Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-10-04
A WESTERN LETTER.

Mr.. Editor -
Several have requested me to write
about my trip here and the
country around here, Missouri in the
Ozark Mountains.
| left Barton at 5 .. M, Sept 20,
and arrived in Montreal at 8 2. m.,
left Montreal at 10 p. IN. for Detroit
by Toronto, arrived in Toronto q 6
a. n. From there the country is
very level and looks like a good
farming country, large fields Of corn
had been partly cut and were in the
stack. There was still lot of it to
cut, which had not been touched with
the frost. The barns were small and
the average barn in Vermont would
cover ten or twelve of these. There
were large straw stacks around these
barns larger than the barns them
selves. The houses were small and
very low.
| At Detroit the cars were run on a
boat to cross the st. Clair river.
There were ten cars on the train,
and two tracks on the boat. The boat
run down the river for some two
miles in crossing to a railroad wharf
on the American side. The water in
the river was very muddy and the
river is deep so that very large
steamers were running on it. Detroit
is fine city and l would have liked
to stay there longer Here there are
two large depots, c. 2. R. and Wa,
bash and the Grand Trunk. It is SIG
miles from Detroit to Montreal and
from Detroit to st. Louis it is 48S
miles. We left Detroit over the Wa
bash and through Illinois. Here we
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Orleans County Politics.
Editor of the Monitor,
/ see that some Of those politicians
up to Newport are already starting
fires under the Orleans County politi-
cal caldron and it looks as though he
pot would soon be boiling merrily.
Rufus Spear, the Clerk Of the Pub
lie Service Commission, writes me
that he wants to be Judge Of Probate
and | got letter this morning from
Aaron Grout saying he wants to be
States Attorney. and | expect that
before long | will BE- getting a letter
every day from some one of thcs 3
fellows at Newport saying that tt ey
want one or more Of all the County
offices.
Now Mr.. Editor they say that lot
of fellows called Stand Patters have
been running the Republican Party of
this county for a good many years
and that now some fellows called In
surgents are thinking that things
ought to he changed a little.
It seems to me that ever since !
commenced to vote those fellows al
Newport have been the stand Pat
ters OF Orleans County Politics.
know | have voted at every eiecti 9r
for forty years and it seems to ms
| that every man or the republican
: ticket has been from Newport.
Now I have been thinking the mat
ter over and I am of the opinion w;
. ought TO have 9 few insurgents II
this County We have got a 1t o
good men in this County who don
E live in Newport as we'll qualified tC
fill office as though Newport wa.
their legal residence. | don't kno
! whether they are so accustomed t.
the old run of affairs that they will
{ be afraid to come out and let the vot
! ers Of this county elect them tt
some of the Offices, but it seems t.
me that it is pretty ca ly to til
ourselves up to these Newport office
] seekers. | think what we ought t.
5 do is to wait until we know every
4 one who is going to be a candidate
: for Office AMI then if there is som,
good man who does rot live in New
port turn in and elect him.
don't know if you will consider
1 worth while to print this letter, MI
: Editor, but if you do, / may hav
something more to say on this sub
ject in the future.
Yours truly.
t Insurgent
] Westmore. VT, Oct. 2. 1911.