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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
THANKSGIVING DAY.

National Thanksgiving on stated an
niversary date is an American institution
about a generation in observance, having
originated in the present form under the
administration of Mr.. Lincoln. Different
days for fasting and prayer had for many
Years previously been annually appointed
by the Governors of some of the States.
In the larger sense the occasion has be-
come yearly feast and jubilee event, to
the impairment. doubtless. of the earlier
forms and purpose.
Nevertheless, there are manifold bless
ings and presentations, several and col
leetive, personal and spiritual. local and
national. for which it is meet that all our
people should continually offer thankful
ness to the Most High; and it cannot be
amiss for the negligent or forgetful to be
publicly reminded annually. at least, of
the magnitude of mercies we all in COM
mon crave and receive but not all of us
appreciate and acknowledge.
For us all, therefore. the President as
signs next Thursday as an occasion of
national thanksgiving.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

RIVAL claims as to the authorship of
some of the more popular songs of the
civil war have been persistent through all
the long years since its close. This writer
good many years ago ascribed the lines
of ''All Quiet Along the Potomac To-
night to Lamar Fontaine, whom he per-
sonaliy knew and knew also to have
written the poem in the autumn of 1861,
while the Confederate army was encamp-
ed on Munson's and Mason's hills on the
Potomac opposite to Washington. Fon-
tame was war correspondent and serv-
ing with that army. Probably twenty
several writers have declared themselves
each the originator of the poem, and
against them all this writer stood out,
though there seemed to exist no decisive
and accessible proof for his contention.
The question is now, however, settled for
all time. The Congressional Library re-
Gently purchased collection of original
Southern war songs for preservation, and
among these appears first print of the.
famous ''All Quiet Along the Potomac.
Tonight" with the name of Lamar Fon--
tame as the author and that of Schriner,
Savannah, Ga, 1861, as the publisher.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
PROCLAMATION.

The advent of another November
brings to mind the hallowed and benef-
cent custom of giving thanks to Almighty
God for all His blessings bestowed upon
Us during the year.
While upon each individual soul rests
a debt of gratitude for countless bless
ings of a personal nature, and while
there dwells within the people, as a
whole, realization of deep obligation for
the success and prosperity manifested in
every direction throughout our land, we
are all made keenly aware of His very
especial blessing by that Divine Provi-
dence that has brought to speedy and
successful termination conflict for the
betterment of humanity and of His
cause, by which we have been spared
the misfortune of protracted warfare;
Therefore.I David o. Watkins, Speak
er of the House of Assembly, Acting
Governor, do designate and set apart
Thursday, the Gath day of November
inst, as the day of Thanksgiving, on
which day I do recommend that the
people assemble in their places of wor-
ship for service of praise and thanks to
Almighty God for the blessings bestowed
upon us individually and collectively, for
the courage and hope that inspire our
people, and for all the benefits of liberty
and civilization which we enjoy.
Given under my hand and privy seal,
in the city of Trenton, this first
day of November. in the year of
II. S ] Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight.
By the speaker of the House of As
sembly. DAVID o. WATKINS,
Acting Governor.
HOBART FUTILE, Private Secretary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

In 1900 and 1901 the terms of Justices
Lippincott and Depue will expire. In
1900 Circuit Court Judges Child and
Miller will end their terms. Both are
Democrats. Other principal appoint
ments are in place of Chancery Court
Clerk Thompson, in 1901; State School
Superintent Baxter, next year; the ripa-
rian board. the State board of assessors,
the State board of taxation, the State
board of education, and other boards.
In the counties there are seven district
court judges, twelve prosecutors of the
pleas and nine law judges. When the
next gubernatorial term shall be ended,
ten Democratic law judges and prosecu-
tors and most of the Democratic local
judges will have disappeared. The State
government in all its departments and
branches will be almost entirely in the
hands of the Republicans.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

AT a meeting of the stockholders of
the Guttenburg race track it was de-
cided to make no further effort to pre-
vent the property from being sold by the
receiver on the 18th inst. 1t is believed
that this action was the direct result of
the election. Had the Democrats been sue
cessful there would of course have been a
chance for the legalization of race track
gambling, and an effort would have been
made to save the property from being
sold. Race track gambling is forever
doomed in this State, and the success of
the Republicans last Tuesday is what
did it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
AN oPEnaLETTm.

