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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-14
WESTFELD.

Mr.. Curtis has started his meat cart.
Mrs. KittrIdge is working at G. w. Bry-
ants.
George Traver is living with w. B. Gil
pin for the present.
Mrs. w. A. Young spent last week with
relatives in Williston.
A ten pound son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. H. Dodge on May Sth.
Row Miller was home from Bakersfield
academy recently accompanied by school
friend, Mr.. Carpenter.
Guv Il. Farman aud his mother, Mrs.
Willard Farman, are visiting Prin. G. FL.
| Wiley and family at Island Pond.
The Rev. F. A. Junkins goes to West
| Glover on the 10Th inst. to attend the meet
| ing of the Orleans Association OF Cong
ministers. MIR. Junkins has part on the
programme.
| Miss Lily Trumpass arrived home We'd
| nesday from Southern Pines, N. o., where
she passed the winter. She visited Wash
ington, D. c., Springfield, Mass, and
Woodsville, N. H., on her return journey.
| Byron e. Gilman met with a serious
accident last Friday afternoon. While
driving high spirited horse through Troy
Village the bits broke, Gilman was thrown
from the buggy and dragged, breaking ont
leg above the ankle and bruising his heac
badly. He was brought home on couch
DoctorssYoung and Gray reduced the frac
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-14

The stone sharpens knives, but Is
dull itself.-Plutarch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-14

ia. The funeral was attended sunusS .
be home of his uncle, Elijah whey i''''
II. Wright officiating.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-14

Every day is new life, every sun
rise but new birth.-Jordon.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

to get caught. Their books have in
several instances had some sale, but
the lectures have fallen very fiat While
there would seem to be d great many
men in every town who would be will
ing to pay to see an ex-senator of the
United States who has actually been in
Jail, yet Mr.. Burton will find much
fewer of these than he imagines, and
1t will be far from pleasant for a man
of his temperament to find himself
Stunned and looked at askance every
where by the people whose good
opinion and plaudits have hereto
fore been the very breath of his nos
trils. AT present Mr. Burton is en-
ploEed in carrying cordwood from one
part of the Jail to another and doing
Janitor work about the prison. His
wife is allowed to cook his meals and
carry them to him. He has been al
lowed out of Jail but once since he was
imprisoned. That was to transact some
person&I business of very important
nature. He has hopes that President
Roosevelt will pardon him before the
end of his tenn and so save his citizen
ship.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
PARTY GOVERNMENT.

There is some hope for the Cubans,
now that they seem to be organizing
regular parties. Unquestionably the
best form of Government in any coun-
try is that carried on by a regularly
organized political party, with a vigil
liant and equally well-organized opposi-
ton. This has been demonstrated in
this country and in England by GEN.
turies of experience. France, GERMANY.
Austro-Hungary and Italy suffer by
having factions instead of parties. They
are yet in the infancy of popular Gov
ernment, and instead of having great
parties made up of men whJ sacrifice
all petty jealousies and selfish interests
for the success of some one great prin-
ciple, they each have scores of little
groups. gathered about some brilliant
leader. who is the exponent of d class
feeling. personal ambition or local
prejudices and antagonisms. Sometimes
there are as many as so of these
groups" in one of their Parliaments.
Parties will come when they learn 10
sink these in some paramount issue
relating to the welfare of the whole
country. Parties have the immense
advantage of having discipline and re-
sponsibility. They are held ansverable
for their acts and for the kind of men
they put In office. We see this illus
trated in this country, where men elect
ed by casual aggregations of voters
calling themselves "Reformers," "Citi-
zens.' etc, are usually exceedingly dis
appointing. The Cubans have mace a
tolerable alinement under the names of
"Moderates" and Liberals" with the
latter holding the offices, and they are
abusing one another in a hearty. whole
some American fashion. 1t looks. tho.
as If this was really making for peace,
since the Liberals accuse the Moderatas
of conspiring for an outbreak. which
the latter vehemently deny. This
pledges the Moderates against any dis
turbance of the peace, and it Is to be
hoped that there is enough party dis
cipline to compel their turbulent friends
to keep quiet
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

