Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-10-06
HARTNESs AND WHY
"A woman Tells Why She Joined a.
ureat movement for Hartness

W.. Twenty-Five years ago this fall,
wnen l married jennie Coocobodd q
th G;an wasn't expected to know anv-
han except housework and her hus-
bra;,, was supposed to furnish all the
Drains necessary for the family ME-
De at that time we was a It'll LAY
gun, but times has changed and ~
gay we won't have to take a bacL 80 70
Tor no male person. seal
here spell ago John commenced
eaihihg politics to me and tellino, r,a
VS. got 10 elect a new governor th;S
ian. mats just the man of if
sney re never satisfied with what thew
nave, always got to have somethino =.
WHAT'S the matter with Clement
says l.. What's he done, ANYWAY?
Motnlng, says John, nothing.
him, says I? Win
be satisfied, says he. Don't Won
KNOW that we have to elect a poyerS
nor every two years whether we want
one or not? | hadn't thought of that.
wen, says John, who are you going
to vote for? eoi'is
amt had much time to read the
papers lately, says /, and / shall have
FOL
my stand.
Well, commenced reading the na-
pers and found out there was four
men who wanted to be governor and
run the machinery of the state. / ask
ed John who he thought would be
elected and he says Babbitt.
Why, says II.
because, says he, Babbitt is a ma
chine man.
didn't say nothing, but I knew
right off he'd got 'em mixed. 'cause
Id read that Mr.. Hartness was a ma
chlnist and worked over in Ludlow or
windsor somewhere, and / guess Pye
used enough of Mr.. Rabbits SOAP to
know what business he's in.
Now that John spoke of it / could
see why man ought to understand
machinery If he is to run the machin-
cry of the state. l don't know what
kind of machinery they use but ]
guess 1T amt anything for a soap
man to fool with. Afterwards / told
John this and he laughed.
Why, says he, when I told him ]
was going to vote for Mr.. Hardness
you don't even know one of the Hart
ness planks.
Says /, why you poor fish, if you'd
read the papers and not~show your
1 ignorance you'd know that Mr.. Hart
ness is q machinist and works over to
Windsor.
Springfield, says John.
Well, Springfield, says I, it don't
make any difference, he's a machinist
and not a carpenter nor lumber Jack
and don't have nothing to do with
logs or planks.
John see they was no use arguing
with me. Ive got will of my own
IL / do say it myself, but kind OF
feel sorry for Mr.. Babbitt. because
one paper called him a straddler and
never like to make fun of anybud-
dy's deformity.
couldn't find out much about Mr.
Emery but Mrs. Laraway said she
had been told that his business was
making some kind of black sand pa
per. and Mrs. Blodgett thought he
was some kind of policeman or sher-
if or something and of course, III
either case he couldn't be expected tc
know very much about machinery.
/ did so want to vote for Mr.. Agan
he's such a pretty man and his pic
lures look so nice. but Mrs. Holcomt
told me she'd heard he was once G
potentate. ] don't know just what {
potentate is, and neither does Mrs
HOlcOn1D, DuC 4 90 KNOW lflSy dIc lSI
rible men and have harems anC
things.
Mrs. Holconlb said she thought hi
had reformed and became goot
christen now, but you never can tell
/ never did have much use for for
eigners but Mr.. Agan looked so diff
ferent that / was almost tempted q
vote for him, even after Mrs. Hol
comb had told me of his dreadful
mast. see that I was allowing my
self to be vamped and my bette
Judgment told me to put Mr.: Agar
out of my mind and vote for Mr.
/ Hardness.
/ received quite lot of literature
and seen a great many bills posted
around and they all spoke very high
" of Mr.; HARNESS, and thought m n
would make a fine governor, so l vot
ed for him. but still think Mr.. Agar
terrible nice looking, and 1 hope M
won't never be a potentate again.
Sophronia B. Coocobodd.