The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-26
EDITORIAL VIEWS.
Nc MIlIan's Interview With Some of
VermOnrs Leading Newspaper Men
Who are now In Saratoga.

ASDA OANAA1b IL " ~
NC MIlIan's Interview With Some OF
Vermont's Leading Newspaper Men
who are now In Saratoga.
Such members of the Vermont press
association who had not yielded to the
soporific influeces of Saratoga's wooing
waters at an early hour last evening,
were cornered and compelled to yield
up their views at the point of the pencil.
Their statements follow exactly as they
were made and will prove mighty inter
esting reading:
Col. Albert Clarke, of the Rutland
Herald:
"The Republican party is reunited,
All the mugwumps who are not free
traders have returned. More Democrats
are repudiating their party platform and
leaders than at any other time since the
war; at the present rate 1t will be
stampede before the campaign is over.
The Republicans are likely to carry
every Northern state and no one need
be surprised if they carry Virginia,
West Virginia and North Carolina; they
certainly will if there is free trade
vote and fair count. Protection,
patriotism and political honesty have
found new birth in the hearts of the
people,"
Hon. James X. Batchelder, of Arling.
ton, who was president of the Republic
can State convention, held at Mont
pelier, June q, said
vermont will give larger majority
for the Republican state and national
tickets this year than for many years
pest, The tariff issue is vital one in
Vermont, and affects the material inter
ests of the State. Vermont is pro-
lection State, and many protection
Democrats will vote the Republican
ticket this year"
Hon. Warren Gibbs, editor OF the 81,
Adams Messenger, says:
1.-THE Vermont Republicans are more
enthusiastic this year than in any Pres
idential campaign since 1872. Harrison
and Morton are entirely satisfactory to
the Republicans of the State, and the
party majority at the September election
promises to be the largest for years.
Editor d. X. Simonds, of the Manches-
ter Journal, says: >,
"Vermont, which is always solid like
her marble and granite, will be like ad-
amant for Harrison and Protection
Look out for big majority next Sep
tember, The voters will come down
from their hills and from the backwoods
as they did in 1910, and set the ball in
motion; and if the other states do thell
duty as well, the game is surely ours
Vermont is bound TO make home run
this year"
Hon. G. G. Benedict, editor OF the
Burlington Free Press;
1.-THE drift of sentiment among the
voters in Vermont in the camaign is de-
cldedly towards the Republican candi
dates, and | think we shall increase ouI
usual majority at the State election
The Green Mountain Republicans pro
pose in September to set the Republicans
of the Empire State an example tor
them to follow in November, by rolling
up an old fashioned majority for the
nominee of the party"
Secretary Charles S Forbes, of the
Republican State league, said;
1.-THE Republican club movement has
resulted in arousing the voters OF the
State to the political issues of the Presl-
Dental campaign much earlier thar
usual and the party organization wa'
never so complete and efficient in any
previous canvass as it is at the present
time. There are now 1870 Republican
clubs in Vermont, and the formation o.
new clubs is still progressing. The
canvass IN Vermont is being vigorously
conducted and the Green Mountain
Republicans promise to give the Stat'
ticket $4,000 to 81, 900 majority in Sep
tember."
BRAINY, BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD.
The Vermont editors came down from
their mountain strongholds last nigh
and took possession of Saratoga. Yer
mont is not large State, but it is rock
ribbed, and It's newspaper men are a.
brainy as they are beautiful and good
They are all Republicans; that is al
but one, and he is brought along as
sort of terrible example. He is postmas
ter of Poultney, and with an unfalterln(
countenrnce sustalns the admiration
wherever he goes, and confidently ex-
presses the opinion that it will be clost
thing between the Democratic Prohi
bitionists and Republicans in Vermont
Mr.. Humphrey is an intelligent mar
in appearance, giving no sign IN his per
sonal demeanor of his political aberra
ton. He wears long beard, speak
deliberately and with finished enuncia,
ton, rolling his RS slightly, and IS evil
IDENTIFY very proud of the company tina
he is in. He knows very well that it i
in the power of the phalanx that he il
travelling with to wipe out the Demo
Icratic press in Vermont at any moment
but he shows no signs of trepidation
Indeed the Vermont Press Association
would not lose it's Democratic editor TO
good deal. His presence shows that /
is nom partisan, and then the Poultnel
"ghoul" is indispensable as sort of |
target or pincushion.
Mr., Humphrey persistently refuses t
be interviewed because it is contrary Il
President Cleveland's civil service re
form rules.
As shown by the expressions of sucl
of the editors as had not retired at half
past eight O'Clock last night, Vernon
promises to Ego Republican" this year
And we cannot help but regard tn,
wholesome condition of the State as du,
very largely to the efforts of the Yer
mont editors We bid them welcome Il
Saratoga. and may they succeed in re
turning Editor Humphrey safe to hi
home in Poultney; and in the coming
contest may they outwit and defeat hin
utterly, 1t would be an everlasting
disgrace to let Humphrey carry Yer
mont even though he have the psestig
of minister at the British court. -Sa
ratogian, July 18th.