The Republicans have only them
selves to blame for whatever reverses
they have suffered, and wherever they
have been punished 1t has been de-
servedly so. They should have been
even worse punished, and would have
been If the Democrats had been equal
to the occasion and worthy Of the
place that they once held In the coun-
try. The old-time Republicans, who
believed in principles and voted deter
minedly for them, have largely disap-
peared from the control of the party.
having been crowded out by the camp
followers, suffers and hangers on of
the political camp. whose only idea of
party is something to boost them
selves into Office. They care nothing
for Republican principles and still less
for the men who have heretofore made
those principles successful in the Gov
ernment and development of the coun-
try. They have impudently elbowed
aside the men who made the Repub-
lican Party and who stood for its best
principles. The newcomers have no
claim upon the country for anything.
They are not advocating principles, but
merely their own personal advantage.
1t is not surprising that the people
everywhere soon perceived this, and
refused to listen to their wheedlings to
vote the Republican ticket, which
meant, and could only mean, to elect
them to Office.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

his regiment and brigade of the Army
Of the Ohio, who are quite numerous
in that section of the State, rallied
strongly around his banner, and altho
the district is normally and strongly
Republican. he was found to have the
most votes by plurality of As when
the returns We're totaled 1t will be
particularly gratifying to the veterans
all over the country to find a veteran
returned to Congress where so many
good veterans failed of reelection. The
ranks of the veterans in both Houses
were markedly thinned by the recent
elections. Gen. Sherwood's wife is
Kate Brownlee Sherwood, the brillian,
the founder of the Womans
Relief Corps and for many years an
associate editor of The National Trib-
une. She will be welcomed back to
Washington society, upon which she
made most favorable impression dur
ing her husbands term in Congress.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
ELECTION EXPENSES.

We have always had doubt as to the
efficacy of the law compelling candi-
dates to furnish sworn statements of
their election expenses. Probably it
does some good, but nothing like what
the trainers of the law contemplated.
Anyway, it makes interesting reading,
and particularly interesting now. when
every candidate must file a sworn
statement of his expenses the candi-
dates before the people in New York
have rendered theirs. Mr.. Hearst's
manager says that he spent s234,422S1,
of which money S19S,S70.22 was con-
tributed by William r. Hearst and
$4,000 by Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
There were other contributions from
277 people, ranging from 20 cents to
S5. Altogether Mr.. Hearst spent $685.
37O.22; for halls, meetings, music, etc,
$29,3S1.02; organization, s30,066.65; pc
titions, $16,2OS.92; election day ex-
penses. $39,S40.8S; pay roll at cam
paign headquarters, sS,377, and general
expenses, s56,547.71. When this is to,
tailed up and divided by the number of
votes which Mr. Hearst received it
makes an average of about 80 cents
per vote, which is not at all high con-
what has been said with re-
gard to the venality of voters and the
part which money plays in campaigns
Mr.. Hughes'S statement is an astonish-
ment in the other direction. He says
that he spent only $61S.55, which would
be about eight cents for every hundred
votes cast for him. OF course, there
should be added to this, and will be,
when the statements are all in, a very
much larger amount which the Repub-
Iican Committee expended for organ
lZation and other necessary political
purposes. Considerable interest is ex-l
pressed at what Chairman Conners did
with $4,000 given him. Mr.. Corners
IS Chairman of the State Democratic
which ostensibly had man.
agement of the campaign, but really
Mr.. Conners was more or less of a layI
igure, the campaign being managed by
1earst's so-called Independence League,
IN organization of which he is the or
5anizer and employer.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
GEN. SHERWOOD IN CONGRESS.

One of the surprises of the election
was the victory of Gen. Isaac K. Sher>
wood, of Toledo, o., in the race for
representative by plurality of 4S. Gen.
Sherwood went into the army at the
outbreak of the war, and then raised
company for the 111th Ohio, of which
regiment he became The Lieutenant
Colonel commanding, and distinguished
himself by his tinvatying soldiership
and gallantry on every occasion. He
was brevetted a Brigadier-General, and
upon his return to the State with such
an excellent record Was elected Secre-
tary of State and reelected. Next he
was sent to Congress from the Toledo
District, but failed of "a denomination.
He then joined the 'Greenback Party,
and was elected hy it. Probate Judge of
Lucas County. He subsequently entered
the Democratic Party, and edited a
Democratic paper at Canton. o. He
was also the editor and publisher of a
journal devoted to the breed
ing and management of horses. He
ran for Congress on the Independent
Democratic ticket, and the veterans OF
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
THE NEW YORK SCRAP.

