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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18

This is one of our departments that
has proven itself popular with the ladies'.
You will find shown in this department
all the new styles and qualities in the
famous Royal Worcester Corset.
We call your attention to this artcu-
lar corset which we are selling at soc.
1t is the best thing we have been able to
find to sell at this price. The style and
fit as well as the quality is equal to any
other corset at more money. We have
summer corset at 25c that cant be
eC1alled for the price. A full line of
ladies' and children's waists.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18
DEMOCRATIC HOPES OF WISCONSIN

In 1894 Organism was rejected by the
voters Of Wisconsin by a plurality of
few more than one hundred thousand
votes. This result was with t. al vote
in the state of 447. 400. In tn, off year
of 1898 with IL vote in the s6ate falling
off l19, $50, or more than one iourth of the
total of 1896, all of the ten congressional
districts in Wisconsin repudiated free
silver and defeated its candidates with
an aggregate majority for the republi-
can congressman exceeding 30. 900.
Nowhere in the state is there the slight
- evidence that Organism and debased
money are more in favor this year than
in any previous campaign. The Wis
consin democracy existing and accounted
as regular is torn by jealous rivalries be-
tween 1econd rate leaders more ambiti-
Gus for prestage with the national lead
ers than hopeful of any sort of success in
any part of Wisconsin None of the old
time leaders of national repute are even
recognized as within the party organize
ton for voting purposes, and the remnant
is largely directed by men who have Just
been defeated in a struggle against speci-
fic approval of free silver folly by the
party in the nation. There Is not even
hope enough among Wisconsin demo
crats TO bring to the front a sufficient
number of the patient office-seekers to
afford intelligent mention of candidates
for state offices and members of congress
four weeks in advance of the state con-
vention.
The gentlemen in the east who are
giving the Bryan organs estimates in
which Wisconsin appears as doubtful
state ought to glance at the facts and
revise their foolish hopes. Wisconsin is
as certain to reject Organism this year as
is Pennsylvania Milwaukee Sentinel.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18
THIS is THE OPPORTUNE TIME.

70" should take
conditions
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18

United States Senator John II. Gear
of Iowa, died on Friday last Mr.. Gear
had held many and important stations in
Iowa. He was reelected senator at the
last session of the Iowa legislature.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18

Bets Of TO / that Mckinley will be
reelected president have already been
made. A New York republican, who
had $40, 900 TO wager. at 30 /. found no
enthusiastic democratic takers
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18
Farmers Take Notice.

Chas. S. Slack Il Cos. lath mill will
be running on Nuzum's lot south Of the
lumber yard after Wednesday of next
week. Farmers wishing TO bring in
bolt can do 50 now.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18

1t may be assumed with good degree
of confidence that this campaign will
not be as profitable for Mr. Bryan rs was
the last The people will be slow to
part with their good money to hear hard
luck stories
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18

The boy, Coin Harvey, will find that
the present campaign can get along
without new edition of his great work
on how to get rich by multiplication.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18

1t is better to know that wool is sell
ing at about twice as much pound as
1t did four years ago, than to bother
your head with lot of rubbish about
'imperia ism, which is only another
democratic way of checking our export
trade.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Mondovi Herald; There are some
persons who laud Senator Spooner's in
tegrity and frankness who are not will
ing 10 take his word as to his reasons for
declining a reelection to the L. S.
senate.
Madison State No national ticket
ever nominated gave more general salts
faction to its party and more trouble TO
its opponents than the one named by the
Philadelphia convention.
Fit Atkinson Union; We DenounceH
Our readers will find the full text OF the
democratic platform in the Union this
week, but fearing that some may not
nave time to read the whole, we give a
synopsis of the most striking points
We denounce-four times
We condemn.
We condemn and denounce.
We oppose,
We are opposed to government
We especially condemn.
We view with indignation.
We hold and denounce.
We protest.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-18
Attention HORSE OWNERS
TRAINER w. H. L0GGY
? grounds and Is prepar-
Cnaarf or Racing

