Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-09-18
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Political Pointers.

Political Pointers.
Just what is the pocket borough
system good for in the towns of AL
bany, Middlesex and Washington,
which failed to elect representatives,
this year?-Rutland News
The argument that Fletcher ought
not to win before the legislature be-
cause the people denied him majority
operates with even more force against
the other candidates, who were further
behind. Randolph Herald.
No wonder the farmers are doing a
little thinking along political lines.
Live hogs are now selling at u and 8
cents per pound. Under Democratic
reign, 16 years ago, some of the far
mers can remember the price, it was
| % cents. Waterbury Record.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, former expert
in the pure food department, has come
out for Woodrow Wilson. He may not
love Taft, but he has plenty of venom
for Roosevelt, who, he claims, has
misrepresented conditions in the ad-
ministrations of the pure food law
Randolph Herald.
The paramount question for Vermont
voters as we'll as others in November
will be whether to vote for the con-
tinuation of Taft prosperity or whether
to help in one way or another to bring
something else under Wilson, That is
/ the whole presidential problem in q
nutshell. Burlington Free Press.
President Taft's Sincerity.
When President Taft sees a task
which he believes needs doing, he
gives little thought to its effect on his
own success as a candidate. Probably
he would be more effective if he were
more of politician. But in this time
serving age, straightforward sincerity
is refreshing. 1t takes broad minded
man to do work that does not promise
immediate results that will be gooC
issues in the next election.
1t is easy enough to make fun of the
failure of the Standard Oil and Tobac
co diSsolutiOns to reduce prices. NJ
one expected that they would have an!
l immediate effect favorable to the con
sumner. All that could be hoped wa
that in future it would make it easie
for the man who is trying to get an in
dependent foothold. To get a gooC
; law on the statute books, the only pos
Sible way often is to enforce some bat
or imperfect law already existing
The preliminary work brings few ap
parent results and many kicks an
/ cuffs.
The ordinary politician never tackle
. anything so bare Of quick returns.
5 is one of the fine features of Presiden
: Taft's work, that careless of his OWL
a personal fortunes, he has plunged int
4 this jungle of perpleXity, cutting a roa
" in pioneering fashion through whic
one Of these days we shall emerge to
more workable laW.-Rutland News.
Keeping Up with Theodore
In these strenuous days of strenuou
= politics it is hard matter to keep u
n with political problems that COM
d tumbling thick and fast upon us, to sd
, nothing of trying to keep abreast 0
. the Roosevelt idea.
K Last spring Mr.. Roosevelt told u
that he went into the campaign becaus
he was literally forced into it; pet
ton, signed by seven governors O
! seven states, urged him to get into tn
: field
= Last week during his Lightning
G Conductor tour of Vermont he said
= Last February, when the Progressiv
l movement began, it looked as if w
: would have no following in New Eng
: land. I could not get the support of
E senator or one Congressman in all NeY
England and only one governor-Gov
Bass. He has been an incalculable al
to us in this campaign"
] Again last week the Boston Journal
a Mr.. Roosevelt's most ardent supporter
thot 4bO VT
= was sweeping the state of Vermont
and that the G. O. P. didn't have
e ''look in" and the day following tn
e state election the same paper say
9 that the Roosevelt party polled man
: more votes than was expected, that tn
party hardly hoped to make any inroa
n upon so strong a republican fortress
n One day thing is true and the mex
day it isn't, SO there you are.-Nortf
field News.