Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-01
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.

the "ohicial" Vermont democracy, ia
Id voring Olney, Felix with a fragment
re of the Hearst boom artistically con-
"a cealed within his Prince Albert and
John Senter opposing everything on
~ general principles and probably cher
:" ishlng a furtiye plot for Parker. Out
of politics? He couldn't, he simply
couldn't. Felix dear, you know you
-. couldn't.
. Talking Of Felix, I remember time
when telling the plain unvarnished"
II lost Felix an election He controlled q
II paper at that time. Perhaps you re-
member II. II died young, full of scars
and guile. Felix was running for
!, something or other and things were
. coming his way. St Adams is dem
!, ocratic half the time any way and the
. ticket headed by Felix stood to be
a elected easily. Then two men high In |
republican councils gathered in a |
!. crowd of floaters one Sunday and
, treated them-got one OF them good
: and drunk, as a matter of fact He I
: blabbed. Then Felix's paper gave II
to those two officials good and plenty.
, He rubbed 1t in. He poured vitriol
, on the wounds 1t hurt and 1t kept
on hurting Then things began to
/, happen
|
A council of war was called The
two men came down with heavy wads
and said. THAT ---- has got to
be beaten IL 1t takes 10000" Others
saw the raise The pot fattened. 1t
didn't take $4,000 to beat Felix but
1t took enough. And the gang simply !
walked right into his surest ward and !
bought two husky heelers outright,
carrying 1t by small majority
against him, where he had figured on
200 clear gain. That's history and It
goes to show the folly of using truth
too wastefully.
'Taint so much what you put into l
paper as what you leave out that a
really counts. |,
Br. McCuen of the Vergennes En- !,
terprlse reminds me of the earthworm :,
minds possessed by some people who ;,
tried to hurt that paper in old prohib- ',
itory times because saw fit to punch ~
holes in the sham decencies of the old :, -
law. Remember them? I guess / do -
They used to pray for me In church. :,
They would pass solemn resolutions "
condemning the paper and urging
members of their mock heroic unions
to stop taking it. One minister, with
a iIlut 81 billuiiiS llltt II HuTi MIN uI-
der the arms and made his eyes stick >,
out like hooked shepherds, habit "a
ually called me pernicious influence ca
and had the neck to stop his paper -,
sent free In consideration of some al NJ
legged services! No wonder Mac wants H.,
them TO shut their eyes when they ~
come to something in the paper they i,
don't like. Unless he published a pa n
per like the Heavenly Home illustrat- 49,,
cd with pufg nf tho Celestial ritx- nd -
nothing more exalting than ~,
the story of a Sunday school picnic, ''
they're bound to be hurt.
A paper that never hurts any ones
feelings is in a good way to reach the
of an egg that has survived ifle
the earnest intentions of a setting M
hen =, a pp'
liv,
Appearances are deceitful. Who list,
would have believed that two such wit
Mild hammered little fellows as Britt tat
md Young Corbett would put up such sic
vicious and desperate battle Britt mo
S an inoffensive lad. with hair
parted in the middle and
ooks like the ornamental attendant
N soda water fountain. Corbett
ooks like jockey and would appear v
heir fight at San Francisco shows tior
hat mettle they were made OF. 1t the
'as a clean. manly contest of sort tina
nat hurts no one but the losers. in
cen
The
smooth and polite exterior is tim
ometimes associated with an able the,
odied set of working muscles that the
lust not be desplsed. orig
/. turn
vote
wy pio'ilei Sdmysi VI the fidruWlck ed
azetle was niue mean win MS and
e said' pro. Hihoiey says that tne hoot
ermont editors are pretty bright fell ton
inefe are ne" Oh US however prob
at line right close by home" No one tha
IS been posing that 1 know Of tbes
rtainly wasn't throwing any bou- to /,
lets at myself when I told of the that
,ire iun .na. eiiiiVeIeu Things a, ferre
rawser and Parker and few others
most Of the talking. merely ie
aked it up and grinned. So there!
Tn
choo
'oou JOY 'hat mus. young ministers clar
We level heads. It's an old saying man
1T the ordinary man has no chance wise
N
med. Holds good to-day Just as inc
' J, REPEATS user; II most OF US Mass
d the soulful adulation of seven The
men OUT OF Ten IN congregation certa
a couple of hundred the standard bad
Ia. 9iE1' Mouiu nave 10 pe m man
go. hiow young, unmarried ing
. MS sooo-looking, taiented ana candi
,.'s sahe, anu se'eh-tenths OF MS the
'a.e Is, 81 wouIo esteem II they
animated hearth rug in his study hoa RI
has good sense and 1t hasn't "Gs
lied him, but it has driven him to inter.
rriage in self-defence And he dacIa,
t marrying a member of his con- NC
CATION either, the mean thing! fail !
have
is an open question whether some man,
men go to church 70 worshin Cod the I
merely IN odore tho ,oinistar that
malef
nth De Boer and Martin resisting
draft and volunteer enrolment
ted TO Clement and Bell il doesn't
ly look as though the war would Mr..
,unt TO nuch ed in
made
Will
a mans public record is clean is
his personal character tha hind cause
commands respect. what business The
any rat-nosed trouble hunter 10 Bristo
him whether he takes II with or moven
tout sugar?
Ha.
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