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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
For the GOvernOrship.

-Four years ago The VERMONT WATCH
MAN believed that William w. Stick
ney was the better man, of the candi-
dates then before the people, for the
office of Governor. Every thing de-
veloping at that time, and all the de-
velopments since, have confirmed the
judgment then expressed. The WATCH
MAN has no doubt to-day that Mr..
Stickney is not only fully competent to
administer the duties of the office of
Chief Executive we'll and faithfully, but
it believes that he is better fitted, with
four years of accrued wisdom and ac-
cumulated experience, to occupy the
executive chamber to the entire salts
faction and to the great advantage of
the people of Vermont.
In the desultory discussion of the
subject of the governorship, candidates
have come and candidates have gone,
but Stickney's name has run on quietly
but without interruption. To-day he is
the only candidate before the people
for the Office of Governor. His candi-
dacy, and the certainty of his nominal
ton without opposition, is the one
fixed quantity in the mixed equation
of Vermont politics.
In the four years since the memoir
able contest at Burlington, Mr.. Stick
ney has gone quietly and unobtrusively
about his business. BY his deport-
ment he has continued to commend
himself to the good will and confidence
of the people. Mr.. Stickney has trod
every rung in the ladder of fortune
from the lowest upward. He is man
of the people and from the people, a
man of much hard sense, d man who
has been enough in public life to I'M
derstand its requirements, who is prac-
tically familiar with the needs of the
State in respect of its diversified inter-
ests, who is prudent and wisely con-
sentative, who has proper ideas of the
powers and limitations of the Chief Ex-
ecutive office, who will make thought.
full, judicious and thoroughly good all
round Governor. William Wallace
Stickney will be nominated for Gov
ernor by reclamation, and all the peo-
ple-or, what is pretty nearly the same
thing, all the Republicans of Vermont
will say, Amen.
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occasion. She seemed greatly touched
by the children's tribute. Later the
children partook of feast provided by
the ladies of Dublin.
SHANGHAI, April THE American,
English, German and French ministers
at Pekin have presented joint ulti-
matum to the Chinese foreign office
demanding the total suppression of the
anti-foreign society known as the
BOXERS" within two months. Other.
wise the four powers will land troops
and march into the interior of Shan
tung and Pechili provinces to maintain
the safety of foreigners. The foreign
legations are now protected by strong
naval guards. There ID large gather
ing of foreign warships at Taku in the
gulf of Pechili.
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NEVER VOTED.

