Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-21
LIVE STATE TOPICS.
Political Points of Interest Gathered From
the Local Field.

A Middlebury photographer attempt
ed to anchor an advertising float in the
river and narrowly escaped being car
ried over the dam. The moral is plain
advertise in the newspapers and leave
the landscape alone, Ludlow Tribune.
From the list of Democrats who are
leaders in legislation at the state CAPT
tai we inadvertently omitted last week
one of the best men of the lot, j. f..
Gale of Guilford He is not snowy,
but substantial As chairman of the
revision committee, his painstaking
duties are carefully discharged. Ran
dolph Herald,
Mr.. Gale of Guilford has had bill
before the legislature to compel all
candidates for Office to make "A sworn
statement of their expenses during the
canvass. Theoretically the measure is
all right, but practically ii would not
amount to hill Of beans. \ man who
uses money to debauch an election will
discover some method of covering up
his track afterward. bennington Re-
former.
The Montpelier Argus sees a lively
struggle in the House over the license
bill precipitated by the prohibitionists
who prefer almost anything to the To-
cal option measure. And yet, says
the Argus, THAT is what the members
were sent here to pass and if they fail
to do so they will stir up Vermont poll
ties as they have not been stirred for
half century. The Clement craze of
last summer will be nothing beside it. y
The Democrats in the legislature are
l. ,,1 IL 1T,
every opportunity that presents itself.
The Republican leaders should wake
up to the fact that, although the
strength of their party seems impregna-
BILE it cannot afford to let the Demo
cratic party have all the credit for pro-
posing legislation that sooner or later
the Republicans will have to grant in
order to win at the polls. The narrow
escape from defeat last September was
but the beginning of the end unless a
new policy is adopted. -Swanton Cour-
Ter.
The House has passed the bill rails
ing the state highway tax to 10 cents
and if it passes the Senate, the small
towns are to hold up the large towns
for contributions of more money. 1t is
strange how intelligent men can view
these biennial manifestations Of the
growing spirit of communism here in
Vermont without so much as the wink
of an eye The little towns are in the
saddle, booted and Spurred, and the
big towns must be made TO pay trlb-
ute. And yet there are men who pro
TESS to believe that we are living under
a Republican form Of government here
in Vermont, where u per cent. of the
population has more votes in the max
ing of laws than the other ~ per cent.
st. Adams Messenger.
This duel over the locality Of the
state capitol was fought to the finish
in 1857, after the burning of the sec
ond capitol Hon. George F. Edmunds
was Burlington's repreSentative-wl with
all that this circumstance implies. But
this Roland found his Oliver in J.
Dorr Bradley. and Mr.. Bradley's words
are wholesome for enlightenment and
reflection at this time: II, for one,
do not feel like raising a revenue from
a loan of our institutions, taking n
town in our grasp, as | would take half
a lemon, squeezing it dry and then
throwing away the rind and trying an
other. The capitol was located
at Montpelier as measure of peace 1t
was built up from divided into linn
tied and homogeneous people. Fifty
years of peace have been the product
of this act Of wisdom. Our fathers
in this Mountain, not bow I
ing themselves to the AdirondackS /
across the lake nor to the White Hills .
from st. Johnsbury, but this Noun
tain--the Green Mountain Range and .
| am for go ny down to no Jerusalem .
either on the east or on the west - +
journal.