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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

NEW YORK. New. .z--Col j Lawrence
hsP died tonight between $50 aad IL
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

greater part Of the session was devoted TO
action on the reports of the committee on
appeal and grievances.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18
Zalu. May Attack British.

Eians laagte will be the first and last
Eoer defeat OF the year"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

LONDON. Nov IA special dispatch
fTom Durham says that another complete
aTTneTed train has been sent 10 Esteourt
70 replace the ere disabled by the Beers
W nsinexhaN
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18
Free state Arms Captured.

CAPE TOWN. Nov. Is-It is reported
from colesburg that q quantity of guns
and ammunition belonging 10 the Orange
Free State and destined for Richmond,
have been captured by the British.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

LOURENZO MARQUEE. Nov 1s.-Se-
eret service agents are continually arriy-
ing here from the Transvaal A member
rived last nigh, from Pretoria. II Is be-
iieved he IL proceeding to Cape Town On a
mission the object OF which Is unkonWn.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

PRETORIA. Nov. 9.--The following dis
patoD has been received from the Boer
camp st Glands iaagte. under ioday's date:
Lady smith has been completely encir-
cled BY the Boer forces, our second big
gun was successfully placed in position on
Ruluwan hill In front or I.adysmlth The
firing ct heavy guns commenced early this
morning. with no casualties 10 the hurgh-
ers Up % the present"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-18

ORANGE RIVER, Cape Colony, Nov
l2.-Gen Lord Methuen. commander Of tn,
First division. has arrived here with hi,
stan from Cape Town.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

About twenty five ladies and gentlemen
interested in the establishment of a Phil
harmonic Society In this city met at Betha-
ny chapel Monday evening. Under the di-
rection of Prof. A. j. Phillips several selec-
tions were sung. A business meeting was
then held at which 1t was voted to elect a
finance committee. John s. Wilkins, H.
W. Kemp, and John II. Senter were elected
to serve in that capacity. The names of
Miss Alma Fisher and Mrs. Harriet Willard
were added to the board OF directors. Prof.
A. j. Phillips was appointed as musical di-
accompanist. The meetings will be held on
Monday evenings in Bethany chapel.
Commencing next Monday they will con
tinue for twelve weeks and 1t Is desired that
all lovers of music take hold and help this
worthy enterprise. The selection of Prof.
Phillips as musical director was what every
one expected and desired. He has no su-
perior In New England as an instructor In
vocal music, and the enthusiasm he always
carries into an. enterprise of this kind Ia
sure to be contagious. Montpelier has
abundant material of superior quality for
making this newly formed musical organi-
cation very much of success. With an
accomplished and energetic leader and di-
rector, level-headed president, a finance
committee composed Of practical business
men, and hard working membership the
success OF the Philharmonic Society is con
fidently predicted. The prophesy OF our
musical friends in Burlington and else
whore that such an organization can never
in these days he made a success, financially
or otherwise, bids fair to be refuted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
Nelson Dingley.

Fate has not been 80 kind to Mr..
Dingley and the Nation as was the in
scrutable divinity in the case of Sena-
tor Morrill,. The Maine statesman has
been struck down in the flood tide of
his useful career, when his clear head,
hard sense, wide experience and stores
of practical knowledge in economic and
commercial questions, were OF inesti-
mable value and importance to his
country. He was the successor of Mr..
Morrill,, of full stature in his mastery
of the questions and problems that had
engrossed their attention. He knew
the tariff as flew men have ever known
it, and the existing revenue law which
bears his name is monument to his
ability in his department of service to
the government, as was the Morrill,
tariff to his great predecessor in eco
nomic legislation. Like Mr.. Morrill,,
Mr.. Dingley was conciliatory to oppo-
nents, while yielding nothing of princi-
pie. He was not an orator, but he had
genius for business, and men listened
to him as to an oracle when he talked
on the great questions involved in the
financial support of the government.
He was honest, conscientious, high
principled, and his opponents as well
as friends trusted him. "The states
men with fireworks" said the New
York Sun, "are always numerous
enough. He was statesman with the
tranquil strength of knowledge of what
he talked about, aud he did not talk too
much"
To the newspaper press additional
interest attaches to Mr.. Dingley's ca
reer from the circumstance that he
achieved his first distinction and in
huence as editor of the Lewiston Jour-
nal He won the public ear in the
memorable Fremont campaign in 1856,
when he began the study of public
questions and to observe public opin-
ion. He was studious and learning
man rather than a brilliant one, and
he persevered in the acquisition of
knowledge to the time of his death. In
these respects, again, there is strik-
Ing similarity to the life of Mr.. Morrill,,
but, unlike the late venerable Senator,
Mr.. Dingley began his public career at
the bottom of the ladder in the Maine
Legislature, was elevated to the gov
ernorship, and his growing stature as
one knowing public affairs marked him
as man to represent the people of the
Pine Tree State in Congress. And in
the fullness of years, "as the day the
night" national and worldwide dis
tinction was added to the fame he had
in the narrower limits of his home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

