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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
WHY TAFT WILL WIN.
Business interests Working For Re
publican Success.

The president of the Claflin company
In an annual statement of that com
pany to stockholders sums up the bust
ness situation with much accuracy and
fairness. He said that after six
months Of severe depression in the dry
goods industry a recovery occurred in
June and since then has been well
maintained, but no great Improvement
can be expected until the presidential
election is over.
Expressed or implied, a marked re-
vival within the next few weeks
is predicted by the most cautious
business men in the country because
of the inferential belief that Judge
Taft will be elected on Nov. 3. Recent
accounts of the iron trade show that
the gain of the early summer is being
held; bank clearings and railway gross
earnings tell a similar story. To every
one the evidence is unmistakable that
If the election of Judge Taft was now
placed beyond peradventure business
would take on an immediate boom.
For this reason masterful minds ev-
erywhere in industrial and commercial
activities are bending every energy for
the election of Taft.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
Complete Election Returns.

The returns from all the towns and
cities in Vermont for the election, Sep
TENDER /, show a total vote of 63.636,
plurality for Prouty of 29,34S, and
majority If &c, $685. Four years ago the
total vote cast was $500, Bells plural
ity was 81, 557 and his majority, 80, 606.
This shows that the total vote of 1908
is 2 1884 less than that of 1904. Prouty's
plurality is 2,209 smaller than that given
Bell and his majority shows decrease of
2,743. The total vote cast for governor
in 1906, the year of the Proctor Clement
contest, was 70, 493.
An analysis of the 1908 vote by coun-
ties, compared with that cast in 1904,
majorities and the loss and gain in the
total Democratic vote to be as follows
Addison-Republican loss, $50; Demo
cratic loss, 25.
Bennington-Republcan gain, 119;
Democratic loss, 206
CaedonIa-R Republican loss, 902; Dem
ocratic gain, 221.
hittenden-Republican loss, 2S4 !;
Democratic gain. 1856.
Essex-Repubican loss, 60. Demo
cratic gain. %.
Franklin-Republica loss, 81; Demo
cratic loss, 80.
Grand Isle-Republican loss, 1888; DEM
ocratic gain 1T.
Lamoile-Republican gain. 1871; Dem
ocratic loss, 1l2
Orange-Republican loss, SIS; Demo-
cratic loss, "a
Orleans-Republican loss, l76; Demo-
cratic loss 40.
Rutland-Republican gain, n; Demo-
cratic loss, 457
NNacbipntnn panubI;oo, loo, 1oE,
Democratic gain, SO.
neutrality-suspicious. gain, 257;
Democratic loss. As
neutrality-suspicious. loss, 749; Demo-
cratic loss, ia.
Owing to factional contest in Grand
Isle county, the Democratic vote more
than doubled.
Windham shows the banner gain for
the Republican ticket and Caledonia and
Windsor show the most decided falling
off.-St. Johnsbury Caledonian.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
LABOR TURNS TO TAFT.
ToiIers Scent Danger In the Fallacies
Of Mr.. Bryan.

Convincing evidence was furnished
week by Judge Taft with Oscar
Straus, secretary of commerce and la
Dor, and T. V. Powderly, formerly
general master workman of the
knights of Labor, that the attitude of
labor is growing each day more friend
ly to Taft. The campaign of education
which the Republicans have been car
rying on has been effective, and the
laboring man, so Mr.. Powderly told
the candidate, is beginning to appre-
ciate the fact that restoration of
business confidence through the cleo
ton of Mr.. Taft means more work and
prosperous times for him.
Secretary Straus announces his in
tention to go out on the stump for the
specific purpose of exposing some of
the Bryan fallacies in regard to labor
Said Mr.. Straus: The most dangerous
of these fallacies is presented in
Bryan's slogan, Shall the people rule?'
and well may he ask it, for every one
of his leading doctrines is a denial of
that rule"
Mr.. Straus classes Mr.. Bryan's gov
eminent guarantee of bank deposits as
next in point of danger to his plan for
| the government ownership of railroads.
Mr.. Straus believes this guarantee
| proposition is as great menace as the
old 16 to l hobby ITO guarantee de-
posits," said Secretary Straus, sis to
guarantee the loans of the banks. for,
as matter of fact. n large part of the
| banks deposits is made up of credits
extended by the bank to borrowers and
by them deposited or placed on the
books of the banks as deposits"
Mr.. Powdcrly said among other
things after his talk with Taft La
Dor never was better organized, better
paid. more Independent or more re-
spected thea ii is today. Never was 1t
more secure in its share of the outcome
of the commodity or the good will and
confidence of employers. All this is
due to the effort of nonpartisan, well
differed unions. What labor organiza-
tions now enjoy. and they enjoy more
than they ever enjoyed in the civilized
world before, came as the result of
intelligent, cooperative effort exerted
in a nonpartisan way through their
unions.
"Of course there are many men out
OF employment as the result of the
recent depression, but to my knowl-
edge men are returning to their old oc-
equations all over the country and at
their old rates of pay. l recall the
awful panic of 1873 and that of 1898,
and in neither case did men go back to
work at their old wages. The case is
different now. and to my mind it would
be suicidal for labor to vote in such a
way as to imperil the return of full
prosperity, so rapidly manifesting
| itself"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
Democracy Divided.

