Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1902-10-30

fans for the gorjns occasion. The great
hall was soon filled with the deeollytay
and spiketail of the land, and for hours.
which olided by all too soon, the mazy
and other things were trod to the sweet
strains of Dan Guptil's latest opus and
Wilders' dreamy Rialto waltz. NV stars,
| The demon rum continues to he the
all-peryading issue and almost as much
is now known of what the result will be
as was known on the day of the Septem-
Der election. Even the committee them
selves haven't the remotest idea of what
the harvest will be. just the same the
on-looking public and the committee
themselves firmly believe that hill will
| finally be evolved out oil the mass of ideas
which will be clean cut well. constructed
and conservative and which will be ac-
cepted by the legislature and acceptabl
to the people. That the committee will
succeed in bringing satisfactory bill
| out of the chaos no one doubts. 1t will
require a mighty lot of hard work,
though This week Friday evening Mr..
| Clement will address the committee in
support of his bill, and this will make of
| the event the most interesting meeting
| of the committee yet held. They will
not allow members of the press to be
present, some few of the members of the
committee evidently fearing that their
constituents would not be pleased at
their reported speech and acts But the
public doesn't have any difficulty in dis
covering all that passes of consequence
in the committee, so what's the odds?
RovINE TUBERCTJosIS
If the present disagreement continues
among the farmers as to what shall be
done in the matter of regulating the bo-
vine tuberculosis business there is dan
ger of the state being left without any
cattle commission or any statutory
means of regulating the matter. The
only point on which all seem to be
agreed is that the present commission
must go, but what shall take the place
of it is deep and dense mystery. Mean
while the whole thing is out of sight IN
the air,and it is impossible to obtain any
basis for prediction.
Following in the train of McFeeters'
bill to abolish capital punishment natur-
ally comes bills to commute the death
sentences Of all the murdererS now under
it. The first Communication bill was that
of Doherty, the Bolton Falls desperate,
of whom mention has already been made.
Following this came bills to commute the
sentences of Shaw and Eastwood, as a
matter of course. Shaw will be remem-
bered as having been hunted through the
central part of the state two years or so
ago and who was finally captured with
his rifle in his hand and murder in his
heart after having shot down and killed
Deputy Sheriff Hoffman of White River
junction. Eastwood is the murderous
villain who ran amuck a his home in
Middlebury, wounded h. family and
neighbors right and left and succeeded
in killing one of the latter Now you
see what door the abolition of capital
punishment bill opens, the door for the
escape of these fends, Shaw, Doherty
and Eastwood. Their sentence over
committed or capital punishment abol-
ished they will be kept quiet and snug
in Windsor for year or two and then a
pardon will be worked in their behalf.
Do the people approve of this scheme?
Are they ready TO have this horde
of devilish murderers turned loose
on them? Will they, by their represen-
tatives, vote to override the courts and
all the laws of God and man? May God
and the Legislature forbid