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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
The Scuttle Policy.

President Mckinley, in his accep-
lance speech, declared that "the Phil
ippines are ours and American author.
ity must be supreme throughout the
archipelago. There will be amnesty,
broad and liberal. but no abatement of
our right, no abandonment Of our duty.
There ,oill be no scuttle policy.
The Presidents characterization OF
the paramount issue" the Democrats
raise by resolution is felicitous and
forceful. That issue is "the scuttle
policy" 1t has ever been the policy. of
the Democratic party in desperate
crisis of its affairs. When the scepter
was departing from the party, after the
election OF Lincoln in 1860, its policy
Yves to scuttle the Union. When the
war for the preservation of the govern
ment was entering upon its final stage,
in 1864, it again applied this scuttle
policy, declared the war failure, de-
manded the withdrawal of the Union
armies from the south and the nego-
tiation OF peace with the rebels. In
later times the party succeeded in it's
purpose to scuttle the industries of the
country. The scuttle policy was tri.
umphant for four years and prosperity
went to the bottom. The same policy
with reference to the results of the
Spanish war is now proclaimed by the
piratical crew that controlled the Kan
sas City convention as the paramount
issue of the pending canvass for the
control of the government for the next
four year.
Mr.. Mckinley declares, what is the
paramount American sentiment-as it
was in 1860, again in 1854, and in the
later years of financial and economic
confict--that "there must be no scuttle
policy" now in respect Of the Philip
pines. We must fulfill there ''the obi
cations imposed by the triumphs of our
arms, by the treaty Of peace, by inter-
national law, by this nations sense of
honor, and more than all by the rights,
interests and conditions of the Philip
pine people themselves" The Demo-
cratic party may be able to postpone,
as it did between 1861 and 1864, as it
has done in later years, the realization
of patriotic hopes hopes and high pur-
poses, but order will be restored in the
new possessions, and the blessings Of
order and good government secured for
their inhabitants, under the Republi =
can administration. "The scuttle pol
icy" may be proposed, but even the
temporary paramountcy vouchsafed to
it in the second election of Clevelan d
will not this year be granted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
White and Edmunds.

Mr.. Horace White Is one of the most
resolute of the anti-imperalists, but he
is too old bird to be caught by the
chaff in the Kansas city platform.
Writing it down that imperialism is the
paramount issue does not make it So"
says Mr.. White; "tbe declaration of
16 to is there just as it was in 1896"
Exactly; and there are In the reaffirmed
Chicago platform other issues the sinis-
ter character of which cannot be obsc-
ured, Mr.. White declares that sit is
not the silver plank altogether that
object to. Bryan showed in the last
campaign that he was permeated with
all sorts OF Populistic vagaries."
Surely such 8 man may be depended
on to do everything in his power to pre-
vent the success of Mr.. Bryan,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
OleOmargarine Statesmanship.

The editor of the Mortified NepS,
in common with many other people,
lacks confidence in oleomargarine
craftsmanship. Or the bill pending in
Congress the Neaos says:
Since the failure to get the Grout oleo-
margarine bill through Congress, the Grout
newspapers have been very vigorous in
their assurances that 1t will surely pass the
House early next season. These assertions
seem to be the best thing that can be done
in the attempt to help the political fortunes
OF Gen Grout. 1t will be remembered, how
ever, that few years since Gen. Grout was
just as vigorously at work on postoffice
bill as he has lately been on this oleomar-
garine business, but somehow IL dropped
ont OF sight before 1t materialized into a
law. Many we'll informed people look for
the same fate for this oeomsrgarne meas
ure.
The Ne,oS is not favorably imp pressed
with the recent attempt Of the Grout
papers to score point against Dilling-
ham for his wise and sensible course
and his votes on the oleo bills in the
State Legislature of 1884. every
movement" says the Ne,os, "intende
to advance the State has had Mr.. Dill
lingham's approval and hearty &C. opera
tor, but in all this there has never
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18

the Hon. William A. Clark, one of the
richest men in the country, AYERS that
the Republican party is the party of
wealth; wealth, in the estimation OF
MIR. Bryan, being a crimep But in an
other sense than Mr.. Bryan's the Re,
publican party is the party of wealth.
1t is the defence of property, of wages,
OF savings, of the rewards of labor and
industry and skill, against the proscrip-
tive policy of the Bryan trust. Every
man and woman that earns or that
saves would be injured by the success
OF the party or collection Of parties that
seeks to debase the currency. to fine
accumulation. To the men and women
whose especial champion Mr.. Bryan
processes to be, "the producing classes"
as he calls them, the sellars of their
labor day by day or week by week, bis
financial ideas would bring especial in
jury. They are the great creditors;
collectively they are the great capital
lists.
The fierce energy with which Mr..
Bryan pursues wealth will bring against
him a saner and surer energy, the
deep and powerful resistance of the
millions whose prosperity he attacks
New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
Bryan and Wealth,

