Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-11-15
ELECTION

west and opinions are usually flavor
ed with personal beliefs. Prejudice
also has it's influence on the view we
take of matters, try as hard as we
may to cast it to one side.
With this introduction let US say a
few words about last weeks elections,
local, state and national
Orleans county sends to Montpel-
Ter this winter an unusually strong
representation. In the Senate S. B.
Bates and o. w. Locke will be count
ed among the leaders. In the House
Newport, Barton and Craftsbury have
elected outstanding men.
S. B. Bates as one of our senators
will automatically hold command
ing position. His years of service at
the head of Vermont's road depart
ment, thereby giving him wide ac-
quaintance and a vast store of in
formation on subjects other than
roads, will place him in position of
influence from the first day of the
session.
o. w. Locke is man whose bust
ness life and contact with matters of
his community, his integrity and in
dustry, and his keen insight into af-
fairs of the state, will make his in
huence felt.
Aaron H. Grout of Newport is the
son of former governor, an attorney
of ability with a splendid record as
90 -, xIyhn i
ton in local military circles and ir
fraternal bodies in the state have
given him a wide and varied &C
uuaintance. AS an active candidate
for speaker of the House he is bounG
to be influential in Montpelier.
F. D. Thompson of Barton is the
son of former supreme court judge
is now supreme court reporter of de-
cisions, is an able attorney with a
splendid record as states attorney
both in this county and in Caledonia,
was several years municipal judge
and has held positions of trust. Mr..
Thompson is bound to be heard from
while in the Vermont House.
Horace F. Graham of C1aitsbury is
one of the best informed men n We
mont on the states government. His
service in various positions from
states attorney to governor has given
him an experience and background
which cannot fail to make him most
valuable legislator.
This is not saying that the other
representatives from this county are
not able men. In fact they rather
measure above the average. Rev.
John Kimball of Glover is a man
with legislative experience in New
Hampshire and will be one of the men
whose presence will be felt. R. A.
Dutton of Bloomington, president of
the Orleans County Farm Bureau, is
another man who will fill a place
considerably above the average in the
House. In fact the entire list is a
most creditable one.
Probably not in the history of the
county has there been so many can
didates who bolted the regular nom
inees. "Bolters," so-called in former
days at least, sprung up in at least
the following towns: Glover, Green's
boro, Craftsbury, Coventry, Charles
ton, Lowell, Westmore and Barton,
but the significant thing about the re-
suit is that no one of the entire list
of boilers won After all perhaps
the primary is something to go by.
1t is none of our business, of course,
but somehow we can't but feel that
ALBANY would have distinguished
herself by sending it's Republican
nominee, Mrs. Alice Rowell. Repub-
lican voters helped to elect Henry Nc
CURE, good man TO be sure. and one
of the few Democrats ever TO be sent
from the county, but Mrs. Rowell is
an able woman and would have been
the first to have gone to the legisla-
ture from Orleans county.
Jaw had no regular nominee for
representative, but Graham Lucier
was elected to represent that town
this winter. While Charleston dis
tinguished herself with four names on
the November ballot, Jay distinguish
ed herself by not having a nominee
at ALL Here were the two extremes
and in neither case did the Septem
Der primary do particle of good
Lee Miller of Westfeld, 25, is prob
ably the youngest representative this
county ever sent to Montpelier.
A thing we can't quite understand
is how Newport cast fewer than 500
votes with more than 1000 names or
the checklist, easily giving Barton
the largest vote in the county, which
was more than 800. What is the
trouble with Newport voters? Only
100 at special meeting, and less