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Admiral
and Mrs. Dewey returned to Washing
ton last evening. A number of re-
porlers were at the house awaiting bis
return. In response to question the
admiral said that he expected to pre-
pare in few days for the press bis
plans for the future, which he indi-
Gated his intention to make.
"Can you confirm the statement you
are credited with making that you are
Democrat?" persisted one of the re-
porters.
Certainly l am Democrat" he re-
piled.
~ always have been Democrat"
he added smilingly.
"Have you ever voted the Demo
cratic ticket2"
mo, l never voted in my life. The
only man l ever wanted to vote for was
Mr.. Cleveland"
cit is said that Mr.. Cleveland wants
you to run on straight gold Demo-
cratic platform"
"Good-night," answered the Admiral
without answering The question.
NEW YORK, April 7.-Col. B. b.
DluhilCy vi NGlihOub WAS bt6u NJ luS
Fifth Avenue hotel last evening. He
said: 81 have the create ST respect for
Admiral Dewey as IA sailor and pa
triot, but | have nothing to say with
relation to his candidacy for the pres
idency. The Republican party stole
the presidency in 1876 and bought it in
1880. They tried to steal it in 1884,
but did not succeed. The capitalists
beat us out in 1888, but we got there
in 1892. Conditions beat us in 1896
but / think we will get there with
Bryan in 1900. 1t has long been ap.
parent TO me that the nominees this
year will be William Mckinley anc
William Jennings Bryan. The Yer
mont convention will be held in June
at Montpelier, and the delegation will
be instructed to vote for Mr.. Bryan
regardless of the candidacy of Admira
Dewey.
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pressions of opinion. They will have,
further, the importance attached to
the opinions that 60 out to the coun-
try as the conclusions of the Republic
cans of State holding the party rank
of Vermont, of the Safe that fires the
first gun in the national campaign.
The signs of the political times are
deeply agitating the minds of men.
The enemies of republicanism are
knowing in a mysterious way" to COM
pass its defeat in November. The cir
cumstance of Admiral Dewey's posi-
BILE candidacy, on the Democratic tick
ct, for the office of President will give
an added interest and significance to
the utterances of the conventions Of
Vermont Republicans. AS the State
which pointed the way to McKinley's
nomination in 1896, as the State which
gave a Republican majority Of more
than 40 900 at the September election,
as the State which has steadfsstly sus-
tanned the administration at Washing
ton, as the State of the nativity of the
naval hero who may lead the combined
elements of opposition to Republican
policies, what Vermont has to say at
its convention next week will have a
deeper interest and will be given a
larger importance than has usually
attached to the States proclamation of
its political beliefs and principles, OF
its preferences in the matter of lead
ers.
There is but one straight course for
Vermont Republicans. That is in ar
unqualified endorsement of President
McKinley's administration and an I'M
reserved acceptance of his leadership
in the coming canvass. George Dew
ey, the sailor, appeals VITO Vermont
pride and enthusiasm; George Dewey
the aspirant for the Presidency, the
figure head of the longtime and i'm
placable enemies of the Republican
party, Vermont Republicans will turf
down as decisively as they would the
Nebraskan leader, whom they could
more highly respect as a consistent ant
rational foeman.
In eleoting delegates to the State
convention assembling next week il
Burlington Republicans ought, there
fore, to choose their strongest men
The convention, in respect of its act
and utterances, is Infinitely more i'm
portant than any other the party will
hold this year. What it may say ant
do may decisively affect, for good o
for evil, the fortunes of the great ma
tional organization of which it is
part and which it has often led to vic
tory.
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ton. They could not accept it, in any
event, without knowing who ia back of
him, without knowing to what men and
influences II is response, and they
could not accept his candidacy if it
were espoused by either wing or any
faction of the Democratic party. The
Republicans of Vermont could not &C
cept the candidature of Admiral Dewey
for the Office of President of the United
States, though he is a son of Vermont,
on any consideration that has yet been
presented, or that it is possible, in the
nature of things political, to present.
Every consideration of policy, OF wis
dom, of statesmanship, cries out against
the proposition.
The supreme requirements of the Of
flee of President of the United States
could no more be supplied by this man
Of the sea than could the qualifications
for the headship of q great navy of
modern warships by landlocked poll.
tician, whose nosttils the breath of the
salt sea air never distended. To YER
monters Admiral Dewey is a naval
hero, ranking among the foremost in
history. In that rank they would have
him abide, and, in their judgment, he
will abide; and in this view of the recent
spasm in national politics they will sub
scribe to the following from the Sun of
New York:
We have no fear that this novel and In
teresting revelation of one phase of Ad-
miral Dewey's character will obscure in
the minds Of the great mass of his fellow
citizens the main fact of Importance, name
", that he ran his ships up to Cavite and
then blazed away Why, II he should be
persuaded by injudicious advisers to begin
a suit in the federal courts to compel the
joint committee on the library to substitute
a colossal figure Of himself for the statue OF
female Freedom which now tops the dome
OF the Capitol, that would not be enough to
wipe out the memory of May 1, 1881 Let
the boom proceed under the direct and un
questioned leadership OF the New York
World. its organ and legitimate journalistic
proprietor. Whether George Dewey is the
artless agent Of schemers who believe they
can market in politics his great deeds in
war, or merely the victim momentarily OF
perfectly honorable If simple and almost
boyish self-delusion, it is beyond the power
of the Admiral candidate, with all the as
sistance he can muster, to obliterste the
Hero OF Manila Bay.
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RAGING WATERS,

AUSTIN, Tex, April 9.-The city is,
this morning, gazing upon the wreck
of it's splendid dam and power house,
that cost S1,750,000. The Colorado
river has been on the rampage for sew
eral days, and Sunday it swept away
all barriers. The wreck of the plant is
complete. The situation in the city is
most serious. The wreckage of the
plant means that it will take several
weeks to secure even a temporary
water and light system if it can be
made possible even then. In the
meantime the city will be in bad
sanitary condition. All the hotels,
private residences, stores and the like
are without water and there is no fire
protection. Churches were unable to
hold services last night for want of
light and all public meetings were
abandoned. The daily newspapers are
handicapped in their publications, be-
ing deprived of their electric power.
Reports from the neighboring coun-
try are to the effect that every thing is
under water. In Williamstown county
north of here, railroad bridges and
trackage have been laid waste and all
trains have stopped running. Humid
reds OF heads of cattle have been drown
ed and miles of fencing torn down and
washed away. In Bastrop county and
the southern portion Of this county
similar conditions prevail, everything
being under water and much loss of
property is reported. The country
tributary to the Colorado river all the
way down it's course is being inundated
and while 1t is believed the worst is
over, the loss, as estimated today,
will exceed some three million dollars,
counting Austin as the largest loser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
Choosing Delegates. An Important
Duty.

