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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05

FOR SALE-Ft UT good milk COWS and young calves at $25 % and 20 head of Poland China and Berkshire pigs from the very best strains. Ad- dress J. ". Scott, P. o. Box 9S. s.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05

GoebeI has never been popular with the masses of Kentucky Democrats. His candidacy was put forward by ambitious leaders as the result of deal. Gen. Hardin was the popular fayorite, and but for Stones can aidaey would have been an easy winner. Gen. Stone is man of high character and his nomination would have been entirely acceptable. But Goebel is u cold-blo oded and selfish politician. not in accord or with the masses, and his will no doubt be received with cold indifference. He K not Il
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-05

Gen. Hardin had more instruc ted delegates than any other candidate, but not a majority. At the very outset of the convention, therefore, Goebel and Stone formed combina- ti6n to control it. Goepel had only little over 200 instructed delegates out of total of over LOGO. But there were over $50 contested seats. In counties where the Goebel ma- chine could not control they sent contesting delegations. By the terms of the Stone-Goebel combine, Stone was to be nominated for Governor, but Goebel was to name the rest of the ticket and control the State organ.z ltion. Stone, being an honest man, Lever suspected Goebel of treachery, and also yielded the latter control of the temporary organization. In the cleo ct(on Of Redwine chairman GOebel had a most obedient and subservieRt tool. A committee ldN LII O DlC t& N1O' OCi was appointed on credentials, and Hardin delegates busted and Stone Goebel delegates seated. It is here where Stone was betrayed. The delegate seated by this committee were not Stone-Goebel delega tes, but personally favorable to Goebel. Once in control of the convention, it was an easy matter for Goebel to repudiate his agreement with Stone and throw the latter overboard. This was done on the twenty-ifth ballot when Stones name was drop ped and the contest narrowed down Detwe Goebel anu Hardin.
 In the meantime many of the regu. lar delegates had returned home and Goebel found it an easy matter to get the nomination from conven- tion that his machine, by ten days of adroit and successful manipula- ton. had managed to control, On the tweBt, sixth and last ballot Goebel managel to get 29 more votus than Hardin, and the nomina- tiOn
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
MORE BUSINESS MEN NEEDED.


When Carroll S. Page became Gov
erner of Vermont in 199Ohis prudent
and careful business methods were
applied to all official business with
very gratifying results to the tax
payers, the total amount of money
drawn from the state treasury by
Gov. Page being only 1899. which is
less than half the amount drawn by
the average Governor and less than
one-eighth the amount expended by
Gov. Smiths predecessor.
The country has need of more bus
mess men in Congress and fewer law
yers, and we believe that Gov. Page
is good man for the Republicans of
the West side to tie to" There is
nothing visionary or theoretical in
Pages makeup. He is a plain, prac-
teal, keen-sighted business man with
unusual ability for qui ky and accu-
rately sizing up men and measures.
He is every inch Vermonter, no man
in the State having done more tow
ard building up and developing the
buiness interests of the State.
Judge Powers has been used well,
and now after ten years of continu-
Gus service, the Republicans of the
West side demand that he step down
and out and give place to a younger
and brighter man. The man is Car
roll S. Page and there is every reason
to believe that the people will enforce
their demands and nominate Gov.
Page, whether Powers continues in
the race or not.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

true" the statements as to- his action
in the matter of the bounty. Either
he is mistaken or the Congressional
Record is in error. Il have myself
a bill n to repeal
this bounty" This seems to be
conclusive of the whole matter, I'M
less the official record of proceedings
in Congress can be impeached AS
this was a matter of State interest,
reference thereto may possibly be
made without indictment for inter
fering in the first district fl hit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