At 1870 A. NJ, July 7, the Montana
delegation to the Kansas City conven-
ton arrived in Lincoln, Neb., and
woke it up with bands and cheers. The
delegates took trolley Car and rode to
Mr.. Bryan's house. The statesman
got up and dressed and made these re-
marks, the reading of which is calcu-
lated to make any sane man rub his
eyes and wonder Ii he is awake;
~ don't believe the Republican party
will carry single State. shall not con-
cede them State this year, not even Yer
mont 1t IL only question which State in
tee Union will give the largest Democratic
majority The Republican party is the
party OF wealth. so why should not DEM
ocracy VIM"
The passionate fanaticism of Bryan
ism could hardly rise to a whittier heat.
Passing over the wild predictions, what
shall we say of man who in the pres
ence Of a delegation whose "Angel" is
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PlainteId.

Is aac Austin and wife, who have for the
past three weeks been visiting in Marsh
nelu returned home last Monday.
Nelson SanborD, who has bought out the
mllk business In this village, lest one OF his
best cows last Monday.
Frank Bartlett and wife of Boston are
visiting her brother, I. Fl. Bartlett.
Abbie Foster has gone to williamstown
to work in the Gulf house.
Mrs Fred Perrin and two children are
Visiting in St. Adams.
The Ladies' Duplicate Whist club met
with Mrs. Ezekiel Skinner this week.
Quite number of the Odd Fellows from
b ARE visited the local lodge last Monday
evening.
Miss Cooley of Waterbury visited at j. A.
Foss' on Wednesday.
The many friends Of Mrs. George Bolles.
who has been sick for several months, will
be glad to learn that she is regaining her
health and strength.
Willard Perry, who leased an acre Of
land OF ID. l. Page last spring for a market
garden and had taken great deal OF pride
in getting early vegetables into Barre mar
ket, last Friday morning found forty head
OF cattle belonging to A. " Taylor in his
garden. They had eaten all his corn and
loo cabbages, besides damaging other pro-
ducts badly. Mr.. Perry was very reason
able. He said it had damaged him $50 and
he would take S25. Mr.. Taylor paid.
G. f. Whitaker, who has been visiting in
,Woodsville. for the past week, returned
home Tuesday.
Bert Wells and wife have gone to Ran
dolph and Bethel on visit for week.
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16 to l, the income tax and free riot.

16 to l, the income tax and free riot.
No; at present Mr.. White prefers to
contribute indirectly to that success.
He will not vote for Bryan. He will
not vote for Mckinley. He wants an
anti-imperialist candidate whom he
''can support consistently with the
principles he has advocated in the past"
For the sake of an issue, which be does
not regard as "paramount," an issue
which liz, in fact, fictitious, he is willing
to imperil or 10 sacrifice principles
for which he has labored through his
whole career.
The Hon. George Franklin Edmunds,
the best mind in the anti imperialist
coterie, has better sense OF proper
ton. he is not ready to give up every
thing else which the Republican party
stands for simply because he doesn't
agree with one Republican policy. He
prefers Mckinley to Bryan and there
fore he will vote for Mckinley. He
sees thtt "another nomination would
be, in effect, helping Bryan" To this
decision, we believe, all but the most
fanatical Republican anti,imperialists
will come.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
Are Your Kidneys Sick
Here is an Easy Way to Find Out.

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The publishers Of this paper guar.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT,

CANTON, o., July 12.-Speaking for
the notification committee of which he
is chairman Henry Cabot Lodge to-day
personally notified President Mckinley
of his nomination for President. Mr..
Lodge said in part:
This committee, representing every
State in the Union and the organized
territories of the United States, was
duly appointed to announce to you,
formally, your nomination by the Re-
publican National Convention, which
met in Philadelphia on June 10 last, as
the candidate Of the Republican party
for President of the United States for
the term beginning March 4, 1901. To
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 nomi-
nation, however, comes to you, sir, I'M
der circumstances which give 1t q
higher significance and make it an even
deeper expression of honor and trust
than usual. You were nominated
unanimously at Philadelphia, you re-
ceived the enforced vote of every dele.
gate from every State and Territory.
The harmony OF sentiment which APP
pears on the face of the records was but
the reflection of the deeper harmony
which existed in the hearts and minds
OF the delegate. Without faction, with
gu, dissent, with profound satisfaction
aud eager enthusiasm you were nomi-
mated 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.
Your election, sir, next November
assures TO us the continuance of the
policy, now in force abroad and in our
new possessions. To entrust these diff.
ficult and vital questions 10 o.her hands
at once incompetent and hostile, would
be disaster to us and still more unre-
lieved disaster TO our posterity. Your
our industries but the maintenance of
sound currency and of the gold stan
dard, the very cornerstone OF our eco.
nomic 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 signal for the adj
vance of free trade, for the anarchy of
debased and unstable currency, for
business panic, depression and hard
times, and for the wreck of our foreign
policy. Your election and The triumph
of The Republican party-which we be-
lieve to be as sure as the coming of the
day-will make certain the steady pro-
lection of our industries, sound money,
and vigorous and intelligent foreign
policy. They will continue those con-
ditions of good government and wise
legislation, so essential to the prosper
ity and well being which have blessed
our country is such abundance during
the past four years.
Thus announcing to you, sir, your
nomination as the Republican candi-
date for the Presidency, we have the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
Inspiring Comments.