Town and city caucuses will be held
during the week for the selection OF
delegates to the State and district con-
ventions for the election of delegates
to the National Republican convention
at Philadelphia in June.
The Vermont conventions are the
first, or among the first,to be held. The
judgment of these assemblages of Yer.
mont Republicans on national issues
that will lead in the canvass for the
Presidency upon which the country is
entering will be awaited with interest
by the other States of the Union.
Their declarations will have the i'm
portance always attached to early ex-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
Still the Hero OF Manila Bay.

Vermont could not accept Admiral
Dewey's candidature for the presidency,
even were it clear that he aspired to be
the candidate of the Republican party.
They could not accept it in its present
guise, even as the expression of the un-
alleged desire of the Admiral himself
to be the candidate of the American
people with the American flag as a
platform, or with his guileless assur-
ance that the fact that he halls from
Vermont should be accepted as a token
of his soundness on the money ques.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
South Ryegate.

Mrs. John Star was called to Topsham
last Saturday evening by telephone by the
sunden death Of her uncle, James Patrc
Tabor.
The office of the Ryegate Granite Works
Company has been moved from the Quint
queharson and j. ID. McAllister have an
Office in the block
The post office was moved from G. L.
Halls dwelling house to the new office in
Beauties new brick block, last Monday. 1t
is beautiful office and all ought to be sat
isied with the change.
Rev. S. A. Jackson and Andrew Buchan-
an went to Dueansburg, N. Y, last Monday
to attend a meeting OF the Presbytery to be
held there in connection Rith the Reformed
Presbyterian Conference Wednesday of this
week. Instrumental music in church SER
vice will be one OF the bones OF contention
to be decided at this meeting as it has never
been fused in this branch of the church.
Many OF the members are anxious to see
and hear the organ in the church.
BrookfieId.
Howard Edison was in town recently -
- Miss Vie Davis spent Sunday with
her parents at Randolph Center. - Lots
OF snow and very bad travelling. -
There has been only very little sugar made.
The prospects are not fiattering for good
sugar season. - Miss Lillian Buck is at
home from the Randolph Center normal
school for the Easter vacation. -
Blanche Durkee is at Northield working
In the family of G. III. Richmond. - e.
e. Benham has bargained for Will Blod-
GETS house here in the village. - Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Tracy and two little boys
have been quite sick with the measles the
past week. - Miss Mary Woodland died
at William Clark's last week Tuesday.
The funeral was at the house Thursday
with interment at Windsor. - Mrs.
LuthersTracy. of Randolph is at her sons,
Frank Tracy's, helping care for them
while having the measles. g Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Sargent and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Blake went to Tunbridge last week
Wednesday to attend the funeral of their
sister, Mrs. Laura Hoyt. - Mrs, Cynthia
Kibbee is visiting her sister, Mrs. Gaylord,
for few weeks.
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one accord said, Mol

one accord said, Mol
So has the President in his wisdom
COMPOUNDED his enemies; so has he car
ried relief to the poverty stricken
island; so has he safeguarded great
question of constitutional interpreta-
ton to which the Republican party at
its birth was committed, and which it is
reaffirming today. These be the ma
terial facts of the Presidents "wab-
bling" Do they impeach his wisdom
or the integrity of his purpose, or are
they to his everlasting credit?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
FOREIGN NEWS.

DUBLIN, April THE Queen drove
through Phoenix park today passing
along the lane lined with $4,000 chill
dren from Dublin and all parts of Ire
land. The youngsters made great
demonstration by cheering and waving
of flags and presented Her Majesty with
an immense bouquet. The Queen wore
q bunch OF shamrocks in honor OF the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
ashIultOu.

