The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-19
HIGGINS OF HleeINsrowN
Policy That Ought to Have Made
Higgins Senator.

six to one Republican so Higgins
didn't get elected and didn't expect
to but he got more votes than any
Democratic candidate ever did before
in Addison county. One of the fea-
lures Of the campaign up there was
a poem gotten out by one of Johns
friends and circulated through Add
son county The poem was as fol
lows:
When I'm Elected Senator.
When I'm elected Senator from the
County where | live,
I'll teach the people what to do, my
best advice I'll give,
I'll take the book of blue laws and
I'll change them all to green,
And then you'll see the darndest
times that you have ever seen!
I'll take the towns Of Bridport, Rip
ton, Addison and then
I'll gobble up New Haven. Weybridge,
Shoreham-well they're ten
Including all the Cornwals, Bristol,
Middlebury too,
And just make one big city, bout the
size of Kalamazoo.
I'll call the city Higginstown and
will be the mayor,
You'll see me riding in machines and
also in the air.
In fact you'll see a few things that
you've never seen before
When all the votes are in and I'm
elected Senator.
When I'm elected Senator and in the
Speakers chair,
I'll make a set of laws that I am
sure will all be fair.
I'll have REPUBLICANS. assessed for
everything they do,
I'll tax them for haircut. shave
and shampoo
Republican land owners all will pay
County tax,
One hundred dollars every week, un.
til they break their backs
But no assessments will be asked for
Democrats to pay,
And Prohibitionists will have to
drink pint a day.
I'll have a law for fishermen who tell
tremendous lies.
And catch a little puny trout and
laud it to the skies
And when they claim 1t weighs
twelve pounds, and a yard from
tip to tall
I'll fine them fifty dollars and I'll.
throw them into Jail.
When I'm elected Senator the State
House | will move.
Montpelier Is no place for it, and
that TT surely prove.
West bury / think would do, OF
that have no doubt,
Then during lntermission could
daily with the trout
I'll have the open season for the fish
ing start in May.
And every Democrat may fish until
Thanksgiving day.
The sessions at the State House, how
ever will be short
And every Democrat will get my heart
lest support.
II any Prohibitionists should in the
Senate be.
I'll make him take an ice-cold bath
each afternoon at three.
I'll rub the water in his hair, and
stand him in the rain,
Until the darned old fool develops
water on the brain.
And when I'm Mayor OF Higginstown
I'll appoint a few
Good Democrats to take the reIns and
pull the city through,
There's Mr. Charles II Williamson
he'll change his views. and then
I'll have TO make him Chairman OF the
Board OF Alderman.
He'll naturally take 10 that. he'll like
the job for fair.
For Charley's greatest specially Is
holding down a chair
Then there Is Walter Martin. for hin
III have place.
Commissioner OF Windmills" vii
surely hit his case
For my excise commissioner. ! thini
TIL name Judge Foote.
Then when I say. Put down IN,
rum why Fred he'll surely
put"
TIL clean these Vermont politics nov
rotten 10 the core
When I am Mayor Of Hlgginstown az
well as Senator
When I'm installed In office as N,
peoples only choice.
There1l be a lot OF talk. but min,
will be the only voice.
I'll have a law for autos that will b,
both broad and large.
And turn old Bread Loaf Inn into al
up.to.date garage.
Therell be no license charged fo
cars and every car may run
Just sixty miles an hour. I'm the set
ting Of the sun.
I'll have the only license for the salt
Of gasoline.
And charge them eighty cents pc
quart Except cars palnte,
green).
Now voters Of the County OF old Ad
Olson, Vermont.
Just throw your votes TO me and
will give YOU what YOU want.
Some day you'll see IN Washington
whore | viii yet he sent.
This sign upon the White House.
John Higgins. President.
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