Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-09-15
DR.. BAILEY RECEIVED.
r representatives. Greeted Friends
Congressman PlurIey Spoke.

--consressmsn PIumIey Spoke.
A crowd of over two hundred people
gathered at the grounds of DR.. A. C.
Bailey Friday night to celebrate his cleo
tion to the office Of town representative
and by their presence TO express their sat
sfaction in the freemen's choice and their
confidence in tine Doctors ability TO serve
in the legislature with honor to himself
and his constituents.
The piazza and lawn of the Bailey resi-
dence on South Pleasant street were
bright with electric lights, while setiees
and chairs we're in Sufficient number to
accommodate a good part Of the COM
pany. The Green Mountain band played
inspiring music. and even q touch OF
frost in the air and q sharp Wind were
not able 10 chill the pleasure OF the occa-
sion though they very likely kept good
many away.
The doctor welcomed his friends most
cordially and thanked them heartily for
the honor they had done him. He was
not afraid 10 acknowledge his pride and
happiness in the goodwill and support OF
bis fellow citizens and assured them of
I his determination to prove worthy of
tho trust reposed in him.
He came to Randolph nearly 33 years
ago, he said, young man With q young
wife; his children we're born here and had
I grown to manhood and womanhood In
I this, their native. town, with which in
+ his home aud professional life be had be-
come thoroughly associated. He was glad
4 to find that his friends had increased in
number with the years be had lived
among them and that now, after so long
an acquaintance, held him worthy to be
their representative in the general assem-
/ bly,. The defence of the Randolph Nor
NAL school would have bis best efforts for
personal ~ well as public reasons, since,
/ though not a graduate and never a stu
I dent OF il, his practice had brought him
/ into close touch with the institution.
! Congressman Frank Plumley OF Ncrth-
+ field, who had been secured for the
/ speaker OF the evening, was warmly
/ crested and declared that he welcomed
with pleasure an opportunity to address
/ the people OF Randolph. Having tasted
/ both the sweets OF triumph and the gall
of defeat in political elections, be could
offer palm to the victor and balm to the
vanquished; could rejoice with him who
rides on the crest OF the wave, and con-
dole with him who slides into its hollow.
In 1882 he knew the citation OF being the
chosen representative OF the good people |
OF Mortified and in 1884 he was rolling |
around in the trough of the wave, while /
another was borne up on the foam OF sue |
cess. But in the sea OF politics, as in the
broad ocean, what is the crest one miu- |
ute may be the trough the next, and a |
philosophical acceptance OF this fact tends
to moderate both exultation and disap- /
pointment.
Mr.. Plumley then gave his hearers an |
entertaining talk on his first year in Con-
gress, speaking more especially of the
work OF the agricultural committee, to |
which be asked to be appointed, since be
represented an agricultural common
wealth, whose interests he thought he
could best serve on that committee.
A skeleton bill, he explained, is framed /
to outline the legislation desired by the
agricultural department, in its several bu-
reaus and the appropriation asked by each
bureau to carry on its work. This skele-
ton bill is submitted to the agricultural
committee, before whom experts from the /
bureas appear and argue for the proposed /
measures which they favor. Finally SEQ
Rotary Wilson, at the heed Of the depart
ment, reviews the whole bill for the COM
mittee, advising them with regard to its
most important features, the appropria-
lions which are most needed and those
" hich can be curtailed at no great disad-
vantage. Armed with all this informa-
ton, the committee give that skeleton
osteopathic treatment. pulling, rubbing \
and twisting il into bill that conforms 4
to their judgment and is ready for the
house.
Matters of particular interest before
the committee in the last year have been /
the measure to prevent gambling in cot
ton futurities by forbidding the gamblers /
to use the telegraph. telephone or United /
States mail ia procuring information; /
the conservation Of the Appalachian for
est and the oleomargarine bill. Army en-
eineers and weather bureau experts /
agreed that denudation OF the Appa- /
Iachian range, the source OF the Monon-
gahela and Allegheny rivers, which ARE 1
the two great tributaries of the Ohio, |
had not affected the floods of the lower /
Ohio or its water supply during an obser-
walton covering 33 years. On the other /
hand the forestry department proved to 1
its satisfaction that just the contrary had 1
been true in the same space Of time. In /
this sharp conflict of expert opinion, the /
agricultural committee called for the COM
mon sense and knowledge OF men living /
near the Monongahela and Allegheny riv- /
ers, and learned that none OF the experts I
knew what they were talking about, be-
cause no forests had been cut in that sec
tion.
The oleomargarine manufacturers, for
hidden now TO color their product any
shade of yellow, seek permission to use