St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-12-04
POLITICAL GO SSIP.
What Some of Our Exchanges are
Saying,

saying
The Waterbury Record says an active
gubernatoria campaign for 1902 is al
ready MAPPED out. Right YOU are, old
man = Montpelier Waterman.
We have it on pretty good authority
that Dr. w. S. Webb is a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Governor
o Vermont, and that he will STAY in the
field until a nomination is made. We
cannot say the same about Gen MCCul.
Tough, but his friends say he also is in
"tor keeps" this time Morrisville News
and Citizen.
There is quite a growing feeling that
our rotund and jocund friend, H, W. Bal
ley of Newbury, stands a very good
chance indeed of landing the authorship.
Bully for Horace! Here is hoping that a
genuine tidal wave NAV sweep him right
up into port Hardwick Gazette.
The Bellows Falls Times and the St.
Adams Messenger are Of the opinion that
Vermouts political booms have not be, n
nipped by the frosts of autumn. The
Messenger thinks that "the booms have
only been put down like grapevines to
wait the spring" while the Bellows Falls
Times says that Long before the grape
vines cease to be dormant the boOms and
boomlets will begin to sprout." alright,
brethren, The boom may become active
again sooner than we figured on, but we
are willing to bet that there won't be
anybody elected before spring. We are
going safe this time LyndonvilIe Jour
nal.
The suggestion of DR.. H. D. Holton
again as a candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, brings out somewhere a sug.
grstion of Lawyer A. E. Cudworth 0
South Londonderry, AMI the Barre Times
is willing to bet that Windham county
will again appear in convention WI h
two candidates because that is an incur
able habit OF the countys Republican
politicians. "If you don't think SO" it
says, ASK DR.. Hulton or Levant M.
Read" who can speak from experience.
But the worst drunkaris have been
known to reform : Brattleboro Reform
err.
There seems to be an idea in some quar-
tiers that DR.. W. Seward Webb is in the
political race at this time simply to secure
mortgage on the gubernatorial nomin.
alton four years Aence; that having OBJ
tanned a legal aid definite title to the
same he will lock it up along with his
stocks and bonds which are said to pay
a better rate Of interest than back hill
tarm, and leave the thing to take care OF
itself until the time tor foreclosure draws
nigh four years hence. Enthusiastic sup,
porters OF DR.. Webb, however, declare
that he is an excellent judge OF holdings
of all kinds and that he never takes a
mortgage when he can as easily possess
the property be wants at once. This
means, ii his friends are correct, that ht
viii make a clean cut fight for the gov
trnorsh,p mkt year. Gen. M Cullough's
friends, and there seem to be lot o
them, affirm that their man will leaC
from st rt to finish against any gu5tr
material candid ate in sight, or out o
sight tor that matter. l. is noticeable
however, that the friends of all othe
candidates state with undated joy tina
Col F. d. Proctor is not to be a can ii
date for the governorship next year
We stop the press TO say that this i
about the size OF the gubrrnatOrial stua
ton at this time - Nor h6 Id News.