Thomas l.. Hisgen, Hearst candidate
for the presidency, looks for the cleo
ton of Taft and then a new align
ment of political parties. Mr.. Hisgen
says:
'"The Democratic party is dividing.
The radical and the more conservative
elements can pull together only lit
tie while longer. After Bryan is de-
feated for third time there is bound
TO be a new alignment of the people
and the Democratic party will dlsin-
tegrate. The Republicans will get some
Of those former Democrats, and the
independence league will get more OF
them. The campaign of 1912 will be
fought out by a different set of po-
htical parties from those now in the
field"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

Since the establishment of the Morgan
horse breeding station mile north of
this town an unusual interest has been
drawn to the Morgan horse. Well
known men have come to Addison
County with the primary object of get
ting in touch with the already famous
Morgaps. 1t is significant that the rail-
road magnate, E. H. Hartman, with a
party of guests visited the State fair this
week, solely for the purpose of inspect
ing personally the largest exhibit OF
Morgan horses ever seen together. II
Mr.. Hartman will extend this trip to
Addison County he will see what has
been accomplished here in a compare
lively short time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
Mr.. TAFT DOES THINGS.
One Incident That Shows the Quality
Of the Man.

of the Man.
This incident affords perhaps as good
an insight into the psychology of Mr..
Taft as any that could be cited 1t IL
illustrates the way Mr.. Taft does things,
the way he works and the way he
plays, for when he plays he plays as
hard and zestfully as he works. With
him the thing is to do it. Accomplish
ment is ever his aim. 1t happened
while Mr.. Taft was on the sea, bound
for Manila to open the Philippine as
sembly. The narrator watched the pro-
cecdings at close range. Three men
stood between decks on the steamship,
away up in the eyes of the ship, and
contemplated q hole ten feet above
their heads. A narrow iron ladder led
perpendcularly to the deck. The cir
conference of the hole seemed to APP
proXimate that of sugar barrel. One
of the men. Ambassador O'Brien,
bound for Tokyo, was tall and spare.
lean and sinewy. The second, Judge
Thomas Burke of Seattle, was short
and rotund. The third, Mr.. Taft, was
larger and heavier than the other two
put together
at would be easier for the camel to
go through the needles eye, Mr.. Sec
rotary, than for you to get through
that hole" bantered Judge Burke.
Il wouldn't like to try that climb
I'll confess" said the ambassador.
well, l don't know" rejoined the
$50 pound secretary OF war. ut looks
like a tough proposition"
For a moment the three turned aside
to examine something to which their
attention was directed. Unregarded,
Mr. Taft stepped to the foot of the lad
der and observed it contemplatively.
One might have deduced from his man
ner that his thoughts ran something
like this: That's hard climb, and
that hole looks smaller than my body,
can climb up that ladder and get
through the hole believe l can. I'm
going to try it."
Before he was spied Mr. Taft had
half scaled the ladder. Ambassador
OBrien and Judge Burke, despite
their lesser weight, expressed in their
faces an approximation of dismay
when they saw what the secretary was
about. You'll never make it; better
come back" advised the ambassador.
Look out the ladder doesn't break"
cautioned Judge Burke. Round after
| round the secretary progressed until
his body was halfway out of the hole.
When the circumference of his girth
| came into conjunction with the cir
conference of the hole it was a toss
up for minute which would win. But
Mr.. Taft proved that he had an elastic
| waist line. which won over the un-
yielding limits of the hole. But it was
a struggle. He stuck to it grimly and
| doggedly. The lifting of 2S5 pounds
| of dead weight by the muscles of the
arms is a task that would tax the
strength of far lighter man. A final
heave and Mr. Taft hoped upon the
deck as lightly as a boy. He was
smiling all over. He had won. The
passengers who had watched gave him
q cheer. He would have stayed in the
hole and fought it out for an hour
rather than retreat. That is Taft.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
NEGRO AND DEMOCRACY.
Would Be Suicidal For Colored Men to
Vote For Bryan.


