The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-10-05
Harris's Me1ange.

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Dear old Opinion and old Friends:
The cookies of my weary heart ar,
warmed to be with you once again, to re
new old acquaintance which must never
be forgot, and to cheer each other on thu
weary way.
/ The trouble is now on, the advance
guard is already lined up and thrown our
skirmishers, and the air echoes the whis.
tie of missiles. Caution the members
from old Orange to come equipped for a
long and bleeding campaign.
| Sergeant-at-Arms Phinney has worked
himself round shouldered and near sight
ed preparing for the onslaught, and every.
| thing in and about the capitol shines like
! a governors staff, new carpets are laid
desks vanished, chairs fitted with new
backs and seats wherever needed, the in.
dustrious spider is dislodged from his
coign of vantage, the ice water tanks are
d1slnfected, and the handle on the big
front door shows the original material.
The entrances to the grounds are fes-
tooned with new electric light appliances,
the Ceres on the dome is given a new
coat of whitewash, and the immortal AL
len on the portico has been given quite a
bath. So much for the headquarters of
the trouble. The city streets have been
scraped and swept, the store windows
have been re-decorated with this sea-
sons goods, and the boarding house keep
erS have deposited fresh towel and a
new cake of soap in the front room for
the expected victim, so much for the web
of the spider.
1t is too early yet to prophesy as to the
important legislation TO be proposed in
the immediate future, and the only thing
distinctly in sight is local option. A care
full canvass of the situation is said by the
friends of local option to show a fair
working majority for a measure of that
kind in each house. There is admittedly
no question but that the senate contains
majority for carefully worded and
conservative bill of the kind and it is
affirmed that the House will be with it.
Local option men tell me that some over
ninety members favoring some kind of
local option law are returned from the
towns in the First Congressional district,
the west side, and that majority of the
East side members also favor such law.
If they are anywhere near right in their
figuring, certainly the legislature is op-
posed to the continuation of the present
law.
The plan is to pre- pare conservative
local option bill with a referendum at
tachment providing that the bill shall be
voted on and accepted or rejected next
March. A prominent repub lean mem
Der from the East side, probably from the
Connecticut valley, will introduce it, in
order to give it proper standing. Very
likely it will first be introduced in the
senate, and come from that body with the
moral impetus which it's passage there
would give it. am giving you the facts
as stated by anti-probibitionisus, and
their theory of procedure. What the ac-
Fnsl facts will hs remains to he seen,
like the spilled milk on the sidewalk
OF course senatorial talk is hot and ex-
cited. The adherents of each candidate
are evidently in dead earnest and full of
confidence in the final result, and large
wads of the long green are frequently in
evidence to back up the opinions of their
But bets prove nothing,
neither does talk, and from the babel of
voices and confusion of tongues it is i'm
possible to discern any particular drift of
sentiment OH the question. will ven
ture to predict, however, that the sena-
torial contest is going to produce some
results which are not counted on by any
Of the candidates. Influences are at |
work which will take the ground out |
rom under certain candidates so sudden |
y and effectually that they will wonder
f they ever really ran. But of all this,
more later.
An unusually large and lively lot of |