News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-06
QUAKER CITY 0UlRKS.

impressions as to the real conditions.
But it is noticeable that a general
opinion seems to prevail that the
and result advantageously to the
reformation, cleansing, and final up
building OF better Republican Or
ganization in the State. If the peo-
pie must be awakened to the fact
that the politics of that solidly Re-
publican State have more and more
gone over to the machine" brand,
state expenses and tendency to de-
part from the traditional purity of the
caucus or election ballot, then this
present movement will not have been
in vain. 1t must be conceded how.
ever, to be a humiliating and lamen-
table fact, if true, that such an
awakening and such reconstruction
must come through such means or
through such channel, and whether
it comes with such happy results as
prophesied, and in such manner as
predicted, is a matter somewhat in
doubt in my mind. That there is
any probability that the "bolt" will
lead to Democratic ascendency in the
state, as some of the city writer's fore
tell, | do not believe. Neither does it
seem at all likely that the opposition
to the regular nominee will meet with a
large and enthusiastic support, but
the fight is on and the fact will not
down that things are to be different
than heretofore in Vermont elections,
locally and otherwise. 1t may not
be the common practise for Republi-
can nominees to be heard on the
stump in Vermont, but so far, it
seems that the talking has been all
on one side. From this distance it
would seem that the conditions call
for public utterance from General
Mccullough that shall be unmistak.
able in it's character. Why not?
Here in Pennsylvania everything
went precisely as the Hon. Matthew
Stanley Q1ay outlined and desired.
His cousin, Judge Pennypacker of
this city, was nominated for Cover
nor. There has been a harmony
conference and itseems probable that
Attorney General Elkin the oppos
ing candidate, who put up strong
anti-convention fight, will go on
stump in behalf of his victorious
opponent. Such are Pennsylvania |
politics; pity they have not a Sir
Percy here to purity and regenerate.
A year ago and the horse had his
head trimming in the straw hat line,
but the annoyance caused by the fall !
ling out of hat pins proved draw |
back so that mankind with more
hands than a horse with which to
hold on the gigantic headgear, has
become literally enveloped in the
Panama hat. The dry goods clerk |
on his $500 per week and the rail-
road president or politician, together
with all that vast crowd between the |
two or three, are submerged by the
pernicious panama, peculiarly and
profoundly proportional. 1t is rare
ly that a glimpse of the wearers face
is possible, for the larger and more
unbecoming the shape the more you |
are in, or under it. Take the abnor-
NAL hats and the trousers cut with |
such breadth of beam as to give the
appearance that an heirloom from a
800 pound grandfather has come to |
you, with the added appearance OF
weight which makes the wearer ap-
pear on the point of suddenly losing
them off, and thesupposedly fashion
ably dressed man is sight to behold.
But Philadelphians have the repu-
tation for being better dressers than
even New Workers., so it's terrible
scene must be tolerated. As for
woman, well, she as up to date is be-
yond me. The general recollections
and lingering vision is, however, that
something passed with tremendous
stride, a headgear with streamers
lying far, far behind, and as you
of the Puritans veil
your eyes, else you would have a
shock for the tautness of the ensem-
BILE, so to speak, as it we're. To omit
the weather would be a serious Of
tense. While not SO extremely hot as
last year, yet we have not had the
cool summers and rains that YER
mont has seemingly experienced. 1t
Is warm, and uncomfortably SO most
of the time to the thousands shut up
in doors in the heat of this great city,
during July and August. The heat
has been more even; fewer sudden
flights of temperature than last year.
For that reason fewer heat prostra-
lions. The advantages offered by
numerous parks within easy access
and the relief offered by an after
hours ride on the numerous suburban
trolley lines are fully appreciated and
taken advantage of. Some of the
vould-be boodlers have had a scheme
ID their sleeve to add to municipal
attractions by buying a swamp
sland in the Delaware river for a site
or city almshouse and the purchase
Of a large tract of half submerged
and on the shore farther south as a
ute for a municipal hospital. May
or Ashbridge has in some degree re-
deemed himself by vetoing the bills
which had been engineered through
he common and select councils
adorable to such purchases.
The broadening and deepening OF