The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-27

doesn't pretend to be a paragon of
knowledge nor to have a remedy for all
the ills that beset VermontS body poll
tic, but he appears to have sound ideas
on the most efficient methods of getting
things done. He won't be a big-stick
wielder, nor thrower of inkwells, but
| the chances are that under his admins
| tration the legislature will work in much
the same spirit that the session of 1906
did under his elder brother, the late
Fletcher Proctor.
Congressman Greene, who is soon to
/ be senator and is certain to be a cred-
table one gave an excellent talk on the
subject that ought to interest every be-
lever in constitutional government 1t
is true, as he says, that the old party
lines are disappearing, largely because
the issues that separated the parties
have disappeared and new ones taken
| their places. so that conservative Repub-
licans and Democrats find little or moth
ing over which TO disagree. Sooner or
later they viii have to get together to
battle against the forces of discomfort
that are threatening trouble. As n mat
ter of fact. they ought to get together
whenever there is something good to be
| accomplished whether ii is in local. state
or national affairs. The Freemans Oath
doesn't say anything about Republicans
or Democrats. 1t simply requires of
every franchised person that whenever
you give your vote touching on any mat
ter that concerns the state of Vermont
you will do it so as in your conscience
you shall judge will most conduce to the
best good of the same as established By
of any man.
The young generation, as Congress-
man Greene wisely observes, has moth
ing like the reverence for political
parties that existed - years ago. for the
sufficient reason that the youngsters
cant see any fundamental difference to-
day between Republican and Democratic
doctrine In their belief, issues and
parties do net run parallel, and until
they do the young folk won't be found
pitching their tents in one camp or the
other. The same is true to quite an ex.
| tent with women voters. A good many
of them-in spite of the fact that their
menfolks may be habitually one thing or
the other-can't see why they should
vote for a poorly qualified candidate
| merely because he bears the label of a
| political party that has been in house
hold use for some time past.
/ Since his nomination in the Septem-
Der primaries Frank f. Barber has been
doing a bit of travelling about the state
presumably in furtherance of his ambi-
| ton to be speaker of the next house of
representatives. From now until Nov.
Z, however, he will probably eonfine
himself to Brattleboro. He ought to,
at any rate, because he certainly can't
| be speaker until he is elected represent
alive.
/ Away back in March, before there had
been any developments in the local po-
litical situation. The Meddler said in
regard to the makeup of the next legis-
lature: "Let US all do what we can to
/ see that it has a safe working majority
of hard-boiled, hard-headed, cold-blooded,
matter-of-fact men who have no axes to
grind but set of thoroughly reliable ine
struments with which to repel raids on
the treasury. Steer clear of the chap
who gives indications thus early in the
campaign of putting up any political
| fences. Nine chances out of ten he has
some personal reason, wholly unrelated
to what the public wants, for trying to
get to Montpelier. and that no matter
how loudly he chirps about economy and