EIaG70R CHRoNICHE -Dear 5iT1 In view
OFT the disappointment OF the fail
uFe to bring about foes ball match /,
between the elevens of the Morris.
town High Scaool andJ this schooE
an, the day appointed, the principals
wish to offer word of explanation. In
arranging for the game it had been
agreed orally by Telephone, and by
letter that tho teams s1onld not exceed
a specified weight; so. when our OPP
ponents canls on the isla with a team
exceeding that mazSmnm weight by
nine pounds per man, we thought it
but right 70 the community as wsll as to
ourselves. to protest, against sucA disre--
gard of stipulations, and simplyirequest-
ed the visiting team to make changes
Necessary to reduce their team to the
weight agreed upon. AS tae visitors
were unwilling or unable to, meet us In
this respect theze' was nothing to be done
but % declare the game off
Lad we wished we coaId have easily
brought up the weight of our team to
that of the visitors by substituting four
masters who have all played on aniver-
sity eleveas, but we. are aversa to such
practices in schools, as we balieve the
sport properly belongs among the boys.
We were very sorry that. our visitors
as well as those who came to see the
game were disappointed and to make
any reparatioA possible we offer to play
any school eleven or those OF any asso-
csation who shall not average in foot
ball dress more than 100 pounds, the
average weight of our team.
Very respectfully
MoRBIsrowN SCHOOL.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

IT was very kind of the astronomers to
trot out the meteors just after election to
prevent popular relapse into torpor and
stupor, but it might have been thought
full to finance the weather fend who runs
the curtain of the night. OF what posi-
Bile beauty to us all were the bewildering
fireworks of the stars while black masses
of clouds crowded the dome of Erebus
and simple mortal couldn't elevate an
eye toward the empyrean without having
Pluvius Zip q rain-pellet into III
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

'blithesome mind now turns with
gustatory enthusiasm to the theme of
Thanksgiving: Dhursday, November "a
will commemorate the annual American
fete and fatal day. 1t will awaken in us
a negative gestiveness, like its prede-
cessors- in that ONE cannot, as one ought
to, be endowed by nature with capacity,
on that occasion for food enough to main
tain one tillithe next anniversary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

We predict that the official computa-
tion of totals will reveal that in the East
ern and Middle States, if not elsewhere,
the largest vote ever polled, except, per-
haps. in 1896, was cast on November s,
and that it was the closest party voting
ever recorded on a full balloting. 1t will
be admitted to have, without exception,
been the most holly contested and excit-
ing.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

THE total Republican majority in the
six Congressional districts in New Jersey
carried by that party is 1929, and the
Democratic majority in the Fourth and
Seventh districts is 1854, making net
Republican majority on the Congressional
vote of 10,S79, gain of 1854 over the
gubernatorial and Of 1852 over the as
sembly majorites.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

THE Indian of the plains is the one and
only American creature who doesn't get
roast turkey on Thanksgiving, and yet it
was he who, more than all others, helped
to force this appetizing and aristocratic
bird from the eyries of ancient Mexico
across the plains toward the East. But,
in truth, Lo has little indeed to be thank
full for in general way.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
PARkEH-sLooM NuPTIALs.


