Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-12-12
MESSAGE FROM VERMONT.

The messengers from these States each
| announced their four votes in a limerick,
Vermont declaring:
"ln the Green Mountain state. recol!ec'.
Old Taft won oit by a neck:
And we'd We elected him,
III they hadn't neglected him.
III forty-six States by heck
Tho messengers IT was discovered
We're "l'rl Moose spies" in disguise,
who when stripped Of their false boards.
turned cut to be the now members of
the club, Charles =. Keyser, corresuon-
dent Of the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
ana Edward Il. Clark. correspondent OF
the Chicago Evening Post.
The republican electoral college in
sisted on meeting while the dinu-r vas
in progress to name n candidate for the
the second place for which various
names We're suggested, only to be Instant
Is withdrawn by soicitous friends. or
such was that, stable minded. never
changing nis-views. patriot" Herbert $.
Hadles, the Sterling Rcvisionist" Reed
Smoot' the "Invincible Borah." the great
friend of the common people," Senator
Perros-. and Robert Marion La Toilette,
whose motto Is. "Forgivc Your enemies"
who recommended that tho place he
given to oyster Bay"
Then tn. scene changed To- tn" Orient
and the battle of .>rmageddon was fought
III realistic style, as described by half a
dozen war correspondents for the benefit
OF old Saul, who had come to the scene
OF his early conflicts
Correspondent Lodg. reported that
al In ,I.I mt
Field Marshal McCombs, with IA harvester
machine. McCombs had poured hot
statement into Field Marshal H.ll.s. and
Hilles had hit Dixon with some majority
claims. Midshipman Clifford Pinchot, aide
TO General Perkins. reported that the
genera! needed ammunition and had sent
him for u fountain pen to write Il check.
What Saul supposed to be horse turned
out to be a Bun Moose and the two men
hanging on his flank, Adam Bede and
John Harlan We're said to be the Truth
Tc!lers DO they tell the TRUTH" in.
lured Saul TO which Correspondent
+ lark replied. Say, mister, you're not
Nins. you're the court jester"
WATTERSON REPORTS COURAGE.
Fresh from tive battlefield on his horse.
CORRESPONDENT Watterson reported that as
he left the field, the democrats of the
House were trying to arrange the tariff
schedules" and the carnage was fright
ful.' Through his glasses. Saul dlscerned
IN" general on the Bull Moose dashing
toward the large general seated on the
putting green. followed by the tennis
'apinet' Sauls inquiry as to the identity
of the nine men surrounding Taft, was
answered by the explanation that they
We're his cabinet, 'who will get into the
battle after il il over" What WAS nj
hrst supposed 10 he tho dawn of DAY"
turned out 10 be Col jim Ham Lewis
ana an engine ot war" tn Suul's ancient
eye Was only Governor Hiram johnson.
EVEN his old friend Joan of Are" was
rrhiIE Albert j. B"rerdGe. disguised as
Ma'| OF III" Niuo-ciad Cottage"
The action progressed until the Bull
"oose ana its followers were hceins
ana the man with the golf stick was
prepar'hs tn leave the green. The
pattle was soon over and saul started
post haste for Washington to seek a
Job declaring that he had been
're-l"hg dcmociat since tho battle
endc J."
one of the striking features of tn
evenings entertainment was a rendi
''"n OF complete act Of the tuneful
opera OF carmen" by the voralists %
the ciuh in tull costume. This was IN
famous act of the bun fight. only /.
was rendered with stranger cnaractcra
IMAM B'zct ever dreamed Of ana even
the pun was replaced by "A full! grown
''nIl Moose Entered Don Jorre Per.
champion Bun Moose trainer
OF the worli, who announced that the
VI Aeans' ured of bull-fighting. want
ed sport that had some real hot O.
males ami chile con carne in It. whic' !
meant Bull Moose nght prosidon.
'"rthe, after whispered conVctsa
non with President Taft. announced
mat the President Of the United Statcg