Pilgrim fathers and their sons taught
the aboriginal tribes of Massachusetts
Bay their early lessons in the way
sovereignty is exercised, and the same
lesson has since been enforced upon
all the tribes OF the red men between
the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts.
The Pilgrims and their descendants
were land grabbers." Civilization, the
world over, has been Gland grabber"
and "despot," in the steaming rhet-
oric of Mr.. Hoar and his confederates
in his crusade against the treaty. If
the consent of the governed, in the lit
eral sense of these strict construction
lists, were sine qua non to the acquisition
of territory and the exercise of sover-
eighty, Massachusetts, and her sister
States of this Union, all this continent
and the other countries that have been
redeemed from barbarism, and are
being redeemed to-day, would still be
the abodes of primeval savagery. The
Philippines will not be sacrificed TO
this fetch. Reason, common sense
and Christianity will construe and APP
ply to their case the precepts of both
the Declaration of Independence and
the Golden Rule.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
The Montpelier Daily Record.

AS announced in Saturdays issue,
the Vermont Waterman Company has
purchased the Montpelier Daily
RECORD and will continue its publica-
ton.
In issuing the first number of the
RECORD from the WATCHMAN office,
not much will be required in the way
of salutatory. This Office is not un.
accustomed to the business of daily
newspaper publication. With its Ca
pacity in that direction this locality and
the State at large is familiar. What
the WATCHMAN management has done
in the way of supplying the public with
newspapers, daily and weekly, is bet
ter pledge and token of what it may be
able to do in assuming the task of pub
fishing the RECORD than any assur-
ances that might now be given.
The RECORD will be continued, for
the present if not permanently, as an
evening paper. Such changes, addi-
tions or deductions will be made as
time and experience shall appear to de-
mand TO adapt the paper to the needs
and the service of this immediate
community, and the communities ra-
dating from this city, as well MS to the
conditions of successful publication.
The continued support of the people
at large through their subscriptions,
and of the business people through
their advertising, is solicited. Each
and all are deeply interested in the sue
cessful publication here OF daily news
paper that shall adequately and credit
ably represent the Capital of the State,
and the great majority will have pride
and satisfaction in the publication in
the heart of Central Vermont of Re-
publican daily paper that shall be repre-
sentative of Vermont's stalwart and
abiding political faith.-Record, JAN
uary 16.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
The Consent of the Governed.