Is lcs.atei 81 the fair grounds and Is prepar-
ed to train horses for Speed or Racing
Purposes. PARTIES having colts they wish
broken and developed will do we'll by calling
on him and get his terms Trainer Loggy has
had - years experience with trotters aud
PAGERS aud has handled and driven such
horses as May Douglss, s;lSA; Lulu May,
S:l5sa Giadius SprAgue 2.f9h Harrison Reed,
2;l9As Chippewa Chief, 2:se; Leavarth, Para
Rita 5, 2;s4S Lady h 2;slts Captain herod,
, y: Topsy V, asa; Forest ning. 80; Cow
snda, 2;sS; Doctor NJ 2:2s; William K, 2;ssA
Maude Hanson, 2;2eAs
Telephone l4sl
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-19

the 9Th cavalry now serving in Porto
Rico will be relieved from duty there :
in as soon as practicable and sent to
New York city, whence they will pro-
coed to such stations as may be desig-
mated hereafter. Brigadier Genera
Geo. w. Davis, United States volun-
teers now in command of the depart
ment of Porto Rico will upon the
discontinuance of that department
repair to Manila, Philippine Islands,
and report to the commanding gener-
al. division of the Philippines, for
assignment to duty as inspector gen
eral of that division.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-19

| The reports Of deer killed in Yer
mont during the open season give the
number as III, an increase of 27 over
last year; there will probably be a
| few more reported.
Charles Ferric of Waitsfield Th1rs-
day coughed up piece of pipe stem
one and three Fights inches long of
which in his anatomy he was previous
ly ignorant. He had been in failing
health for some weeks, and no drugs
afforded him relief. When the foreign
substance made it's appearance it
awakened the mans recollection. He
decided he must have swallowed the
stem while at Waterbury about year
since, for he fell asleep with his pipe
in his mouth, and upon awakening
found the pipe on the ground with
the stem broken, and part of the
stem missing.
The fall term of the supreme court
reached final adjourn ent Nov. IA.
No disposition was made of the case
Of the state against Frank Shaw, con-
vcted ofthe murder Of Deputy Sheriff
George w. Hoffman of White River
Junction. This case goes over to the
January term of the supreme court,
pending the action of the legislature
on the bill now before it to abolish
capital punishment. If this bill does
not become a law and if Shaw takes
nothing by his exceptions, he cannot
now be sentenced to be hanged before
December 1902, as a session of the
legisla ture must intervene between a
death sentence and its execution.
- One ofthe most successful meetings
OF the Vermont Fish and Game League
was held in Montpelier Wednesday
evening. The members were enthu-
siastic. the supper@was gamy and the
speeches brig ht and witty. At bust
ness meeting I55snew 6rn embers were
admitted and the following officers
elected: President, j. w. Titcomb of
st. John sbury; secretary, E. T. Brad
ley of SWanton; treasurer, Charles F,
w R. Peake of Bristol, n. w. Fisk of
Isle La Motto. E. @. Smith of st.
Adams, T. n. Vail Of Lyndon, DR.. W.
Seward Webb of Shelburne, Senator
Redf1eld Proctor of Proctor, Gen. J. J.
Estey of Brattleboro and O. E. Luce Of
Stowe; executive committee, L. M.
Chapman of NTiddlebury, E. w. Bart
lett of East Dorset, T. r. Stiles of St.
Johnsbury, f. Fl. Wells of Burlington,
p. n Dale of Island Pond, EEL. j. Rublee
of Montgomery, Geo. w. Squire of
South Hero. H G. Thomas of Stowe,
Horace w. Bailey Of Newbury, s. A.
Brady of Newport, Ira r. Allen of
Fair Haven, L. Bart Gross of Mont
pelier. F. w Childs of Brattleboro
and j. E. Pollard of Chester; member
ship committee. M @. Berry of Bur-
lineton, Geo. q. Fisher of Lyndonville,
L. S. Norton of Bennington. Resolu-
tons on the death of Rowland E.
Robinson were adopted. The banquet
at the Pavilion opened shortly after
9 O'Clock. The hall was completely
filled. The music was furnished by
Wilder's Orchestral Club and after an
hour at the tables President Titcomb
gave ten minute talk on fish culture.
He then introduced as the POSTMASTER,
j. A. DeBoer. The speakers we're:
J. G. Mccullough of Bennington, R.
w. Hulburd of Hyde Park, F. L.
Greene of st. Adams, W. @. Davis,
chief of the meteorological bureau of
the Argentine Republic and G.. @. Gill
more of Swanton.GI 4jIfA
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-19
, Buchanan, Mich, May ~

