Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-18
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
Vail for Governor.

WHAT The PAPERS SAY
Vail for Governor.
The Burlington Clipper suggests
Hon. Theo. N. Vail of Lyndon for
governor on the ground that the people
Of Vermont want less politics and |
more business in the management of |
it's state affairs. They would certainly |
get it with such man as Mr.. Vail at
the helm.-The Advance.
Judge Gibson.
How does it happen that our es.
teemed Progressive townsman. Judge
Gibson, who is so Staunch champion
of the right of the people to run things
in the state, should allow himself to
be made the official Bull Moose candi-
date for Congress by few party
chieftains who would be termed bosses
if they belonged to either of the two
old parties?-Brattleboro Reformer.
Speaks of Barton Electric Light Plant.
The electric light plant run by the
village of Barton shows profit of
nearly $4,000 for the year. The plant
in Burlington has been burden on the
taxpayers. according to general under
standing. These municipal affairs
work out very much like private
business concerns. Every thing depends
upon the location and competition and
the way they are handled Brattleboro
Reformer.
A Strange Statement.
Maine chairman there is a statement
hot Too it,f/ o,+ Icy xryl>n on
Vermont chairman gives thanks to
Judge E. W. Gibson. who is four
candidate for Congress from the second
district" This is most remarkable
statement when it is considered that it
is uttered in letter of Thanksgiving
over the victory of the direct primary.
One will find it difficult to understand
how the Progressives have determined
upon a candidate since as yet there has
neither been primary election nor a
convention. Frankly, if Republican
or Democrat had been announced by
his party's leader as the next candi-
date there would be a howl go up
about depriving the people of the
right to choose their own candidates.
Why should it be any different if the
Progressives do the same? Is theirs
simply lip service to the high ideals
they affect to stand for?-St. Adams
Messenger.
Hear This.
Colby Stoddard, the energetic publ.
city agent of the Prouty boom, will go
down in history as the Duke of Or
leans. That famous character made
history and who knows whether
history will repeat itself. Hats off to
~ n,,lx
The Advance.
If Charles A. Prouty isn't United
States senator to succeed Senator
his devoted press agent. Colby Stod-
dard, over at Orleans, from where he
is sending out redhot Prouty literature
Mr.. Stoddard is pretty we'll known to
the newspaper fraternity, with which
he has been more or less identified for
a dozen years. He is also lawyer of
a good deal of ability. but it is as a fish.
erman that his talent shines with
greatest radiance. He can brag about
the fishing in Barton river with such
skill and eloquence as to make fish
erman from any other section of the
state feel mere twig in the gale.
With all these brilliant qualifications
the Prouty promotion propaganda coulo
not be in better hands. The south
winds of spring will have to do LOT
more than they have so far to in any
way rival the current Stoddard's facile
pen.-Benningto Banner.
Vermont Court Procedure.
We give space this week for letter
by Superior Judge w. w. Miles. writ
ten to the Orleans County Monitor,
because we believe the opinions of the
members OF the Vermont courts should
be given the widest publicity.
They are the best qualified persons
in the state to discuss rules and
methods of procedure and doubtless
are the best informed about desirable
changes.
+. Probably few people realize that the
superior judges had made the improve
ments Mr.. Miles mentions. Possibly
the judges might facilitate the secur
ing of justice by reducing the periot
in which cases must be disposed Of
from four to two years. The state
ment by Judge Miles that 'scarcely
ten per cent of the cases entered il
court are ever tried or expected to be
gestion to mind A shortening of the
!
court dockets would prevent litigant:
from delaying settlement.
Two things are suggested by Judge
Miles that the legislature must do i
the securing of Justice is to be expe
dited. First he says: IA law coule
be passed that no ruling or judgmen
of the county court should be reversed
by the Supreme Court, unless the
exceptions clearly showed there wa
error in the ruling Or judgment of tn
county court and that the exceptin.
party was injured by it and that if thu
case were reversed different result
would probably happen on anothe
/ trial" We had supposed the Suprem
: Court of Vermont did decide as indie
5 pendently of mere technica]ities as it
possible for it to do, but if it can b
made more independent of them by Lax
the law should be enacted.
Judge Miles suggests that count
and chancery courts be given tn