Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-14
POLITICAL DISCUSSION
OF VERMONT MATTERS BY VARIOUS
STATE NEWSPAPERS.
What Editors Throughout the State Are Say
ing in Regard to Current Political Events
Interesting Points From Many Pens.

Interesting Points From Many Pens
1t is fact not generally known tina
| the first start towards legislation t(
protect the dairy interests against oleo
made, colored and sold as butter was
at meeting of the White River Valley
| Pomona grange. Some of those who
drafted the first petition to congress
are still living in Royalton. Morris
vile Messenger.
There are those who argue IN favor
of Gen. Mccullough for governor be
cause he is older than DIR. Webb and
-more experienced. Some of these
same fellows were yelling for Gov.
Stickney two years ago because he was
young and innocent. Consistency is
not one of the political jewels. st.
Johnsbury Republican.
No well-informed editor, with "a par
ticle of judgment, ever criticised Au-
ditor Barber for his action in this mat
ter. He did just right. He interrupted
the law as it read, and just as it is his
duty to interpret all acts. A pretty
mess we should be in if the auditor
carrying appropriation of state funds,
in opposition to their plain reading =
Randolph Herald and News.
General Mccullough voted against
the two-cent mileage law afterwards
declared to be illegal by Judge Wheel
err, but. as president of the Bennington
and Rutland, voluntarily inaugurated
two-cent mileage, good to bearer, years
before 1898. This is the sum and sub
stance of the mileage business. which.
after all is a pretty heavily diluted
species of campaign argument. Yer
gennes Vermonter.
The Wilmington Times does not like
O. M. Barber and says Have the
brethren forgotten the brilliant way in
which they We're done out of from
$50 to 100 each two years ago, on the
law supplement deal in plain violation
of the intent of the legislature which
passed the law o. NJ. Barber simply
did his duty. The law said pay 30
cents per 100 copies, not 81. 80. The
to do with the case All honor to Bar.
Der because he did his duty in this
and every other case and simply au-
dited strictly according to law Nor
risville Messenger.
But few years ago it was discov-
cred that many of the governors and
other officials had been using public
funds for paying private bills, and buy
ing pictures of themselves for the walls
of their offices. These bills had been
passed and allowed by the auditor. 1t is
quite likely that our next governor will
need to be under the surveillance of a
good and fearless auditor. No better
man can be found for this position
than Horace W Bailey of Newbury.
Under his administration there would
not be many such leaks in the public
treasury. Jericho Press.
Two of our representatives in Con
gress have recently made their maiden
speeches. These men, who now repre-
sent Vermont, are ably unfolding the
prestige gained by former Vermont
Our congressional tim
per, as a whole, has been of superior
quality, from Stephen r. Bradley and
Moses Robinson our first senators,
down through a long line of distin-
yuished names to the present. With .
Dne exception the Vermont men now in .
congress, are all comparatively untried .
II this larger field but even now they
IRE eyincing signs of what may be eX-
Dected of them in the future. What I
,ver success each one of them may at /
ain. will only add to the reinsurance /
If Nermonters that they did we'll in
them. Barre Times.
The announcement made by Hon. O.
VI. Barber, state auditor, that he is
Tot a candidate for re election carried
With it regrets from all quarters.
There, too, were outspoken words of
badness. All through Bar
,er's term of Office he has been audit
ng as no previous auditor for years
udited and at the same time has been
dding to his enemy list! 1t should
re understood that he did not arrive
t the decision to not try again. be-
ause of his enemies. Barber is not
instructed of fragile material. He
as proven himself a good fighter,
lade a good auditor-may his success
or be as good and now that he wants
D make a county citizen governor is
'illing to sacrifice a little of his own
olitical prestige. Barber will tell you ;
G is on the winning side of the GU
campaign but maybe this
) Barber's year for disappointed
opes Huntington Clipper.
Jack" Harris objects to calling {
Congressman Haskins' now famous
oeech on the oleo bill maiden. "
[e doesn t like the word, las applied !
, the colonel's red-hot and rousing, J
BOD talk in behalf of the measure, i
nd thus discourses in his Washington !
g Maiden sounds
10 much like a school exhibition and t
,ive-me- three grainsof corn mother
: curfew shall not-ring-t tonight. I'm :
CINE the bluff old colonel with a I
lumb in each pants pocket, his hair 1
ewly shingled by Maren and eyeballs o
lied upward, reciting Bingen on the /
hine' like a secondhand photograph {
ont talk any more about maiden !
,eeches, but say that Nermont's pol T
he'd, dignified and eloquent represen-
tive-the elder one-made at least 4
lie of the most logical, forceful and i
nvincing speeches heard in the T
ouse thus far this session. Then i
'u'll be right. Vermont Journal. i
Henry III. Faxon of Massachusetts t,
VS., in the Vermont Issue, the Anti "
lloon league organ, about spoilers: !,
When you 90 fishing for the devil NJ
III need not be too particular about p
e net you use, if you only catch him: Il
I'd so when | started under instruc- o,
1ns from the voters of Quincy, | set Y
trap for the INSCRIPTIONS rumsellers. "
S principal agents. 1 took the one r
lich / deemed to be the one best NJ
apted for the purpose. 1t was the c,
liversal sentiment of those who N
ard the employed when they testi- III