1t is said that Kruger has seven
sons and fifty grandsons who will
take the field against the British. If,
like Artemus Ward, Dom Paul is
ready to sacrifice all his wife's rela-
tives also, the Kruger battalion will
be quite an army by itself.
All talk of the insurgents weaken
ing is rot. They will be in better
shape than ever when the ball opens.
They are apt scholars and good i'm
itators and the lessons taught since
last February have not been in vain
The encouragement they have re-
ceived from the United States has
greatly strengthened them, and no
doubt more has been done at home
to aid in the continuation of the war
than has been done there to stop it..
This is a deplorable fact but never
theless true.
The killing of seven negro miners
and the wounding of two Others in
Illinois is declared by the Governor of
that state to have been ga prear-
ranged, preconcerted, premeditated
murder" That being the case, Gov
ernor Tanner is justified in calling it
"a blot on the fair name of the com.
monwealth," and is also justified in
sending the state troops, which he
has done with commendable prompt
tude, to prevent threatened enlarge
ment of that murder in district
where the local administration of the
law seems to be paralyzad by unwill-
ingness or impotency.
Gen. Shafter has written a letter
about the Santiago campaign; to a
Chicago clergyman. Helooks back
upon it as a remarkable campaign in
all without parallel in the
history of modern warfare" A
hastily gathered, almost unprepared
army-men of the temperate zone
went to the tropics in the sickliest
season of the year, landed on hos
tile coast in open boats, and in fifteen
days captured Santiago and a Span
ish army larger than itself. More.
over at no time during that cam
paign was any American soldier,
alive or dead, or a dollars worth of
American property in the hands of
the enemy. 81 have forborne to
answer any of my traducers, or
critics." writes General Shafter. 81
was under fire the entire time, but
was not on the firing line in the ordi-
nary acceptation of the term. l had
no business there and would have
been of no service had / been there"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
[Barre Enterprise
A WEAK ARGUMENT.

The Rutland Herald expounds a
very telling (?) argument against
Carroll S. Page when it says that the
only reason why the expenditure ac-
count shows up so much more favor
ably during Governor Pages admit
istration than it does from any
other, is that all the other Governors
have been incapable of fulfilling their
duties in that position. The frailty
of the argument tells of the weakness
of the premises upon which the
Herald bases its prejudiced cause.
Has the Herald ever had hand in
the election of any Governor of the
past, or have they been continuously
on the wrong side2 In one case they
must be decidedly tickle in Judgment
or in the other they admit that their
former opinion will not warrant
them in expecting the public to fol-
low their leadership this time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
Rutland News
WHEN ALL THE COUNTS ARE IN

WHEN ALL THE COUNTS ARE IN.
Congressman H. Henry Powers
was at The Bardwell to-day chatting
with his old friends. He was asked
by the Evening News this afternoon
relative to his position on the maple
sugar bounty question when the
same was before Congress. The in
terview follows:
The Evening News;-"Judge, the
people here, many of them, have
shown considerable interest in the
maple sugar bounty question and
your attitude toward it. This paper
would be glad to giveyourp position. :"
Judge Powers You are way off
on that question. Your information
IS incorrect. When the proper time
comes l will answer all these points.
l want first to let your statements
thoroughly spread throughout the
entire district before | make answer.
When all the counts of the indictment
are in will be the time for me to plead
not guilty"
The dignifed representative was
manifestly not in the business of
meeting his constituents face to
face" etc, and the incident was
closed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

POLITICS AND MAPLE SUGAR.

Judge Powers had been charged
with recreancy to the interests of his
farmer constituents in certain wavs
in respect of the maple sugar indus
try. Judge Powers considered the
matter of sufficient importance to
write the Burlington News a letter
upon the subject of his course in Con
gress on the maple sugar legislation
in the early part of this decade. In
the course of his letter the Judge
writes;
The Rutland News is the author of
the suggestion that l misrepresented
my constituents on this question. In
its first reference to the matter it init
maten that opposed the passage of the
bill giving the bounty. Later it said
worked, voted and perhaps spoke in
favor of its repeal. Both statements
are untrue"
The Waterman was taking at the
time an active interest in the matter
of bounty on maple sugar, believ-
ing it would be not only to the
pecuniary advantage of the farmers
of Vermont but that, the bounty be-
ing paid on only sugar of specified
degree of purity, it would have a
tendency materially to improve the
general quality, and hence the value,
of the product. Judge Powers
course was something of disap-
pointment to Vermont farmers in
general and was at the time the
subject of some criticism in the news
papers and on the part of maple
sugar producers. In his statements
in the letter to the Burlington News
he seems to have forgotten what he
said or is reported to have said bv
the Congressional Record of the
fifty-6fth Congress, March Is, 1892.
The official report of Mr.. Powers
words is this:
: In this connection will say that "I
have myself" in order to do what |
regard a benefit to our own producers.
introduced a bill to restore the old
duty and to repeal this bounty" be-
cause the difficulty of obtaining the
bounty, the red tape necessary to be
resorted to in order to get it, compels
the producer to lose the early market
on maple sugar; he must lose more than
two cents a pound if he undertakes to
secure this bounty.
The words in quotation marks
would seem to indicate that the
Judge was rash in pronouncing un-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
Railroad Statistics,

