St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-30
Congressional Politics.

From the best OF information OBJ
tainable Haskins will have Windham
county and Stafford Caledonia, solid
and enthusiastic behind them. Ii
this county Barre will elect delegates
pledged to Stafford, her own distin-
gulshed and brilliant son. Barre
town and other towns in the county
are likely to do the same thing and
Mr.. Plumley will be fortunate if he
gets two-thirds of the Washington
county delegation.
Stafford will have Orleans county
practically solid and most OF Essex
after the first ballot. Haskins will
undoubtedly get large majority of
the delegates from Windsor county
and Stafford the remainder except in
two towns which the Mortified can
didate can doubtless carry. Every
one OF the tour candidates will get
votes from Orange county, probably
in the order of Plumley, Stafford,
Haskins, Dale.
1t is evident to anybody that none
OF the candidates will get the nomi-
nation on the first ballot. 1t is also
evident that the two leading candi-
dates on the first ballot will be Has
kins and Stafford. The final result
will depend on what becomes of the
support of the two weaker candi-
dates, Plumley and Dale. Alter the
first onslaught Stafford as the ADLER,
keener and more brilliant and mag
netic candidate should get good
proportion and if he does he will be
nominated Barre Times.
The second district canvass is
straighter work, square, good-na-
tured legitimate contest, though the
Brattleboro Retormer, whose nose is
usually in the air for scent of car
rion, AYERS that money is being used
to influence newspapers, and hints
that the output is made by a candi-
date up this way. AS Plumley, Stat
ford and Dale are all multi million
aires, bloated bond-holders, rolling
in unlimited wealth, the Retormer
ought to be sufficiently specific in its
charges to indicate who is unloading
cash to help his canvass Mont
pelier Journal.
Congressman Powers has been rep
resenting this district at Washington
for five terms. During that period
only one bill framed by him has found
it's way into the national statutes.
That was bill to pay fellow resi-
dent of his at Morrisvile sum of
money, private bill. The records
show that not one law of national
or general character has originated
with this representative, who was
previously twice a member of the
Vermont house OF representatives,
once its speaker, member Of the
state senate and for 16 years a JUS
tice of the Supreme court. And yet
there are some people who seem to
favor the return for the sixth term OF
a gentleman with this record. The
situation is astonishing Rutland
News.
The partisans of W. P. Stafford, of
St. Johnsbury, are now claiming that
he will have more strength in the
congressional convention than Plum
ley, and that it is Col. Haskin's
candidacy with which he will con-
tend, rather than that of any other
aspirant in the district. The trend
the campaign in he second district
is more forciblv toward Col. Haskins
than at any time snceit opened, and
his friends confidently count, not
only upon solid Windham county
delegation, but a practically solid
backing from Windsor. Stafford's
friends aver that Plumley will lose
part of his own county OF Washing
ton, the delegates being proportional
between the S. Johnsbury candidate
and Col. Haskins. Should this prove
to be fact, Plumley could hardly
expect to make a formidable show
ing in the convention. OF course,
allowances can be made for increas.
ing enthusiasm as the campaign
|. w al us up WulSu SOllSlIIuCS IeduS
men to overestlmate their strength.
At this stage, however, the contest
decidedly favors Windham county's
candidate, who has developed
strength in unexpected quarters, and
who, If the convention was to be
held to-day. would undoubtedly
prove an easy winner - Brattleboro
letter in Springfield Republican.
There were 903 post-offices in 1900;
to-day we have 75,OOO-that is, in
J America alone. 1t took a letter sixteen
days to 60 from Philadelphia to Licking
/ ton, Kentucky; twenty-five days to
Nashville, Tennessee. The cheapest
letter postage was eight cents, and to
send letter more than hundred miles
cost shilling, Three million letters and
papers were then sent in year; at the
present time the post office handles
about 100000 pieces of mail in a
single day. MAY Ladies' Home Journal.