Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-17
LIVE STATE TOPICS.
Political Points of Interest Gathered From
the Local Field.

1t is safe to say that there will be
both majority and minority report
from the joint committee on temper
ance Barre Telegram.
Some of the state papers are already
talking of Speaker Merrifield for GOV
ernor in 1904. For heavens sake gen
tlemen don't not but what Mr.. Mer-
rifield is all right, but give US a chance
to catch our breath. -Swanton Courier.
Speaker Merrifield of the House of
Representatives seems to have been
quite happy in his choice of commit
tees. 1t was difficult matter to get all
the gentlemen placed where their tastes
and abilities lie, but the speaker sue
ceeded quite we'll. Barre Times.
Probably no man in all Vermont met
more genuinely hearty welcome on all
sides at Montpelier last week than ex-
Gov Carroll S. Page of Hyde Park. 1t
is being quietly talked that the eX-gov-
ernor may be a candidate for the Sen
ate against Redtield Proctor in 1903.
Well?-Hardwick Gazette.
Some of the enemies of the Republi
can party in Vermont who failed to
wreck it this year are now assiduously
engaged in trying to foment strife over
the United States senatorship two years
hence. The kickers will find that for
time it is better to bear the ills they
now have as a result of their acrobatic
politics than to fly to Others they wot
not of, burlington Free Press,
Hon Jonathan Ross is being heard
from at this season and his ideas will
have to be considered. We are not so
sure that the bill credited to him, es-
tablishing state dispensary and sys
tenn of town agencies. even under local
option, would be desirable, but we are
certain that there will be a general
popular approval of his plan to make
the railroad commission amount to
something Such commission. with
no power to enforce its DEGREES, is
laughable. Montpelier Argus.
1t would be the height of folly for
the legislature to throw over the board
of agriculture and the laboratory of
hygiene. These are important to the
health and welfare of the people and
every dollar expended for them is mon
ey we'll applied. 1t would add greatly
TO the purity of dairy products if ev-
cry owner of dairy and beef cattle
should be obliged to have them tested.
Prevent fraud in this line and you will
materially aid the public health. More
funds should be given the laboratory
of hygiene. 1t is a branch of scien-
titic work of vital Importance to the
health of every resident in the common
wealth. Don't try to turn it down as
was done two years ago -Gfoton
Times.
There is not talent enough in the
whole state to draught legislative bill
on the liquor question that will he ac.
ceptable to a majority Of the voters Of
Vermont unless it provides for high Ii
cense with local option. However much
there may have been dur
ing the recent campaign about the re
suit of the September election there
has not been for an instant any ques-
tion but that a majority Of the people
are determined to abolish the present
prohibitory law and substitute for it
system whereby each town can govern
itself Any law such as proposed by
Senator Walbridge yesterday would
mean not only continuation of pres
emit conditions but it would mean also
an additional promotion of perjury
by the statutes. The pres
emit system, no matter how its few .
friends may clothe it, is doomed GEO.
Barre Telegram.