St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
PRESS COMMENT
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Talk.

politicians who want to benefit their
particular party and have il win.
The peojle want these men where
they are now doing effective work
and where they want to be let alone
to work out the great problems con-
nected with that work, for the bene-
fit of Vermont. Those who are ad-
voeating the nomination of either of
these men, as party candidates, for
governor are not their friends but
men seeking their own selfish ends.
-MorrisVille Messenger.
There is some truth in the intima-
ton that Vermont cannot afford to
lose Gates or Bailey from their
present positions, but the Monitor
has little patience with the statement
that the talk of these men for gov
ernor is merely the scheme of poll
| ticians seeking their own selfish
ends. That's the cheapest kind of
political talk and the Messenger
ought to be ashamed of itself for
that assertion. If the Messenger
/ has in mind any more capable men,
men who have filled their public
trusts with better judgment, dig
nifty, or with greater ability; men,
who have had greater experience and
present more marked qualifications
for governor, than these two me
for governor, than these same men,
| let it bring the names forward. If
there are men in Vermont, "adroit
politicians" if you please, who are
seeking their own selfish ends" by
suggesting for gubernatoriaI honors
such men as c. w. Gates, Vermont's
highway commissioner, or Guy w.
Bailey, secretary of state, let those
politicians" seek whatever it may
be they are looking after by their
suggestions. Either Gates or Bailey
represents the highest type of Yer
mont's young and aggressive man
hood and in any position, would fill
that position in the interests of the
people of Vermont.
Returning to the intimation that
Vermont cannot afford to lose either
Gates or Bailey from their present
positions the Monitor nearly agrees
with the Messenger. Especially is
this true of Mr.. Gates. We believe
few men in Vermont have the dip
lomatic firm hand applicable to our
road needs that Mr. Gates displays. |
Surely no other man has had the |
wide experience, knows the ground |
so we'll, has the loyal lieutenants and |
support of the people as a whole |
like Mr. Gates, and the Monitor feels |
deeply that his withdrawal from this |
department would be a distinct loss |
to the state.
With the position of secretary of |
state it is different. The place is |
not so difficult to fill. At least one |
man Of ability has been associated |
with Mr.. Bailey to an extent that |
would enable him to take up the |
work efficiently. That man possesses |
natural ability, too I'VE refer to
Walter H. Crockett If Bailey is |
drafted for governor the Monitor |
would not feel that the Office Of sec
rotary would suffer under Mr.. Crock
EFT. He is also another of Vermont's
young and vigorous men-a man of
today.-Orleans County Monitor.
What Some GulIible Folks May
Swallow
Rutland has not been missed by
that class Of ''sociologists'' who
think that crime turks at every cor
ner of a great city and that the un-
sophisticated country girl is in i'm
minent danger of abduction if not
OF murder if she visits the metropolis
unaccompanied by a strong body
guard Within a few months Rut-
land audience has been RECALLED by
a speaker who told lurid tales of the
wfckedness and pitfalls of New York.
And now the following stuff is be
ing fed, perhaps by the same person,
to respectable residents of rural
"A mother and her daughter, be- I
longing to a prominent family of
Jersey City, went to New York on a
shopping trip. Arriving there, they
separated, on agreement to meet in a
Sixth avenue department store.
The daughter was the first to
finish her shopping and was on her
way to the place of meeting when
she stopped to look in the windows
of a store she had not visited.
While standing in the crowd she
felt a singing sensation in her arm,
as though some one had pinched her.
'She wheeled sharply, saw no man
close to her and dismissed the in
cident from her mind.
ION entering the store she fell
and became unconscious. At once a
well-dressed man rushed up and
said she was his wife, that she was
subject to such spells, and that he
would take charge of her. He was
carrying her to a taxicab when her
mother appeared. The man disap-
peaTeu.
1T was found that the girls arm
had been punctured by hypodermic
needle, with a powerful opiate in it. 3"
The New York Sun is fully war
ranted in the following comment
with relation to this eXploiter of city
wickedness:
This preposterous tale was grave
ly related to a supposedly intelli-
gent audience by a woman lecturer
who asserted she knew of several
other cases where the hypodermic
needle had been used in that way
1t is not unlikely that it was believ-
ed by some gullible auditors, though /
how human credulity can be stretch
ed to such an extent passes under
standing.
The story is absurd as the yarn
circulated generally some months /
ago which represented the crew of |
an overland train in a collision with /
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