News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-05
The Free Press Slabs Woodbury..

From the Barre Town News.
That artful dodger in journalism,
the Free Press, has at last been
smoked out, and last week was COM
PEELED to infiict on the list of charity
patients, or subscribers without
money and without price, an editori-
al that purported to deal with state
expenses.
When we say ''purported' we use
the term advisedly, for it was in fact
merely very halting string of apol-
ogies for the part that Col. o. A.
Woodbury. did not take in preventing
the great extravagances of the ses-
sion of 1888, which appropriated
nearly, if not quite, a million and a
half of the hard-earned dollars of the
farmers and laboring men of the
state. The article was really a stab
in the back of it's candidate
1t discreetly omits to make any
mention of the fact that the lieuten-
ant-governor gobbled a place on one
of the best-paying commissions au-
thorized by that legislature, viz the
insane asylum commission, for his
valuable services, on which he receiv-
ed five dollars per day and travelling
expenses, pretty nearly all over New
England. If he was an imbecile in
the matter of preventing such rob-
berry OF the people as the Free Press
claims, he certainly had the ability
to decline to profit by the job.
If he did not have backbone or dis
cernment enough then to discover
how the people were being robbed,
and lift his voice against the proceed
ing, what right has any one to think
he would be any better if elected gov
ernor; he may not have been called
on to vote on aIFss-yOf the bills. but
that would not have prevented him
from using his voice outside the SEN
ate chamber; and he knows, as does
the Free Press, that a word of dis
enlargement from him would have
been a death-blow to many of those
jobs. He could at least have refused
to be one of the commission by say
ing, 81 will not consent to take the
peoples money, and | wash my hands
of this job
Does any one who knows U. A.
Woodbury. believe that in the subject
of state finance he is the equal of C.
). Page? If so, they will point out
when he has demonstrated his abil-
ity. Do they claim that he has the
backbone to stand up against "a pow
erful ring? If SO, give some proof.
The simple story of why the largest
and most powerful corporation in the
state is arrayed against C. S. Page
shows that he has backbon to stand
out for the interest of his party. The
same story also demonstrates his
shrewdness as superior to all that of
all his colleagues on the state COM
mittee, for not one of them saw the
trouble ahead until he pointed it out.
In fact, every move on the part of C.
S. Page goes to prove that he is long
headed, has quick perceptive facul-
ties, and backbone to stand for what
he deems is right. On the other hand,
U. A. Woodbury. has in every spot
and place shown himself vacillatin@.
unreliable, and not of the keenest
foresight. As proofof this, we would
call attention to his course in the col
lectorship contest, it being stated by
those who are in a position to know
that he declared he should be neutral,
when by his letter it seems he had or
did indorse g. G. Benedict. His sub.
servience to ring rule is shown by the
happy tone in which he asserts that
he has the support of thatpower, and
his lack of foresight is vouched forbv
the Free Press in its attempted de-
fence in the matter of state expenses.
The farmers, laooring men, and all
taxpayers, unless they want to be
mulcted for $2,000,00O this year,
will instruct their delegates to vote
for the nomination of Carroll S. Page.