1t has been said that a man cannot
see even a dog fight without taking
sides. AS our readers know, The Ma
tional Tribune is pretty certain to AXE
sides in whatever comes up. But We
do not recall that we ever felt the
cheerful impartiality that possesses Us
over the outcome of the bitter fight
among the New York Democratic lead
ers over the distribution of the spoils
falling to them by the result of the
election. The elimination of Mr.. Hearst
gives Tammany, for the first time In It's
history, control of all the State patron
age except that directly in the hands
Of the Governor. A Republican Cover.
nor can, OF course, exert a very limited
authority over Democratic officials. The
expenditure of s101, 100000 for The
great canal makes the State patronage
an unusually appetizing prospect. Mr..
Murphy, as the boss of Tammany. nat
urally and with much reason thinks the
patronage his personal perquisite-,a
well-deserved gift from the people of
New York in appreciation of his SER
vices in rescuing them from the elo-
quentiy-pictured horrors of Republican,
ism. Mr.. Conners. of Buffalo, thinks
that as Chairman of the Democrats
State Committee he should handle the
knife In slicing the watermelon. AS a
matter of regular party discipline he Is
entirely right. Senator McCarrea, as
the leader Of the Kings County Democ-
racy. which polls about as many votes
as all the upstate combined. naturally
and with good reason thinks that his
bold and self-sacridcing course" should
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

On principle The National Tribune is
opposed to lynching in all its forms, but
there are exceptions. A drunken vaga-
bond was arrested at Sioux City Iowa
and made terrible nuisance of him
self before he was gotten into jail
There he yelled, swore and obscened
until there was no sleeping in his
neighborhood. and the irate neighbors
rose up, took him from his cell, ben,
him over a barrel and spanked him un-
ill he promised to be good. We imag-
ane that the spanking left a deeper i'm
preston upon the inebriete's mind as
to the evils of drunkenness than the
best temperance tract ever written
would have done.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
D,sBAND1NG THE NEGRO TROOPS.

There has been much discussion of
the legal and ethical phases of the
Presidents action in ordering the dis
bandment of the battalion of Negro
troops. and much confusion of mind
and absolute ignorance have appeared.
1t has been said that this is the first
time President ever discharged a
man from the Army, but this seems
incredible. There have been many
thousands of men discharged from the
Army before their term of service ex-
pred, and it seems as if vast number
OF these must have been by the direct
order of the President. There is no
legal difference, however, between this
and discharge by the Secretary of
War, who is simply the Presidents
agent in doing a thing. The President
has the right to discharge, for a reason
or without a reason, any man in the
employment of the Government. and
he was clearly within his legal powers
in the order against the contumacious
colored troops. But it is doubtful
whether he had the power to make
continuing penalty in the prohibition
or their being employed in the future
by the Government in any capacity
whatever. This power is very grave
and so serious a blow to citi-
that the courts have hitherto
guarded it very jealously, and kept such
punishment within narrow limits. al
regular court may. when the law war
rants, pass a sentence depriving man
of citizenship, and forbidding his EN-.
ployment by the Government in anyI
capacity. But this extreme penalty can
only be imposed by a regularly-organ-
lied tribunal, and in such cases as the
law specifically prescribes. The Presi-
dent is neither a court nor a court
martial, and We doubt if he has anyI
such power as he has assumed.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
THE PENNSYLVANIA CAPITOL GRAFT.

The disclosures in regard to graft in
connection with the furnishing" of the
Pennsylvania State House were in a
measure disci edited by their having
been trorgh odt on the eve of cleo
ton, ana their principal promoter was
man VINO mad IA unpleasant reputa-
ton for bringing out political expos
ures before election and failing to make
them good after. Yet there would
seem to be far more in the matter
than prediction thunder The agita-
ton IS kept up even after the votes have
been counted, and the developments are
certainly such as call for very severe
and thoro probing. The allegation that
it was monstrous to expend $4,000, 900
in furnishing a S4.000,000 building has
been somewhat discredited by the fact
that the word furnishing" was meant
to include rich and costly Ornamental
tion more or less necessary for such a
building, but beyond that are other
items. Among the smaller of these is
that George F. Payne furnished the
flagstaff for which he paid s21O. but
charged the State $3.50. There are
number of these minor items, but the
most seriOus-looking charge is that in
regard to the e1ectroliers, which cost
the State $2,1SS,277.05. 1t is alleged
that special corporation, the Penn
sylvania Bronze Company, of which Jo-
seph Sanderson was the head and front,
was organized especially to make the
bid for the electroliers, and after fur
them disorganized and disap-
peared. The specifications had the sin
gular provision that these must be bid
upon by the pound. Chandeliers, ofl
course, are not valued by their weight,
but by the amount of fine work in
chasing and otherwise put upon them;
but the specifications prescribed "by the
pound and these had to be followed.
The Pennsylvania Bronze Company had
the lowest bid, and SO got away with
the s2,O00,000 contract. In the same
way it is alleged that the mahogany
furniture had to be bid for by the Gu
bic foot. We are promised that the
shall go on until these
matters are fully shown up, and the
guilty parties. if there are such, have
justice meted out to them.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

