The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-10-07

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truaf Mea4s personally conducted bl.s
urs. administration oItaet q; - Weiue
day iarro1u oa.ne.ltui Wih iht aalttn
az q TIE 9l.i biennial and ials' alnsesu.
size session 81 tft Vermont general Assem-
liy "a ia, pr-eurg oi .omt 80 oi 80
Fo.l, lsus and nrar Isa..iirau. and ,ge.ia
fus There Wer, several ah,yuiee,. NAilh
might te fsmei eli without : Ube.s iai
4 cue. W05k and = the sayiH. !. they
were prominent ly thor absence
GoteIuor Mead wasn't officially told
autl Tlar-as, tina, be- bad beeu elc,iei
governor bat having an inkars % that ~
fcoton D., STAYED around the throne until
The penuuaop committee informed him
ihAf the gaugas,ins committee had couni
81 the vote. which Tile secretary ui stale
had th1ushrul'y arranged and proved on
hi. adding machine. anu found iAai Pc
held four ac,s aud Was entitled 20 The
lack pot The governor Was lu the recrp
tive attitude ~ q Vermont schoo'mAm
listening 60 proposal g. marriage from q
biliinuAre with lnianiue paralysis. lie
lItni refuse.
Oi course. al ihi. came after Governor
Puuiy had delivered . 10 h.p 9milr>.
long farewell addfcs. the good points az
% hlch were lost sight @; hy reason 81 Us
great length before be bad finished. Il
looked a. though he realized i wa hls
last chance and he WAs ayailius himself
~ the opportunity. one itlug that struck
Tie attention q his listeners Was III, rei.
erence 30 the iaci that the iercrntay com
mission would soou make 3 report Tie
message Was silent about Jamestown
After the legislature went home 10 dinner
and rested 80 they came hack feeling that
theI might - well hear the incoming gov
eIuor's 1910 model Il they had 10 sell the
farm % 10 IL Some oi tile members dis
covered that the new governor had un
earthea new is-ue when be touched on
the Do. question. and no doubt that sub
Jcci wil have the pryer,ul consideration
oi the lawmakers M due season. Perhaps
one i apt 10 he too cynical after listening
10 two such hieh-poWer perorations in one
day The other 10000 tperhaVe Yer
monteTs. who didn't have 10 listen. can
have the same consolation when they read I
them ~ pamphlet form al their leisure
around the kitchen stove next winter.
The legislature opened W ednesday morn. !
ing muggy in more ways than atmospheri- /
cally Frank T. Howe o; Bennington, a
boy. Was elected speaker IN a
walk. Hamilton >veHgali Peck Of BurlIng- 4
ton after making divers Unavalhng efforts I
to play lead IN Ben Bolt. capltulated, in
he interests Of harmony and good fellow
ship. he said. and seconded Howes noml- 1
nation just how many votes Ham was
able to bring under his hypnotic wand no
one has vet been able to faihom, but re-
liable reports say that there weren
enough 10 make a respectable showing al
4 respectable colOred sentleman's funeral
-perhaps not over 81. At any rate, Mr..
Peck graeiously and grandiloquenily elimi-
mated himself from what had the earmarks
IF being a mimic reproduction Of the bat
tie OF Waterloo fought with pea shooters.
Robert w. McCuen and w. II. Rowland,
who had surreptitiously entered the race
With malice aforethought found them
.elyes in the pre>iicament Of man over
9oari withou, a life preserver. They very
,peedily FASTENED 10 grab any old thing
hat would keep their heads above water
md at the proper signal seconded the
domination OF the member from Bennlng-
on. The only man TO stand by his guns
vas the democratic candidate, Frank l..
n ebster OF Swanton. a young attorney
cho received the solid vote OF the ''unter-
flied" i6 strong. who stood together
Ike regiment OF majors.
Perhaps the wisest man In the leglsla-
ure is the member from Cavendish, Allen
II Fletcher. who. while listening to the
Dice of the siren. was not tempted deep
nough to allow the use OF his name TO
,ull someone elses chestnuts out OF the
ire. Fletcher wouldn't have anything to
10 with the speakership, at any rate as an
1-1 a~.n ni- how 1
title question had he gone into the fight
e would have mixed the signals. He was
he only man in the house who could
ave given Howe race for his money.
Away back in the deep shadow for
inst" the spotlight was the anti-saloon
sague fretting and fumbling over the ,
and whispering how they could
ct rid Of Howe. but the fates were un-
ind to them and Clarence had to bow to
he inevitable. A certain circular sent out
ONE time ago dealing with Howe's rec
I'd on temperance legislation proved a
Mr. Howe was duly installed and read
is speech. which he admitted he didn't
ave time to charge his mind with for the
urpose of handing il off the reel. so was
0ntent with reading il from notes. he
lvised a change in rules so that 18th
sntury methods would give way to 10Th
entuTy ideas. He urged members and i
,mmittees to do business and not putter,
nd advised them to do IT at once de
ould have capital punishment woman
,ffraee. the doe bin, and other minor
alters which cost the legislature S1;Wu
day 10 hagge over without accomplish
u ANYTHING. have their place at the bat
the first inning He further admon- :
he'd the members to hit safe. play. close l
the bases and not try everlastlngly for
,me runs. He said he would rather have
lis legislature 90 back home and be con-
.mned for mistakes made than TO go
.ck and be damned for failure to try.
he speech made a mighty good impression
ID the men who didn't know much about
owe came around afterwards to shake
.nds with him and tell him they liked =
hat he said.
The scramble for the S4-a-day job to l!
ay for the house was the usual minlste- ..
Al scrap. although it has been of the gum
oe variety this session. Rev. A. W.
,rd. chaplain of the state prison at
'indsor. won with a vote of 80. j. Hall Il
,ng of Panton. who did not come I
ck." got As, and the surprise was where L
got them. and Rev. L. F. Bamburg, st
Baptist clergyman who over OF
oked the necessity of PRINTING ballots. n
d 81. The virtues proclaimed in favor d
Mr.. Ford were that he has for $500 b
ar been making Carusos of the prisoners 10
the state prison. whereupon one mem b
r was unkind enough to inquire if he K
,uld apply his art on members of the dc
esent general assembly. This ended the III
ar dance. 81
Charles A. Plumey was reelected clerk h
a appointed the same assistants, Harry OF
aek of Newport and Julius A. Wilcox II
I.ndlow. with A NJ. Rich for stenogra- ag