1---1-- 80
GenesSee Pure Food Co.'S, lbs II &-t.e7s
Gentlemen:-My mamma has been a great
coffee d rif ker and has found it very injuri-
Gus. Faving used several packages of your
GRAIN o the drink that takes the place of
coffee, she finds it much better for herself
and for US children to drink. She has given
up coffee drinking entirely. We use pack
age every week. am ten years old.
Yours respectfully. FANNIE WILLIAMS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-19

The following order was made pub
lie at the war department last week:
By direction of the President the
department OF Porto Rico will be dis
continued December Is, 1900, and the
island of Porto Rico and islands and
keys adjacent thereto will be attached
to the department of the East and
designated as the district of Porto
Rico, colonel, lieutenant colonel,
headquarters, band and one battalion
of the 18th infantry and squadron of
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-19
GEO. H DAVIS.

Our guarantee is like a Bank
Check-if your purchase does
: not suit you, bring back the
goods and draw your money.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-11-19
State News Items.

The reports Of deer killed in Yer
mont during the open season give the
number as III, an increase of 81 over
last year; there will probably be a
few more reported.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19

principles adopted by the convention
has my hearty approval. At some
future date I will consider its sub
jects in detail and will by letter COM
municate to your chairman a more
formal acceptance of the nomination. "
The president repeated some Of his
utterances of four years ago and added
Have those to whom was confided the
direction of the government kept their
piFdges? The record is made up. The
people are not unfamiliar with what
has been accomplished. The gold stand
ard has been reaffirmed and strength
ened. The endless chain has been
broken and the drain upon our gold
reserve no longer frets us. The credit
of the country has been advanced to
the highest place among all nations.
We are refunding our b nded debt
barring three and four and five per
cent. interest at two per cent, a
lower rate than that of any other
country and already more than 300,-
000,050 have been SO funded with a
gain to the government of many mill
lions of dollars. Instead of 16 to 1,
for which our opponents contended
four years ago, legislation has been
enacted which, while utilizing all
ferns of our money, secures ore fixed
value for every dollar and that the
best known to the civilized world.
"A tariff which protects American
labor and industry and provides
ample revenues has been written in
public law. We have lower interest
and higher wages; more money and
fewer mortgages. The worlds mar
kets have been opened to American
products which go now where they
have never gone before. We have
passed from bond issuing to bond
paying nation; from a nation Of bor-
rowers to a nation of lenders; from
deficiency in revenue to a surplus;
from fear to confidence; from en-
forced idleness to profitable employ
ment. The public faith has been up
held; public order has been main
tanned. We have prosperity at home
and prestige abroad.
Unfortunately the threat Of 1896
has just been renewed by the allied
parties without abatement or modifica-
ton. The gold bill has been de-
nounced and its repeal demanded. The
menace Of 16 to /, therefore. still hangs
over us with all its dire consequences
to credit and confidence, to business
and industry. The enemies OF sound
currency are rallying their scattered
forces. The people must once more
unite and overcome the advocates OF
reputation and must not relax their
energy until the battle for public
honor and honest money shall again
triumph. A congress which will sus-
tain and If need be strengthen the
present law can prevent a financial
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19
'HINA's ROADS AND WATERWAYS.

