Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-08-25

any failure 10 nominate IN advance IL
they see fit to hold caucuses and nominate
candidates for town representative, they
can do so. II they prefer to hold no caucus
and no ballot as heretofore without pre-
vous formal nominations of candidates.
they can do that. And the representatives
so elected will take their seats ut Montpe
ler.
The excess Of women in Massachusetts, has
always been a cause for remark. But this
excess serves its purpose in bringing up the
average of women in the country pretty
high, although there are whole sections of
this free land much larger than Massachu-
setts where there is not one white woman to
be found The census report shows that
there are o., 000 females for every 100, 600
males in the United States. The phiioso-
pher Of the Boston Transcript thinks that
the average excess Of men in the whole coun-
try is only pleasantly large enough to make
sure of n continued supply of reasonable
number of maiden aunts to remember the
impecunious in their wills. A Western edi-
tor, who speaks in accordance with the in
vertod ratio Of numbers of women out there,
and evidently knows not Of the Eastern
ways of telling the girls to hurry up for
their chances comments gravely on the pro
portion of o., 900 to 100, 600 by saying:
'Ths should be a warning to old bachelors
to hurry up their engagements before all
the best partners are taken.
The horse-trotting season is now on. 1t
was very much on in Chicago wednesday,
when Nancy Hanks, the six-year- bay
mare belonging to Mr.. j. Malcomb Forbes
of Boston, wrested the worlds trotting
record from Maud S. and sunol. As an
nounced by telegraph yesterday, she uado
mile without skip or break a circular
track in 2:01f, deposing Maud s., with n
record OF 2:0c2 on a circular track, and
| Sunol, with record of 2;0Si kite
track. The mare drew a sulky with pneu-
matte tires, new invention which is favor
ablo to speed, but just how much cannot OF
course he even estimated. Twenty years
ago Goldsmith Maid set the world in amaze
meat by trotting a mile in PIT, whereas to-
! day many a horse can beat her record
| That record has been lowered, little by
| little, until now mere fraction OF o second
better is all that is expected of any horse.
| The final limit must always remain a mat
ter of speculation. But only n marvellous
trotter can successfully contest with Nancy
Hanks her new title as Queen of the Turf,
State Election
Is not two weeks away. Whatever work
is to be done for it must be done soon
! 81, g. H..
earnest Vermont republican should be wide
awake and fully alive to the Importance OF
bringing out the full vote OF our party,
which will give us all the majority that is
needed or that any body can ask for. There
are no dissensions or divisions in the rcpub-
lean ranks. The State ticket bears names
which the public honor and trust, and it de.
serves the cordial support Of every republi-
can. Tho county tickets are composed Of
unusually good material, and it is safe tc
assume that like care in the choice of nom
inees for town representative will ensur,
wise selections for tho lower branch of the
Legislature. The harmony and cheerful an
ticipations Of success in the national cam
paign, which animate the republicans o.
other States exist here. Nothing stands il
the way OF an old-tIme republican MAORI
ty in Vermont, unless it be an undue feel
ing Of security-and consequent
lack OF activity on the part oil
the working republicans to whom common
ly falls tho duty of arousing their less ear
nsst brothers to tho performance of theil
duty as voters. But it will not do to as
sumo from the obvious want of interest il
the canvass. on the part Of the democratic
rank and file, that they will not be out t,
vote when election comes. The democratic
committeeman will be uncommonly wei
supplied with the sinews of political war
this time; and though they are making a still
hunt, in the hope of lulling the republican
into lnGction, they will rally the democratic
voters to the polls in their full force, whs
tho time comes. The republicans shout
realize this and be prepared to meet it, lie
every republican, first of all, arrange hi
business so that he will be at home TO vot
on tho FIRST Tuesday in September. Their
hsyO been important State elections in Yer
mont at which hundreds and perhaps thou
q sands OF republicans failed to vote hecaus
Q they were out Of the State or away fror
0 home. This should not be. This is pres
a Dental year, and as all know, the Yer
Y monters really vote for preslder
Q IN the State election, II
the republican majority in Septembe
wLich counts in the national csmpaig
Evsry thousand which we can add to on
I average majority will mean electoral vote
!. for Harrison and Reid in other States. l.,
It every eornest republican, then, arrange h