St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-06-26
PRESS COMMENT

i Democrats Have a Strong Candidate
The democrats of Vermont have
chosen a strong campaigner as the
head Of their state ticket. Harland
B. Howe Of st. Johnsbury is a sharp,
forceful speaker, capable of driving
home the arguments which he wishes
to present; and he possesses, too,
a platform manner which fits the
part. He is a rough-and-ready de-
batter and in quickness of perception
will easily make a match for anyone
whom the republican party may put
on the stump against him. Back of
him, also, is a successful, though not
long, experience as an attorney and
more or less prominence in the YER
mont legislature All things con-
sidered, Mr. Howe is perhaps the
strongest man that the democrats
could have selected for their leading
standard bearer; and he and the
coterie of campaigners he is likely
| to gather about him are bound to
make things interesting for the Re-
publican candidate for governor,
whoever he may prove to be. If the
republicans nominate a weak can
didate, or one whose record lies par
lticularly open to attack, it will mean
at least a slashing of the old-time re-
publican majority in a ruthless man
ner. The Democrats might go even
! farther and predict worse calamity
to the dominating party; but such an
outcome does not seem probable
| Barre Times.
The Home Town.
People seldom stop to consider
how much their town means to them
They take too much for granted, and
in counting up their blessings make
superficial inventory that fails to
credit the source from which many
of their dearest benefits flow It is
easy to overlook the home town in
summing up the. sources of ones
happiness because the town is such a
large, all-enveloping thing-so
large, in fact that it's hard to see
and the citizen blindly draws sus-
tenance from it like an infant from
its mother. Traced to their source
most of life's blessings will be found
to have their root in that aggrega-
ton of human beings and human in
| terests known as town. The town
is the unit of modern civilization and
is the channel through which civili-
cation confers it's benefits. There is
scarcely a phase of civilization that
does not find direct and specific ex-
preston in the life and organization
of a town that is large enough to
have a school, a courthouse, a lib
rary, a bank, a mill or factory, a
church, a waterworks, a brass band,
| a newspaper and a railroad station.
Representing education, jurispru-
dence, literature, finance, industry,
religion, hygiene, art, and the speedy
distribution of intelligence and COM
modities, these institutions express
all that is highest and best in human
achievement If civilization is good,
then the home town is good, and
the citizens should be proud and
thankful of it. Instead of casting
wondering and envious glances at
distant New York, they should glow
with pride for their own little town,
realizing that the difference is only
one of degree and not of kind
| bellows Falls Times.
A Deserved Honor.
Montpelier Seminary graduates
and friends have paid deserved honor
to the retiring principal of their in
situations for DIR. Bishop has had the
interests of the school at heart for
upwards of a score of years. His re-
tirement from the work is regretted,
particularly as it is likely to mean
that he will leave the state for his
new work. Singularly enough, there
are three educators who this month
have severed their relations with
their schools after a service of twenty
vars or more, the others being Mr..
Mathewson of the Barre schools and
Principal w A Beebe of Peoples
Academy, at Morrisvil1e. However,
in the cases of the two last-named,
Vermont is not to lose their services.
Principal Beebe is to become super
intendent of a school union in the
northern part of the state, and Mr..
Mathewson, as is we'll known, goes
to the Institute at Lyndon.-[ Barre
Times.