Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-06-17
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
What Does This Mean?

What Does This Mean?
We have satisfied ourselves first hand
that Hon. Charles A. Prouty does not
the senatorship in any sense of the
word. We regret this decision. but
the matter rests with him and we
abide it.-Randolph Herald and News.
Official Bonds.
The suficiency of the statutory
bonds required of public officers ought
at all times to be beyond question.
Unless Governor Fletcher is utterly
mistaken regarding the surety COM
panies he has objected to. there should
be no hesitation on the part of public
officers to procure undertakings by
fidelity companies of the highest
standing Windsor Journal.
Probably No Special Session.
Impression has grown to conviction
that Governor Fletcher will not call the
legislature in special session. When
interrogated on the subject in Mont
pelier he answered Yankee fashion
with another query why should I?''
There will be some wobbly knees
among the judges if their terms expire
and the governor is called upon to
appoint their successors. -BrattlebOrO
Phoenix.
Reorganization of School System.
Day by day it is growing more
apparent that there is to be reor-
ganization Of the common or ele-
mentary schools of Vermont; that they
are to be made to serve the pupils that
attend them; that they are to be made
more practical and more like those Of
the settlement period of Vermont. In
other words are to be brought back
and put upon common-sense basis.
Whether anything further will be done
at the start to remodel and reform
the school system of Vermont is
probIematical. -Morrisville Messenger
Return Best Man to Legislature.
Gov. Fletcher is on sound familiar
ground when he talks about politica
housekeeping. The people, withou
any doubt, will attend to that little
matter during the summer, but will
they forget, meanwhile, to give thei1
town representatives some leading
instructions about a 60-day session ant
fewer appropriation bills? -Rutlant
Herald.
If the voters of the several towns
will look over the men who hav
represented them at Montpelier during
the past dozen years and will sent
back the best man of the lot, regard
less of his political belief, they will d.
more to reduce the cost of the legis
lature than they can in any othe
way. 1t is to be always borne in mir
that the legislature is always jus
what the people at home make it,
Bennington Banner.
Governor Advocates housekeeping.
Governor Fletcher talked right on
in meeting in his address at tn
gathering of the alumni association i
Chelsea Wednesday evening. His mos
significant remark was as follows
| "There comes a time in the life of tn
, individual, the business concern, tn
state or the political party when
housekeeping becomes desirable an
absolutely necessary. and If tn
7 machinery of any department. whethe
executive, legislative or otherwise
becomes inefficient or obsolete,
should be relegated to the scrap hear
That condition now exists, both as
:, the state and political party" Thi
. will sound rather disconcerting to tn
4 SNUG complacency of some people. w
: wonder whether it will be disquietin
! to any of the judges, in case tn
: special session of the legislature is nc
! called and the matter of selecting tn
= chief guardians of our courts is left t
the governor.-Brattlebo Reformer.