St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-08-30
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What's bitters for the Second Dis
trict is poison for the First district
Long service entities Grout to pro.
motion; long service forces Powers
into retirement. So far so good
But Dillingham; won't be elected to
succeed Grout unless he consents to
the use of his name, and they say he
isn't ambitious in that direction.
-[Woodstock Standard. This is
not the essence Of the question; not
bit Oft. No thinking man will op-
pose Judge Powers for denomination,
by reason of his long service. The
only question raised relates to the
quality, the value, the efficiency OF
that service. If Judge Powers
energies from the curcible, tried and
found not wanting, he will be return
ed. No doubt of that. If his service
has been as satisfactory, as untiring,
as resultant of benefits to the dis
trict and nation, as the service of
General Grout in the other district
has been, the opposition to his re.
turn will prove as ineffective as it
has proven on previous occasions in
the Second district. The people of
this district propose to judge Con-
gresham Powers by his works.
: Rutland News.
There are indications that Speaker
Haskins is steadily gaining strength
in his Second district congressional
campaign. This ought not to worry
any disinterested patriot over there.
-tMorrisville News and Citizen.
Enough has already appeared to
show that Hon. Wendell Phillips
Stafford of st. Johnsbury will not
prove a popular candidate for Con-
gress with that element of the Re-
publican party which would not sup.
port anyone who had not endorsed
their ideas, right or wrong, for term
of at least 40 years, whereas the
intelligent, progressive, up.to.date
Republicanism Of the district takes
very kindly to his candidacy. Mr..
Stafford is most fortunate.-TBarre
Times.
During the Page governorship
campaign years ago, that gentle.
man was dubbed "Calf-skin" Page
by his opponents-not as a compli-
ment, but as an insinuation that
calf skins" were not eligible for
office. His friends thought differently
and he was elected. Those "calf
skins" received their due respect.
Now, in the morning of this new
campaign, lie is dubbed "Chicken-
feed" Page. But a host of people in
Vermont have the same respect for
Chicken feed" as they had for "calf
SKINS" and will make it manifest by
electing him to Congress. 1t will be
the same old drama acted over
again under new title Newport
Express and Standard.
The ease and rapidity with which
Richard Croker has changed his mind
upon the subject of expansion, Colo
mel Bryan has vaulted from his 16 to
1 rocking horse, are equalled by the
celebrity with which the Argus and
Patriot jumped from the gold stand
ard to the silver merry go round a
little more than three years ago.
"Them's my sentiments" said the
late Artemus Ward. But if they
don't suit they can be changed as
frequent as desired" list. Adams
Messenger.
That Rudyard Kipling's story,
The Drums of Fore and Aft, should
have been thrown out of a Methodist
Sunday school library in Indiana is
not as surprising as the fact that the
book was furnished to the library
by the Methodist Book Concern at
Cincinnati. 1t is not the only in
stance of wise oversight of juvenile
reading. The same book was spurn-
ed from Universalist Sunday school
library in Cambridge last winter.
kipling is not maker of lactated
foods. He produces fried meats and
hard-boiled eggs and alcohol, which
is food, according to Professor At
water, but not diet for infants or
youths [Congregationalist.
Some of the state papers are ad.
vocating change in the fish laws
OF Vermont whereby the month OF
August shall be taken off from the
open season for trout. Every sports
man knows that big per cent. OF
the trout taken from the small ponds
and streams in August are heavy
with eggs, and unfit for use. If we
would protect our fish, the sugges-
ton to make the open season shorter
is eminently proper [Hardwick Ga.
ssete.
Hon. c. A. Prouty is inclined to
think that the recently levied assess.
ment Of the Northwestern Guaranty
association on it's Vermont stock.
holders cannot be collected, while
Judge Henry Belden of Minneapolis,
| who is at his old ST Iobneburv Lo,,