Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-04-17
THE NEW SUMNER CAPITAL.
(From the Boston Transcript

For tired president in search of rest
there could be no better place for the
pitching Of the executive tent than Cor
nish, n. II. OFF any of the great rlain
lines Of transportation, it Is not 50 far
removed from them that quick transit in
emergency will he difficult, Its stuati n
does not lend itself to an invasion of
office seekers bent on talking policies"
with the dispenser of patronage. 1t can
be reached by rail most conveniently from
Windsor, VT, and then the traveller, who
must cross the Connecticut, will, If he Is
not geographically expert, be called upon
to decide whether he shah make as his
immediate objective Cornish South Corr
nish, Cornish Center or Cornish Flat. Of
course the invited guest will be under
no such embarrassment, but it may DO
taken for granted that President Wilson
will not facilitate the coming of the un-
invited. He has selected Cornish because
Cornish is beautiful and sequesterel.
while neither melancholy nor slow
Far removed as Cornish is from the
neeting glance OF the tourist per Pull
man, it yet needs no euidebook. Winston
Churchill has written its sufficient Bae-
deker. 1t is the "Coniston" of 'Jethro
Bass" and as such is familiar to the
country. for "Jethro" is one of those char
acters who outlive the first popularity Of
the best sellers" and long continue to
point moral. Nor is Winston Churchill
the only celebrity who has gilded the an
nails of Cornish. The St. Gaudens broth
ers lived and labored there. Norman
Hapgood has had his name on the list
,S r,1
the standpoint of celebrity there Is mole
Colony" than Cornish about the town,
whose permanent population does not
raise It above the village class But then
there arc villages and villages and Cor
nsh by its beauty has won a lustre sim
liar to that which causes the Lake Re.
gion" in England to shine with associ4-
tons Of Wordsworth, Southey, De Gum
cey, Coleridge and all the other "lakers. >
resident or transient. \ man of letters
himself President Wilson will appreciate
all the traditions and associations of the
place, and without ceasing to appreciate
the comforting fact that Cornish is eight
miles L. n. f. Of Windsor, VT.
1t is natural 1t is inevitable that poll
iticians should see a deep significance in
President Wilson's choice OF a landlord,
since Winston Churchill was the PRO
gressive' candidate for governor of New
Hampshire in November last ana since
"Conston" is in itself n whole library Il
the literature of that earlier revolt which
did not land its author in the State House
at Concord, but later did most essentially
help Governor Bass towards attaining
that goal But If President Wilson Is
not disposed to make Harlakenden House
the center of progressive" coalition, he
can fall back on the jefferson precedent.
jefferson directed politics from Month
icello during his presidencles and the
Charlottesville of his time cannot have
been wholly unlike the Cornish Of to-day
The Sage of Cornish" might be a ter n
encroaching on Winston Churchll's pre-
scriptive rights. but when a man leases
and demits his property to another the
latter is perfectly free to govern the in
fuences that radate therefrom