News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
THE GOVERNOR QUESTION.
One More Charge Exploded.

From the st. Johnsbury Caledonian.
The Woodbury. organs have fire.
quently limited at an improper use by
Mr.. Page of material gathered by
the Republican state committee in the
campaign of 1888. EmbOldened by
the fact that Mr.. Page did not rush
INTO PRINT with n frantic denial, their
assertions to this effect have grown
stronger until a few days ago the st.
Adams Messenger made this state
ment, as an absolute fact:
"TheSe lists are not his to be used
to advance his own private and per-
sonal interests, but belong to the
party, and to every member of it, for
use alike. That these lists, which in
Guide the names of all republican
voters in the state obtained in the
canvass of 1888, are being used by
Mr.. Page in his pre-convention can
vass, is absolutely certain
This being a tangible attack, reach
ing beyond the innuendOes so popu-
lar with our Burlington and St. Al
bans contemporaries, the editor OF
the CaIedOnlan wrote as follows to
y
of the republican state committee:
There is one feature of the present political
canvass that thought you, as secretary of
the state committee could explain. The st.
Adams Messenger has asserted that G.. ).
Page is using the lists of the republican state
committee to send out sample copies of the
state papers: | can't believe that charge is
true and write you to get the facts. Do you
have the lists and has he ever asked you for
/ ham IsAG At - 'rl
| Woodbury., or anybody else, a perfect right
to see them because they, the lists, belong to
the republican party and not to the chair
man or any member of the committee?
In his reply Secretary Baldwin stat
ed as follows:
Since | have been secretary of the republi-
can state committee (Which has been since
| 1866 c. 5. Page has not had or used any OF
the lists of the committee and they have not
been out of tny TeHe in Rarton Soon after
the state convention in 1888 the state com
mittee arranged to canvass the state by
school districts. KNOW that Mr.. Page never
saw the names of the persons on that can,
vass, and all he ever knew was the result
Mr.. Page has not had or examined any OF
the lists of the republican state committee
since | have been its secretary nor has he
sought to.
You ask if Mr.. Page or Col. Woodbury.
would not have right to see the lists in the
office of the secretary. | know of no reason
why they could not
Thus one more campaign Islander
is disposed of. There does not seem
to be a scintila of evidence that Mr.
Page has used improperly any of the
machinery of the state committee
This has taken the regular course OF
the ISLANDERS aimed against Mr.. Page.
AT first hint is given that some
thing is wrong in Mr. Pages con
duct. Then a presumption is raised
that as matter of course he has
done so and so. Next, no denial be-
ing made by Mr.. Page, it is positive
ly asserted that he has done so and
SO. Then comes a disproof of the
whole story, direct and positive, and
the attack collapses and falls to the
ground with a sickening thud that
echoes all over Vermont.
Have our friends, the great dailies
in the northwestern corner of the
state, any more breech-fring guns in
their armory with which to amuse
the people?