St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-10-23

prandIal speech it was failure.
He was followed by Napoleon Bon
aparte Bryant of Boston, who, II
a very flowery and spread eagle style
praised the republican party ant
then said he wondered how in TIL
all-wise Providence there could b.
such a thing as the democratic
party; that when it had helped tt
form a quorum, it had reached
its climax of usefulness. Otherwise
it was of no use whatever.
Senator William E. Chandler begar
with the statement that he was nOt
going to make political speech anc
then opened Is minutes fusilladt
on the enemy, attacking Representa-
tive Mills, the democratic candidates
for state Offices in particular and al
the democrats in general. He
thanked God for the Mckinley bill
and denounced the democratic can
didates in New Hampshire as hypo
critics. His references to Speaker
Reed and the Mckinley bill were
enthusiastically applauded.
1t was considerably after midnight
when Senator Blair arose and closed
the speech making with a felicitous
and somewhat eloquent address.
OF course the interest of the even
ing centred in the remarks of the
| senators. Gov. GOodell was very
mildly received and it can be easily
seen that the leaders of the republl-
can party do not endorse Gov. Good
ellis temperance course. They agree
that prohibition is all right for the
other fellow. The governor, how
ever, has fought the saloon from
principle and is watching with much
| interest what course Vermont will
adopt He said to the writer that
| he did not believe that Vermont
would be affected by the high license
craze but would remain true to her
present position.
Senator Chandler is an aggressive
| speaker and a politician from head
| to toe. He has made enemies in his
own party, particularly in the dis
tribution of patronage, but he is
TODAY the most influential republi-
can in the state He is a great wire
puller and when he starts out to
accomplish anything leaves no stone
unturned to attain the results.
Henry w. Blair is best known to
fame as the author of the educa-
tional bill which bears his name.
How much his constituents know
about his bill may be Judged from
this remark from one of the banquet
ers, Not more than one in so under
stand his bill but they like to see
him thrash around in Congress and
see his name in print as the senator
from New Hampshire. The next
legislature elect a successor to Mr..
Blair and he will have to hustle to
succeed himself as he has a lively
competitor in ex-Congressman Gal
linger, a younger man and one of
many personal attractions. But
enough of politics.
Friday was partly devoted to
trip over the Lake Shore road which
runs for II miles around Lake Wins
nepiseogee, starting from Lake Vii
lage and running to Alton Bay.
This road affords a beautiful view of
the lake and White Mountains and
will be well patrOnized by summer
tourists. 1t was only opened this
summer The road is a part of the
Concord & Montreal system, cor
poration which has now about 400
miles of iron and is one of the rich
est and best equipped roads in New
England. Its new manager is 7. A.
McKinnon, formerly traffic superin-
tendent of the Canadian Pacific and
a brother Of Robert McKinnon of
this place. st. Johnsbury has also
a representative on the board of
directors in H. n. Turner. The Con
cord & Montreal road handles the
cream of the White Mountain traf-
tic and does an excellent through
business besides.
The next evening found the writer
at Lancaster and one of the first
persons to greet him was H. c. Idle
who was attending railroad hear
ing. The question at issue was
whether the Upper Coos extension
could cross the Grand Trunk railroad
at grade, and after sitting until 1
O'Clock in the morning the board de-
cided in favor of the former road.
Both Mr.. Ide and George Van Dyke
of Lancaster are directors in this
little road which has been leased to
the Maine Central road and will be-
come an important link in their con-
nection to Quebec. When this link is
completed from near the Twin Noun
tain house to North Stratford, it will
make the shortest line from Boston
to Quebec by 20 miles. Five miles of
iron have already been laid on this
extension and most of the grading
has been done The road will be
open for travel early in the winter.
WOMA MS CHRISTIA " Temporal NOE
UNION.
At the last meeting of the Woman's