turies had been regarded as the fines
of what Gen. Shafter did, and for which
he is entitled by the common military
rules to receive the credit.
Shafter was born in Kalamazoo
Mich, Oct. 16, 1885, of parents who
had migrated to the new country and
We're enduring the hardships of pioneer
life. He gained what education the
crude schools of the day afforded him.
and at the beginning of the war enlisted
in the 18th Mich and was commissioned
First Lieutenant. He greatly distin-
guished himself in the Peninsular cam
paign, and especially at the battle of
Fair Oaks. Michigan at that time pur-
sued the excellent policy of offering
her new regiments from those who
had proved themselves in the field, and
Lieut.. Shafter was made Major of the
new 18th Mich, Sept. 5, 1862, and the
next year was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel. He was in the Inflated oper-
ations at Thompson's Station, Tenn,
where Coburn's Brigade was sacrificed
by the incompetence of Gen. Gilbert.
and was kept prisoner from that time
until the next Spring. In April, 1861,
he was appointed Colonel of the 18th
U. S. c. T., and served as such for over
a year after the war, when he was
transferred to the Regular Army as a
Colonel, and then became
Colonel of the 1st U. S. in 1879. He
received a brevet of Colonel for gal
lantry at Fair Oaks and of Brigadier-
General for gallantry during the war.
He was promoted to Brigadier- General,
U. S. A., May 3, 1897, and at the be-
ginning of the Spanish War was called
to Washington by Secretary Alger, and
assigned to the command of the expe-
dition organizing to invade Cuba. He
esta ablished his headquarters at Tampa,
Fla, April 20, and June IL sailed for
Cuba with 80 transports, carrying 49,
900 officers and men, besides attaches
of the army. He landed at Daiquiri.
Cuba, June 21, secured possession of
the coast and pushed forward rapidly
toward Santiago. June "a his army
fought the action at Guasimas, and July
l very sharp engagements at FL Caney
and San Juan Hill. He pushed his ad-
vance so resolutely onto the works de-
Tending Santiago that this no doubt had
an influence in driving Cerveras fleet
out to its destruction. The Spanish
capitulated July II, and
Gen. Shafter occupied Santiago with
his troops. From there he returned to
this country to take command of Camp
Wikoff, on Long Island. but was soon
assigned to succeed Gen. Merritt in
of the Department of the
East. In January, 1899, he returned 20
San Francisco as Commander of the
District of the Departments of Califor-
MIA and Columbia, and was retired as a
Oct. 16, 1899, and
promoted to Major-General June 80.
1901. In 1903 the veterans of the De-
partment of California and Nevada, c.
A. r., elected him Commander, and he
served his term very acceptably.
He was living with his daughter and
Capt. McKittrick, on al
ranch belonging to the latter. and while
returning from the polls on election day
chill, which was aggravat-
ed by indigestion and quickly developed
INTO pneumonia. The remains were
Guried in the Preside at San Francisco.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
DEATH OF GEN. sHarrER.