The once Copperhead-Democra tic,
but lately Populistic Argus and Patriot,
published ringing comments on the &C.
ton of the late party convention in
Montpelier in which the publisher and
the editor we're active participants.
The publisher was delegate at larg e
to the Kansas city convention, and in
that body Vermont was one of tn Q
States which obeyed the mandate of
Bryan and forced upon the convention
the 16 to issue, to the support Of
which she can contribute no electoral
votes. Here is the gallant way in
which the argus rushes to the advoca-
cy Of the variegated creed it helped to
promulgate in the remote Missouri
town:
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alton, but its frankness, consistency and
editorial honesty are in striking con.
trast with the lack of those qualities in
some other papers whose representa-
lives, however, figure as chief cooks
and bottle washers In the party manage
ment in Vermont.
The Retormer analyses the work of
the Kansas city convention, and en-
phaticelly administers it's condemn a.
ton. 1t says:
"a study Of the work Of the Kansas City
convention only brings into sharper relief
the utter folly OF its action In adopting the
16 to plank. 1t was Bryan's work and as
an exhibition of his practical sagacity on a
par with his action in urging the rstiics-
ton OF the Spanish treaty. But for his in e.
sistance on it and his threat that he would
not accept nomination without 1t, the
plank would not have been adopted"
The Reformer shows, what has al
ready been disclosed, that the silver re-
solution was forced upon the committee
by the action of territories which have
no electoral votes to give, or by States,
like Vermont, which are hopelessly
Republican. The States voting for the
resolution cast only 148 electoral votes,
and of these only SO can by any posi-
bility be Democratic. The States vo-
ting against the 16 to / resolution have
297 electoral votes, and of these 10, be-
fore 1896, we're doubtful. In the Re-
formers judgment 1.-THE veriest tyro in
politics" ought to have known that the
reason why Bryan insisted upon the
the resolution-to hold silver Republic
cans and populists in alliance-'is now
but shadow"
To the contemporary "the nomina-
ton of Bryan seems to be more coldly
received than was expected, and the
drift of opinion just now is that his
election is hopeless" 1t cites the cir
cumstance of the detection of old time
Democrats and newspapers in the East
and West and notes the significant fact
that the Charlotte IN. c. Observer
openly bolts the nominations, and in
Kentucky the majority of the anti
Goebel papers are lining up in opposi-
ton. Concluding it's review of the po-
liticsl elements the work of the conven-
ton has hopelessly alienated the Re-
former says: "In a general way the
effect of the Kansas City conventions
work, as was clearly to have been seen,
is to drive away recruits for the sake of
retaining Populists who were lost any
way" And the contemporary is pro b.
ably right as we'll as entirely candid.
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SAALE PL0ATED.

NEW YORK, July 12.-Twenty-four
bodies were recovered from the hold Of
the burning steamship Saale Wednes.
day afternoon which makes the total
number of dead taken from this ship
alone, sixty. Most of the bodies were
80 badly burned or mutilated that re-.
cognition was impossible, but several
were identified by initials or names on
articles taken from parts of clothing
that some times remained. All of them
appeared to be OF workmen in the holds
OF the steamship.
Fifteen bodies were found In the
stewards room. The door OF this room
was locked. The fire did not get near
the unfortunate fifteen aud their lives
might have been saved but for the
breaking of the glass in the windows.
When the windows were broken the
room filed with water aud they were
drowned like rats in trap. These
bodies were in a better state of preser-
walton than the nine found before them.
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Fayston.

