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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
POLITICAL CANARDS.

Apropos the recent editorials and
news stories of the Rutland Herald
concerning alleged abuses in the gov
ernorship campaign now closing, the
ST. Adams Messenger of last evening
said under the caption of Campaign
Canards" "The Rutland Herald in
its issue of June 9 printed what pur-
ported to be an affidavit of one God
frey Richard, of st. Adams town,
charging Thomas NJ. Deal with TAX
ing liquor to ST. Adams Bay and with
other similar crimes alleged to have
been committed on the night Of the
town caucus, May "a. The Messen.
ger is in a position to say authori-
tatively that those charges against
Mr.. Deal are not only untrue, but
that the affidavit itself was signed by
to its contents Richard has made a
statement in which this fact is set
forth and in which the details of the
Rutland Herald's affidavit are denied
by him as utterly without foundation.
This statement and the statement of
other residents of the Bay, to the
same general effect have been taken
to the Rutland Herald with a demand
that they be published by that paper,
The Messenger has copies of these
statements and will publish their full
text when the result of the application
to the Rutland Herald for retraction
is made known. Meanwhile, the
Messenger need not say that the
friends and acquaintance of Mr.. Deal
who have known him day by day fol-
all these many years that he has
been an active and an honored citizen
of st. Adams and Franklin county
do not require affidavits or signed
statements to assure themselves thai
he is not engaged in peddling liquor
contrary to law. This is merely an
other case where the trickery of cheaI
politicians has set foul rumor af1oa
to the damage of an honest man"
The Journal has repeatedly warned
its readers that such stories as hav,
been circulated from time to tim
were simply campaign fabrication
designed only to maliciously injur
certain candidates-Gen. McCullougl
being the target of many cheap, sense
less and malicious canards-and
trusts that sane, sober minded citizen
will discount such journalistic trash
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
CORONATION NOTES.

All sorts of names are being in
vented for the babies who come into
the world this coronation year, such
as Corona, Coronius, and Edal, a COM
bination of the two first syllables in
the names of the King and Queen.
The little daughter of Sir Francis
Knolleys rejoices in name composed
of the first syllables of the names of
the Kings Daughters, Louise, Vic
toria and Maud, and "Louvima" will
add new one to the list of odd
names.
This name will not be so distin-
gushing a mark of age in the future
perhaps as the others, but, less COM
memmorative cognomens would per-
haps be more appreciated in future
years by the young ladies who bear
them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

which "prohibs' may be at this time.
The Herald and its following, that
is to say Mr.. Clement and the men he
leads or assumes to lead, are probably
responsible for the failure of the
referendum at the last session of the
Legislature The first bill offered in
the Senate was by Senator Royce of
Franklin county, providing for the
referendum. This was sidetracked by
the license and local option measures
in both houses, to which Mr.. Clement
was primarily devoted. House and
Senate wrangled over these bills al
most to the last day of the session
and their enactment was refused. A
feeling had been engendered that was
injurious to the favorable considera-
tion of any measure looking to a re-
vision of the matter of regulating the
liquor traffic, and Senator Royce's bill,
taken up IL the last hours of the ses-
sion, was incontinently killed. Had
that measure, providing for a pure
referendum, been taken up without any
compromising ENHANCEMENT with the
license policy, considered in the spirit
of calm deliberation such measure
demanded, it ought to have become
a law. 1t was the only bill looking
to change in the liquor code that
stood any chance of becoming law
The ultra license men, of whom Mr.
Clement among Republicans was
chief, must be charged with the re-
sponsibility for blocking the favorable
consideration of the referendum in
the existing Legislature. 1t is not
/ in the mouth of Clements newspaper
to revile the friends of the refer
endum in the present or past
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