Eva Barup is at work at West Topsham.
l.. A.. Downing Of Plainfied was in town
recently.
@. G McAllister is at Chelsea for a short
stay.
Mrs. Jennie Seaver has returned to Der
work at Barre.
A son was born last Saturday to Mr.. and
Mrs. George II. Bohonan.
Herbert Moody OF wolcott has been Wis
iting his brother, II. G. Moody.
Ernest Bates OF Wiliamstown visited at
Q. H. Daring's portion Of last week.
Mrs. #. A. Warner goes to Boston this
week to purchase goods for her spring mil
linery trade.
G.. A. Bohonan has returned from Mos.
COW where he has been at work for the past
four months.
IL. II. Sargent has moved his family to
Barre where he has employment in a re-
pair shop.
@. Fl. Johannesseu is ill with the prevail
ing epidemic and it is feared his illness
may terminate in pneumonia
Bessie Mcdonald is ill with bronchial
trouble and is unable TO attend the spring
term OF school at Mortified.
There was a good attendance at the
masquerade at school house hall last Friday
evening. About Sc was realized.
Leon A. Crotto has moved his family from
Royal Ordway's house to Marshfield where
he has rented a small farm for the coming
year.
Mrs. D. e. Worthley, Mrs. o. E. Curtis
| and Miss Annie Flint attended the teachers
examination at Chelsea last Wednesday
and Thursday.
The members of the Unversalist parish
are requested to meet at the church Satur-
day evening April ID at o'clock for the
purpose OF electing the necessary officers
for The ensuing year
There is to be meeting Of the Republican
voters OF this town at the town hall Satur-
day evening for the purpose Of electng two
delegates to the Republican convention at
Montpelier April II and two delegates tc
tue convention at Burlington. April IS.
At recent meeting of the Young PEOPLES
Christian Union the following officers were
elected: President, Mrs G. A. Bohonan
first vice president, Rev. A. NJ. Smith; sec
ond vice president, Mrs. @. w. Clough
secretary, Mack Carpenter; treasurer, Mrs
Q. L. Slack. The Union voted to pay 81,
for preaching service for the past year
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11

"Prevention is the best bridle." You
can prevent sickness and cure that
tired feeling and all blood humors by
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-11
East Roxbury.

Robins were seen here last week.
w. @. Webster lost good COW recently.
Jacob Wardner has failed rapidly the past
week.
Timothy Blanchard is in Williamstown
for the present.
Pearl Hall of Warren called on friends in
town Friday.
Clarence Mudgett is carrying on Lewis
Sieele's sugar orchard.
John Ladd returned from his visit to
Greenfield, Mass, last week.
Leila Webster returned to her school in
birmingham, Mass, last week.
Hattie Kidder visited at Monroe Grams
in Roxbury last Thursday and Friday.
Verne George has been drawing hay from
Luthie Blsnchard's hill farm to his place in
Mortified.
Miss Bertha Thayer who has employ
ment in Montpelier, made short visit to
her home last week.
Charles Hastings, who has been staying
with his sister, Mrs. Wardner, for the past
few months, has gone to STAFFORD.
Roy Cady takes the lead in this section
by having on April l fifty-fve chickens,
which are all furnishing and feathering
finely.
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ROxbury.

Frank Brown has moved in part of Mrs.
Oramel Richardson's house.
Mrs. f. d. Burnham has gone to Dux-
bury for some time.
Mrs. Emily Persons who has been visit
ing at III. G. Ellis left last Wednesday for
Chicago.
Mrs. Stanley is at Will Dunsmoor's
while her mother, Mrs. Eldred is at Burling-
ton for treatment.
AS you travel through the village, as you
journey on the hills,
AS you listen to the music of the MANY
trickling rills,
You can hear the news repeated by the
many streams that drip
That the joyous Spring is coming-with the
grip
She brings the grip.
Listen to the crows harsh cawing, as he
tells his tale of wrong,
Hear the robins first rehearsing of his for
mer happy song,
You may hear the words re-echoed, plain
as from human lip
That the Spring-time gives you greeting
and the grip
She gives the grip.
&nter any farmers dwelling searching for
the maple sweet,
And they hoarsely give you answer that
they have no wish to eat,
Time nor strength to gather sweetness, if
they dared to take a sip,
For their thoughts are all concentered on
the grip
They have the grip.
So your correspondent fingers as he seeks
TO find the name
OF each worthy friend and neighbor who
should thus go down to fame,
Till with knowledge born Of suffering, his
pen in ink doth dip
And write the tragic legend We've the
grip
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StranOrd.

