Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-24
Those Stories.

We have given in the DAILY TRANS
CRYPT some notice of certain stories
which we supposed were being circula-
ted for the amusement of children, or
for men, perhaps, since "men are but
children of larger growth" but we are
surprised to find that these stories are
really taken in earnest by some who
have listened to them. To come at the
matter squarely, we may as well say
that the stories refer to various things
which it is reported that Mr.. Barlow
will do if he is elected to the Senate. 1t
might seem to one who examines
matters critically that it is strange no
one, not even the authors of the stories,
knew about these things until just at
this time. For instance, if Mr.. Barlow
was intending to get the corporate limits
Of our village extended so as to take in
ParsOnsville and Mr.. Holyoke's farm, it
appears curious that no one ever heard
Of it until within about a week, and also
that not soul in town desires, or has
expressed desire for any such thing.
No such thing is contemplated, nor has
it been, by Mr.. Barlow, or any one else,
unless it be the men who invented the
story.
The story about his intending to have
water brought from Fairfield pond, at
large or small expense, by his influence
in the Legislature, is of the same piece
of electioneering humbug. If any such
thing was desired by the village, or by
Mr.. Barlow as an officer of the corpora
ton, the village would not go on dig
ging wells all over town to supply us
with water, nor would the last annual
corporation meeting have voted against
the Fairfield project emphatically, and
in favor of the one now being carried
out This humbug story is transparent
The story that he is going to give his
influence in favor of having the county
taxed to build new Court House here
is also untrue. Not town in the coun-
ty desires any such action at this time,
and Mr.. Barlow is not in favor of disre-
regarding the wishes of his constituents
here and in the whole county, and for
nothing at all. Mr. Barlow does not
lin County, and no reliable man who
knows him will believe so of him. He
has been found, after repeated trial
a safe as well as capable legislator and
those fearful gentlemen who suppose
his election will confer upon him such
wonderful powers must be over credu-
lous. Besides, they flatter him too
much when they suppose, as they seem
to by their stories, that he has such I'M
limited control over the County and
Legislature. They make him out
smart and able a man that it really con-
vinces some people that he ought, for
that reason, to be elected, trusting to
the restraints of common sense, and
some few impossibilities, to hold him in
his regular orbit as a legislator.
The story also that Mr.. Barlow con-
templates using his influence to change
the course of the water which runs
through Parsonsville, so as to bring the
same into st. Adams is a kind of cold
water fable that has no foundation eX-
cept in imaginations predisposed to hy-
drophobia. Why should he want the
brook, if he is going TO have Fairfield
pond? Why should he want Fairfield
pond if he is after the brook? If he
wants either, why should he as Presi-
dent of the village, encourage the
digging afwells now going on at the vii
lagos expense. This is little too
much water. 1t puts itself out. We
don't want to be drowned. Really, these
aquarium gentlemen overdo the thing,
and lay themselves open to the imputa-
ton of being opposed tothe paper-mill.
They ought, if they belive half they tell,
to be looking out for life-preservers.
Then there isanother ia BILE, which has
nothing to do with cold water, and that
is that Mr.. Barlow has asserted that he
will be elected, if it cost him ten thousand
dollars. This is not true. Mr.. b. expect
to be elected; but he infors us he has