Poor's Railroad Manual about to
be published gives the latest railroad
statistics available. 1t shows that
there we're January /, 1899, 1S6, $40
miles of railroad in this country: a
net increase of 2219 during the wear.
The heaviest construction was in the
western group of states, where 912
miles were built. The state showing
the highest railroad development Is
Massachusetts, where there is a mile
of road for every 80 square miles of
territory. In the United States the
ratio is to 1872. There we're. Jan.
l, on all the railroads of the country
36, TAG locomotives, 1854 passen-
ger cars, S049 baggage and mail
cars and | 1884, S07 freight cars. The
number OF passengers carried in 1898
was 514, $685. SS and the number of
tons of freight moved, 912.973. S53.
The passenger earnings of all the
roads in 1898 were $272, $50 sol.
against 1868 ,557, 1913 in 1897 The
freight earnings were $86S, 924,526.
against $7S0,351, $3.50. The misceI.
laneous earnings were $10S,044. 6O7.
against $9S, 356,751. The net earn
ings were $3.50, 666,474, against
$342,792,030.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
CONGRESSIONAL POINTS.
PRESS COMMENTS,
Huntington News.l

burlington Newsl
JUDGE POWERS AND THE BOUNTY.
The Daily News made a slight
error, it appears, in its exposition of
Congressman Powers position on
the question of the bounty on maple
sugar. Congressman Powers sets
himself right on the record in the
following letter, which must be re-
garded as ample and satisfactory
answer to the criticisms upon him i'll
this respect:
To the Editor of the Daily News
In your issue of the 18th instant,
speaking Of my action in Congress
on the maple sugar bounty, you are
inadvertently in error.
The Rutland News is the author of
the suggestion that l misrepresented
my constituents on this question. In
its first reference to the matter it in
timated that | opposed the passage
of the bill giving the bounty. Later
it said worked, voted and perhaps
spoke" in favor of its repeal. Both
statements are untrue.
The bounty was given by one of
-tHe provisions of the Mckinley tariff
act of 1890 which was passed before
l entered Congress. 1t was repealed
by the Wilson tariff act of 1894. l
voted against the Wilson act and so
voted against the repeal of the boun-
ty. The bounty did not meet the
expectations Of its authors nor of the
peof( Of Vermont, for the reason
thatP the Mckinley act admitted
Canada sugar free. Canada sugar
comes into our market in such guam
titles that the price, with the bounty
added, fell below the price before the
bounty was given. thereupon in
troduced and supported a bill to tax
Canada sugar and thus keep it out
of our market. H. HENRY POWERS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
THAT EXPENSE ACCOUNT.