One of the prettiest home weddings
that has occurred In MorTis:own this
season took place at half past six
Wednesday evening at the home of
the brides parents on Prospect street,
when Miss Edith Jane Parker, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs John Edwin Parker,
was married to Edward Parker Bloom
IF Trenton. The ceremony was per-
formed under a canopy of roses and
snilax, and the officiating clergyman
was the Rev, j. e. Adams of Brooklyn,
assisted by Rev. T. I. Coultas, D. D., of
Morristown.
The bride was beautifully attired In
costume of white satin, trimmed with
DUchesse lace, and carried shower bou-
quet Of bride roses. Her ven was fast
ened with sunburst of diamonds and
pearls, the gift of the groom.
Miss Helen w. Titus of Treaton was
maid of homer She wore a pretty gown
of 6gnred pink silk, fgimmed with
chiffon of the same color and carried
Bride roses.
The brilesmaiGE were Miss Carrie NJ.
LAY, Miss j. Aline Poillon, Miss Viola,
Dobbins and Miss Jessie M. Sharp, all of
Mogrfstown~ They were attzactively
costsmed in white ergandie, trimmed
with Mechlirs lace over pink silk; and
each carried = bouquet of bridesmaid
roses.
Charles E. Bawten of Trenton was
best msn. Tbs usters were J6hn
Moench Of New York; John v. G. Par
ker, Charles H. Corwin and Stacy H.
Briant of H6rristown!
The bridal chorus from Lohengrfn
was played by an orchestra. PALMS.
bridesmaid roses and chrysanthemumss
prevailed as house decorations.
The brides gift to the maid of honor
was the latter,s dress, and the brides
maids received Duchesse- lace handker-
chiefs. A handsome gold knife was the
grit to the best man and silver knives to
the ushers. The fathers gift to the
bride was magnificent case of silver
and the mothers a. gold watch and
chain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bloom, upon HE return
from the honeymoon, will reside in
Trenton, in which city the groom occu-
pies an important position in The offices
Of the Trenton Potteries Company.
Fully hundred and fifty guests were
present. Among those from out
of town were Mr.. and Mrs. James
A Royt and DIR. and Mrs. S: &. Bow
man of New York: Mr.. and Mrs. Waters
B: Day and Miss Hattie Day of Newark;
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry o. .Suydam,and Mr..
and MRS. T. G. Barkerof Orange; Mr..
and Mrs. William Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs.
William T. Hall, Mrs. Fl. Nj Bloom,
Mr. and Mrs. William rs Brohaw, Jr.,
Miss Mamie Titus and William Mad
dock of Trenton; Miss Mary T.. Day
of Hackettstown; Miss Mary Van Cleve
of Pennington; Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Noe,
Louis A. Noe and Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln
Piersen of Madison; Miss Bertha s. Col
s,of Pottenville, S. e DR.. and Mrs.
B. Ell Evans DIR. and Mrs. ELLIOT Gorton,
Dr.. Arthur S. Corwip, DR.. Petsa S. NAL
Ion, Df. 7. P. Prout and Main. Clark of
Morris Plains; Miss Mary Baker of
Jacksonville, Fla.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
Gov VOORHEES, APPOINTMENTS.

While the official patronage Of Cover
nor Voorhees, will not be so important as
that of his predecessor, yet there are
some positions to fill that are by no
means insignificant, namely:
Chancellor McGill's term expires in
1901, and the governor-elect will appoint
Republican lawyer to succeed him.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

No use talkingl The recurrence of the
election period does tear up the business
situation and set back the hands, besides
turning things topsy tnrvy. For a week
after the contests one feels daily as if he
had been run under SCOT blast and had
had his business instincts sandwiched by
castiron filings.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

THosEswho are felicitating themselves
on the proposition that '.free silver is
dead" may find it wiser to watch the
corpse than to interview the undertaken.
The Republican party has got to meet
again that paramount issue ins19O0. and
it is no part of good politics to go to sleep
beside restless bedfellow of that size.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

THE Democrats outside of Hudson only
carried five counties in the State last
Tuesday, and their aggregate majorities
in those FIVE counties were only about
1000, which was but little more than
Essex and Camden each gave for voor-
hees.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

ALL the Philippines, or none! These
United States propose to avoid interna-
tional entanglements by eschewing inter
national alliances. Responsibility of the
the American government for our own
European and other policies, but no re-
sponsihility for the acts of European
partner. Hence, no partner in it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
THE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER.

