Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-05-28
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
The Granite State but Not in Nam.

Hardwick proposes to match Barre s
undisputed title as the monumental
granite center of the world with the
claim as the building granite center
of the world Under that harness,
Barre and Hardwick make quite a
team for Vermont. Barre Times.
Orleans and Franklin Counties.
The Orleans County Monitor calls at
tenuion TO the position occupied agri-
culturally by Orleans county in COM
parison with the other counties in YER
mont, as shown by recent government
statistics. Franklin county leads in
agricultural interests, but Orleans is a
close second. and as the Monitor
points out these two central northern
counties lead all the rest of the state
in agricultural Importance -Enosburg
Standard.
Boston's 1874 Bull Moose.
With no desire to speak discourag-
ingly of the prospects of the Progress
sive party, with many of whose aims
The Herald warmly sympathizes, it
does seem pertinent to set down for
the historic record that the total en-
rollment of that party in Boston now
stands complete at just 1874. This is
by contrast with 1885 enrolled Re
publicans and so, 400 enrolled Demo-
Gratis. And the Progressive enroll
ment is the result of tireless beating
of the drums, widely advertised rallies
and vigorous appeal by the Boston
Journal, the avowed organ of the new
party.
Although Is, 600 men in Boston voted
for Roosevelt last November. fewer
than 1000 are willing to take the trou-
bic to enroll themselves as Progress
slves now. This tells the whole story
better than can anything else. His
was personal party. 1t stood in pro.
test against the conditions attending a
single nomination.
There need be no more doubt here
than in the West that the contests of
the future will be on the old lines and
between the old parties. The Progress
sive movement has seen it's day. Its
inevitable decline is already plainly in
view.-Boston Herald.
Johnson and the Referendum.
The people will not fail to note that
it is the same Gov. johnson who less
than tWelvemonth ago was advocat-
ing with all his power of persuasion
the Initiative. referendum and recall.
who is now endeavoring to induce Cali
fornlans not to invoke the referendum
and in connection with the alien land
ownership law recently enacted by the
legislature and approved by him.
Where is Gov. Johnson's consist
ency? If the referendum is as wise
and desirable thing as he insisted it
is in his spellbinding tours up and
down the country, why should it not be
resorted to in the case of the alien
land-holding law. Has Gov. johnson
lost faith in the efficiency of his pana
cea since last November, or is he
afraid to trust the people of California
to say whether or not this piece of
legislation shall remain in force?
The difference between Gov. Johnson
preachments and his practices as man.
ifested in this case is so radical as to
create suspicion that his noisy champi.
! onship of the referendum was less sim
cere than it seemed and that he is one
of the many who would invoke the ref.
erendum only when it promises to ad
vance their own purposes, but never
when it promised to thwart those rpur.
poses Montpelier Journal