The Rutland Herald practically adj
mits that the small expense account of
Gov. Page during his administration is
a creditable showing. Is the Herald
editor absent from his post of duty
Mortified News.
Pray, amiable contemporary, what
do you mean? What are you driv-
ing at2 If Page refrained from vast
ing state money when he was Gov
ernor he certainly earned negative
credit and, in view of our recent
experience, perhaps it should be said
that he earned credit of the positive
kind also. That is simple enough,
but we were certainly a bit surprised
to find the candidates newspaper
editorial foundry using the matter as
if the failure to commit waste en-.
titled Mr., Page to a seat in Con
gress.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
[Vergennes Vermonter. !
HAS A STRONG HOLD ON BURLrNGrc

HAS A STRONG HOLD ON BURLINGTON.
Hon. H. S. Peck, ex-mayor of Bur
lington, is liable to work injury to
Hon. D.. J. Fosters chances in secur-
ing a delegation to the first district
convention next spring, Mayor
Peck seems to have a strong hold
upon the Burlington Republicans
and we have been informed by a resi-
dent of Burlington, who is we'll up in
the party there, that ex-Mayor Peck
stood the better chance of securing
the delegation. If this is so Chitten-
den county will be in the same plight
it was last year at the state conven-
ton, when that county presented
two names as candidates for state
offices.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

Thursday, October 18th, is practi-
cally decided on as "Dewey Day" at
Montpelier, and nothing is being
thought of there but the perfecting
of arrangements for that event. The
railroads are putting in miles of tenn
porary sidetracks; hotels, restau-
rants and boarding houses are ad-
vertising for extra help and contract
ing for tons of provisions, Boston
decorators are preparing to swathe
the city in bestarred and bestriped
glory and the committee on bon
fires" is being copiously drilled.
Meanwhile the superintendent of
water works advertises that the sup
ply is shorter than ever. In the in
terest of many prospective visitors
we would ask if barrels of ecru lem
onade will be located on street cor
ners with dipper on nail on the
side? What local arrangements will
be made to fracture possible cases of
individual drouth?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

DREYFUs PARDoNED.-A dispatch
from Paris announces that the Coun-
Gil Of Ministers has decided to pardon
Dreyfus in principle. The pardon is
to take effect in few days, Drey fus
having reIinquished an appeal for the
reversal of the judgment of the court
martial. 1t is said that Dreyfus will
be sent abroad before the promulga-
tion of this order to avoid all demon
STATIONS. /" In principle" is an idom
sometimes raised in semi-official an
nouncements of Forthcoming action
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
Rutland Herald. l
ANY MORE !

Ex-Mayor Peck of Burlington was
spoken of as a candidate awhile ago,
but there has been nothing heard
about him recently and we do not
know his attitude. Mr.. Batchelder
of Arlington is another. Powers,
Page, Peck, Batchelder and Foster
are there any more?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

A singular result of the Spanish
war is the marked increase lately
shown in the immigration to this
country from Spein. 1t might be
supposed that the Spainards, with all
their pride, would do their best to ig-
more the existence of the nation which
caused their humiliation, but on the
contrary the signal success of the
United States in the ''late unpleasant
ness" seems to have actually attract
ed the Castilians to ourshores. War,
in this instance, has acted the role of
the advertising agent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

The new three column advertise
ment of a Vermont patent medicine
now going the rounds of the papers
is a horrible example of the before
taking" condition, so much so that
it's value is questionable. Certainly
it is not such a work of art as to
commend it to people of nervous and
delicate sensibilities. By the way,
however, can the suggestion be true
that it is the portrait of a Burling-
ton candidate?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
Rutland News.1
MAY BE PREMATURE.

, The suggestion of The Rutland News
that Senator Ross might well be elected
Governor next year was sat upon by
the state press generally with a re-
sounding crash and relegated to politi-
cal oblivion without even few words
at the grave Morrisville and Hyde
Park News and Citizen and Congress
sional Directory.
The obituary editor of the News
and Citizen and Congressional Direc-
tory need not go to the trouble as
yet of preparing any Z" In Memoir
am" 1t may yet discover it to be
premature Rigor norris is very far
from setting in up to the hour of
going to press.
Impossible to forsee an accident, Not i'm
possible tn he prepared for it. DR.. Thomas
rclpctric Oil Monarch over pain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

An official statement by the War
Department shows that Cuban reven-
mes are more than paying all the
expenses of the military occupation
of the island. For the six months
from January to June, inclusive,
there was a surplus over expendi-
lures of nearly a million and a half
dollars.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