The roads of China are poor. Only
lew are paved, and for that reason
the greater part of the trade is carried
on by means of the numerous canals
and other waterways The country ia
irrigated by great rivers, and inter-
sected by a system of canals which ia
more than 600 years old. But these
canals, like the roads, the army, and
everything of a public character, are
badly managed and in a state of decay.
The Grand canal, the longest artificial
waterway in the world, starts from
Tien Tsin and runs south to Hang
Chow, distance of 600 miles. Lord
Charles Beresford, in speaking of It
said that when he saw it in 1898 there
was no water in it. pigs were wallow-
ing in the bed, which was actually
dry, and 1t was silted up where II
should join the Yang-tse, simply from
want of care. The Yang-tse river,
nearly $500 miles long, is navigable in
the summer which is the flood season,
for distance of $50 miles, from the
sea to Hankow for ocean-going vessels,
and ordinary steamboats, can go $40
miles further up stream.
The whole empire has only 317 miles
OF railroad. The longest line is from
pekin to Tien Tsin, and thence to
shan Haik-Wan, 300 miles, and the
other is from Woosung to Shanghai.
Russia is now building 1,400 miles OF
| road; Belgium. 700 miles. and China
| is building on her own account a line
OF ITO miles. Ground has been sur
veyed for 2507 miles additional. OF
these projected roads, the Chinese will
own 81 miles, Germany 430 miles,
France APO miles, England $50 miles.
Russia, with China, will own 1870 miles,
and zoo miles have been projected by
an Anglo-American syndicate. The
locomotives in use now were made in
England and America. The line from
Pekin to Shan aik-Wan is laid with
S5-pound rails part of the way, but
most of the iron is of the 70 and 60
pound type.
All the principal cities in the empire
have telegraph service. An arrange
ment was made with the Russian tele-
graph authorities in 1892 by which
communication was established be-
tween Pekin and Europe. The postal
system of the empire is still In prim-
tive condition. 1t is carried on under
the direction of the minister of war by
means of post carts and runners.
There are 5000 offices for post carts in
the eighteen provinces, and there are
2,O4O officers for runners scattered over
the empire. There are also many pri-
vate postal couriers. and during the
winter the Foreign customs office
maintains service between Pekin and
the outposts.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19

Payne and Judge w. R. Day. Senator
Lodge Immediately mounted the small
standing block and delivered his
speech of notification.
He said in part: ITO be selected by
the republican party as their candidate
for this great office is always one of
the highest honors which can be given
to any man. This nomination, however,
comes to you, sir, under circumstances
which give it a higher significance
and make it an even deeper expression
of honor and trust than usual. You
were nominated unanimously at Phila-
delphia. You received the enforced
vote of every delegate, from every
state and every territory. The har-
mony of sentiment which appears on
the face of the record was but the re-
Fiction of the deeper harmony which
existed in the hearts and minds of the
delegates. Without faction, without
dissent, with profound satisfaction and
eager enthusiasm, you were nominated
for the presidency by the united voice
of the representatives of our great
party, in which there is neither sign
of division nor shadow of turning.
Such unanimity, always remarkable, is
here the more impressive, because 1t
accompanies second nomination to
the great office which you have held
for four years. 1t is not the facile
triumph of hope over experience, but
the sober approval of conduct and
character tested in many trials and
tried by heavy and extraordinary re-
.sponsibilities. With the exception OF
the period in which Washington or
ganized the nation and built the state
and of those other awful years when
Lincoln led his people through the
agony of civil war, and saved from de-
struction the work of Washington,
there never has been a presidential
term in our history so crowded with
great events, so filled with new and
momentous questions, as that which is
now drawing to its end. True to the
declarations which were made at st.
Louis in 1896, you, sir, united with the
republicans in congress in the revision
of the tariff, and the re-establishment
of the protective policy. You main
tanned our credit and upheld the gold
standard, leading the party by your
advice to the passage of the great
measure, which is today the great bull
wark of both. You led again in the
policy which has made Hawaii pos
session of the United States. On all
these questions you fulfilled the hopes
and justified the confidence of the peo-
ple. who four years ago put trust In
our promises. But on all these ques-
lions. also, you had as guides, not only
your own principles. the we'll con-
sidered results of years Of training and
reflection, but also the plain declara-
tons of the national convention which
nomfnatedsyou in 1896. Far different
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19