One of the greatest negroes this
country has known, a leader of his
race and the honored confidant of
President Grant and Secretary Fish,
recently said: 1T would be suicidal
for colored men to vote for Bryan.
They have nothing TO hope for from
the Democratic party, which has dis
franchised them in the south and
which processes to regard them as
unfit for the ballot anywhere. The
only chance for the negro is with the
Republican party, and it will be a sad
day for the negro when Republican
president will be elected without the
votes of negroes having helped to
place him in power"
In view of the fact that Bryan him
self has approved negro disfranchise-
ment in the south there can be no
doubt of his attitude should he be
elected to the presidency, while the
southern Democrats would regard
! northern negro votes for their candi-
dates as an Endorsement by the negro
race of southern treatment of the ne
gro.
1t is impossible to believe that any
negro who has studied intelligently the
history of his race will go into the
voting booth and cast ballot in favor
of Bryan and against Taft and Shor-
man, the Republican candidates-the
candidates of the party which opened
the door of hope to the colored man,
which gave him the ballot and safe
guards him in its use in every state in
which Republicans rule
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS

DIR. Towards specific for the cure of
constipation and dyspepsia is not an I'M
known remedy. 1t has made many re-
markable cures right here in Middlebury
and so positive is Druggist II B Dutton
Co of its great superiority in curing dys-
pepsia, constipation, sick headache and
liver troubles that they will, in addition
to selling it at half price, refund the
money to anyone whom it does not cure.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
pepositors Safe.


Congressman and others will be in
terested to note that, although thirteen
banks and trust companies closed their
doors in consequence of the October
panic, not one of the $1,000 depositors
Will lose dollar. Some of these in
bdtutions had been wickedIy misman-
aged, but in every case the men re-
sponsible have been expelled, some In
dicted, and some have committed sui
eide. 1t hardly looks in these circum-
stances as If we needed federal guar
antee OF national bank deposits. II
that were provided as the Democrats
propose, one great agency for holding
bank officers up to proper sense OF
Individual responsibility for the safe
and proper conduct of their institu-
tons would be removed. - Boston
lransnrint
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
Chance for MiddIebury Register
Readers

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popular druggist to offer one of their
best selling medicines at half price to
anyone who will cut out the following
coupon and present it at their store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
The U. S. Government in it,

The u. s. Government in its
"Pure Food Law" does not endorse" OF
guarantee" any preparation, as some
manufacturers in their advertisements
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

The wind bloweth where 1t listeth
So does William Jennings Bryan. 1t Is
way they both have.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

Bryan's great handicap in running
for the presidency is that he cannot
run away from his record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

Cheapest accident insurance-Dr.
Thomas Electric Oil. Stops the pain
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sell it.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
That Beautiful Gloss

comes from the varnish in Devoe's Var
nish Floor Paint; costs cents more a
quart though. Sold by A. Calhoun &
Son.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25
u1iooleburY Register
EDWARD P. SEYMOUR. ASST. EDITOR.

The Independence League of Vermont
have chosen their presidential electors,
SO it's all over but the shouting.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

Asiatic cholera is raging in st. Peters
burg. Poor Russia; when it's not one
thing that is raging, it is another.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

covering the period of about forty-two OIL
three years following 1912.
Respectfully,
w. w. SwINEY.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-25

The issue is just this Taft and pros
perity or Bryan and paralysis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

leads us to denounce it. without the
slightest hesitation or qualification, as
a fraud upon the unintelligent or too
credulous if intelligent reader. 1t is
not what it purports to be. the pro-
duction of the president of the United
States. About five-sevenths of it, or to
be mathematically exact just fifty-six-
ty-sevenths of it. is scarcely more of
Mr. Rooseveit's composition than it lis
of William Randolph Hearst's. To that
extent it is fraudulent, an appeal under
false pretences-in short. and ugly
English, lie.
ITO the unprecedented degradation
of the Office of president of the United
States which-th world has been wit
Messing with amazement ever since
Mr.. Roosevelt broke through the good
cou9sels previously restraining him and
became politically violent is now add
led the humiliating particular of this
petty and inexpensive deceit. He is
mot only willing to convert the White
house for the time into hustings fol
screaming oratory, to the sacrifice o.
that high reserve and dignity which
fright minded people have been in tn,
habit of regarding, as@iRseparable from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

