Burlington Clipper.
So far as can be seen the allusion ia
simply to the fact that the Watchman
supported Judge Read and some other
candidates who were not nominated
that it failed to get on the winning
side. If this is true the remark is dis
graceful.
1t is pleasant to win in a political
6ght-there is no doubt about that.
But the newspaper that supports n
candidate or another simply aiming to
get on the winning side is not fit to
live. And a newspaper taking that
course never fails to get the contempt
it deserves.
And this brings to mind a popular
fallacy in respect to defeat in a cam
paign for the candidate himself. Many
men-perhaps most men who concern
themselves with politics-have some
sort of more or less vague idea that it
is a terribly destructive thing to a man
to be beaten in a race for office. The
notion is wholly mistaken. 1t will in
deed injure a mar to play tricks run
ming for office, and that whether he
gets it or not, but no man making an
honest and decent campaign can lose
anything. If he is really a weak can
didate the fact may be developed, but
that is all. He is really no worse off
than before. And if he shows himself
a strong candidate he is sure to be
greatly strengthened by the contest
which brings disappointment at the
moment. Take two notable instances
which we all know about. Grout beat
Stickney in the race for the governor
ship two years ago, but which of the
candidates was strengthened personally
and politically by the outcome? Every
body knows. The other Grout has just
defeated Judge Read in a congressional
race, and the same question and the
same answer are suggested. These
cases are in some ways exceptional, but
in. each the battle was so bloody for
the victor that his political death was
threatened, while the defeated candi-
date came out unouestionably stronger
than he went in.
Try to be right, newspapers n men,
be straightforward and hammer away
as we'll as you can and you are pretty
sure to win in the end, and anyhow
you will deserve and get respect and
keep self-respect.-Rutland Herald.
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will advertise the final wreckage of the
Monroe Doctrine, 30 long held dear by
the American people.
Self-respect will compel us to discard
and seek a divorce from the glory of q
connection With an historic measure to
which the public opinion of mankind
will at once pronounce us unworthy.
We cannot afford to denounce and for
bid all acquisitions of territory in the
Western Hemisphere by European gov
ernments, even at the peril Of war, and
forthwith embark in a thus bedamned
enterprise ourselves. If we would have
our yet unstained doctrine respected by
others, we must scrupulously practice
what we preach.
The historic policy of the Republic
of the United States for the hundred
years just passed, based, as it has been,
upon the sound doctrine promulgated
by Washington in his Farewell Ad-
dress, with words of perennial wisdom
against foreign entangling alliance, has
taken root in the hearts of the Ameri-
can people, where it is treasured up as
their political Bible, and cannot now be
Knocked at as merely an ancient tradi-
ton.
Its acceptance has made the Nation
great, made it respected. If our fdel-
ity to the well .ripened craftsmanship
of the Father of his Country shall be
perpetuated for the next hundred years
as in the past, the honor, prosperity
and power of our Republic, it may be
safely predicted, will light and lead al
the nations.
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Bryan's Self Exposure.

Mr.. Bryan's speech defining his
views of the policy of the Government,
while wearing its uniform as one of it's
subordinate officers, is far from dis
Greet, to say the least of it. In his
haste to deprecate annexation with
responsibility for far-distant island
possessions, he shows that he has yet
to learn that the American Nation
does not allow considerations of selfish
comfort to silence a sense of duty.
The American people have shown a
level-headed and honorable spirit since
the battle at Manila. 1t is equally to
their credit that they have not bawled
for annexation without knowing what
they were to annex, nor against annex
alton without first discovering how to
discharge a responsibility which they
cannot shirk. Neither the greed Of
the flibuster nor the shrinking of the
man who cares more for self-ease than
for conscience has characterized the
behavior of any considerable part of
the people. 1t is generally recognized
with great solemnity of feeling that
victory has imposed upon this nation a
responsibility which cannot be meas
ured or comprehended until the end of
the war has placed before it a definite
situation, but which it is not possible
for Americans to shuttle off.
Gam 1 my brothers. keeper" did
not show the spirit of the most honor
able character in human history. That
it would be murder, not of n Abel
but of millions, to turn over the Philip
pine Islands to Spanish vengeance, or
to the unchecked rule of insurgents If
found incapable of self-government, or
to the tyranny of any power capable of
exploiting the islands solely for Pc
cuniary gain, is as plain now as it will
be when the yet unknown alternatives
and conditions are presented after the
close of the war. What can then be
done is not known, and therefore what
ought to be done cannot be known.
But he has a very mean opinion of the
American people, and thinks less of
their honor and decency than they de-
| serve, who fancies that a s%elfishness
without heart or conscience will rule
their action when that time comes.
The occupation and orderly govern
ment of these islands until wal ends is
The most imperative duty of the United
States under international law, and
even more under the higher and high
est law. Multitudes of foreign resi-
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Duty. Decency and Destiny Before
Party.