Rufus Choate once characterized the
Decl Aration OF Independence as col
lection of ''glittering generalities,"
and the phrase has become historic,
almost to the extent of the immortal
Instrument upon which it was, at the
time, deemed somewhat irreverent
commentary. But Mr.. Choate was not
disrepectful or heretical. He simply
expressed, in a trenchant way, the
truth that the general enunciation
of political principles which the Dec
laration embodies must be construed
in the light of reason and common
sense. That"all men are created equal"
for example, is "glittering general
ity' which has been the subject of
much discussion and often the text of
the political demagogue.
Another generality that glitters in
the light of its original intent and enun-
citation, but which has become obscur-
ed by the fogs and mists of false and
unreasonable Interpretation, is the
truth that all governments "derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed" In the current discus
sion on the ratification of the treaty of
peace with Spain, this precept of the
Declaration of Independence is vigor-
ously exploited by the orators and news
papers opposing ratification. 1t is en-
ployed for the purpose of defeating the
treaty unless the article relating to the
cession of the Philippine archipelago
to the United States shall be so modi-
fed as to disavow any purpose or in
tention, on the part'of this government,
of assuming the sovereignty of the
islands, or annexing them to the United
States, without the consent of the in
habitants. This looks like republican
ism bereft of sense or reason.
Under what conditions was this truth
of the Declaration, that governments
"derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the government" conceived and
enunciated? What conditions of civ
ilization, intelligence, education, de-
velopment of capacity for self-govern-
ment, are implied in the Consent of
the governed?" The conditions under
which the Declaration of Independence
was promulgated, that had produced
the men that wrote it, adopted and
defended it, and made it reality, are a
sufficient answer to these inquiries. 1t
smacks of irony, of burlesque, the claim
that this truth enunciated by Jeffer-
son, from perfectly rational conditions,
shall be applied to the Hotten-
tot of Africa, or the tribes of the is
lands of the Pacific, before they have
crossed the line between barbarism and
civilization, between incompetency and
competency to consent to submit them
selves to government of any kind. The
ancestors of the men who are now
frantically proclaiming this doctrine of
the consent of the governed, reason.
able in its original enunciation, ride.
uous in its present application, showed
by their own deeds that they had a
just sense of the meaning of the truth
they had announced. The North
American Indians were made to under
stand, and have been realizing for
many generations, down to the present
time, what the exercise of sovereignty
by the consent of the governed means,
and was intended to mean. The
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
Roxbury.

d. d. Berry was at his home in Rich
mond part OF last week.
Rev.J. II. Henderson recently spent a
short vacation out OF town.
The lady evapgelists are expected to
begin work in town in about two weeks.
Mrs. Abbie Hunt of Randolph, is keep
ing house for her father, Rodney Wiley.
Pearl Flint is suffering from an attack OF
mnmps. He is under the care of DR.. j. II.
Winch OF Mortified.
Dr.. Henry james of Waterbury, was
called Wednesday to see Miss Viola Howe,
who 10 still in critical condition.
Mrs. Susan Way, who has been spending
some time with her daughter Mrs. III. G.
VanDeusen, went last week to Barre.
Mr. and Mrs. ID. l.. Nichols attended the
fiftieth anniversary OF Dewitt Clinton
lodge, which was held in Mortified on
January 10.
Among those who are reported as i'll in
town are Fred Rising, Mrs. A. l.. Wheeler,
Mrs. M j. kddy and young child OF
Alfred Constine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

HON. B. f. FIFIELD having declin-
ed the appointment to the vacant sem
atorship, Governor Smith rendered the
honor to Chief Judge Ross of the Su-
preme Court. Judge Ross Immediate
ly accepted the appointment, and on
Monday took the oath of Office in the
Senate chamber at Washington. Judge
Ross will creditably bridge the gap in
the senatorial office, and, in that he
can hardly, under any circumstances,
become candidate before the Legisla-
ture, will fulfill Governor Smiths pur-
pose of leaving the field clear and un-
prejudiced for the various aspirants to
the succession.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

treaty of peace calls for, If President
Mckinley will withdraw our soldiers
and war ships and allow the Philip
pines to govern themselves. That Of
fer is buncombe, pure and simple.
There are no circumstances under
VIII oh the offer could be accepted, and
nobody knows that any better than Mr..
Carnegie. BY the treaty of peace, the
Philippines pass from Spain, their rec.
oguized owner, to the United States,
which will be held responsible by the
nations of the world for the protection
of the interests of their citizens in the
islands. Whatever may be decide d
upon, after we have learned more
about the islands, the assumption OF
sovereignty over them by the United
States is present duty that cannot be
shirked.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
Newspaper Change.