, arouse criticism and attack. Yet, a
great departure and a new policy were
never more quickly justified than
those undertaken by you. On the
possession Of the Philippines rests the
admirable diplomacy which warned all
nations that American trade was not
to be shut out from China. 1t is to
Manila that we owe the ability to send
troops and ships in this time of
stress to the defense of our ministers,
our missionaries, our consuls and our
merchants in China, instead of being
compelled to leave our citizens to the
casual protection of other powers, as
would have been unavoidable had we
flung the Philippines away, and with
drawn from the orient. Rest assured,
sir, that the vigorous measure which
you have thus been enabled to take.
and that all further measures in the
same direction which you may take. for
the protection of American lives and
property, will receive the hearty sup
port of the people of the United States,
who are now, as always, determined
that the American citizen shall be pro-
tected at any cost in all his rights
everywhere, and at all times. 1t is to
Manila again, to our fleet in the bay
and our army on land, that we shall
owe the power, when these scenes of
blood in China are closed, to exact
reparation, to enforce stern justice, and
to insist, in the final settlement, upon
an open door to all that vast market
for our fast growing commerce. Events
moving with terrible rapidity have
been swift witnesses to the wisdom of
your action in the east The Phila-
delphia convention has adopted your
policy both in the Antilles and the
Philippines and has made it that of
the republican party.
Your election, Sir, next Novem-
Der assures to us the continuance of
that policy abroad and in our new pos
sessions. To entrust these difficult and
vital questions to other hands, at
once incompetent and hostile, would be
a disastrous and a still more unre-
lieved disaster to our posterity. Your
election means not only protection to
our industries, but the maintenance
of sound currency and of the gold
standard, the. very cornerstone's Of our
economic and financial welfare.
Should these be shaken as they would
be by the success of our opponents, the
whole fabric of our business confidence
and prosperity would fall into ruin.
Your defeat would be the signal for
the advance of free trade. for the
anarchy of debased and unstable
currency, for business panse, depres-
sion and Lard times, and for the
wreck OF our foreign policy"
McKinley's Reply.
In reply the president said In part:
"The message which you bring to me
is one Of signal honor. 1t is also a
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19

was it when the Cuban question, which
we had already promised to settle.
brought, fl. st war, and then peace.
with Spain. Congress declared war.
but you, as coz aander-in-chief, had
to carry i, n. You did so, and history
records unbroken victory from the
first shot of the Nashville to the day
when the protocol was signed. The
peace, you had TO make alone. Cuba
Porto Rico, the Philippines-you had
to assume alone the responsibility of
taking them all from Spain. Alone.
and weighted with the terrible re-
sponsibility of the unchecked war DOW
ers of the constitution, you were oblig-
ed to govern these islands, and to re-
press rebellion and disorder in the
No party creed defined
the course you were to follow. Cour-
age, foresight, comprehension of
American interests, both now and in
the uncharted future, faith in the
American people, and in their fitness
for great tasks, were then your only
guides and counsellors. Thus, you
framed and put in operation this
great new policy which has made us
at once masters of the Antilles and a
great eastern power, holding firmly
our possessions on both sides of the
Pacific. The new and strange ever
excite fear, and the courage and
prescience which accept them always
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19

summons to duty. A single nomina-
ton for the office of president by a
great party which in thirty-two years
out of forty has been triumphant at
national elections, is a distinction
which gratefully cherish. To receive
unanimous denomination by the same
party is an expression of regard and a
pledge of continued confidence for
which it is difficult to make adequate
acknowledgement. If anything ex-
ceeds the honor of the office of presi-
dent of the United States, 1t is the
responsibility which attaches to II.
Having been invested with both. I do
not under-appraise either. Anyone
who has borne the anxieties and bur-
dens of the presidential office. especial-
ly in time of national trial, cannot
contemplate assuming it as second
time without profoundly realizing the
severe exactions and the solemn obli-
cations which it imposes, and this
feeling is accumulated by the moment
Gus problems which now press for
settlement. If my countrymen shall
confirm the action of the convention
at our national election in November.
shall, craving Divine guidance, un-
dertake the exalted trust, to administer
1t for the interest and honor of the
country, and the well-being of the
new peoples who have become the OBJ
]ects of our care. The declaration of