Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-06-24
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE,
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.

/ ttTb W tic IfNs
(Wrltten for the Reformer)
Mn friend and erstwhlle counselor
IL. D. Harris, has returned from the
maddening swirl of Washington eX-
istence To a cool. sequestered HE IN
/ Danyllle. this state, John has Wild
and fevered notion that he can farm
worse still, he tries To carry the no
4 ton into practical effect. Result;
Some paragraph like the following;
Just now am trying To inoculate po-
tato- bugs with the germ of the foot
and mouth disease and am waiting
the outcome with bated breath Just
imagine a man like that supporting
Farmer Candidate Bell
And here's Clarence Il. Sawyer the
angel of the Hardwick Gazette,
retorting holly upon my challenge to
the avy-weight editors. He says
Train down, Hindley, and give some
of us pound fellows a chance nj
YOU" In the words of the immortal
James J. Corbett, another Good old
Has been, Go and get a reputation"
!
The Vermont Musical Festival is
over. As usual, it was decidedly the
most stupendous, marvel-making, adj
| jective- coming event that ever stupe-
fled Vermont with a great and speech
less awe, If We can believe Willie X.
Chapman. Prize Jollier, Director and
Personal Press Agent. Chapman was
always a source Of joy to me. He can
direct chorus quite little, knows
good music and has "A string on some
good performers, but his great spec
ialty is making a choral union believe
that Gounod, Bizet and Verdi existed
specially for writing good music to
display the superhuman abilities OF
that particular choral union! The iit-
tie man is really a remarkable organi-
ger and as a purloiner of free adver-
Using from the newspapers he can
give Col. Charles Spooner Forbes High,
Low, Jack and the Game
As matter of fact Vermont is not
really a musical state and a man
who succeeds in producing such works
as the Requiem Mass and Carmen is
to be congratulated If he is a Prize
,Tollier. He has to be one; it's part of
the game. About six Nermonters IN
ten have a sneaking preference for
The Wizard of on or Hi Henrys min
strels. il the truth were told, but the
fact that so many of them paid their
hard maZuma to hear Madame Schu-
mann Heink and Carmen shows that
good music has still a certain hold on
the public--limited.
St. Adams and Plattsburg are froth-
ing at the mouth already over the
opening ball game. John Thompson
insinuates that President White of
Plattsburg has money up and has fixed /
the umpire. and Mr.. White says John |
is a lamb dyer but that Plattsburg !
will cover Az the st. Adams money /
in sight And John merely remarks: I
Bring on your $1,000, beauties
'Tis well.
There is nolonger any question about 1
the fact that Bell will have the most I
pledged delegates In the state conven- /
ton. What friends he has-and they 1
are plenty-mean business, and there /
won't be much trading with them. The /
stanton strength will be Insignificant !
when compared with the UNI 4
pledged section, and that by I
the way is confidently claimed
by the DeBoer managers. With .
Barre, burlington and Montpelier as
q nucleus, there is strong possibility
of the eleventh hour-dea that does
the business, and, with Stearns and
Mead as strong in their respective
districts as they are, to say nothing Of
Ballard, the chances for shrewd
dicker are good.
Picking n winner isn't so easy.
am certain that DeBoer will accept
if nominated, but his name won't be
presented till his friends know where
they are at. In other words, If the
unpledged section refuses to enthuse
over the Montpelier man, he won't
come before the delegates at all, In
which case Bell is an easy winner. In .
brief. If DeBoer's name is presented,
he wins; otherwise BeH-and first
class man, too.
K
l have received a heavily marked
copy of the Rutland Herald, contain
ing letter from Chairman Pease of
the republican city committee, in {
which he plaintively complains that
mis- earnest endeavors to be fair in the
,ygone caucus crisis have simply
resulted in continued abuse from the
friends of one man, who couldn't
win. If Mr.. Pease can calmly look !
hose check lists in the face and hold :
I'D a hand of injured innocence, then
only wish | had his nerve; I'd use 1t
o capture Feng- WangChe and
nave enough left to keep the Boston
Americans from winning the pennant
again! =.
Lewis Strawser, who gets out the
Times whenever he has {
ime. has been tempted. Some wicked ]
yhiskey firm has been trying to |
rade booze for advertising space and [
lewis says if they don't stop, more
vermont papers will come out for pro-
libition One firm even wanted him
o sell the stuff to his friends for cash,
which would be "a quick way to get
id of your advertising space" Lewis
flows. however, that he would prob
Lblv have a chance to contribute about S
1924 to the highway fund If he fol- o
owed the advice. Incorruptibie Straw il
er Il
our esteemed and philosophical c
riend Battell of Middlebury is BOOM
ng the political fortunes of eX-gov-
rnor Stewart for the very plain and =
,bvious reason that Stewart. favors .
tate control of the liquor business, I
,riefly a modified form of the marvel