The long struggle between the two daily
papers at Montpelier takes on a modifie
phase in the sale of the RECORD to the
WATCHMAN people, who will hereafter pub
lish it.
The wAToHMAN has ample mechanical
facilities for the publication of an afternoon
daily and its chief is one of the leaders Of
the State press in experience and ability;
and the city and county are to be congratu-
lated on the fact that the RECORD has fallen
into such strong hands. We wish it a long
and successful career.-Burlington Daily
News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY's purpose TO
send a commission to the Philippines
to examine into all the facts of the sit
uation there that would have bearing
upon the disposition and control of the
islands after the adoption of the treaty
of peace, is wise one. But ratify the
treaty and put an end to the work of
the trouble-bre There will be
time enough to settle secondary ques-
tiona after the principal matter, the
confirmation of the peace treaty, has
been determined. What follows will
be done with deliberation, in the light
of the best obtanable information, and
in accordance with the dictates of rea-
son, common sense, and wise regard
for the national welfare, now and in the
distant future.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
Congressional Proceedings.

SATURDAY, Jan. 14.-In both houses of
Congress the death of Congressman Dingley
was announced. After the appointment OF
committees to accompany the remains to
Lewiston, Me-, the Senate and House ad.
journed as mark of respect to the de-
ceased.
MONDAY, Jan. 16.--Because OF the funeral
Of Congressman Dingley of Maine in the
House Monday noon, no business was
transacted in either house. Senator Ross
of Vermont took the oath OF Office in the
Sanata.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

ALL sorts of arguments are being ad-
vanced in all sorts of ways to arouse
opposition to the acquisition of the
Philippines by the United States. One
of the most unique is the offer of Mr..
Andrew Carnegie, to pay from his own
bank account the $4,000, 900 the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

WASHINGTON advices indicate that
the Senate will this week amend and
pass the Morgan bill for the construc-
ton of the Nicaragua canal. Now if
the House committee on interstate
and foreign commerce would drop the
bunch of canal bills it is wrestling
with, and report the Morgan bill, even
with few amendments, there would
be reasonable certainty of it's becom-
ing law at this session. But, If that
committee reports an entirely new
measure, as all the secret opponents of
the canal wish 1t to do, and as it seems
likely to do, the chance of getting it
through will certainly not be encour-
aging. 1t is either the Morgan bill or
no bill at this session.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18

AEMIRAL DEWEY and &c neral Oils
who certainly ought to know better
than anybody else, do not expect con-
flict with the Philippine insurgents.
In their official reports to the govern
ment, they say that they have perfect
control of the situation in and around
Manila, and that they are gradually
succeeding in making the rank and file
of the insurgents understand that
Americans are their best friends, not
their enemies, as Aguinaldo has recent
ly been trying to make them believe.
AS soon as that task is accomplished,
the rest will be easy. Things will move
faster over there after the treaty has
been ratified
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
Your Obedient Servant,
r. r EIEIEIn

The WATCHMAN expressed, in it's
issue of last week, its estimate of Mr..
Flield's ability to serve the State with
benefit and distinction in the United
States Senate. 1t regrets that circum-
stances constrained him 10 decline
Governor Smiths commission, but his
reason for putting aside the honor does
high credit to his heart, as his services
in the Senate would have brought re-
nown for his mental power.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
Mr.. Fifleld Declines.

Hon. B. F. Fi6eld, to whom Gov
ernor Smith offered the appointment
of Senator to succeed the late Justin S.
Morrill,, in the following letter de-
clined the proffered honor:
To His Excellency, Edwin Curtis Smith,
Governor:
Sir-You did me the most distinguished
honor last Saturday of Offering me the DO.
sition Of United States Senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of the late
Senator Morrill,, and 1 then expressed to
you verbally my probable inability to &C.
cept the appoin tment on account of the
protracted and painful illness of my wife.
Since that time 1 have given the matter
further consideration, and now feel obliged
to send you ny formal declination. have
not words to express to you sufficiently the
gratitude feel for the conspicuous consid-
erations which the offer implies, and / re-.
greet beyond measure that my situation
compels me to say / cannot accept the
position.
am, Dear Sir.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
East Warren.

Mrs. S. T. Van Deusen, who has been
very sick with pneumonia, is slowly con-
valescing.
Among the recent victims OF the grip are
Mrs. James Lovett and two sons, Mrs.
Alfred Lamb, Mrs. j. j. Elliott, Mrs. Wei.
Thayer and Hervey Downing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-13
Gossip of the Ring.