The government has just issued it's
memorial volume of Hon. j. S. Nor
Till, containing the addresses of the
Vermont delegation and Others in
the House and Senate on the life and
public services of that venerated
statesman. The little volume will
find a warm welcome in many YER
mont homes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

3. Notwithstanding Bryan, yellow fe-
yer, anti.expansion and cigarettes,
this grand old country never had so
many blessings to be thankful for as
this year. The country never began
to be so generally prosperous as
to-day. Agriculture and manufac-
turing never began to produce as
much. The general condition of the
country never was 50 satisfactory,
considering everything. Crops are
bountiful. Every one who wantsem-
ployment and can work has it at
good wages. Only the political hyp-
ocrites and lunatics are miserable,
and they are miserable for pay or
hope of Office. Let us arrange to
make the coming Thanksgiving the
grandest in all our national history.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

Lord Kitchener paid a deserved
tribute to the American energy,
which built an iron bridge in the
heart of Africa within six weeks from
the date of contract, when he said,
at the opening of the bridge: "This
bridge is due to their energy, ability
and power to turn out works of mag
nitude in less time than anybody
else. | congratulate the Americans
on their success"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

Illinois is pleading for help. Her
need does not arise from poverty or
disaster, but she wants able and will
ling hands to help harvest her crops,
which are so great that the farmers
cannot harvest them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

~ What Burlington! One has to
60 down every Saturday in order to
keep familiar with the aspect of that
bounding metropolis. General and
special railroad commissions are CIV
ing hearings daily right and left as to
the advent or exit of new electric and
steam railroads, and the general sit
nation there is one of feverish and
amazing expansion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

The "'sere and yellow leaf" is here,
and it's football from now on until
the fall of the beautiful" prohibits
the riot. No deaths are yet reported.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

This journal kindly apologies as
profusely as the circumstances may
be considered to demand for any I'M
feeling remark it may have made in
the way of pleasantly concerning
any friend of Brer. Whitney of the
Mortified News. De mOrtius nil
nisi bonum. If we are challenged, we
select the worlds fair at Tunbridge as
the ground and sweet cider and shot
dog" as the weapons.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

The Rutland Newsis quick to argue,
but plenteous in mercy. Its surges
of heat under the collar come and go
quickly, and the object of it's right
eous indignation is soon forgiven.
In concluding, the News is frequently
afflicted with ideas Of contemporaries
GUS human interest, and is causing
an unusual percolation of warm
blood through many frosty Ver-
mont editorial duct.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

Frank L. Greene, who has for some
time been associate editor of the st.
Adams Messenger, succeeds Col.
Childs as editor. Mr.. Greene is a
ready writer, pithy and to the point,
and in his new position will ably sus-
tain the honorable reputation of his
predecessor. We are pleased to note
that Col. Childs will occasionally
write for the Messenger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

Don't let the little ones suffer from eczema
OF other torturing skin diseases. No need for
IL. Doan's Ointment cures. Can't harm the
most delicate skin. At any drug store, so
cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20

writing to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn Mass.
Mrs. CORA gibson, Yates, Manistee
Co., Mich, writes
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-Two years ago
/ began having such dull, heavy, drag
ging pains in my back, menses were pro-
fuse and painful and was troubled with
leucorrhea. | took patent medicines
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-09-20
CAPABLE
mo THER-
HOOD

and consulted a physician, Blu
not become pregnant.
Seeing one of your books,
my troubles and asking for az
swered my letter promptly
the directions faithfully, al
much benefit that l canno
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetat
pound enough. l now fine
pregnant and have begun its
use again. I cannot praise il
enough"
MRS. PERLEY MoULToN
Thetford, VT, writes:
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-
/ think Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is an
excellent medicine. l took
several bottles of it before
the birth of my baby and |
got along nicely. I had no |
after-pains and am now |
strong and enjoying good |
health, Baby is also fat and
healthy"
Mrs. CHAs. GERBIG, 3o4
South Monroe St., Balti-
more, Md, writes: DEAR |
MRS. PINKHAM-Before TAX
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was
unable to become pregnan
health &c much i+,,r1ro1,ad -.