The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
TOWN MEETING MATTERS.


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some Oh .o,n".,,,nm tne emm" TicEssss M" LIZ
iihooa OF spiias-some OF the subject
ito be Wresiied over.
There is yet but little discussion o
tickets for next Tuesday. But the 81
lencc is of the kind that many gooo
indges regard as ominous The far
mers are expected to be out in force
and with anite disposition to smash
things. There is good deal of sup
pressed wrath, general in its causes
but as liable az electricity to take
courses that can not be calculated on.
The opera house expenditure, over
which nobody has any right to be
wrathy except towards himself, as II
was all done by the unanimous vote OF
the town-is the chief cause, but avery
thing has seemed to contribute to il in
the way of increasing expenditures and
taxes and creating fresh obligations
Tho true view to take is that the
unnecessary expenditures have all been
made by order of the, people and no.
body is TO blame for them bnt the vo-
ters. And the true avenue of reform
ia right there, in exercising discrimin
alton in voting money. That is the
way to make the town prosper.
Let economy and low taxes be the
aim to which every citizens best
thought is directed. Better than all
any board of trade could do would be a
tax rate of half the present one.
The opposition ticket to the present
board of selectmen is likely to consist
of G. il. Boyden. l.. II. Richardson
and Henry AkeIy. No one can dispute
that it would be a good and an efficient
board as is also true of the present
one. There is also a movement to sub
stitute W. II. Miner for Mr.. Putnam
on the old board
The warrant contains 1G articles and
nine of them are to appropriate money.
1t ought to be Il good "sitting down"
day.
The meeting is called at the ''town
house" The warrant doesn't say
which hall is to be used, though no.
body expects ii to be the opera hall or
fails to see that that is not suitable for
Il town meeting, where citizens in any
mart are liable to want to speak, and
that if would be a bad piece Of eXtrav
agance to use it with its elegant car
ends the pretepse on which alone the
nroiect had any lawful standing, that
the hall was TO be primarily for town
purposes. -
People that want to see the whole
show had better bring their lunches
with them.
The meeting will open at 9 O'Clock
according TO law. Probably, and of
necessity. there will be two polling
places, one from "A to K'' on the
south side and the other from Il to
Yn ON the north aide.
The law REQUIRES that the highway
shall be elected by ballot.
lin To date only fonr candidates are
known 10 be publicly IN the field, Mr..
Eames Cant n. G. Streeter. David
T Perry and F. ". Mcclure. nnd the
il lively for each. No one
car or does seriously DISPUTE that Mr..
Eames has been faithful and we'll in
trntioned. but n good MANY points of
are urgen against him,
and his judgement attacked, while his
argue that under him 1.-The
town sas got more for its money! than
ordinarily Cant. Streetar who was de-
fcat.d as an opposition candidate to
Eames last wear. is credited with hav
inr done some Of the best road build
inc Rutland ever had. especially be
tween Rutland and West Rutland,
while highway surveyor there and he en-
ters the lists at the solicitation of some
.iti2cns who orposed him last wear.
II remains TO be seen whether Mr..
perry's ease is one of a ''rrophet not
without honor save in his ov n country
Ills rpputatiou for SKIN and efficiency
in road building is such that other
towns have been eager to send for him TO
~ thcir work and he has done much
Indnr thc exnert reouiroments of the
Nassachusetts state system, while if
vas snnnosed two ar three wears
100 he had GOT a LOT Of our pconle
10 down on him that it was
IN elect nim. Mr.. NcCurc
ybo has bcor housed with = liver
ronhle for two weeks. has not in any
rav bern AN active randidafe. bnt he.
no onrrtuned bv friends has agreed to
las shown himself "A man of eyecutiye