Cadets, the graduation of whose first
class marks the close of the first cen
tury of the Academy's life. You have
learned here how to command, and a
still more useful lesson, how to obey.
You have been taught obedience to
the civil as well as the military code,
for in this land the military is always
subordinate T. the civil law. Not the
least valuable part of your education
is your service in the cadet ranks, per-
forming the duties of the private sol
der. When Marshal Launes's Grena-
diers had been repulsed in an assault
upon the walls of fortified city, and
hesitated to renew the attack, Lannes
seized scaling ladder and rushing
ed forward, cried Before / was a
MARSHALL | was a grenadier, so | have
not forgotten my training. Inspired
by his example the Grenadiers carried
the wall and captured everything be-
fore them. Courage is the soldier S
cardinal virtue You will seldom
go amiss in following Gen. Grant s
instruction to his commanders When
in doubt, move to the front.
Modesty should go hand in hand
with valor. Never underrate your
selves in a battle; never overrate your
selves in a despatch. When clothed
with authority, avoid everything
which savors of puppyism, an evil
sometimes bred by power and shun
as well the spirit of dogmatism which
johnson said is only puppyism grown
to maturity When you are sure that
you are right, do not be disarmed by
unjust criticism. Mankind is divided
into two classes, those who go ahead
and do something and those who sit
back and criticise them for not doing
it better. Censure is often con-
comitant to success Ostracism was
the Greeks reward for popularity ;
derision and caricature pursued the
! recipient of a Roman triumph.
In this institution the flag of your
country is kept constantly in view
1t is not simply piece of bunting
| which can be purchased for a few
shillings in the nearest shop; it is
not mere cluster of brilliant colors
! with which to decorate a window for
holiday display; it is the emblem Of
dignity, authority, power. Insult it
and millions will spring to its de-
! fence, resolved that it shall never be
dethroned from its proud supremacy.
In this free land there is no sovereign
| fealty to symbolic national loyalty,
no crown TO typify inherent author
ity; our sole emblem of fidelity to
country is the flag.
Here you are trained to salute it,
taught to reverence it. Remember
that it is to be your pillar of cloud by
day, your pillar of fire by night
that it will wave above you III vic
| tory, will be your ralliyng point in
| defeat, and if it be your privilege to
offer up your life in its defence, its
gentle folds will rest upon your bosom
in death, its crimson stripes will mingle
with your generous hearts blood, its
very presence there will write a no.
bier epitaph than that on the sar-
cophagus in which the great Sesostris
sleeps. a generous country has with
fostering care equipped you for your
career. 1t is entitled to your undivid.
ed allegiance
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

Health is a magnet which iIresistibly
draws the man to the woman in life's
mating time. Health does more than
tint the skin with beauty it puts music
into the voice and buoyancy into the
step, as we'll as happiness into the heart.
A great many women covet beauty and
are constantly seeking aids to beautify
them. Let a woman first seek perfect
health and all other charms shall be
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There can be no general health for
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

its discussion the News of Burlington
calls down the mild hammered Mes
senger of St Adams, in this severe
but just arraignment
The St Adams Messenger expresses
just indignation and contempt for the
spotter and sneak who will induce
others to violate law, join with them
in the incident pleasures, and then
turn informer. The being-he cannot
by any stretch of the meaning of Ian
guage be called man that enters into
such work whether for revenge or
for gain can never thereafter be recog-
nized as fitted to associate on an equal
ity with men. He is base and con-
temptible thing fitted only for the
society of his own kind if he can
find them.
The particular case under considera-
ton is that of one Harry Dean of
Cornwall, who for revenge on a hotel
keeper of Middlebury voluntarily APP
peared before the court and swore to
having drunk liquor in all of the Mid
dlebury hotels. In addition to this he
named large number--a score or more
of prominent men who drank with
him Among these names were those
States attorney of that county. This
disclosure at once became the sensa-
! ton of Middlebury. The hotel keep
ers left town and the Messenger
promptly and with "ghoulish glee, -
as it were made use of the incident
| for its effect on the political cam
| paign. That paper printed long &C
count of the case; and of all the par
| tiCipantS in this insignificant social
incident among supposed gentlemen
none were mentioned except Gen Nc
| Cullough and States Attorney Dono-
way. The mention of the latter, who
is the prosecuting officer in such cases,
was, under the circumstances-if he
did articipate-entirely proper. But
what can be said of the act of select
ing one man out of score to hold
him up as aiding in the violation of
the prohibitory law because he is
now a candidate for governor?
After this the News can be quite
forgiven for the snapper it attach
ed to its article:
If political battles are won in this
way, so much the worse for those
who win. But they are not. Every
man of healthy mind condemns this
kind of politics no less than he con-
dennis informer This incident may
be catalogued with the infamous per-
sonal assault on Proctor, tas boom
erang that will return and strike the
| thrower.
There is strain of hysteria here,
but the contemporary has had griefs
of its own.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

