The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-04
"A SQUARE DEAL APOSTLE
Interesting Sketch of Hon. Horace
w. Bailey, Of Newbury, United
States Marshal.

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w. Bailey, Of Newbury, United
States Marshal.
The current Issue of the Brattle-
boro Reformer contains No. 81 of its
sketches of "verdant Mountain Pa
%triots," entitled "a Square Deal
Apostle" and has the following to
say Of Hon. Horace w. Bailey, Of
Newbury, United States Marshal for
the district of Vermont:
Orange county has furnished sew
eral good working models within the
last half century, but she pins her
faith to one in particular and the rest
of Vermont backs her up in her claim
that she has a simon-pure specimen
of the true-blue, square-deal patriot.
Though his business office is at Rut-
land his heart is at home-in old
Newbury. He will be So years old
January 16, and while he looks the
part he doesn't act any older. Like
many other Orange county patriots,
he got into politics but his game
has always been a square one and to-
day he has a soft thing with the fed
eral government that he can keep
as long as Taft has a look-in at
Washington.
Uncle" Horace is an optimist clear
to the bone. No nan ever saw his
brow ever decorated with a frown.
Even when the surgeons decided to
relieve him of one of his feet and a
section of a leg Horace didn't see
the necessity of his friends sending
bouquets before the administration of
the ether. Horace suggested that
there was no reason to play him as
a candidate for a funeral. He asked
that instead of posies his friends
buy cigars. He didn't succumb to
the skill Of the nan with the hack
saw. His habits have always been
such as go with the building of a
rugged constitution. He looks like a
humorist and Is, when occasion Of
fers. He has one fad-Vermont his
tory. Horace can floor the ordiaary
student of Vermont history with the
first five questions He doesn't make
any noise ahaGt it, but he knows as
much. N not more, Of the history OF
Vermont as any other individual, or
two Of them, in the State.
Horace Ward .Bailey's counsel may
be relied upon. He ought to have
been a lawyer for he has a judicial
mind. "Hod" will listen to a tenta-
tive political frame-up and hand out
an opinion that will prove good ev-
cry time. He hasn't any enemies nor
a wife. Though Horace doesn't drum
on his desk and hum There's Only
One Girl in This World For Me, he's
got a sweetheart. Some day when
Horace settles down on the old farm
in Orange county and adopts a couple
Of wide-awake kids the press asso-
citation will give him a surprise par
ty. Horace will never reach the age
limit where he can't prove interest
ing to his friends.
Though his job of United States
Marshal brings him against some OF
the sad things, Horace smoothes out
the wrinkles and more than one UNI
fortunate has had his burden mate
rally lightened by listening to Bal.
ley's philosophy. Though the news
papers have done their part in ex-
plotting Horace Bailey, the mans
own works are his best press agent
Bailey's philosophy is simple. Be
square. Two words cover it. Horace
Bailey never went back on a man and
men don't go back on him. Barring
Senator Page and Ex-Governor Proc
tor, Horace has, probably, a wider
circle Of acquaintance in Vermont
than any other man. The women
folks admire Horace. He would lei
them vote. When the Suffragettes are
permitted to use a ballot in Vermont
they will vote Bailey into some posi-
ton of honor. Horace loves Yer
mont and children. He keeps a
scrapbook and mighty little happens
in Vermont that Horace doesn't clip
and paste into it. Once in a while he
does a little writing stunt in which
he bares his love for Vermont. He
looks like a comedian, but he is a
Methodist.
In 1902, when the thirsty ones
were fighting to put a crimp into the
prohibition law, Horace, as a men,
Der of the Committee of Fifteen, was
the rubber heel that acted as the Of
fetal shock absorber when the drys
and vets attempted a hit in a clinch.
After that session Horace's fame
spread. When a few years afterward
a bunch of Cinnamon hit the gravel
while their escorts back was turned,
1t became necessary to provide an
other escort. "Hod" was chosen and
to date no kick has been registered.
Some men may carry around more
than a normal supply of brains, but
few possess a heart larger than "Un-
Gle" Horace's. Bailey's blood is red
1t is Of a consistency that buys a
hungry man a Mate Of bpans and a