ADr1l
10, will not be observed until the 22d.
Mrs Justin Slack, who has been i'll a
long time and suffered severe operations for
internal cancer, is very low. Her death is
likely to occur at any hour.
Miss Marion G. Hatch and Miss Mary
c. Rich went to Athol, Mass, last Monday
to visit Mrs. Mabel Hatch Avery. All the
children of the late Royal A. Hatch met
there this week in family reunion.
But little sugar is being made, The snow
was 80 deep that farmers could not get into
their woods the first sap weather. few
report good runs of sap, others found the
quantity very small. Outsiders are trying
to get supply OF the maple here but with
poor success.
The remains of M. Elizabeth Ordway,
formerly a resident of Stanford and who
age of sixty-three years, were brought herd
for interment April 6, At the burial were her
sisters, Lucy Nj. Ordway Of Indian Lake, N.
Y, and Ellen j. Ordway of Bradford, Mrs.
f. j Palmer of Wilder and r. G. Martin of
Bradford.
South Barre.
Mrs. A. W. Lane is visiting at 7. 8.
Brophy's in Montpelier. - Carl Huse
has moved from the Harrington tenement
TO the Bacon house. g Mrs. l.. l.. Salter
is able to be out again after a short illness.
- Abraham Badger has moved into
the Bacon house. - Mrs. j. W. Wilson
is i'll with the grip. - II. b. Arbuckle
is working for H j, Slsyton repairing the
inside OF his house and will also put on
piazza. - X. A. Lane Is hanging paper
for Wallace Parker. - Henry Hill has
shingled his house.
Maple Hill.
Ira Merrill is failing slowly.
Rev. A. P. Drown preached last Sunday
Belle Lane visited at Byron Pierce's at
Woodbury. last Saturday.
Rev. Joseph Reed from New Hampshire
ia to hold revival meetings here each even.
ing this week at half-past seven.
The Globe-republican., 1900-08-02
NEWS EXPECTED HOURLY.
Retributive Measures are Prepared
If Cause Transpires.
ON EVE OF DEVELOPMENTS.

Washington, July 31--There is
growing expectation at the state de-
Partment that news of the utmost
Importance may be forthcoming at
any moment from Pekin- Should it
develop that Conger and the legation
ers have been massacred, the admins
tration will not stop short of the
severest retribution measures, and it is
admitted that congress will be
moned in extra session to provide
means for carrying on war Secretary
Hay believes that the Americans are
still alive. at least that they were
alive on the date of the much discuss
ed cable, supposed to be July 49,
1t is Furthermore believed that Sec
rotary Hays confidence In it's genuine
ness is not merely matter of blind
faith, but one of familiarity with the
secret form of the comm unication
which. known only to the state de-
partment, stamps 1T what it purports
to be-a genuine message
Events the eve of rapid de-
veIopment may show the conditions in
PeISin have reached the most critical
stage, and are as serious as the skep-
ticaIly inclined affect to believe War
would then seem inevitable, and the
administration will not hesitate to
strike with the European powers for
the restoration of peace and order in
China and such satisfaction as may be
deemed full and complete compensa-
ton for the damage this country has
suffered in loss of life and property.
1t is believed that the basis for this
expectation of news is the knowledge on
the part of officials that certain ma
chinery heretofore set in motion may
result in the opening up of communi-
cation through some secrect but
reliable channels. 1t is known that a
second effort has been made by our
own government to get another mes
sage from Mr. Conger; and that nearly
all of the powers also have resorted to
private agencies in their own interest,
with like object.
Assurances received here show that
the Japanese government is doing all
An its power to facilitate the interna-
tional movement and though the good
win of the Japanese was never sus-
pected, far as the United States is
concerned. the knowledge is CRAFTY
ing.
The Globe-republican., 1900-08-02

Detroit, Mich, July 31--Section L
of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show s
train suffered a severe collision near
Milwaukee junction resulting in the
smashing of show employees sleeping
car containing some forty sleeping in
mates One of the latter is dead and
nine others are in the Detroit hos
pitfalls suffering from more or less
serious injuries The caboose was
forcedon topof Buffalo Bills employees
sleeper No. SO, which was filed with
sleeping tent and canvassmen-