We had always supposed that the
Mollie Maguires had been exterminat-
ed in the coal region in Pennsylvania
but judging from the recent tele-
graphic advices from that section re-
garding the desperate attempt made
to murder William Thomas, mine
superintendent in Lackawanna county,
one is led to believe that the organ
Such outlaws should be run down and
the time to act is now, before such
criminals perfect an organization
strong enough TO be dangerous Such
acts as these only tend to injure the
cause of organized labor
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

When some of our soldier boys are
inclined to grumble over their lot
they should read recent editorial of
the Army and Navy Journal which
is as follows:
1.-The conditions of service in Greece
approach the feudal The Greek sol
der is not soldier in the strict sense
now applied TO the word by, nations
who have found large standing armies
necessary, and who have been taught
by experience, sometimes sad, the adj
vanage of keeping their armies we'll
trained in the purely professional du-
ties of the military calling. The sol
der of Greece is Jack of all trades.
With the exception of the Chasseur
branch, he has to attend to the duties
of policeman, excise officer, fireman
and of others too numerous to men
ton, which are performed in other
countries by classes of men specially
employed. 1t follows that his militry
efficiency cannot be of a high order,
as he has not time for the exercises
necessary to perfect a soldier. The
system of feeding the soldiers-a
more important matter than civilians
think-as pursued in the army of the
King of the Hellenes, is antagonistic
to all military ideas a deduction is
also made from his pay for homes for
old soldiers and their families, Sure
ly the provision of such fund is the
duty of the country which the soldier
serves and not that of the man who
has barely living wage. The food
is supplied by the company officers
The country looks with disfavor on
the army and even if it could af-
ford to pay at a higher rate, it would
not do so.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

Dispatches from Pretoria tell us
that the Boer is incensed against
German and French journalists, al
leging that they have prolonged hos
tilities by their writings. They are
hoping that as citizens of the British
empire they may some day have a
chance to meet the soldiery of these
countries. They make all manner of
dire threats as to what will happen.
"Uncle Oom," you had better go out
of the war business, You have been
a good fighter and the world takes off
her hat to you but don't invite any
further trouble
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

Calvin P. Titus, the Bennington
county West Point cadet was again in
the public eye at West Point S cele-
bration yesterday. This young Yer
monter, who at the risk of his life
scaled the walls of the city of Pekin
and placed thereon the stars and
stripes was publicly decorated with
a medal from Congress and an order
from that body, directing that the
President thank the cadet, was read.
The late President Mckinley in rec
ignition of the services of Titus APP.
pointed him as a special student to
the academy and yesterdays action
of President Roosevelt is an added
honor to brave Vermont boy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
SONG OF THE BROOK.
BY SARA f. GRAVES

