Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-10-27
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

The closing period of Speaker Can
mons occupancy of the position of
Gear" of the House promises to
have clouds enough at least to give
him picturesque sunset. Huntington
Free Press.
Two or three newspapers which al
ways see the machines" in every
thing in State politics, are beginning
to insinuate that Charles w. Gates
popularity is caused by the "organiza.
tion," whatever that is. If a man
who is not popular aspires to public
Office, it is the machine" which is
promoting his interests. If a man
has large acquaintance and real
following, then it is the machine"
that made it. Silly? Well. some
Mortified News.
In looking over TIE political field
certain facts are so patent that blind
indeed be the man who will not see.
That DR.. Mead is now and will pl OBJ
ably continue to be the leading candi-
date is owing to circumstances for
which others than himself and his
friends are in large degree RESPONSE
BILE. Outside of such personal. popu-
larlty and worth as are his, there are
I forces that make in his favor and
taken all together we doubt If any
combination can overcome them.
When in 1908 it was proposed to pro.
mote the then Lieutenant-Gover
men who had never faltered in their
loyalty to the party protested, but in
vain. Without intending to reflect at
all upon the integrity or ability of
4 Governor Prouty, they feared that his
promotion at that time would ulti-
mately prove embarrassing to the
party and might result in changing it's
aggressive position to one of eXpla-
nation and apology. AS to whether
their fears were we'll grounded or not
let the record speak.
The Moving Finger writes; and,
having writ
Moves on; nor all your pity nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half line
Nor all your tears wash out word
of it,
His nomination was loyalty support
ed, not, however, without many a
vow OF vengeance. 1T so happens that
among those feeling thus were men
who under ordinary circumstances
would oppose DR.. Mead, but they see
|
crafty the spirit thus engenderec
, and are naturally not slow in embrac.
ing it. Criticise as we may the ethics
of their motives, yet the fact, cole
and instructive remains, and the votes
t and influence of those men count
. Hence the paradox of mans politi
! cal and personal enemies rendering
l him loyal support. So it is Meae
8 against the field, and like little chill
8 dren frightened in the night by thu
y DOGGY Man" his opponents are rush
ing hither and yon for q candidate
against him. Mead's "barrel" seem
to haunt their fevered dreams. al
!. though, save in the vivid Imagination
of some who mistake vituperation 70
! argument, there is not the slightes
J. evidence proposed that anybody ha
Il been offered even a taste of its cor
;. tents. Springfield Reporter.
j. If some commonplace fellow withor
money, trundling wheelbarrow alon
:, the sidewalks, propels the thing S
~ carelessly as to injure passers By
e. more especially if it be observable thu
q his conduct with the wheelbarrow
49, positively reckless and out of all re;
- son and care, he will therefore (
M hailed before magistrate. and mac
tie to serve term in prison. And the puI
n lie will say, Good enough for him.
: If somebody else propels fort
u horsepower automobile in the san
at reckless manner along the publ
as highway and does injury to man
We beast, all he has to do is to pay
l., small fine before some justice of tt
~ peace, laugh the court in the fac
X draw on his gauntlets, crank and G
ch under way again.
if There is distinction in the penf
- ty here and in the way the world r
~ CARDS it that is not borne out by Il
WIS nature of the two offenses. So far
W. the average man can Judge these m
tal have both done what amounts to Il
same thing and both should stuff
alike. But somehow there is to be
ng difference between the wheelbarrt
sly trundler's gross breach of the pea
=. and the autoist's carelessness and
~ discretion, and fat purse can at
on. buy at an Americn bar of Justice !
&C. munity from that poverty canr
~; escape.
It is wrong to begin with to ha
ION alternative sentences so adjusted IL
te. one man has to go TO jail because