There has been going on for some time
in the New York Sun controversy be-
tween two or more writers over the prop
osition made by one of these that 'sGene-
raj Shields was the first man and the
only man that every crossed swords sue
cessfully with Stonewall Jackson" The
claim is made, and as warmly contested,
that Jackson defeated Shields at Win
chester, Va. We think the first claim a
valid one, though Shields evidently did
not deem his advantage secure enough to
follow jackson, who fell back to Harris
onburg and remained there for three
weeks
The battle near Winchester was fought
in March, 1852, and would have been
ranked among the minor conflicts of the
war but for one or two facts, the first be-
ing that this action was the virtual begin
ming of the startling and energetic series
of maneuvers and battles in the Shenan-
doah Valley which brought the dashing
Confederate leader to the attention of the
military world. For three months he kept
five federal commands separated and at
sea, while by astnte and lightning tactics
he fell upon each in turn just where and
when he had planned to do so. Though
he had been repulsed by Shields at the
outset his subsequent victories were an,
1nbroken chain.
General Shields lost an arm at Win
chester. In Mexico he had commanded
as brigadier general the New York vol.
unteers and the famous Palmetto Regi-
ment of South Carolina whose colors first
surmounted the wall in the assault and
capture of the City of Mexico. In that
regiment was Captain Maxey Gregg and
in Jackson's little army at Winchester
was the First South Carolina Volunteers
whose Colonel was this same Maxey
Gregg.
And it happened that in South Caro-
lima the States Rights issue of 1882, with.
its latent alternative of Disunion. was a.
cancerous disturbant through long and
heated years and that the apprehension
of war between the States was always.
an acute reality. General Shields was a.
pro-sIavery Democrat when he command
ed in Mexico and States Rights man in
1913, at the close of the war, when be re-
linguished his ssfavorite regiment, = as it
was said he had denominated his Caro-
llnians. To the regiment, drawn ap, to re-
ceive his farewell words. General Shields
said among other things, directly facing
Captain Gregg snd doubtless in his mind
revolving political contingencies now long
settled: 81 now return my sword to its
scabbard, to rest at peace. Should ever
draw it against the State that gave these
gallant troops may my arm fall from its
shoulder"
1t lis curious coincidence that at this
battle in the Valley and in the presence of
a South Carolina regiment containing
one at least of the troops he had led in
Mexico, General Shields lost his sword
arm.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

WHEN Hobson heard that the Maria
Teresa was sunk he wished he had gone
down with her." Now that she has not
sunk he has ''gone down" to get her.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

In thousand centuries the catechism
of North American civilization will con-
tain these among myriad of interroga-
tories and responses: "Who was their
greatest poet?" "Poe." Sand the great
est hero?" s'Poe of the Princetons.''
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

In recent interview regarding the
result of the election Chairman Babcock
of the Republican National Committee
said:
"The victory that we have achieved
is decisive and more far-reaching in its
effect than any in years. Free silver
and fat money are now eliminated from
politics. The Republicans will have a
large majority in the Senate, one that
cannot possibly be overcome for ten
years. When the Old World realizes
this fact there will certainly be marked
appreciation of American interests.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

WHERE'S that Indian summer that we
bank on in Novemoel?-tha balmy in
terval of bird song and blossom between
the autumnal equinox and the knocks Of
winter! Well, it's summer else.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
AMERICAN COLONIAL POLICY.

The results of the Spanish war impose
on us not only an entirely new relation
ship with the concerns of the world at
large but they entail also original prob
lens of colonial responsibility and gov
eminent and, incidentally, modifying
questions in connection with emigration
and the voting franchise.
In nowise are these matters, either in
whole or in part, party or political issues,
but subjects of American craftsmanship,
for broadcast treatment, vast and far
reaching effect and permanent operation.
The system best adapted for the control
of the new and peculiar colonies and peo-
pie must develop from the widest, deepest
and most patient deliberations by those
to whom may be entrusted the determi-
nation of its final settlement, and sin
cere purpose should be held in view to
have the adjustment agreeable to the
whole American people as people, for
if our war victories, participated in and
won in common by all the people, are to
have proved or been made a special bur-
den to any portion of the country, then
the triumphs have not only been frnitless
of good but they will be fertile of evil.
It is in the dispensation of the elective
franchise, perhaps, that the highest ex
ercise of restrictive wisdom may be de-
sirable, to the end that the highest privi-
lege of citizenship shall not become a by
word. Already, we believe, the right of
suffrage has transcribed safe and intelli-
gent bounds. And this subject of colonial
citizenship will accessorily inspire that
of emigration. Abstractly stated, we be-
lieve the time is at hand for preseriptive.
| Limitation to wholesale emigration to the
United States.
Two constitutional amendments which
the people of California voted for on
Tuesday relate to the enactment of laws
| by the Legislature. One of the amend
mends extends the Legislative session
to seventy-five days, dividing it into two
periods. In the first period, of twenty
| five days, bills are to be introduced and
these bills are to be acted upon only after
a recess of from thirty to sixty days, to
enable the people to digest them. No new
bills can be introduced after the recess,
except by consent of ee-fourths of the
/ Legislature.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

