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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
JACKDAW CRIES.

Americans laugh at the ignorance
foreigners, even people of intelligence,
display of American affairs or geo.
graphy, but is there in England denser
ignorance of things Americ a than is
here and there exhibited in neighbor-
ing States of things civil and political
in Vermont? According to some of
these newspaper reports Vermont is a
political Gehenna, reeking with cor
ruption, whose rank offenses smell to
heaven, out Tammanying Tammany
itself.
The contemporaries are hysterical,
when they are not grossly or perverse-
ly ignorant. Boston, the city of the
three hills, where "cuichaw'' and all
the virtues, as well as most of the
f~ollies, of mankind are enthroned,
leads in this business of d%iscrediting
Vermont. Apparently to some callow
scribe is assigned the task of editorial
discourse ON Vermont affairs and
from his infantile and conceited inner
consciousness, rather than from any
known facts of the subject of his as
Segment, he evolves his contribution
to current misinformation.
The late canvass in which men of
the virtue, character and eminent
standing of Hon. j. W. Stewart of
Middlebury were participating in all
parts of the State, and the conven-
ton in which Mr.. Stewart was the
leader and men of the same stamp
were his following, on the side of
Mccullough and his delegates, has
never been surpassed in Vermont or
any other State for orderly and hon
orable procedure, for the force and
vigor of the combat for the good fame
and best interests of the State. The
victory of Mccullough was the vic
tory of the people of Vermont, of the
men of Vermont most distinguished
for sobriety of judgment, for indepen-
dence in thought and action, and all
else that is of good report-of who
Gen. Mccullough is himself a splendid
type. The only answer to these truths
has been the grimaces of the defeated,
the befouling of their own nests by the
vile birds whose oawing these metro
politan jackdaws are echoing. The
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

Editor DailyJournal. BY your re-
view of candidates for county officers
| see that or present liquor commits
sioner is a candidate for reelection.
l have not the honor to know Mr..
Worcester eXcept by his works, " and
judging him by his works, in this and
other towns and cities, it would seem
to be a nomination eminently unfit to
be made. His agents have, with
his own knowledge and consent, run
pretty near free-rum shops, their
sales for (pretended) medicinal,
mechanical and chemical purposes
only''-reaching in one year to pear
$50, 600 in Montpelier and near 50, 900
in this little town OF less than 900 in
habitants, half OF whom get their rum
at Montpelier.
d. What sane person thinks that ne-
tenth of this was sold according to
law? Yet his agents say it was sold
according to the commissioners direc-
ton. Shall we elect law-breakers to
execute the law?
And what are some of the effects of
these medicines, $50 freely dealt oct
under the protection of Commissioner
Worcester and some of the other
county commissioners in this State?
Brutal murders, suicides, fatal acct
dents, public brawls sud family quar-
rels, these and many more grievods
evils have their origin in l'quo-
bought a t town and city agencies.
Men OF Washington county, these
things ought noe so t o be. If we can
not do better we olgh5 to turh the
subject owe to the ONE But if
the rum-ctazy fit that has lately come
over . part of Vermont Republicans
men, it will be a disgrace to the
countv, the State aud TO the party
that elects them. And if Republican
conventions adopt old and rotten
Democratic PRINCIPLES, the party will
soon he sicker than the wnele was after
he had swallowed Jonah.
William Chaplin,
Middlesex, June 20.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
THE MINERS SIDE.

W~ilkesbarre, Pa, June 23. -Presi-
dent John Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers of America, has issued an ad-
dress to the public for publication in
the newspapers. 1t is partly a reply
to che letters of operators declining to
accede to the demands of the union,
which were published about ten days
ago
Briefly summarized the address says
that every possible means was resort
ed to in the effort to prevent the
strike, claims that the cost Of living
has increased to the point where the
miner was compelled to ask for higher
wages, denies the allegations of the
operators that the productive capacity
of the mine workers has fallen of but
on the other hand has increased and
says that in the event the union is
crushed which, it adds, is not likely,
a new organization would rise from
its ruins. 1t concludes with another
appeal for arbitration of all questions
in dispute.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
H CAUCUS PLANK.

The democratic but esteemed Mont
pelier Argus, which has been kept
somewhat busy trying to help run the
Republican campaign, has this to say
with reference to the caucus law
plank adopted by the State Republican
convention:
"No one who watched the course
of the Republican canvass will doubt
the wisdom of the platform declaration
il favor Of a caucus law. 1t ought
not to have been left to the followers
of Mr.. Clement to demand it.. The
plank should have been inserted by
the committee on resolutions with
out waiting for a request from any
quarter"
The Argus must know that nearly
all, if not all, Republican papers in
the State have been demanding the
passage by the next Legislature Of a
law providing Fof a reform in politi-
cal primaries, but in spite of its inter
est in Republican politics it could hard
ly be expected to know that the chair
man of the committee on resolutions Sc
lected originally by the State commit
tee had formulated a caucus law plank
as well as a referendum plank, or that
the committee on resolutions would
have presented one without a request
by Mr.. Clement. Having received
this assurance regarding Republican
interests it is hoped that the Demo-
cratic Argus will now find time to
disco,ec what its own party proposes
to do in the way of politics this year.
Free Press.
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CAPTAIN CLARK'S PROMOTION.

The promotion of Capt. Charles E.
Clark to be a rear admiral OF the
United States navy is conspicco.slv
well deserved and will be applaI1ed
by the people of the United States
with rare unanimity. There can
be no righteousness in saying that
he was among those who did the
nation best service in the Spanish
war, and concerning the value of
whose services there was, and is, least
ground for doubt or dispute. We
have only to recall the simple facts of
record. When the Maine was destroy
ed and var was seen to be inevitable,
the eyes of the nation turned to Cap
tain Clark and his ship. The hope of
the nation was placed in his bringing
the Oregon around to join our fleet
in Caribbean waters, and thus making
the latter strong enough to cope with
any fleet Spain might send against it.
All through that long and arduous
voyage the Oregon was followed by the
American people with an anxiety sell
dom known in our history. When at
last her safe arrival on the Florida
coast was announced, ready for in
slant combat, there were universal re-
lief, e~xultation and confidence-sen-
timents amply vindicated a little later
when the Oregon played so indispen-
sible a part in the great sea drama
off Santiago.
We have only to remember these
things to realize the nations debt of
gratitude to Rear Admiral CLARK.
The man who, at a little more than
a moment notice, could set out with
his ship on a voyage such as no other
battleship i'll the world had ever un-
dertaken who could take her through
two oceans and three zones and all
around a continent at racing speed
with never a mishap or an hours de-
lay who could rush her into the goal
after such a voyage ahead of schedule
time and in perfect trim for immedi-
ate action who could make her give
so superb an account of herself in the
ensuing battle, and who through it
all could be so modest and void of
mere self seeking-such a man is made
of the right stuff for high command
in the service which has known a De-
catur and a F%arragut. We may not
revive within us in these quiet DAYS
of peace the thrill and the enthusiasm
which the. very name of the Oregon
aroused only four years ago but un-
less we would repudiate those former
sentiments as spurious we shall do
we'll to recognize with fullest earnest
ness the fitness of hoporing the man
who was responsible FOR and who is
to be credited with the unparalleled
achievements of the Oregon in 1888
New York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
EDWARD
FACING DEATH.
Underwent Surgical Operation
on Tuesday.


London, June 24,-It is officially an
nounced that the coronation has been
postponed. King Edward is undergo
ing an operation today for perityphlitis
which is inflammation of tissues sur
rounding the caecum, or blind, pouch,
situated between the large and small
intestines.
London, June "a. - The Kings
physicians have issued the following
1.-The Kings condition on Saturday
was so satisfactory that it was hoped
that with care His Majesty would be
able to go through the coronation
ceremonies. On Monday evening a
recrudescence became manifest rem
dering a surgical operation necessary
today This is signed by Drs.
Listor, Smith, Laking, Barlow and
Trevs.
London, June 24.-The Bishop of
London says the operation is for
strangulated hernia. The operation
was performed at Buckingham palace
at noon. London is staggered by the
s~uddenness of it all, particularly, as an
absolute denial that the King was SER
iously i'll was issued on Saturday by
Sir Francis Knollys. Great crowds
struggled about the bulletin posted
at Mansion House and read the news
with uncovered heads.
London, June 24.-The operation was
successfully performed. The King re-
gained consciousness and is nov asleep. lr
the streets CONSERVATION is depicted or
every face. Strangers and Londoners
alike are grouped, excitedly discussing the
bad news. Papers are selling at any price
Newsboys are being almost mobbed. The
following official announcement was ISSUED
later "The Earl Marshal has received
the Kings commands to express His
Majesty's deep sorrow that owing to his
serlous illness the coronation ceremonie.
must be postponed. All celebrations il
London will in consequence be likewise
postponed, but it is the Kings earnest
hope that the celebrations in the %countr,
will be held as arranged, The King ha
expressed a desire that the Lord Mayor!
dinner to London's poor be not post.
poned.
LONDON, June 24.-In the House o.
Commons this afternoon MIR. Balfou
said "Everything is going on with thu
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25

King as well as possible, but his condi-
tlon is undoubtedly serious and grave.
| do not intend to increase public alarm
by adjourning the House. The sad rs WIS
was announced in Westminster Abbey to
four hundred members of lhe coronation
choir as they were about to rehearse tor
service on Thursday. Bishop London,
after making the announcement, dismiss
ed the choir. No date for carrying out
the ceremonies has been indicated. 1t is
feared weeks will elapse before the King
will be able to undergo the strain. Bust
ness throughout the city is practically at
a standstill. The Lord Mayor ordered
the para e stands in front of the Mansion
House torn down. The news of the
Kings illness has caused a general slump
in the prices of all securities.
LONDON, June ID An official of the
Mansion House this afternoon said that
the King was in a very critical condition
and that forty-eight hours wonld be nee
essary to decide whether it is life or
death.
London, June 24.-Your correspondent
learns on very high authority that the
King is in an extremely critical condition.
ne operation was postponed longer THAN
it should have been. Chances of recovery
are very remote. Worst may happen in
the early hours of the morning. Doctors
have requested the Kings family to re-
main in the palace all night.
LONDON, June, 24-Oficial bulletin 2
p m. Operation successfully performed.
Large abscess was evacuated. King bore
operation well.
London, June 24.-In the House of
Lords Premier Salisbury, after visit
ing Buckingham Palace, announced
I'VE have every ground for hope that
the issue will be favorable and speedy,
and that we will be able to return to
our ordinary vocations at an early
period. BIT three or four days must
elapse before certain knowledge is
forthcoming"
London, June "a. - Ambassador
Choate confirms press reports of the
Kings illness. President Roosevelt
Immediately instructed Mr.. Choate
to express to the British government
tie hope of this government for the
Kings speedy recovery.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
ADD TORTURE TO SACRIFICE.

The House committee on commerce
has reported favorably a bill altering
the present restriction, that cattle in
transit shall be unloaded for rest,
feed and water every twenty-eight
hours, to every forty hours. An
effort will be made to rush This
bill through during the closing houcs
of the session, but already TIE COM
mit6ee is in receipt of protests
from the humane societies of the
country. Mr.. G. A. Snow, president
of the Washington Humane Society,
has sent to the committee a letter of
protest in the course Of which he says (:
"The passage of this bill will be a
distinctly inhumane and retrogressive
act to which | hope the American Con-
gress will not commit the American
people. These animals, vertebrates
like ourselves, have unerring appe-
titles and thirst, and twenty eight
hours, as under the present bill, is
far too long, especially under trying
transportation conditions, to make
them go without food and water.
To increase the time to forty hours
will involve an added torture which,
if reduced to ineligible expression,
would shock the conscience of the
world. How o~utrageously mean and
cowardly to treat these noble, gentle
beings this way, only because they
are voteless, voiceless, de~fenceless,
They give their lives that we may
live more abundantly and now an
avaricious cattle interest purposes,
through the sanction of Congress, to
add torture to sacrifice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25

The News of Burlington, the News
of Rutland and the Messenger of st.
Adams, the daily papers which stand
for license of the liquor traffic, have
given in their unreserved adherence
to the nomination of Gen. Mccullough,
and like the good Republicans they
are they appeal to all Republicans to
support the conventions nominee
and help roll up a rousing majority
in September. This is the right spirit,
which makes for harmony, good feel
ing, and "a long pull, a strong pull
ard a pull all together"
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Barnard, Sumner and Putnam Co., Worcester, Mass.
COMMENCEMENT AT VERMONT
COLLEGES.

Mortified, June 23.-The formal
opening Of Dewey hall and baccalau-
reate service with a sermon by Rev.
Charles O. Day, president of Andover
Theological Seminary occurred on
Sunday. The main auditorium in
Dewey hall is a handsome apartment.
1t is finished in a color scheme of
terra Gotta with metal ceilings of
green tints the whole forming a par
ticularly pleasing effect. Its seating
capacity is not less than 600, includ-
ing the gallery. Mr.. Day, more fam
iliarly known in this section as Chap
lain Day, Through his connection with
the First Vermont regiment in 1898,
gave a strong and able sermon in
which he set forth the need of the
present days for active aggressive men
who stand on the right side Of morals
ethical and other vital question,
which determine the higher civiliza-
tion. He likened the formation of char
acter unto the process used in maui
featuring a sword.
The exercises of the 9Sth commence
ment of the University of Vermont
began on Sunday with the ~baccalau-
reate sermon by President Buckham of
at the College Street Congregational
church, which was filled with friends
OF the graduating class and the Uni
versity- Shortly after three o'clock
President Buckham, the Rev. DR.. G..
H. Beard and the members of the class
entered the church by the center isle
and the class took seats in front reser-
we'd for them, The services began
with Gounod's anthem, Send Out
Thy Light sung by a double quar-
tette. The Rev. DR.. Beard read a sell
ection from the Scriptures and offered
prayer, President Buckham then de
livered the baccalaureate sermon, on
the qualities essential to leadership.
Commencement at Middlebury col
lege began on Sunday. The baccalau-
reate sermon before the graduating
class was delivered at the Congrega-
tional church this morning by the pre-
Ezra Brainerd, LII. D.. That
evening at eight O'Clock occurred the
anniversary exercises of the College
Christian associations with an address
by Rev. Rafus Cushman Flagg, d. D.,
Ii. D., of Berlin, N. H., Mr.. Flagg
was graduated from Middlebury in the
class of 1869, and was president of
Ripon College, Ripon, Wis. from 1892
until 1900. President Brainerd's
baccalaureate sermon was from the text
John xii :25. He that loveth his life
shall lose it and he that hateth his life
in this world shall keep it into life
eternal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
TEMPERANCE AND INTEMPERANCE.
MiddleseX. VI. June. 1902.

MiddleseX, VT, June, lGO2,
Editor Daily Journal:-Ever since Noah
got drunk and disgraced himself II his
FAMILY, drunkenness has been considered
a pubic evil. Laws for suppressing it are
as old as the books of Moses, who wrote
Lev. X 81 Drink not wine nor strong
drink, thou nor thy sons, lest ye die; 1t
shall be a statute forever" The old prov
cribs. "Wine is a mocker and strong drink
is raging" and, For the drunkard shall
come to poverty are just as true today
as in the days of Moses and Solomon.
Yet today many people are raging vio-
lently against the Vermont law for sup
pressing drunkenness. A law, that, with
all its defects and all the inequalities of
its execution, has done more good thar
prove all things, hold fast to that which
is good" Remedy the defect and keep
the execution of il out of the hands of its
enemies and let it continue to do good.
We proved the free-rum system in the
days of jackson, Van Buren,. and the ell
der Harrison when we had all kinds of Ii
cense, high low and Jack. The same from
1910 to 1892. From 1S47 to 1851 we had an
nual referendum, mixed with a sort of To-
cal option; then came the present law.
Having lived through all the changes my
conclusions are briefly these:
l. That free rum is an unmitigated evil
2 That license, high or low, is a fraud
and evil.
3, That local option is a device of the
devil
4. That referendum is as unnecessary
as ii would be to refer to the people the
law against stealing.
D. That the present law needs amending
So hat its town and city agencies cannot
be mad wholesale and retail rumshops.
/ want no partnership in the illegal sale
of this merchandise of hell. | crave none
of the gain that is a revenue of disgrace
and damnation. WILLIAM CHAPIN.
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AS TO LOCALITY.

Editor Daily Journal :-Middlesex is
pleased to note that in the matter of
assistant judge Judge Fisher differs
from us only as to locality. Now if
he will look up the records he will
find that it has been the Winooski
river that has marked the dividing
line in the past in the matter of plac-
ing the assistant judgeship, and not
the east and west Gods OF the county.
If this is the correct view of the
matter, and we believe il is, oor can-
didate, l.. r. Wells, is all right on
thai point, as he certainly is Oh every
ochei. Middlesex has had rroUbles of
her own lately, but when she gees the
mud out of her boots and her feed dry
she will be ready for any kind OF a
political rae and will try to deserve
to win. MiddleseX.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
E FOREST r

Tacoma, Wash, June %. 49, Standing
timber to the amount of $50, 600, 000
feet has been burned in the districts
along the line of the Northern Pacific.
This timber comprises a splendid for
est of fir and all readily accessible
because it grew within a few miles OF
the railroad. Two days ago these
trees reared themselves in an unbroken
mass. covering siXty-three square
miles Of territory. Today all that
remains of them are s~mouldering
black trunks.
The value of the timber destroyed
is placed at 81, 100, 900.
A special from Hot Springs, Wash
ington, says;
Lester is now the threatened point,
The forests on each side of the village
are in flames and an increase in the
velocity of the wind would likely
doom the town.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-06-25
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.

The delegates to the Republican
county convention assemble in this
city on Wednesday to nominate candi-
dates for officers.
Washington county has now three
Senators, and but three candidates
appear in the field. All are men of
merit, and against none is any objec-
tion raised. So it does not appea. uhat
a contest will arise over any of these
candidates.
Richard A. Hoar of Barre requests
the Journal to say that he is not a
candidate for denomination to the Off
ce of States attorney and will support
the nomination of Fred B. Thomas.
Mr.. Thomas in whose abilities, integ-
rity and determination, if elected, res
olutely to do his whole official duty,
those who know him best thoroughly
confide.
In the matter of the office of sheriff,
the delegates who are instructed by
theit constituents to vote and work
for the denomination of Q. G. Graves
of Waterbury, and the favorable
feeling in the towns which have Civ
en- their delegates no formal instruc-
tions, indicate that the present incum-
bent will be again named for this Off
ce. His competitors are Deputies A.
@. Templeton of East Montpelier and
Shepard of Barre. These candidates
have the endorsement of their home
towns, and have their friends through
out the county. Were circumstances
different from those now existing one
or the other might be nominated by
this convention. Postponement, in
this case. will not mean defeat.
The chief interest, the candidates
who dispute titles aside, will be in
the expression of the sentiment on the
dominant issue in this State, the
question of the manner of regulating
the traffic in Intoxicating liquors. Iu-
to the discussion of this issue will
come, it is apparent, the matter of
the candidate for the office of county
commissioner. a correspondent whose
name and judgment always carry
weight in the State and local affairs
boldly challenges the further candi-
dacy of the present commissioner.
Mr.. Chapin's objections are plainly
stated, and they are entitled to the
candid and serious consideration of the
members of the convention.
The matter of i~nstructing the SEN
ators as to their votes, if they are
elected, on the question of the contin-
uance o. the existing policy of re-
stricting the traffic in spirituous
liquors, or the adoption of the policy
of license, will probably come up for
discussion and action. 1t is right and
proper for the delegates to express then
sentiment of their constituents OF
the important question.
The Journal believes the Judgment
of the majority of the Republicans of
Washington county is strongly for re-
strictive legislation if not the existing
law in all its details, then for some
amendment of the law that will re-
move any reasonable collection to any
of its provisions.