Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-05-13
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat.
tiers in the Public Eye.

written for the Reformer)
Says stiles, the orbieular owner OF
the Springfield Reporter: THE George
AIDE of Vermont journalism" that's
me-"has given the lie to DoOley OF
Essex Junction" that's Hays-"and
a mill win be pulled off at Montpelier
In June before the third house May
we be there to see.' Come along,
Frank. Wen make you bottle-holder'
There is no Disgusting the fact that
the old prohibitionist spirit, the
same intolerant, blgoted cult that
called all local optionists tine rum
element" and all license advocates
"boozers" is pricking up its ears and
erecting a belligerent name and tail
! in expectation of an attempt to repeal
I the present law in Montpelier this
year. All the demands of the repub-
! lican party leaders for harmony all
the Importance of Vermonts vote in
| its effect on the national field cut no
| figure with them. II they get q
chance they win make trouble that's
/ hat.
A great deal of the Stanton backing
Is made up of these people The Hon,
Zed waited till the March reaction
and then announced, in his semi-an-
nual public utterance, Il am a PROFIT
bitionist," Immediately seeking re-
trement again. With governor
favorable to repeal, with a small army
of small towns sending up repeal rep
resentatives. the prohibitionists may
well think things are coming their
way. How familiar a situation this
is to those who have studied repub-
lican politics for the past ten years
or SOL
The republican party made state
prohibition party matter and
party measure about fifty years ago.
They kept IL on the statute books
long after it became a dead letter,
They used IL as a campaign weapon
for years. II would be there yet---a
pet of the party--if the party hadn't
been hammered into sense Of be-
ing over-ridden lengthwise by a long
and heavy freight-train!
we have the prohibitory law to
get back again, oh Lord. Help us
with Thy power. we entreat Thee,
was the public prayer Of dear old
man of my acquaintance the other
day. and he thought he was pray
ing for something really good. too.
Or. j. A. Mead, the amlable manu-
faCturer. whose Rutland county
friends have almost dubbed him into
a candidacy for lieutenant governor
let him tell it-has opened headquar-
ters in the Marble city, where he and /
his henchmen will do the glad hand /
act until convention. Judge Merrill I,
the Clement martyr, is also enjoying 1
good health and has opened a talk I
a oh 70 EFshn la Ep
friends win plot conspiracies. against |
Dr. Mead's peace of mind. The judge ,
is a rafting good fellow and here's /
hoping he will make the doctor take /
his own political medicine
Fortune Is always waiting around /
the corner for some men. but she gem
orally has a club in one hand and .
4 basket in the other-to gather up
The remains
Some men think they have missed
their calling. Too bad we can't learn
what the feelings of the calling are.
'eloped a practical good roads scheme
hat ought to work. because it's
BASED on business principles. The
dea, in brief, is to bond the state for
100 miles of trunk roads, then pay
he interest and redeem the bonds
With the highway tax, states share of
license fees and an additional 3 per
ent tax. This would give us all the
rood roads Immediately. paying for
hem by degrees. Now If Fuller and
,. w. Clement can get together and
educe state expenses enough TO save
hree per cent. tax, they would have
practical good roads platform that /
would amount to something. I
A combination of hard fighter and
PRACTICAL horse sense for detail is !,
What makes big men today ,
Captain Woodbury. of Burlington's
ontingent of the Vermont national
uard gave his men a test on Sunday y
morning by sending out an emer- e
ency call. He wanted to see how c
Many of them meant business by en- h
sting and how many wanted to 9
'ear uniform and march in parades !,
D display their manly forms. About :
per cent. of them turned out,
tucked into uniform, took their five a
ounds of cartridges and waited ord q
rs. And report says they didn't ask 4
either But the captain
robably won't make the experiment
ltSuittl ltilult u MS ulSCIplllle.
When an uncertain experiment
rms out well it's generally a good
Ian to omit trying it again. =
Bell and Higbee might be called u
lie agricultural team Stanton and d
learns the old regulars, De Boer and I
allard the inconocldsts. while b
lement and Agan will probably be h
lere without calling h.
And so win we all, if we can get q
lere :,
Yours expectantly, ),
II. l.. Hindiey. ~