Miss Anna l.. Bragg is spending few
weeks with her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Perry Of Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pape of Barre are visiting
in town. Mrs. Pape will be pleasantly re-
membered as Miss Mary Black, formerly of
this town.
Quite number from this town celebrated
the Fourth at Barre.
Carlos, son OF the late W. e. and Mrs.
Elizabeth Backus was severely injured
while splitting wood for Ed. House in
Waitsfeld last Thursday. Mr.. Bsckus had
been at work in the slate quar- les in North
field, where explosives had been success
fully used in splitting slate, and thought he
would try powder on tough hemlock.' AS
the fuse did not work Mr.. Backus threw OIL
little powder and then applied match.
when the charge exploded, striking him in
the face, injuring him severely. Mr.. Back
US went at once at Montpelier, where he re-
ceived treatment and Is now able to ride his
wheel again. his only injuries being badly
disfigured face, which in all probability
cannot be cured.
NIsl Andrew Blair, who died in Waits
field last Sunday morning, aged seventy
eight years, was for long time q respected
resident Of this town. Ten years ago she
celebrated her golden wedding and had she
lived until next Friday her friends intend
ed to meet with her and her esteemed hus-
pand to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary
OF their marriage Mrs. Blair was the moth.
or OF eleven children, three of whom are
now living and were at her bedside during
her last illness. The bereaved family has
the sympathy OF all in their sad bereaye-
ment.
Mrs John Patterson is Ill, with no hopes
OF recovery.
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been the slightest faint OF demagog-
ISM" Referring to what it calls "rank
nonsense from Grout sources that Mr..
Dillingham; opposed the Interests of the
farmers when in the Legislature some
years SINCE, the Ne,Cs remarks:
just here It is pertinent to enquire II the
farmers have not already suffered enough
FROM the gold brick schemes offered them
from Grout sources2 Must their inteli-
gence be constantly questioned by such
nonsense a. the above, with the hope OF Sc
curing few more votes for the candidate
who is posing in season and out of season
as the farmers friend7
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18
Gouldsville.

Mrs. Wilton has gone to Bury, P. Q, for
an extended visit.
E. Fl, Robbins and family have returned
from Athol.
Mrs. j. W. Gould returned from Calais
last week.
Mrs A. II. Brown and daughter Of Bos-
ton are expected this week.
Frank Ingalls, Of Moretown was the guest
OF his'sister, Mrs, James Rich, last Sunday
Homer and Fred Savoine went to Hard
wick last Saturday to visit relatives.
G. f. Hurley of Boston arrived in town
Monday for short stay.
Mrs. Carroll Granger OF Barre was in
town last Saturday.
A. M. Hunt OF Boston was in town last
week.
James Rich and family spent the Fourth
with his brother, Fred, in Moretown.
Louis Williams VISITED in Montpelier last
week.
s. s. Ballard of Montpelier was in town
last week.
W: B. ordway finished work for Scott &
Smith last week.
Mr.. and Louis Johnson spent the Fourth
in Tunbridge.
Mrs Marion Sanborn of Graniteville is
with her parents.
j. Il, Bingham is TO begin work IN Mont
pelier this week for Marvin & Sherburn.
Will Greenwood and family OF Barre are
in town,
Harrison Allen OF Topshsm was a guest OF
his brother, John, last week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18

With Foster and Haskins In the House
and Proctor and Grout in the Senate, there
will be nothing the matter with Vermont
80 far az Congress is concerned.-St. Johns
bury Republican.
We are not disposed to unduly dis
turb the dreams Of the followers of
Congressman Grout, but as paragraphs
like the above are being circulated
through the state, we take the liberty
to state that General Grout is not to be
sent to the United States Senate. He
is to be retired to private life.-Rut-
land Herald.
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effective advertisement.


The festivities of this commemora-
tive occasion, the coming together of
the field officers and the "staff,' the
communing Of the men from the re-
mote picket lines of the continental
battle-ground of life insurance with
each other and with the headquarters
officers-this is all much more than a
delightful social occasion. 1t will serve
to unity and strengthen National Life
interests everywhere, and the Company
will begin the second half century Of
its business existence under circum-
stances that assure permanency to the
institution itself, and to its policy hold
ers, present and prospective, the most
benedcent results attainable in scien-
tiic life insurance.
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Its Folly Anaiyzed,

There is nothing Populistic about the
Rrattleboro Ref0rmer. Its Democracy
may not be of the wholesome, broad
guaged, patriotic kind exemplified by
the Times of New York, the Eagle Of
Brooklyn, and other sterling papers of
the real Democracy of a former gener-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18

Mothers lose their dread for that terri
b lie second summer when they have DR.
Fowler's Extract Of Wild strawberry in the
house. Natures specific for bowel COM
plants Of every sort.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18

IL you don't feel quite well, try
bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t is a
wonderful tonic and invigorator. 1t
will help you.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18

A blessing alike to young and old; DR..
Fowler's Extract Of Wild Straw berry; ma
lures specific for dyseneIy, diarrLea and
summer complaint.
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Peace is discovered by the sanguine
observer of South African AFFAIR.", but
at the same time Mr.. Kruger declares
that the British hold less than one
third of the Transvaal and can never
beat the Beers in the mountains. The
Orange Free State has been "pacifed,"
but eleven hundred British prisoners
have been taken there since this news
was cabled to England, Affairs in
China do not tend to the rapid pscifica-
ton OF the Beers.