Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-11-04
PLAN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
ters in tho Public Eye.
written for the Reformer.)


ters in tho Public Eye.
written for the Reformer)
DR. Webb for governor in 1906! Me-
thinks l see the itchy palmed fixers.
who made the Mccullough campaign
a noisome and monumental page OF
Vermont history bar sinister. roll
gleeful and gloating eyes to Heaven,
rub be-branded paws together
chufiily and say To themselves:
We'll. here's where we get ours!"
Not so sprint like, o cheerful graft
ers restrain that holy ecstasy;
choke down that rising gurgle. Dr.
Webb is wise, far wiser than in 1902.
And you didn't seriously lengthen
his Achilles tendon then. Pm not a
prophets son. nor do faultlessly
predict, but I'm wagering a car-seal
against the "Ellesmere" that any one
who permanently enters the leg
pulling business in 1906 is going TO
get left. Mark the page and turn
over.
My passing acquaintance. George
r. Dudley" Drake. who officiated at
left end in that sad affair at Cam
bridge last Saturday. showed pretty
conclusively that his last year in
Pennsylvania has developed some
thing like championship form. When
bud was at Middlebury. he was the
whole team At his best he was n
marvellously effective pitcher Back
of the line he was fierce tackler and
a grounds gamer whose ability led
MIDI to a victory over u. V. NJ. on
the latter's gridiron In his last year
of Vermont But he was erratc.
Fierce tempered and impatient OF
he would sometimes throw
a game away in sheer disgust. An
error, an end drawn in. failed
tackle. bit of stupid base-running.
and bud was all in the air. Penn dis
cipline has made him a fast, brilliant
end, one of the best of the year. Good
for bud.
Blink McCuen Of the Vergennes
was brakes backstop in
He was about the only
man on the team who cared to ham
die Dud's fast pitching, erratic and
unaccountable as 1t sometimes was.
They used to caH each other hard
names at every practice, quarrel like
housecats and then take their coats
off and fight for each other II occasion
arose. Between them they broke up
athletic relations between Middlebury
and u. " NJ. now about TO be re-
sumed. How II happened Is a long
story, but | could tell n few things
about big. mean college rubbing II
in TO a little neighbor that wouldnt
look we'll in print. Drake has a bad
knee and McCuen has a mark or two
that weren't acquired by accident.
But you ought TO have seen the other
people!
BY the way, McCuen is a sort OF
farmer as well as an editor to-day. !
have no doubt that he grows rev OF
those delicious, juicy apples. known as
the Fameuse variety How, then, do
we account for an article in his pa
per, thanking some one for donation
Of "Faymuth" apples to his printing
force? Lost your front teeth, Blink?
And lust listen to this from Luther
Johnson of Randolph: Poor Hind
Iey Even his benign looks and his
reputation as n poet didn't save MN
from acts of contumely' when he went
to umpire a football game at SPRING
field Instead of bouquets, the over
spectators handed MN
hard words and last seasons vegeta-
bles. He returns thanks through the
columns at his command
but his compliments sound hollow ana
forced How can even an editor be
expected to preserve equanimity when
mis- necktie has a brand new spot pro-
iuced by contact with an overripe
cucumber. and his pants are embossed
with the plastic ecru of mellow APP
ple?" Who said anything about last |
ii Nhn
sound and the beans were good. IL
was only the crowd that was rotten.
The nosing busybody pops up in |
Nutting of Westminster, who wants
a law that will make all publishers
stop their papers when the subscrlp-
ar's time Is out Just what business
It Is of Nutting's what credit arrange
ments you or l make with our sub
scribers I can't see. AS a matter OF
newspaper policy, I suppose 1t would
be money in our pockets If all publish
ers adopted the pay-ahead rule on
IRON clad lines. But such folk as
want a guardian more tnan
they want legislation. The law today |
simply requires a subscriber to hre !
the not-wanted newspaper back into |
the office and say, write or sign-talk |
the word Refused" Then, II tnet
postmaster obeys the rules, and he's
pretty apt to, the poor, abused sub.
scriber won't be pestered with that
filthy sheet again.
But no. Let us be honest. The real |
motive back of such fool measures
s to protect the slop-shouldered, pim-
pay when-I-can, get-it.f.
you're smart enough dead beats that
ike to read a paper three or four |
years after their money has been used
lp. and we'll they know it is, and |
hen. when the publisher tries to get
his pay, stop the paper with the snuf-
ling. whining excuse. Il only ordered
{ for a year" In three cases out OF
.en these things beat a man out or
MS money anyway. And that's the
lind of sick cattle Nutting wants TO
protect. 1 hope he will. Real, earnest,
devoted. personal sewerage of that
character ought to be encouraged.
Newspaper editors are beginning 10
wear collars and ties. Journalism has
become a business. 1t ought to be
stopped. 'Rah for Nutting,
Hennessey LeRoyle made a little
money and had a lot of fun out of the
MOTTO of his most successful play:
There's nothing as good as money;
10 money as good as other peoples"
he might have paraphrased 1t. too,
md said: There's nothing as good as
business; no business as good as 9TH
It peoples"
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