Maj.-Gen. William Rufus Shafter
United States Army, retired, died on
the McKittrick ranch near Bakersfield,
CAL. Nov. II. Thus passes away one of
the foremost figures in the War with
Spain, and one, who altho his services and
were cried down by many,
yet made himself a place in history.
No matter what may be said by snarl-
ing critics, it was wonderful thing to
successfully land $4,000 troops on Il
fortified coast in the face of an active
enemy, and in few weeks compel the
surrender of $4,000 well-trained, we'll
drilled troops of an army that for CEN
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

The people of Minnesota are very
properly disappointed and angry over
the defeat of Congressman McCIear,
for reelection. This was entirely un-
expected. as undoubtedly the people OF
his State and a majority of those in his
district desired to continue him in Of
fee. The Revisionists lay his defeat IL
his firm standpat attitude, but this is
more likely to be one of those things
which is believed because it is wished
to be believed. The more probable ex-
PLANTATION is that he was the victim OF
ambitious competitors, whom he beat
in the primaries and then knitted him
in return.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

Naturally, Ex-Gov. Odell thinks that
the management of the Republican
campaign in New York was Jasmine -
AS he was conspicuously ignored, it is
only to be expected that he should take
this view. AS to whether it was wise
to ignore him is another question, be-
cause no matter what has been alleged
against Odell by his enemies, none deny
his unusual ability as a political man.
ager. 1t was also to be expected that
me would strongly disapprove of he
Presidents interference in State poll
tics, but whatever the President does is
only too likely to meet with Mr.. Odelrs
condemnation.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

Hughes's campaign was a convincing
demonstration of how much more char,
acter counts for with the people than
silver-tongued oratory or glittcring
promises. Hughes made no attempt at
fine speaking, he had no jokes or side
splitting stories. he had no dia :rIbe Of
woes from which the people we're suf-
fering and for which he had discovered
a cure-all. Far better than all Of these,
he had a character for unlinchine
honesty. with ability to make that hon-
esty effective. and he talked plainly ant.
straightforwardly. in a way that con-
WINGED everybody that he was to he
trusted TO the uttermost
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

have its reward. '2Mrs Hearst has said
that Mr.. Murphy ought to be in the
penitentiary. and has pictured him
wearing deserved stripes. Mr.. Jerome
has said that no decent man could as
sociate with Mr.. sConners. What Mr..
Hearst, Mr.. Murphy and a host of 9TH
ers have said about Senator McCarren
has been a-plenty. Therefore. We can
say with Iago: a.
Whether Cassie Kill Roderigo or
Roderigo kill CassioiT care not. The
death of either is for the good of the
State" AZ n.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

1t will be good news to all the vet
Grams that our highly-esteemed COM
rade, Washington Gardner, of Michi-
gan, was reelected to Congress by a
greatly-increased plurality. Comrade
Gardner commends himself more
strongly to his constituents by every
year that he serves them, and this has
been evidenced in a most gratifying
way by the rapid swelling of his majori-
tiles every time that he comes before
them for reelection.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

Having some time hanging on its
hands for which it could find no profit
able employment, La Figaro, of Paris,
has thoroly Investigated the genealogy
of the King of England. 1t finds out
that the maiden name of his mother,
Queen Victoria, was either Miss Azon
or Miss AZon Won Este. His fathers
name was Victim, and the actual name,
therefore, of the English King is Albert
Edward Victim.
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

Mr.. Hartman denies that he is go
ing to change his residence from New
York to Chicago. He says: 'I feel
that I can be more useful here in New
York" Yes, it is better to have Wall
Street Immediately under his eye than
at the end of long distance telephone
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

Bourke Cochran says he has no reply
% make to Croker's blast against him.
I always treat such disgusting publica-
ions with contempt" he says. This is
lot quite up to Bourke's usual eloquent
yolubility
The National tribune., 1906-11-22
ANDERSONVILLE.
Pen.

The National Tribune has secured a
few copies of O'Dea's fine picture of
Andersonville. the very best picture of
that horrible place ever published
Years ago hundreds of copies of this
picture were sold at s5 apiece There
remain only a few copies, and when
these are gone it will be impossible to
secure more. This picture is five feet
long and three feet five inches wide.
and when framed would make an ex-
cellent addition to the furnishings Of
any Post room.
We will send a copy of the picture.
securely inclosed in a stout tube ex-
press charge prepaid. for club of four
yearly subscribers. Address The Ma
tional Tribune, Washington, D. G..
The National tribune., 1906-11-22

Mr.. Hearst's record of votes costing
him 80 cents apiece is quite 4 contrast
to the experience of man named Coo-
gan, who ran for Mayor of New York
a few years ago. He spent 800. geo.
and received 10000, so that each vote
cost $40. Yet they say everything is
higher now than some years ago.