BY SARA f. GRAVES
come from the hills in whispering rills
Down from the woodland shadows;
With Joyous song the summer long
revel in sun-filled meadows.
Dancing and gay on the rugged way,
over stones and boulders leaping;
Solemn and still toward the busy mill
Through thrifty valleys creeping.
Full to the brim from the MOUNTAINS rim
In the springtime floods | m rushing;
Through the lazy marsh and sedges harsh
A toisome path I'm pushing
In the forest dark the tall ferns bark
To my tender constant wooing;
While the daisies rank on the sandy bank
Flrt to their own undong.
The forest wings--bright, beautiful things
In my shadows dip and dabble;
But in hiding cool of the still, deep pool
The fishes elude my babble.
I'm happy brook with curve and crook
And long and sunny reaches
Silver cascades in the dingle shades,
And tiny, pebbled beaches.
Oh, give me life with beauty rife.
No law my course TO measured
A poets dream is the wanton stream,
And he may share its treasure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

Changes in the navy which need
not be enumerated will soon make
Capt Cook of the Brooklyn, in the
Santiago campaign, the senior officer
of his grade Next below him is Cap
tain Clark of the Oregon and this is
what interests Vermont. The next
vacancy in the rank of admiral will
permit the promotion of Captains
Cook and Clark-but this climbing
u on the endless chain Of routine
and inglorious promotion isn't what
the commander of the Oregon earned,
it isn't what the country owes him,
it isn't what the people would have
given him, it is what the bureau
Gratis of the navy department, afraid
of their official rank, have compelled
Captain Clark to take. Time will
avenge the Oregon 5 commander His
name will live in song and story
when the petty bureau chiefs are
slumbering in dense oblivion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
PROHIBS BADLY SCARED?

Under this editorial title the Her
aid of Rutland says:
The peculiar thing about those pa
pers which have advocated a pure
referendum on the license question
is that they always advocate it when
the prohibs are getting nervous.
When the people begin to talk about
the prohibition farce in threatening
way and there are signs of taking up
the question of license the 'pure
referendum " advocates come to the
front, but let pure referendum"
bill come up and they forget all about
their principles, The prohibs are
scared about out of their boots these
days, and it is not surprising that
those who favor pure referendum"
are coming out in unusually large
numbers.
The Herald seems to be jealous of
any contemporary who supports or has
supported the referendum. Apparent
ly it seeks monopoly of whatever OF
fame or credit may come from any flu
ture action favoring this move. The
Journal has supported the proposition
to refer this question of the manner
of regulating the liquor traffic back tC
the people without regard to any al
legged nervous or threatening condi
tions among temperance people of any
class. The Journals position in re
spect of the referendum or any Other
aspect of the liquor question has NJ
reference to any State of mind il
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
A BAD CASE OF "HIRE. 8"

The Brattleboro Phoenix published
a half page of campaign matter stat
ing the objections to Mr.. Proctor as a
candidate for Governor. The publ
cation was just before the caucus in
that town for the election of dele
gates to the Republican State conven-
ton This act of the Phoenix has
been criticised as a breach of fidelity
to its candidate. The publication was
labelled as an advertisement in small
tpye in the lower right hand corner
of the space occupied. The work was
"done for hire, something that so
appalls Proctor newspaper editor,
even the doing of State printing for
pay Being an advertisement, or
being so labeled a contemporary
thinks the structures on the Phoenix
are not well taken What was Mr..
Proctor's view of the matter when he
got the returns from the caucus which
turned ten delegates over to Clement
which Proctor confidently expected to
have for himself? And when, fur.
Their, he reflected on the extremely
narrow margin by which he lost his
stronghold second only to Proctor
itself in his confidence? What would
have been said or thought of the ed
itor of the Journal had he for hire"
printed on the eve of the caucuses,
two years ago, half page synopsis of
the reasons the supporters of Gen.
Circuit We're giving why Dillingham;
ought not to become the successor of
Justin S. Morrill, in the Senate of
the United States? What, further,
would they have said or thought had
q condition of the sale been that no
explanation or neutralizing word or
comment should be published in the
papers editorial column? They
would have said or thought, if they
said or thought the thing the cir
cumstances justified that the editor
was sort of Judas Iscariot and
the right thing for him to do would
NC W OOluIJlc but pdldlltl ny tAt-
cutting the bowel gushing act of his
prototype, for the conditions of the
PhoeniX's publishing the advertise
ment" for thirty pieces of silver, I"
more or less-was that the little
traitor should publish no neutralizing
editorial comment, and the editorial
columns for that issue were accord
ingly unusually dull and common place
so different from what they were
in that famous day in March when the
editor drafted" Fletcher Proctor for
the governorship and with all sails
spread was sailing on to victory and
glory. After all the Phoenix's deed
of treachery was but a characteristic
trick. The paper abandoned Grout
in the fight of his life and in the crisis
of Proctor's fight fired raking broad
side into his friend. The newspaper
publishers of Vermont are few who
would on any terms sell their columns
to the enemy Of the cause the paper
was supporting, and agree "for hire
to spike their own editorial guns
while the adversary was emptying
his batteries into that cause.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
THE ORIOLES NEST.