FREE silver since election has been
very much like the football eleven after
well contested game-badly crippled
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regiments only, BESIDES fhe sick. remain
ing. But all these sights have been mem
orable, and have made the war far more
real than if we had never seen them.
HATTIE E. MoREHoUsE.
Jacksonville. Fla, Nov. 19.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
ORIGIN OF THE WIDE AwAkEs.o


The receipt Of two communications by
different writers at widely distant points
but each of whom claims to have sspar-
AIDED with the Wide Awakes in 1885," or
words to the same effect, has prompted
us to look up authorities on the origin of
that meteoric political organization.
The Know Nothing party, according
to Webster's Dictionary, was organized
in 1883, and existed for about three
years" 1t supported Fillmore and Don
aldson, its regular candidates for Presi-
dent and Weep President of the United
States in 1855, and did not 'svote for FREE
ment," as enormously stated by one of
our correspondents. This we give on the
authority of Harper & Brothers '.Cyclo-
pHdia," which also states the year of or
ganization as 1859: and this is evidently
correct. as new parties are not usually
founded in the years that Presidents have
been inaugurated. All authorities seem
to agree that the dissolution of the Know
Nothing party was almost immediate
upon its crushing defeat in 1856.
But in 1850, under the title of '.Wide
Awakes, I" survivors of the former organ
ization in New York and adjacent states
rehabilitated the order in picturesque and
imposing numbers and paraded for Lin
coin and Hamlin, the Republican national
candidates. After 1850 the order rapidly
disappeared everywhere.
According to the autobiography of J
M. Read, who claimed to have been ONE
of the originators, Wide Awake Clubs
were first organized in 1860, who also as
serts that the great political parade of
these clubs took place in New York city
on October 3, of that year.
20 that our two correspondents avein
their memory apparently confused the
Wide Awakes with the Know Nothings.
TEE Camden Democrat speaks plainly
concerning the trouble in its own party
as follows.
1T is plainly in evidence that the
Democrats, in the State who still refrain !
from supporting their party candidates
at the polls or who vote the straight Re-
publican ticket are numbered by the
thousands. It is this contingent who are
still dissatisfied with the methods and
operations of the men at the head of the
party organizations. They claim, and it /
must be conceded. with some show of
justice for the same, that the machinery
of the party is in bad hands. They,
say that as long as such men as Senator
James Smith, Hon. bob" Davis and
William j. Thompson are looked up to !
as the leadersof the party and are allow
ed to control and manipulate its conven-
tons, they don't think it advisable to bel
actively identified with any scheme or
project which would be certain to have
a direct bearing,in advancing the selfish
ends and purpose of these men"
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prope.ty Sold by Headley Es.ate.

The Headley estate has sold the lot at
the turn Of the Headley road and adj
joining Miss Dana's property to Mrs.
Mary G. March. The lot is irregular in
shape, but with an average width Of
about IS feet and 1877 feet deep. Mrs.
March will soon erect handsome house,
the plans having already been prepared.
The building will face the HeadIey road
toward South street. The sale was
made by the Morris County Mortgage
and Realty Co., agents for the property.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18

THE country is rejoiced at the recovery
of the Maria Teresa for other than divers
reasons.