News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
QUAKER CITY QulRKS.

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QUAKER CITY QUlRKS.
It's a trife behind the times per-
haps but my first impulse, now that
I'm facing the possibility of inflicting
further torture by way OF another
letter, is to congratulate the people
of Vermont and express my very |
pleasant satisfaction in connection
with the decision and wise outcome
of an unusual, yes, unheard of politi-
cal campaign. 1t is satisfaction to
know that the better sense and wiser
Judgment as to what Is best for the
community has transpired in the
state of Vermont, and in that best
portion of it, my native town, Nor
ristown, and with the latter in mind,
am reminded to say that after an
absence of nearly four years it was
gratifying to find that Morrisvile is
fairer than ever, a fact that my re-
cent visit disclosed. She grows
young and handsome with age and
the local business life and prospects
with all the people are surely i'm
proved and developing. The same
can be said of Lamoille county in
general, believe. This will be main
tanned by giving hearty and gener-
GUS support to your exceptionally
good schools, the churches, and en-
couraging and fostering all legiti-
mate business undertakings, but can
not, now, or in all time to come, be
enhanced by introducing the saloon.
In Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia
particularly, the political campaign
is at white heat as the election Of
governor, congressman, legislators,
etc, draws near. Hon. Robert Pat
tison, who in former years has served
two terms as governor, a Democrat
elected with the assistance of Repub-
lcan votes, is making a hard fight
for renewal of polite il recognition.
Personally he is as clean a man as
lives in, the Keystone state, but from
becoming tainted with Bryanism in
the last Presidential campaign, he
will not so easily have support from
Republicans who have heretofore
found it easy to support him because
of his personal worth and character.
The success of the Republican ring
under Senator Quay seems assured,
and his personally named candidate,
Judge Pennypacker of this city, is
quite sure to be the next governor.
A few evenings since | had the pleas
of listening to Secretary Shaw at a
Republican mass meeting in the
Academy of Music. Hon. John ID.
Converse, the head of the great Bald
win Locomotive Works, a native
Vermonter, presided, the other
speakers being Judge Pennypacker
the nominee, and Attorney General
Elkins, who very much wanted to be
the nominee for Governor, but who
at Qlay's dictation, had to step
aside. He is temporarially reconciled
but not downed and in all his
speeches on the stump fails not in
letting it be known that the time is
to come when he will take up the
fight to surrender to no man short
of the will of the people as expressed
in the ballot.
But vastly more important anC
overshadowing everything else in in
7, terest and serious consideration has
) been the question of fuel for the pres
emit demand alone, say nothing o
that almost stegnating tear anC
+ trembling that has been gripping al
: classes and conditions OF people al
4 they looked forward to the winter tC
, come Philadelphia, New York anC
r Washington, and more especially the
+ former, have been the centers of &C
e tivity and anxiety in this connection
and many a conference has been helC
3 here pro and con. The calling ou
; of the entire National Guard of thiI
:. state, about ten thousand men, hal
very materially depleted the ranks o
= the clerks, students and young bust
8 ness men of this city and given 1
> keener interest in "Whats doing a
the 'front.'" 1t is not hard to see tina
y the general sympathies OF the peopl
y have been with the miners, minus tn
t acts of violence, which, under all tn
J. aggravating circumstances have beel
. remarkably few.
!. 1t seems to be granted that tn
right that capital seems to have tt
/ combine and organize is not cleare
than the possible rights of lik
n nature that labor naturally desire
i With little or no wood to fall bac
n on the condition has been serious in