}. s.. Netc Yors-No; l Q was defea ed BY Dixon
S. J.. Mw Tork-They met at Madison Square
Garden and boxed q six round draw.
Tom Sharkey says that he 10 training hard for his
contest with Jim Jenrtes and is in great trim.
f. For~an: 8rootvn- Plimm,r got tho decision
over him in four rounds at Ma lIson Square Garden
Martin Stamford. PhiladelpniA-They met at the
Madison Square Garden and Plimmer won in four
and ODER. to match him against Any ina man scaIiny
1926 pounds.
Ssa Of and
at the Pelican A. c. on next Saturday night.
Am az Was ratified yestertsy hstwssn Abe un.
takes place At coney Island ON Sept 20. 1t will be
for twenty rounds at catch weights
weight Jack D,y viii not meet Kid MePsrsa sSi :.
the Broadway A. Z. on Friday night. otto sielon
instead. ~ ''.Nu
A few bet. have bsen ma le on the outcome o: the
enc 1unter between Frank u ais The HARLEM Coffee
OF course. ia an owe. |helm NJ fayortr. but there
The chairman of the Boxing Committee of tho
National A. c.. Brooklyn. informs THE Sun that ali
pSrtie; Wishing to secure bous at the club should
week.
.'Peilar Palmer yesterday, Oscar Gardner turned
to The 81. reporter and said: 1T would be the JOY
handily." $500
refer Maher, VINO 10 training in Wostchester, in
speaking of his future plans. said yesterday: 1T
defeat Joe Kennedy at the LenoI A. G am going to
Jenrtes III tackle sharSey, too, for am in good
Lsosr: j. Sept IL i21A number Of New York
the American A. g grounds at Farview this after.
in SsnS JACK tSs
and Ii Hung Foy. Neither appeared. Young"
Cook. OF Brooklyn was among those present. Ie
was TO box KID Foley, of Boston. Manager Gold.
stein failed to show up and the sports after saying
many hard things about the manager returned
home in an ugly frame OF mind The grounds are
near the Fairriew depot just inside the Hudson
county line '
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-13

Bob Fitzsimmons says he will not face Nc
Coy under any circum stances. The fact that
Mccoy has posted a forfeit and issued chal-
lenge to Fitz is not taken seriously by the lat
ter. He had plenty of chances to meet mo"
said Fitzsmmons yesterday 10 THE SUN re-
porter before met Jim Jeffries but he
would not have any OF my game then II you
remember he once called on me at tho bar
tholdi Hotel and said he would never chal-
lenRe mo. ] was rendy to fight him then. But
now 1t is different. l am still midlle-weight
CHAMPION despite whatever he says. and the
only battle which intend to engage in will be
TO regain the laurels which I lost against
Jenries. expect to meet the winner Of tho
sharkey -ye1rles fight. and II Sharkey does not
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-13
CROWDS AROUND THE TICKERs
Great Interest in the Fight MAnifested
Throughout tho City.

Throughout tho City.
While McGorern's quick victory prevented
much Of tho excitement that prevailed in this
city during the progress of the Jefrries- Fitz-
simmons fight, there was as much interest
displayed in the result OF the contest between
the American and English bantams MS there
was in the heavyweight contest. Every saloon.
sporting resort or any place else that con-
tanned a ticker. or was prepared to receive
returns Of the bout. was crowded hours be-
fore the boys were scheduled TO enter the
ring. NcGovern was an overwhelming IA =
vorItO on all sides. but more through partisan
ship than any thing else.
In the morning McGovern was the favorite
at 100 to so. A number OF small bets were re-
corded at this figure. but as the time ap-
preached for the principals to enter the ring
nobody could be found willing to take the
Palmer end.
The crowd began to gather along Newspaper
Row about 3 O'Clock. 1t was motley assem-
blaRe. composed chiefly of those persons who
can hnd time TO do anything. and newsboys
There were number OF women in the crowd
and they all picked the American boy to win
Finally the bulletins OF the nRht began to come
In and then:
First Round-McGovern scores a knock
down"
The cheers Of the crowd had barely died