St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-24
NATIONAL POLITICS.

d.. NV friends, let me invite your at
Ion 70 a new question that the peo-
In lave never considered in any previous
ponDaign Shall we have large army
'r Ike fnited States? believe that one
II u he reasons that they want a large
" ,, ~. ;s to build a fort in this city and
az. ".@ Inc army to suppress by force that
%scontent that ought to be cured by
sIoo;sIation. But, my friends, that argu-
',,sn- will not be made in the campaign.
Erha+ argument do we hear that we
.,os5 the army in order to carry on the
Emnerial policy? The Republicans say
H. we are just raising a scarecrow,
HAT we are trying to brighten the people
That NAV be, but, my friends, we are
hot relHug you what may be done, we
stel YOU what has been done. Our Porto
sPirar law is framed upon European
sdeas. not upon American principles.
Nv friends, we can to-day do what the
PrnrbIican party ought to have done,
and our platform declares that we shall
sdoIr. And have declared that the first
act of my administration will be to call
8rongress together and ask congress to
do now what it ought to have done a.
wear and half ago. Great applause
The destiny OF this nation is in the
hands of the American people. You can
make it what you will. If you want
this nation to stand before the world as
AT exponent of force, vote the Republican
ticket tor that is the Republican doc
trine. We want this nation to rise in
The dignity and the grandeur OF self
Governing people. We want this nation
4 TO nrove to the world that there is
reality in the principles we profess. We
want this nation to be so great, so good,
so lust, that whenever nations fall out,
instead of sending our armies to kill each
other, they will say of the United States,
there is nation, that will do something.
lADplause.) We want this nation to be
i the peacemaker among nations and then
\ it can claim the reward promised to the
peacemakers. Blessed are the peace
makers, for they shall be called the
children of Cod"
Texas Insurance Agent on JeffersOninn
Democracy.
President George L. Chase Of the Hart
ford Fire Insurance Company, has re-
ceived an interesting letter, written by a
local agent of the company, located in a
town in Texas, to the Company's gener
a. agent at Dallas.
The writer is evidently true Jefferson.
II ian Democrat, and expresses in the most
Il orcibe manner his opinion of those who
4 would steal the livery Of Jefferson il
II which to serve the party that is respon
sbe for the wicked and mischievou:
n platform adopted at Chicago. Tit
II point that the writer makes regarding
n the libel suit that should be brough
n against William Jennings Bryan by tn
Fl descendants of Jefferson, is well taken:
n GoLDTHwAITE, TEXAS, August "a, 1896
II GENERAL AGENT, DALLAS, TEXAS.
Dear Sir:
ii Yours of recent date to hand ant
II noted. rather enjoy the ring of you
n letter. have always had respect 70
"a deliver us from the hybrid monster fish
4 ed out OF the Populist pool Of ignorance
III corruption and anarchy. and now drag
ged around over the country by William
q Jennings Bryan, and exhibited to the be
II wildered natives as the only begotto
n son of Thomas Jefferson. Poor Jefferson
III There have been MANY hard things sal
N about most of our great statesmen, bu
Il the voice of the accuser has general
NJ been hushed on the demise OF his victim
III Not so with our Thomas Generation
n have grown up and passed away sine
II he passed over the divide and began hi
RI usefulness in the legislative halls on til
Nj other side, and now Cometh new pollt
E& cal prophet one William Jennings Bryan
III new expounder OF the Jeffersonian tait
81 who claims to have the only origini
ri production of the great author, and e.
N hibits bona hde article to the America
III people, at the sight of which the Law
NJ abiding shudder, and the thrifty and pre-
n yldent turn sick at heart, and now tt
M nation hears the ignorant, the crlmina
IA the envious and the improvident, an
NJ last and greatest Of all, the unscrup1
ouS and dangerous demagogue PR
1 claiming, in the deceptive language
MI the Boy Orator of the Platt, the true I
IA political principles of our Thomas Jette
M son.
81 Yea, verify, theirs is campaign
nj brass and gall Some OF the decendan
nj otJetferson's old slaves ought to sue Il
Nj whole outfit for slandering the master
their ancestors.
Hoping, however that all good eli
NJ zens of whatever political name, may
IA able to unite and present solid phalat
M to the common enemy in November
81 remain,
Yours for sound money and goo
MA government.
III A Republican Forecast.
ia Harry c. Payne, vice president of t
III republican national executive commit
MI gives out bis first forecast OF the elk
Nh ton. Mr.. Payne made an estimate
the votes by states and doing so divide
Il the states into four classes-24 stat
III having 270 electoral votes certain t
Nj Mckinley; II states having lis electt
al votes, which are conceded to Brya
SIN states having AS votes in which t
chances of republican or democratic 81
cess are even and three states having
votes in which the chances are 60 to
IN favor of the democrats. Mr.. Payn
forecast is based on the last reports
celved from all the states and is as t
MI lows;
For McKinley-C California, 9; Conn
tlSut, 6; Illinois, "a; Indiana, IS; low
Is; Kansas, 10; Maine, 6; Massacf
SSetts, IS; Michigan, IA; Minnesota,
NJ New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, !
New York, SO; North Dakota, 4; V