the most honorable office in the world;
he is also willing and quick to attach
the name of the president of the Unit
ed States to borrowed or stolen cam
paign matter of>the miscellaneous and
anonymous sort in carbon printed It's
sue editions with which every news
paper establishment is familiar
Can the scandal go further? Can
the degradation reach a lower achieve
ment? We have contemplated with
some apprehension the possibility that
the president might feel himself inn
PEELED in the last days of the canvass
to go upon the stump in person and
thus add the spectacle of physical
frenzy to that of mental overintensity.
We do not think now that it would
make much difference so far as the
dignity of presidential Office is invoIv.
ed in Mr. Roosevelt's personal behav
Tor.
The following is what the New York
World thinks of the authorship Of
Roosevelt's latest letter:
"a Question of style. A large par
of President Roosevelt's letter to Sen
ator Knox is palpably the work of al
able and experienced lawyer. Mr.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

Has he not given the most solemn
promises that he will carry out my
Policies in both letter and spirit?
If the people of the country believe
that Taft is telling the truth how can
they escape from the belief that Taft
endorses the humiliating spectacle of
the president of the United States
dragging the dignity of his high Office
in the mire
Mr. Taft either endorses in toto all
Roosevelt's policies and will carry
them out as he promises; endorses all
that Roosevelt says and does. else he
is unworthy to be elected to the high
Office to which he aspires.
The New York Sun endorses Taft,
but does not endorse Roosevelt and
the following is what it thinks of his
latest performance
LET him take the. stump. The
scandal can be no greater A cam
paign document addressed to the la
Dor vote emanated yesterday frcm The
White house in the form of an allegef
,detter from the president of the United
States to Senator Knox of Pennsyl
vania.
A careful per,isal of the document
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30
NEW YORK PAPERS ON THE
ROOSEVELT-KNOX EPISODE

the" humiliating particular of this pet
W and inexpensive deceit and the
conversion of the White house 'for
the time into hustings for screaming
oratory." 1t says the scandal can go
no further. nor the degradation reach
lower achievement even if the pres
ident We're to take the stump in per-
son in the last days of the canvas"
and thus add the spectacle of physical
frenzy to that mental overintensity.
But, The Sun adds plea that Mr..
Taft should not be made to suffer for
the sins of Roosevelt.
How is Mr.. Taft going to dodge the
responsibility for the words and acts
of Mr. Roosevelt? Are they not tied
together? Are they not political STA
mese twins?
Has not Mr.. Taft reiterated time
and again that he and Roosevelt are
| one ard inseparable, that he stands OIL
falls with Roosevelt and his policies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

New York, Oct 30.-One of the
choice bits of political comment now
on tap in this seething mass of polit-
ical activity, is the attitude of two of
the great metropolitan papers of New
York towards the latest contribution
of President Roosevelt to contempor-
aneous political polemics.
The presidents recent letter to Sen
ator Knox en- the labor question in
which he discusses the attitude of Mr..
Bryan and the democratic party there
TO is denounced by the New York Sun
and the New York World
The Sun says that five-sevenths of
it is no more of Roosevelt's compost
ton than it is of Hearst's, and the
World intimates that Knox, himself
an able lawyer. is the author of it, in
asmuch as it must have been written
by an able lawyer and Roosevelt is
not. lawyer at all The World lets
ii 90 at that. but The Sun deprecates
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

Miss, says: For several months suf-
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sumption seemed to have its grip on
me, when a friend recommended DIR.
Kings New Discovery. began taking
it, and three bottles effected a COM
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lung and throat healer is worldwide.
Sold at all drug stores; so cents and
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

Roosevelt is moi an able and exper-
fenced lawyer. but Mr.. Knox is. Can
ii be possible that the same hand
which wrote Mr.. Knox's admirable
speech" also wrote President Roose-
velts congratulatory letter TO the Penn
sylvania senator?''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30

Had a Close Call.
Mrs. Ada L. Groom, the widely known
proprietor of the Groom hotel, Vaughn,
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-07-21
WHITE FOX Vs. FIT. DAVIS.

Tomorrow night al 1.Su rhr White Fox ana line Fort Davis tean meet for their second engagement, although this Is the first one that counts The other scl-to Was simply practice game. and tHe soldiers Won after a hard struggle. The Fox are going out tn win and if the soldiers beat them they wlIl have to ga faster than they did the other time. The weak spots on tine team have been bolstered up and a new pitcher has been obtained Knox will probably not be on the slab for the army team as his arm is sore. That casr Wul do the tuirliug, and many of those who remember Nigs work on the slab in the past consider him a better pitcher than Knox. The Fox team as il new stands k light hitting but fast fielding bunch and should put up some snappy ball