Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-10
Orleans County Politics.

the facts, or having word to say II i
such things are really rulable. and coun- =
ty delegates can tolerate and vote for 9
these late town candidates for office on :
the same basis as those voted for by .
the people at the town caucuses. then ,
caucuses are of but little account. A
candidate chosen by them by an almost
unanimous vote might be completely
cleaned out by one of these late corners
if so be it the delegates inclined that
way This seemed to be the game IN
this last convention. To be sure the
delegates nipped the flower in the bud,
and by large majority vote: but that
their presence at such late hour, and
under such peculiar circumstances
could be tolerated enough even to
demand a vote, simply leads one to
think and to think hard. Express and
Standard.
Infantile Paralysis.
Twenty percent of the eighty odd
cases of infantile paralysis in Spring
| field, Mass. have proved fatal. Of
those children that have survived so
per cent will either be crippled for
life or will suffer impaired brain
structure. The state and local boards
of health are impressing upon all
physicians the heavy penalties which
will follow failure to report cases at
once, and are urging on the public
precautions lest the disease spread
because of failure to establish quaran-
tine and failure to isolate children
which have been exposed to infection.
Picnlcs, excursions, theaters. Sunday
schools, Fairgrounds are all under a
han. Outbreaks are reported IN
several other cities of the country, and
the authorities in Washington have
announced that they will undertake an
investigation into the cause of the
disease and means for its treatment
and prevention. Although infantile
, paralysis (anterior poliomy has
been known and its peculiar charac,
teristics recognized for at least 30
years, practically nothing is known
of its origin, nor has any effective
! treatment been discovered, although
it is said that some complete cures
have resulted from the use OF serum,
1t is believed to be both infectious and
contagious, but the nature OF the
germ which causes it is still mys-
terry. DR.. Anderson, director OF the
e hygienic laboratory of the public
Y health and marine hospital service in
e Washington, hopes that the investl
S cation to be conducted under his su.
pervision will determine this ano
other questions. 1t most frequently
attacks small children, but some OF
l. the victims in Springfield have beer
h young people rs years Of age, or old
r er.-Brattleboro Phoenix.
~ Standard Sees EN- Too
er Commenting on the newspaper dis
cussion of the activity of the corpora
tions and railroads in Vermont politics
the ST. Adams Messenger says:
a 1.-The Messenger would not dis
,r courage the good brethren in the can
o. paign begun by The Burlington Ere
a. Press in which they and The Enosbur
d. Standard have enlisted, if there IS an
to definite and very serious object IN 1t,
ed some impending crisis is to be aVerte(
on or some great wrong to be rlghtet
!. The Messenger is just as much in fave
of the proper regulation of corDor;
tions as any reasonable neWspap'
e. can be, it thinks, but has Discovers
or no signs of fright in the present sit
Gle alton. If the railroads are actual
is preparing to capture the state, TIT
&C. are mighty quiet about the prelimina
up les. Thus far the declaration OF w
cal is not specific enough to suit this pape
bod It would like few facts before ia
or ing UP arms. This may turn out to
the merely a Jabberwock. :"
of The same logic that is employed
lg. observing men in connection WI
national affairs and from the eve
public act of Aldrich and Cannon. p
nounces those distinguished reaction
lot les the friends and champions OF spec
t in interests, applies in state affairs &
of points unerringly to conditions to VIII
the the Free Press. Montpelier Journ
led. Morrisville Messenger and this pa
only have referred.
the Aldrich and Cannon do not emplo
on brass band while engaged IN Dlockl
litor progressive legislation, but they ge'
the their work, and the Messenger, am'
ele- others. has done notable service
ined directing the attention to the tempe
very ment of these men which natur
me- align them with corporate and spe
sug- interests. The Hon. John Young,
B. C. Stickney and c. W.. Witt
attorneys for the Boston & Maine
Central Vermont, are not preceded
lont, steam ca1liope when they move
r to- Montpelier, and yet one is justifie
teen concluding that the unusual activit
order these gentlemen in the present yea
2 to grace is not simply for their hes
not Mr.. Writers, for instance, is an ;
tute. man, whose honesty is unqueStlo
torres but he is naturally reactienary
} but witness his opposition to the We
Y the payment bill, employers liability
deal grade crossing bill and public. ser
f he bill, in fact his record before the Ii
Pa lature is Enthusiastically and wit
under exception antagonistic to all prog
ir to- i've legislation when special intel
Iealer are involved.
order The Messenger is surely not SO
Bel sophisticated as to believe, or hav
readers believe, that all this 81
exists without fire, or that we
about to wi tness the phenomen
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