The effort to caucus the Democrats
of the House of Representatives against
the annexation of Hawaii failed. 80
The resolution passed officially blinds
nobody. 1t was hat sit is the sense of
the Democratic party, as represented in
the House of Representatives, that the
annexation of Hawaii is dangerous and
undesirable; that it reverses our tradi-
tional policy and, we believe, will lead
to colonial ACKNOWLEDGMENT and ulti-
mately to the destruction of Republican
institutions"
Before further noticing these resolu-
tions let the words of William j. Bryan,
at the dedication of the Nebraska build
ing at the Omaha exposition, on Tues
day, be looked at. He deprecated "the
degeneration into q wal of conquest of
a struggle undertaken for the sake of
humanity" He thought that would be
s'the addition of hypocrisy to greed"
He hoped our national character was
strong enough ''to withstand the temp
tation to appropriate the first piece Of
land within cur reach" He opposed
s'any scheme for the colonization of the
Orient merely because tour feet won a
remarkable victory in the harbor Of
Manila" He recalled 'sthat govern
ments derive their just powers, not
from superior force, but from the con-
sent of the governed" He defined
''land-coveteousness as no part of ma
tional destiny" He demanded "that
good faith shall characterize the max
ing of peace as it did the beginning Of
war" And he preferred "the enduring
happiness of a homogeneous people to
the dream of the splendors of a hetero-
geneous empire encircling the globe"
The speech and the resolution,
though as far apart as Omaha is from
Washington, bear the stamp Of con-
certed action and previous agreement.
AS far as they can, they commit the
Democratic party, as an organization,
against the annexation of Hawaii, the
| ultimate absorption of Cuba or the re.
tention of, the Philippines and Porto
| Rico. They cannot officially commit
the democracy to that programme, be-
cause only a national convention of the
party can do that. But they do send
up to the next Democratic national
convention a record which that body
will have to adopt or reject, for it ia
one that cannot we'll be ignored.
The point in issue is the enlargement
of the United States. Every enlarge.
ment of them has been a Democratic
enlargement. The stamp which Jeffer'
son and his colleagues put upon oul
treaty of peace with Great Britain, after
the Revolution, carried our dominion
from the Allegheny river to the North
western lakes, and brought to Jus Ohio
Indiana and Michigan. BY the Louis
lana purchase, Jefferson extended oul
dominion from New Orleans, east ant
west of the Mississippi, to the Canadian
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29
The County Convention.

The results of the caucuses in Mont
pelier and Barre have materially chang
ed "the lay Of the land" Barre will
enter the convention tomorrow asking
for the States attorneyship, and as the
ally of Montpelier in the latter's prefer
ence for a senatorship, which was ex-
pressed at the caucus on Monday even
ing. In its review of the political stu
alton two weeks ago the WATCHMAN
stated that L. Bart Cross might become
a candidate for the senatorship, if
Montpelier should decide to enter the
contest for that office. That decision
was made on Monday evening. The
candidates entered for the office of
Senator are now Mr.. Cross of Mont
pelier, Mr.. Putnam of Middlesex, and
DR.. Slayton of Warren. Two Senators
are to be chosen, and the task the con-
vention will have before it, at the out
set, will be to decide between these
three aspirants. In a full convention
there will be 1876 delegates, divided
among the towns as follows:
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SENATOR HoAR, chairman of the
Senate committee on the judiciary, says
of the compromise bankruptcy bill,
which is now awaiting President Nc
Kinley's signature to become a law:
SIN getting it through we have been
obliged to leave in it some crudities and
imperfections, which must be remedied
by subsequent legislation. The bill
will enable from 100000 to 100000
b%ankrupts to get on their feet again.
1t will enable manufacturers and mer-
chants to get a fair division of their
debtors property, and will prevent a
great deal of fraud, embezzlement and
wasteful dealing with property"
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dents have a right to demand protec-
ton alike from Spain and from insur-
gents. Property rights of many citi-
zens of other countries must first be
defended by the Nation which has de-
stroyed Spanish power there. Multi
tudes of insurgents also have rights
which this Nation cannot honestly dis.
regard. In many ways it becomes the
plain duty of the United States to dis
charge, for the best future good of
the people Of these islands, a RESPONSE
bility which has fallen upon this Ma
ton, not merely in administration and
protection while the war lasts, but in
determining what should be done
when war ends.-New York Tribune.
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Barre city and Montpelier have SO
delegates, if they vote solidly together,
and as 70 constitute a majority 43 adj
ditional votes must be secured from
the other towns by the candidate who is
sure of the support of the two city dele
cations, whether it be for Senator or
States attorney, the offices most direct
ly concerned in this combination.
The claim for Montpelier in the matter
of the %senatorship, as previously stated,
is that six years have passed since the
town has been represented in the SEN
ate, and that the Importance of her in
terests entities her claim to considera-
ton at this time. For Mr.. Cross it is
urged that his business qualifications
and his party services entitle him to
the honor Montpelier will ask.
Mr.. Putnam and DR.. Slayton are men
of recognized ability, large experience
in the affairs that qualify them for
good legislators for Vermont people,
and are persons of high character. 1t
is further urged that the senatorial
honor has not gone to Warren for
nearly a generation, and that Middle
sex has not for twelve years been re-
membered in the distribution of county
honors. The convention will be the
high court of judicature in settling
these rival claims and satisfying indi-
vidual aspirations.
In the matter of the States attorney
ship: No other Office has 80 much to do
with the moral welfare of the county.
Upon the faithful and efficient admins
tration of it's duties depends good order,
safety to life and property, the obser-
vance of the laws and punishment of
offenders. Who shall fill this office is a
matter of more than passing interest.
1t is important every day in the year.
The Office should not be lightly be-
slowed upon any aspirant, and locality
should be the last consideration deter
mining its allotment. On this score
the WATCHMAN can add nothing to
what has already been said in its col.
umns. At the Montpelier caucus Mr.,
Laird lost, by a narrow margin, the
prestige of the formal endorsement Of
his immediate constituency, yet he re-
received a support which, under all the
circumstances, was a high persona
compliment. For Mr.. Hoar of Barre
an unsigned endorsement published il
the Times of that city, claims for hin
all the qualifications the situation il
this county, particularly as to the llquo
traffic, demands in the public prose
cutting officer. On the other hand ii i
charged that the Barre aucus declared
in his favor as the representative of
lax enforcement of the prohibitory law
and that Mr.. Morse, who was Barre
candidate for the senatorship, was de
| feated by reason of his alleged persona
> responsibility for certain temperate
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29
A Representative Astray.

