Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-18
LIVE STATE TOPICS.
Note and Comment About Men and Matters in
Vermont.

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Vermont.
Secretary Shaw chooses Vermont for
his vacation. Sensible man Boston
Globe.
Another find of gold in Vermont.
Gold mining always attracts men who
are distinguished for lack of sympathy
with prohibition Vermont writhes
with fresh apprehension. Brooklyn
Eagle.
DR.. W. Seward Webb has just an
nounced an increase of from SO to S2J
ployes on his railroad. He is the man
who ought to be Vermont's next gov
ernor. Barre Telegram.
OF course, if Mr.. Clement should
happen to be elected governor of Yer
mont, his little plan to run as a boiler
will be all right. But in the not i'm
probable case of a defeat-where is his
party standing en?-Concord Mont
| tor.
BY running on an independent ticket,
Clement hopes to prevent an election on
a popular vote. thus making it neceS-
sary for the legislature to elect. This
is not a popular method of doing bust
ness in this state. st Johnsbury Re-
publican
The Montpelier Argus insinuates that
there would be many newspapers in
Vermont supporting Clement if the ed
itors We're to speak their personal opin-
ions. This is probably true, but in
these modern times newspapers are not
individuals. Barre Telegram.
So after all Percy is going to hike
for the governorship "Whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad is
the way some long since dead gentle
man expressed himself if our memory
serves us right. Percy has reached the
mad stage o. k. -Hardwick Gazette,
What glorious Old Home week Yer
mont might have if she will spend the
$3.50, 600 that comes to her from the gov
eminent for civil war claims But there
are skilled grafters in Office holding in
the state who, unless | miss my guess.
will make that $3.50, 600 look like a case
of typhoid Huntington Clipper.
\ number of more influential state
newspapers, including several that have
persistently opposed prohi ,ition, Join
in the demand that instead of high
license, local option system, with its
legallzcd saloon, the state shall adopt
"A more restrictive liquor policy, to be
controlled by the state itself. The
nearer the debauching and demoraliZ-
ing saloon approaches, the less invit-
ing it appears. Randolph Herald and
News.
The Tribune is not license paper in
so far as desiring to see licensed sa-
looms in its own town. 1t simply be-
lieves in the right of each town to gov
ern IN its local affairs, and in the abb
solute failure of prohibition as a state
law to decrease intemperance. We
should like 10 see the next general as
sembly agree upon good local option
bill providing for licensed saloons and
"A good local option bill providing for
state dispensaries, and both bills sub /
mitted to the people. Ludlow Trib- |
une.
We do not believe that Grand old .
party" of the state of Vermont will be |
hoodooed by this movement or in any
Republicanism in Vermont [
is founded upon rock bottom and is /
rock ribbed and nowhere in all the /
CHlttu states uit bupSt W NJ iOlION llS J.
more loyal to the party it
represents than here The regular
ticket, headed by that grand and intel
igent man, General Mccullough, will
De elected in spite of any movement /
hat Mr.. Clement may make News
md Citizen
John Shannon of Rutland, has been
rrested 10 times for intoxication and
lie has lived all his life in a town where
he law says that no person shall sell, !
or give away spirituous or
nalt liquors The facts in the case are
hat he has lived in state where he
ould step in anywhere and buy a quart
t poor whiskey and after he gets out
ide the building thrown it all down :
is thirsty gullet with the result that 4
e has got bowling drunk every time
hat he has been able to raise the {
honey to buy the liquor. One of the a
uestions to be considered at this time, c
lille Vermont is stirred up over the
object of a change in the prohibitory t
wv, is whether license law permit
ng saloons to sell liquor only by the r
lass and making a stringent regula- b
on in regard to selling to habitual b
CT to men under the in T
uence of liquor. would better the d
oral condition of the community so
r as men of the Shannon class are d
Dncerned Barre Telegram. -