Swing high, swing low,
e Where the zephyrs 20
On their beautiful errands to and fro.
Graded so fair
In the summer air
Where the green leaves throng
Amid sheen and song
You shall not find, in a long days quest,
A fortress stronger, lovelier nest
In cavaliers coat,
With defiant note
Poured from fearless challenging throat
The Oriole sits
At his door or fits
Hither and yonder in urgent mood
To bring for his wife and the clamorous
brood
The morsels they ask.
It's yeomans task,
But bird of state
May toll for his mate,
Aud there's wonderful love like a flag
untiurled
In that wee little home in the great big
world
Swing high, swing low,
Where the breeZes blow,
And the rains go slanting to and fro.
Cradle of melody,
Rocked like a summer sea
Up where the ripples of air and sun
Mingle and criss-cross. and meet and run,
And we shall not find in week-long
quest
prettier sight than an Orioles nest
Margaret +. Sangster, in Will Cartoons
Magazine, Every Where, for June.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

Late dispatches yesterday from
Washington stated that it was the be-
lief of the President and secretary of
war that the expenditures of some
So, 500 for the promulgation and circu-
lation of reciprocity literature was
wise and justified by conditions.
General Wood as the military gov
ernor of Cuba at the time this money
was expended had full authority to
appropriate Cuban revenues for any
purpose that in his Judgment would
advance the interest of the island.
Secretary Root says that neither he
or Gen. Wood knew their agent Thur
ber's connection with Havemeyer, it
being recently discovered that he was
in the employ of the sugar trust
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
overheated Blood.

All diseases which are classified
under the head of "summer COM
plants" have their origin in an
overheated condition of the blood.
For this reason the most popular
summer remedy 10 BLOOD WINE,
which keeps the circulation normal,
aids the digestive organs, and tones
up the whole system. For sale by
G. E. MeGrath Suc's'r to w. E. Terrill
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18

The Herald and News ought to stop
its wild defamation about the foul
SANDERS of Mr.. Proctor in this can
vass, long enough to come down to
particulars. The contemporary should
devote less of "our time and ener-
gies'' to whining and more to what
he is whining about. The trouble
with him and his allies is that they
have been handling fire and have been
badly burned. They appealed to the
records, and to the records they were
themselves hailed, and the records
convicted their candidate of offenses
unbecoming an aspirant for the gov
ernorship. Hence these tears
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-18
\ SHIFTY CHARACTER.

The vernal Messenger was stunned
by the way the Republicans of st. AL
bans turned down the Proctor dele
gates Friday night 1t credits the
Central Vermont Railroad company
with the honors of this exploit and
refers to the partisan end of that com
pany as the most solid and compact
political organization ever seen in this
city"
1t is, perhaps, wise in the vernal
Messenger to maintain silence on the
political situation in st Adams. 1t
is shifty newspaper and knows how
to change about from position to posi-
tion in the political field We know
of a parody on ''Titwillow" that suits
its case: