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Evening journal., 1903-04-15
MINISTERS WILL
SEE GOVERNOR
And Urge Him to Sign the
Voters Assistant Re-
pealer Bill
ONLY THREE MORE DAYS REMAIN

On Which Governor Hum May Sign
tho Measure in Order to Make It a
Law, as Time Expires on Sun.
day.
There are now but three moro days
on which Governor Hum may sign the
Voters Assistant Repeater in order to
make that bill law. The thirty dhvs
allowed for the signing of bills after
the final adjournment OF the General
Assembly win expire ON Sunday. so
that Saturday will practically be the
last day on which the bill may be
signed and made law
The last delegation to see the Gov
ernor concerning the bill will be the
ministtrs of the State, who will urge
that he place his signature 10 the re-
poaler. Governor HUM has decided TO
give the clergymen "a hearing tomor-
row, and there will ibe ministers OF all
denominations present from all parts
of the State
In preparing for this conference IA
meeting OF local clergymen WAS held
at the Y. NJ. c. "A. building yesterday
afternoon. The Rev. +. Il. Briggs pre-
sided. and Presiding Elder Robert Watt
was secretary OF the meeting.
Bitter opposition to the Voters AS
sistant bin was expressed by the min
listers. Addresses were made by the
Revs. +. A. McCurdy. OF Central Pres
byterian Church. Alexander n Bowser,
Unitarian; Archdeacon George c. Hall.
Hubert w. Wells. H. Ashton Henry
and X. J. Hammond, Episcopal. After
discussing the matter at length. IL was
decided to issue a call 10 ministers OF
all denominations thrCughoutthe State
inviting them to assemble in Dover on
Thursday. The invitation was sent 30
the preachers today. and is ais follows:
Wilmington. Del, April IA. 1903.
Dear Brother: You are earnestly re-
quested to accompany the ministers OF
the State who will call ON the Cover
nor Thursday. April 1G. at the State
FIouse, In Dover at 1890 to urge him
10 sign the bill to repeal the Voters
Assistant law Your presence is OF the
utmost Importance.
Please do not fail to come.
lNOrt ithNlUE NllIiiub NiAin-
ity will take the 1858 train from the
Pennsylvania railroad station.
Alexander r.. BcWscr
O. G.. Buddington.
John S. Bunting,
leighton Coleman,
w. l. F'reund.
George c. Hall,
Kensey J. Hammond
II. Ashton Henry
w r. Hammond.
John Snape,
Thomas A. McCurdy,
Hubert w. Wells
T.. a. Briggs. Chairman.
Robert Watt. Secretary.
The ministers will discuss the Voters
Assistant law from the moral side. and
will claim that Il is a weapon against
the purity OF the ballot.
Bishop Coleman is in nav0r OF the
lrepealer, but for the fact that he has
to go 20 New York he will be unable to
go to Dover tomorrow.
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
Locomotive DemoIished in Collision.

Cleveland, Ohio, April ia west
bound Lake Shore passenger train ran
into a freight at Conneaut today. The
passenger engine was demolished. Two
men, Arnold Kentler and Ed. Dennis.
machinists. of Syracuse. n. Y. who
were riding in the freight caboose. are
said TO be badly hurt. It is believed
that no passengers We're hurt.
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
GOOD ROADS ARE
NOW ASSURED
Governor Signs Bill and Ap-
points c. J. Horrigan One
of Three Commissioners

Dover April 15.-Governor HUM
yesterday signed the good roads bill
recently passed by the Legislature and
later announced that he had appointed
Cornelius j. Horrigan. OF Wilmington,
TO be one OF the three state highway
commissioners.
The good roads bill which has now
become "A law, is the one introduced by
Representative Tyre. under which an
expenditure OF $4,000 In each county
each year for two years may be made
In addition TO similar amount to be
raised by the Levy Court OF each
county.
Macadam or other hard and durable
substance must be used Ia the read
building
The Governor win appoint two other
commissioners, one each from Kent
and Sussex counties, one TO serve two
and the other one year.
G.. J. Horrlgan. the new commission
er, will receive 81 900 a year. and he IL
appointed for three years from January
4, 1908, subject to confirmation BY the
next State Senate. lie resides at
Twenty and Market streets, VIII
mington, and has had years OF expert
quarrying
Mr.. Horrigan was born I'm Ireland.
He received his early education In the
public schools of Ireland and came TO
America in 1865. where he completed
his education In the public schools at
Auburn, n. Y. After spending a few
years in Canada, he returned TO Au-
burn, and he was employed at his trade
as stone cutter on the capital build
Ing at Albany. Later he was employed
In Syracuse and Buffalo. In 1854, he
went TO Virginia as a foreman under
w. r. Warren, an extensive contractor.
In 1856 he went to Avondale, Pa, where
he was foreman for the Acme Lime
Company for about six years. In 1891,
he accepted the position OF foreman
under A. G.. Morris q Co. az the Wood
dale stone qunrries, this State In
March, 1898, the Delaware Granite and
Mining Company. which operates the
Thatcher quarries, on the Brandywine.
was formed and Mr.. Horrigan was
made vice-president and general SUI
perintendent which position he still
holds. Mr. Horrigan has always been
an ardent Republican and cast his first
vote for President Garfield IN 1880.
He is member OF several secret or
foundations, is president OF the Bran
dywine Fire Company and OF the
Roosevelt Republican Club OF the
Ninth ward.
Held for Court.
Guglielmo was arraigned i'm City
Court this morning and held under ST.
900 bail for the Court of General Ses-
sions. His son appeared against him
and gave detailed account OF the as
sault. He also stated that his father
had on numerous occasions threatened
to kill Mrs. Gugllelmo.
DIR. l.. w. Finn testified that the VIC
tim Of Guglielmo's anger had been cut
i'm seven places, and would not be able
to leave the hospital for at least one
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
JURY IGNORED CHARGE
Young Milford Woman Allowed Her
Freedom-Mrs. Wyatt Arraisned.

The Grand Jury impaneled to con-
slider business that will be presented
to the United States Court found a
true bill yesterday afternoon against
Mrs. Margaret J. Wyatt, of Harring-
ton. on a charge of sending an obscene
letter through the mails. The indict-
ment against Miss Minnie Daniels, OF
Milford, for a like offenSe was ignored.
The jurors having no further business
they we're discharged.
Mrs Wyatt was arraigned before
Judge Bradford and pleaded not guilty.
The defendant is represented by j.
Frank Ball. and will receive a hearing
ON Tuesday next. when the petit jury
will report 1t is also probable that
the cases Of Joseph A. DeLucca will
also come uD for settlement
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
Woman Jumps from Window.

Philadelphia, April 15.-At o'clock
this morning Annie Long, 40 years OF
age. jumped from the third-story win
dow Of her home No. 1912 North Mer-
vine street. She was badly hurt inter-
nally. She is demented
Evening journal., 1903-04-15

The holder Of No 5.546 wins the hat
Please call and make your selection
.Saltzgiver & Bupp.. Hat Manufacturers,
log West Seventh street
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
Roof Paint and Wood Stains.
At Cartmelrs, Sixth and Madison SITS.
KInaIs pauahters Reeeption.

The Kings Daughters OF West Pres
byterian Church last night gave an en-
tertainment to the Kings Daughters Of
all the local churches in the Darlors Of
West Church.
Evening journal., 1903-04-15

Buy the best so Hat made from Saltz-
giver & Bupp. Hat Manufacturers, 106
West SeYsath street
Evening journal., 1903-04-15

Roof Paint and Wood Stains
AT Cartmell's, Sixth and Madison SITS.
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
Our Creed

To publish all the news that
oughtto be published; to put
It into attractive form; to
dis c u s 5 fearlessly what
ought to be discussed, and
to disseminate wholesome
views of life.
Evening journal., 1903-04-15
The Weather

Today;--Rain. high north
winds. Tomorrow, fair and
colder.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
Glastonbury Stock Goes Up.


Equality OF all citizens before the
law. Is the boasted corner stone of our
American liberties. is it not? And
yet for all that. 1t makes n great diff
ference 10 a Vermont man where
abouts in the state he may reside. be-
cause he may lawfully exercise more
power in the determination of the kind
and character of state laws, for in
stance, by living as a private citizen
in one town than he can by living as
private citizen in another. If he
lives in Glastonbury, he and only ten
other men can have just as much of a
voice in the general assembly as
though he lived In St. Adams. but fif-
teen hundred men in st. Adams all to-
gether have no more of voice than
these eleven men in Glastonbury.
Thus in Glastonbury every private
citizen has n one eleventh interest in
the vote in the house of representa-
tives, while the private citizen in st.
Adams has only a one-fifteen hun
dredth interest 1t is worth think
ing about, this theory of the equality
of all citizens before the law, especi-
ally in the way we dodge it here in
Nermont.S
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
The States Insane.

Why is it that, after the state has
built and equipped its long talked of,
long promised asylum for the insane,
we still have to maintain about 200
patients in the Brattleboro Retreat
st. Adams Messenger
Because the law allows the towns
to dump a lot of semi-insane paupers
on the state. Amend the law so that
towns shall pay one-half the cost of
the support of the insane paupers and
the Waterbury asylum will be large
enough to hold all the states insane
Middlebury Register.
Yes, but that Tot of semi-insane
paupers" will be running at large in
the state. Is such a condition safe or
desirable? Should persons of any de-
gree of insanity be allowed to go I'M
cared for? Is it not better that all
'semi-insane paupers" should be sent
to the institution provided. supposedly,
for the cure or proper treatment of
mental diseases. rather than to be
boarded by the towns in families
where their decisions and physical
weaknesses will be aggravated by an
tagonistic and ignorant treatment?
The question of the expense of send
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
An Opportunity Suggested.
Woodstock Age.l

Names state librarian asks the
various librarians of the state to be
at pains to collect all records and doc
uments bearing on local history. past
and present This excellent sugges-
ton reminds us that we don't hear
very much about Vermonts board of
library commissioners. which might do
IA great deal toward squirting local IL
brarians to more persistent efforts In
the collection of materials that form
part of the history of their town and
state. We are quite sure that much
more could be accomplished In this d.
rection than is done now: that In too
many libraries little more is done than
to satisfy the every day demands of
patrons and to keep dust off the books.
The matter of interesting the people
in the library and the contents of its
shelves. and the preservation of his
torical documents and present day
records has little consideration as a
general thing, but II is a very import
ant part of a library's service to the
public. Possibly these suggestions
are not in the line of the state library
commissioners duties, but II they are
there is an opportunity for the board
to greatly enlarge its sphere of use
fulness.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
HREEDOLLARSBETTER
Than THOUSANDS.
Or. kennedy's New Medicine, Cal cura Sol.
vent, Did Mere Than Many Doctors.

Your pocketbook as we'll as your health
needs consideration, but often both suffer
through ignorance of the right thing to
buy. That was the case with the gentle
man who wrote the following letter:
Thousands of dollars have L paid out
to doctors during my life and don't CON-
plain of the doctors; but DR.. Kennedy's
new medicine, Cal-cura Solvent, beats
them all. Three bottles of it cured me
last spring of heart trouble and terrible
pains in the side, back and head. Am bet
than for thirty years. III. J. BRANDON,
Jewett Centre, N. Y.
For $500 invested in Cal-cura Solvent
Mr.. Brandow got what he had spent
thousands for in vain. Your case may
be like his. 1t costs only S1.OO for a
bottle of Cal-cura Solvent at any drug
store.
Write to the Cal-eura Company, Kenne-
dy Row, Rondout, n. Y, for free sample
bottle.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
THE WINDHAM REFORMER FRIDAY OCTOBER

In his recently published book on
Mitchell Of the United Mine Workers
prophesies peace and contentment for
the region lately swept by great in
dustrial conflict. In hope, the people
of the country are earnestly in accord
with this prophecy, and there Is good
foundation for hope as long as man
of peace and wisdom like Mr.. Mitchell
leads the cause of labor. Mr.. Mitchells
book will interest every thoughtful
wage Garner and wage payer. 1t gives
the inside history of the great coal
strike of 1902 which 1t admits was
about to collapse at the beginning Of
August.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
The Children Of Divorced Parents.
tLyndonyille Journal

Cardinal Gibbons in a recent inter-
view expressed his alarm at the grow
ing frequency of divorces in this
country. and the ease with which they
are obtained. Twenty-one causes for
divorce are recognized by the laws of
the different states and many of these
causes are exceedingly trivial. The
absolute abolition of divorces which
Cardinal Gibbons urges. would work
injustice in many cases. but a uniform
national divorce law, despite the OBJ
jections raised to 1t. would make more
difficult the successive polygamy"
practiced by those who have dulled
their moral sensibilities. Statistics
show that n large percentage of GRIM
inals in our prisons and houses of cor
rection are the children of divorced
parents. Men and women who are
faithless to each other should be made
to understand that the penalty for
their sins falls not on themselves alone
but on their children who have a right
to a pure home life, and lacking it,
may very easily become the most per-
Verted of criminals.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
May Appoint But Not Remove.
Hartford. Ct. Tines

Senator Proctor and his associates
of the Vermont delegation in congress
exerted themselves to induce the pres
ident and attorney general to recall
the dismissal of United States Mar
shall Field, and to allow him to keep
his pleasant office. But Knox was
firm. which made it easy for the pres
ident to be the same. and the result is
that in this case the prerogatives of
the executive and legislative depart
ments are kept as distinct as they
ought to be all the time. 1t was the
amiable President Mckinley who got
the senators in the way of thinking
that they held the power of removal
from office as well as that of sharing
in appointments. But the practice
could not become permanent without
putting an end to all efficiency In the
public service.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30

Charles Doherty, convicted of MUIR
der in the Vermont courts and sem
fenced to death, has had that sentence
commuted to Imprisonment for life and
is now believed to be insane and will
probably spend the rest of his life in
the state hospital at Waterbury" Yet
the hospital is so full of "semi-insane
paupers" that I'VE have to maintain
about 200 patients In the Brattleboro
Retreat" Shove the paupers out of
course, and give the murderers room.
What a deterrent" of crime such n
death penalty as Vermont deals out to
murderers must be! Abolish 1t, and
adopt a law for murderers that we
have backbone enough to enforce.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
BRATTLEBoRo, FRIDAY, OCT. 80, 1908
The Responsibility for Graft"

We shall do we'll to remember, as
Leslie's Weekly points out, that all the
officials recently indicted for fraud in
the postoffice and other departments,
have been appointed through the rec
ommendation of their congressman.
The appointing power belongs to the
president but, by custom and courtesy,
he depends upon members of the house
and senate to recommend to him suit
able persons for appointment in their
respective districts. OF course he does
not always follow such recommends
lions; for example, President Roose-
welt has just appointed United States
district attorney for Delaware said to
be very distasteful to Mr.. Addickss
senator, but this was an exceptional
case as well as one most creditable to
the president. Neither can we expect
that the best of congressman will not
sometimes be misled in making rec
concentrations. But however these cir
cumstances may be, it remains true
that when a scoundrel is discovered in
the national service, the administra-
ton gets all the blame and has to take
the responsibility and straighten out
the tangle
The people and the newspapers of
the country are loud in denunciation of
rascality in high places, in connection
with the postal scandals But that ras-
cality, it must be remembered, was
placed in those high places through
the influence of congressman who were
given their power to thus install it by
the people themselves. The blame for
official dishonesty is thus brought to
our own doors and we should recog-
nize the fact and try to guard against
it in the future.
Individual voters are always crying
out about their own powerlessness.
THE administration is defective, the
departments are rotten with dishon-
esty, officials are pluudering the people
right and left, but what can do about
it? I have only one vote" The answer
to this is simply, BE honest yourself
and when you vote, vote for an honest
man. You may be deluded, your rep
resentatives and senators to the legis-
lature may be deluded your congress-
men may be deluded, because all are
human and fallible; but if all are hon
est, the chances are that rascality will
not be put into high places through |
their recommendation.
Stop blaming the president: his job |
Is not a cinch. He has to smooth out |
these little difficulties that are arising |
in the national service from time to
time and which are hardly ever his
fault. Begin at the other end of the
line to hunt for culpability. The way
to stop incendiarism is to find the man
with the torch and squelch him, in
stead Of waiting to fight the fury of his
CONGREGATIONS. A voter may not be
expected to know the nature of a man
for whom he votes for president of the
United States, except by repute; but
he may be very well informed if he
chooses to take the trouble of the
everyday record of the man whom he
sends to represent his town or coun-
ty in the legislature or whom he sup
ports for a national position from his
section.
It's up to the voter, every time.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30

There are many arguments both for
and against the matter of weekly pay
ments and it seems to us too much a
question of mere personal convenience
varying with circumstances to be a
subject for legislative action. The
Fairbanks scale company has shown a
commendable spirit in these days of
industrial defiance, in deferring to the
wishes of its employees and the towns
people and adopting the rule of weekly
payments, contrary to its own we'll
known convictions on the subject 1t
sometimes pays to defer a little to the
wishes of others. To yield is often to
increase ones power.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30
Don't Use IS Teachers, Though.

lNeWpOft Express ana Standard.J
There are three elements at the pres
ent time that run a district school--the
teacher, the scholars, and the district
committee. Under the old regime the
teacher runs the school, and, if prof.
cient, things moved and the scholars
had to obey. Neither did the commit
tee interfere If now and then a scholar
was soundly trounced. Now, the schol-
ars and the committee run the school.
IL a scholar is whipped, the teacher Is
liable to expulsion with wages forfeit
ed. The scholars catch on to this, and
disobedience becomes the rule. If one
is sent to the committee for punish
ment-which is the most competent
way of handling scholars ever dreamed
of-then the scholar becomes a mar
tyr, his grievances are believed, and
the teacher is surely the one to blame.
We say, give the teacher the control
of the school. Impress upon the
scholars minds that, unless they obey,
they will receive the birch, and plenty
of 1t, at the teachers hands. Children
are no more angelic than they ever
were, and need the rod of correction
just as much. Until this is done, no
teacher, however well qualified, can
give satisfaction in an unruly district
school
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30

In connection with the recent dis
closures of immortality at st. Adams
and the various disgusting crimes that
have been committed in other parts of
the state, the Randolph Herald and
News asks: Has Vermont's best
blood gone to other states, leaving
superabundance of, perverts behind?"
Bless you, no; it isn't the best blood
that goes. 1t is the best blood that
stays-sticks to a proposition-makes
it pay in spite of adverse circum-
stances. There is no more immortality
and crime in Vermont comparatively,
than in other states-human nature
averages about the same, the country
over. We can not expect it to be 9TH
erwise, although we must not waver
in constantly fighting evil. We pay
dearly, as Thomas Moore says. for our
primal fall. Some flow'rets of Eden
we still inherit, But the trail of the
serpent is over them ALL"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30

"a Brutal Murder" was the heading
which appeared in half of the newspa-
pers last week over the article telling
of the tragedy in West Rochester. Did
anyone ever hear of a murder which
was not brutal? One would hardly eX-
pect murder to be described as "po-
lite" nice" or even good" "A pleas
ant wedding" is another of the over
worked and meaningless expressions,
Here is the Boston Globe of Saturday,
talking in glazing headlines about the
assailant who made good his escape"
Why didn't he simply escape?-Brat-
tleboro Phoenix.
That homely humorist Josh Billings
is credited with the remark, Its bet
ter not tew no so mulch than tew no
so menny things tibet amt So" The
well-meant efforts of our erudite
neighbor to inform its careless con-
temporaries of the advantage of accu
rate verbiage will be accepted with
becoming humility in spite of the fact
that it's illustrations are most unfor-
tunately chosen. A murder like the
West Rochester affair, where the vic
Is certainly brutal IN distinction to a
painless murder by the use of chloro-
form. Such a crime may not be "po-
lite" or nice" and still not be brutal"
The assumption is unwarrantable that
because murder is murder it may not
properly be qualified by an adjective.
The same is true of a wedding; some
weddings are pleasant and others are
not; still others for good reasons might
be characterized as sad" Moreover a
prisoner who escapes does not always
make good his escape" The Refor-
mer, having been one among half of
the newspapers" that offended will be
pleased to receive further suggestions.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30

Huntington Clipper.1

Church work these days has resolved
itself into pink teas and lunch parties.
where the women vie with each other
in making the best cake. and where the
results are told by the comments made
afterward on the furnishings of the
particular home in which the meeting
was held. The proceeds of fancy
work sales and candy counters are
taken to buy pianos for the Lord while
his immortal souls in the shape OF boys
are loafing away their life on the
streets under various temptations for
the want of a few dollars to open a
gymnasium. n branch of the Y. Nj. c.
A. or the reading room of the library
evenings. This contrast is not fancied
it Is drawn from life. l don't think
the Lord would recognize his people
these days IL he should come lowell,
you know where
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-30

Our national habit of Dragging is
responsible, says Redmond, the Irish
leader, for some of the emigration of
Irish boys and girls to America. He
deplores our habit because he consid-
ers the poorest laborer in Kerry hap
pier than the majority of Irish work
ingmen in the United States. 1t ought
to be stopped, he says; and on consid
erations in general, it certainly ought
The United States is a proposition
that does not need hot air imitation.