Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-05

deficit: neither did Mr.. Roosevelt
clutch out despairing hair In handouts
when the self-same sun caressed him
with daily columns of spiteful abuse
all the more cutting for being worded
with that devilish cleverHess of the
Suns school.
Newspapers have killed many
promising political career by silly
praise but men and things worth
while ask only that they tell the fact.
What a joke 1t would be If all the
practical politicians In Vermont took
them run things.
Ny friend McCuen Of the Vergennes
Enterprise has set the young repub
leans a swift pace by organizing the
first republican league In Vermont.
Bob" takes 10 politics as naturally
as to athletics. He was a first class
catcher. a fair batter and a good man
back of the line. Now If he helps
Col Thad by bucking the line and
banging out few base hits In Addi-
son county politics he may exemplify
again the fact that successful ath-
lete generally gets there in other lines.
An associate of my amateur min
strel days, George L. Hasseltine Of
Bristol. has written the music for a
song The Green Hills OF Vermont |
Love so We'll of which Mary Cnursey
Is the librettist. The song Is all right
ana viii be liked by those who know
good sentiment and appreciate a
mneful lay. II isn't a rag-time or an
Indian characteristic, but It's good,
wholesome stun that everyone ought
to buy and sing.
Speaking Of George reminds me OF
time when we needed George badly
and he filed the bill The pianist
who had rehearsed our minstrel show
ducked out al the last minute and we
called on George. There was }ous
medley overture, eight or ten songs
and lot Of incidental music. 1 put
In about two hours with George NJ |
the piano one afternoon, then he
handed the scores back and said AN |
right He played the rehearsal that I
night, played the show three nights, /
and, as far MS | know. never saw those /
scores again! Good man? Rather.
Platforms and pledges to the con-
trary Notwithstanding the armadillo I
wing of the republican party has re- |
tired within its ossified armor- balt /
and Is thinking great and holy |
thoughts. The outcroppings appear In /
such papers as the St Johnsbury Re- |
publican and Barre Telegram and In /
the miasmic mutterings of men like /
j. r. Darling. The state control idea,
whereby these foreshortened special 4
lists in public morality may success
fully cut off the beer supply in Bur-
lington, Brattleboro and Montpelier.
appeals to them irreslsitiby. Wher- /
ever they can ring in some historic
PAGER from the water
wagon stables point out his white
star and get him into trotting hopples
they viii enter him In the represent
tative race, back him to the limit and /
win out if they can.
A few such innocent sporting prop 4
ositions. multiplied by 300, mean I
prohibtory legislature and a lot Of 4
with the local option law
Party pledged to non-repeal? What I
of it? A coterie of those wind swept Il
growers. intent ON hedge
hog boll-weevil and bull-pout legis-
lation blocked caucus reform two 4
years ago. They'll block everything 4
useful and constructive this year II
they're allowed to incubate this state
control bacillus. Pledge every candi-
date to stand pat and then follow {
him UP with a Big Stick,
A traitor has been discovered by +
the leaky mouthed vitu-
of the Rutland county mar
BILE workers strike. Had TO have
to explain the certain fall
lre of that silly and criminally mis-
guided movement. | say criminaily, /
for a leader who ties up all the small
concerns in an industry for the pur-
pose of injuring an impregnable bust /
less like Proctors is criminal-and !
4 futile one at that
| don't say Proctor doesn't deserve
10 be tied up. but the folly and out
age of making the Columbian. Fow- I
er and other companies stand for /
Proctors sins is something that only
can explain. If he had q
1uietly organized Proctor's men and
led up the business, | should say !
Good mani" But to call out every
me else and then depend on the !
iirty boycott to get back" at Proc
or is like sandbagging a lot of neu-
rails and then trying to intimidate )
he enemy with their bodies.
a
| hope Fitzgerald will put the fear e
If the Lord into Proctor. but / wish t
he Lord had given Fitzgerald good il
tense in the go-in a
Prodigious Porthos, vaulting the a
hasm. isn't marker to the Rutland :
Jews. trying to leap over the menace r
# the marble workers strike. Y
Yours admiringly, n
II. L. Hindley. :,