In his speech at Middlebury, accept
ing the nomination of the first district
convention, Representative Powers de-
clared that tour President stood like a
bulwark against those crazy jingoes
who were in favor of war at any cost"
Who were "those crazy jingoes," pray,
who were in favor of war sat any cost?"
Did they exist anywhere outside of
Judge Powers imagination?
Because some patriot of warmer
blood than the Representative of the
first Vermont district, and possibly of
clearer vision, refused to be longer the
accomplice of Spain in her crimes
against humanity, and further to endure
with patient humility her enormous
offences against his country, he was a
"crazy jingo." Gen. w. T. Sherman
was denounced as "crazy" in the earlier
months of the civil war, but when his
mania had affected the officers of the
civil government, and had attacked his
comrades in military command, the re-
bellion began to totter to its fall.
Judge Powers ought to be above such
petty and hackneyed filings. The Mug
wumps should be left to menopolize
weak and meaningless epithets. Judge
Powers was otherwise %singularly un-
fortunate in his expressions. He spoke
OF "the traffic of the great nation of
Japan which has sprung up in a single
night" Presumably the judge intend
ed to say that Japan, as a great nation,
had sprung up Gin a single night" an
extravaganza in expression as inexcu-
sable as his Characterization of Ameri-
cans who demanded freedom for Cuba
and punishment for blowing up the
Maine as 'crazy %jingoes." Neither
Japan as a great nation, nor her i'm
mense traffic, has sprung up in a single
night. Both have been the legitimate
development of the national policy in
stituted by Japanese "'jingoes," when
Commodore Perry, in 1854, broke the
shell OF national seclusion. For forty
wears, from this historic beginning,
national greatness had been accruing
under statesmen whom the disciples of
the old regime undoubtedly branded as
"crazy ~jingoes," if the vocabulary of
the Mugwump exists in the Island EN-.
pire, and in 1894, in the war with
China, it rose full orbed on the eastern
horizon.
1t is singular that in the United
States, whose government, in 1854
gently but firmly opened the doors
which for centuries Japan had closed
against the world, there has now sprung
up a coterie of men who are resortinG
to revolutionary methods to resist legiti
mate territorial expansion and nationa
development, who are insisting with
s~trenuousness that is akin to violence
upon a national policy that is closel.
analogous to that which this anne gov
erDment OF the United States compel
ed Japan to abandon.
Judge Powers seems to have a scarce
ly disguised admiration of the neN
power in the East. Does distance len
enchantment to his view of "jingoism?
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To "Blanche, Sweetheart and Tray"
the WATCHMAN offers assurances of dis
tinguished consideration. The esteem
ed contemporary at Rutland has pre-
scented certain views on the situation
that could hardly be better expressed,
and which are submitted for persual
and reflection.
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ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.
Republican State and District Ticket,

The Republicans of Vermont will
vote, at the September election, for
these candidates nominated to the sew
eral offices named:
FOR GOVERNOR,
EDWARD G. SMITH, of st. Adams.
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FOR REPRESENTATIVES, IN CONGRESS,
First District, H. HENRY POWERS,
of Morrisville.
Second, WILLIAM. w. CIRCUIT, of
st. Johnsbury.
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FOR TREASURER,
JOHN L. BACON, of White River
Junction.
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FOR LIEUTENANT-GovERNoR,
HENRY G. BATES, of st. Johnsbury