Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-07-23
Anyone Who Will Bear the Label.
Foolish Villages.

can't afford to go without it, as is
evidenced now and then, the latest ex-
ample being the town of Independence
in Louisiana, which was practically
wiped out by a fire that might have
been stopped had there been apparatus
to call into use.-St. Adams Messenger.
Gov. Stubs for President.
Postal cards are being sent out from
Chicago bearing this message:
Governor Stubs of Kansas
Progressive Party Candidate
"'For President in 1916"
Of course this can't mean that there
is Progressive slate, and it is note
after the Colonel has gone on his
Western hunting trip.-St. Adams
Messenger.
Some Point to This Question.
If any Republican newspaper should
run as original editorial matter, the
stuff sent out by campaign literary
or press bureau we should soon hear
that the 'Tory press" of Vermont
was owned, controlled, subsidized, etc.
by wicked political machine and that
the editors were mere tools doing
their shameful stunt of subterfuge.
When one of the two or three Pro-
gressive newspapers in the state runs
'tleader" as original and another
runs it with the sub-mark Progress
i've News Service" what is the '"Tory
press" and what are readers generally
to conclude?-Randolph Herald and
News.
Possible Changes on Bench.
eff Governor Fletcher's appointment
will infuse "fresh and vigorous blood
into the judicial branch of the state
government the people will be we'll
pleased. In saying this we do not
wish to discredit the supreme court of
the state. as it's justices are strong
men. whose opinions have much
weight in the judicial circles of the
country. But it is different with the
have placed on the bench of that court
some very incompetent and unfit men,
who had very little standing in their
profession and who are standing no
higher in their present positions.
There are some capable and desirable
men on the supreme bench in case it
should suddenly become vacant and
Gov. Fletcher will do the state good
service if he acts with his usual in
dependence and courage and cleans up
the superior court.-St. Johnsb ury
Caledonian.
Progressives Want c. A. Prouty.
There are mutterings of a coming
senatorial contest in Vermont next
year, but little definite information is
yet at hand. 1t is known that Senator
William P. Dillingham;, whose term
expires March 4, 1915, will be can
didate for reelection as Republican.
Gov. Allen M. Fletcher is supposed to
be feeling the ice to see whether it is
likely to hold up under him if he
should conclude to try for the seat,
though as yet he has not proceeded far
enough to bear his full weight on it.
The Progressives have been trying to
snare Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Charles A. Prouty into the
game-without apparent success. Mr..
Prouty, it is believed, would accept a
nomination from Progressives of all
stripes, but objects to the Progress
sive" label, which the Vermont leader
of that party insist he must wear if
they endorse him. The Democrats
have not yet talked over their plans in
public The choice of the next United
States senator will be made directly
by the voters at the polls in November
of next year. The method of their
nomination by the several parties. will
wait on action by the coming special
session of the legislature, following
the referendum vote of next March,
Randolph Herald and News.
Town Rule in Vermont.
The New York Sunday Herald in it's
latest issue featured the town of
Baltimore, VT, calling it the office.
holders paradise. All but one of
twelve voters of the town hold at
least three offices, it is claimed, and
some quiet fun is had at the expense
of the community. 1t simply tends to
call attention to the fact that Vermont
, has many small towns where the mum
Der of voters is very small, but which
have as much to say in the government
of the state as the largest communi.
ties. Few people stop to realize that
out of the 246 cities and towns in Yer.
mont the majority is composed of
, small places, each with it's representa-
f tive in the general assembly where the
laws for the state are adopted. There
are no fewer than 70 towns in Yer
mont where less than 100 votes were
cast in the gubernatorial campaign Of
3 1910. Of this 70. fifteen towns cast
0 less than so votes, two less than TWEEN
- ty, and an equal number less than ten
The town of Somerset in the county OF
Windham cast just five votes. This i:
t town rule in Vermont. This is the
e archaic system that prevails. The
people don't count. Land division
rule. How long will the people sub
ject themselves to it? How can /:
Vermonter hear that much.used phrase
t ''Let the people rule" without blush
ing, when he thinks of his own system
of government?-St. Adams Messen
ger.
: Wants to Hear from Howe and Metz9er