Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-13
POLITICS AND
SUMMER BOARDERS
Vermont Has a Tip about Tourists and
the Granite state about po,,s,c..

the Granite state about y,o,,sic.
Winston Churchill has offered New
Hampshire TO Secretary Taft Accom-
panied by a first citizen second citizen
and third citizen to give the voice of
New Hampshire at leas, the volume of
the shouting OF stage mob. Mr.
Churchill went TO Boston when Secretary
Taft was there a short time ago and
oflcred him the vote OF New HAMPSHIRE.
Whcrcat ex-senator Bill Chandler RACES
both at Taft and Churchill
While Mr. Churchill has made the com
mon error OF installing a part for the
whole and with sublime and admirable
faith in himself believes that the other
415so7 citizens of the Granite state will
do AS he listeth, it is true that he pos
scsscs influence in New Hampshire. The
state does everything in its power to at
tract summer boardcrs." as the natives
call the summer visitors who look over
and around the natives at the lovely
scenery which the presence of the ma
tives seems to mar for the visitors.
In Vermont tho stiT-nccked population
hates to take a tip and hates the summer
hoardcr and snubs him. stopping on the
border of whitecapping him, that is about
all-willing to be poor If they can remain
independent Tho old colonial habit of
shooting New Workers still stirs in the
blood of Ncrmonters. In New Hamp-
shire nearly everything is subordinated
to the purpose of getting people to visit
the State. From popular complaisance
to the very laws everything is designed
to please the summer boarder
The small remnant of the farming
population may not shoot tho deer that
eat up the meaGcr crops which are still
attempted to be raised. but tho outsider
may shoot both deer and farmers, too
Only the fact that farmers do not make
good rugs and hatracks saves this once
numerous and sturdy yeomanry from OK
tinction. In no other State does the out
slider have more rights your land
than YOU have. As in old merry England,
whore the fox hunters rode down the
grain. with a view haloo the naughty
Eostonian tramples through your 20
square rods of beans or such like extern
sive acrcage-or rather rodage-of buck
wheat pumpkins and squaw corn and
tho farmer cannot say him nay.
New Hampshire does all it can to make
the sumner boa rider pleased and so in
duce him to come again. BY a happy
stroke of advertising enterprise in the
line of showing what summer boa rider
might expect. large part of I citizens
tried to nominate a summer boarder for
governor. But with Bostonian who
owns a summer hotel the choice of a
slightly larger number, the state COM
promised and selected one Of its own
citizens. Churchill of st. Louis and
Grecncaf of Boston were dropped for
Floyd OF Manchester.
In a postscript to The Crisis Mr.
Churchill says st Louis is my home"
New Hampshire law requires that a
years before he can qualify as COVER
nor. But laws are operative only against
the natives and. despite his legal ineigi-
bilty. Churchill ran for the nomination.
Already a colonel on the governors staff
he aspired to be the dispenser Of colonel.
cies and came near landing IT, He doesn't
80 away winters, now-that is, all win
ter. He is trying to be considered per-
manent resident thereby foolIshly throw
ing away his chief leverage; for as soon
as the canny State finds out that it
actually owns him, that it actually has
got him, it will hold out the governor
ship as glittering lure TO attract yet
OtneT summer DOdTuPrS VINO SDHNO money
and pay taxes as literally as Colonel
Churchill.
So. though the news columns and. even
moro, the bookreview columns of the
daily press have announced that Colonel
Churchill is going to deliver New Hamp-
shire to Judge Taft. that does not prove
it is going to be delivered, or that if so
delivered some one else may not be the
ono who delivers it, For Colonel
Churchill has fatuously sacrificed his pull
by making it plain that he is or intends
to be sure enough resident. Thus he
may become just as unmportant politi-
cally as the men estopped from prom
inence by New Hampshire ancestry
leading back Of the revolution.
He will yet behold some more recent
summer boarder delivering the vote of
the walters in the summer hotels. the
folks who drive teams for the sum-
mer hotels and the remaining segment OF
the population engaged in raising eggs
and green peas for the summer hotels
Were the colonel well advised he would
so away for two years and then tome
back.
In the meantime. absolutely TO cinch
New Hampshire, Judge Taft would bet
ter put in month in the State and head
his own delegation at Chicago.