The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-30
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In "A recent issue the Reformcr insin'
uated that the employees of the Var
Ness house have been conducting the
LIQUOR business as an enterprise OF
their W under the knowledge of Mr..
Woodbury. and that their wages were
''gaugcd somewhat on the fact OF the
profits that they make out OF then
LIQUOR" Unless Editor Davenport
knows this to be a fact it's a mean
dirty %insinuation, to which the DIES
perate editor of the Rutland Herald
would hardly resort and il he does
know it to be a fact it should be stated
as such and not ~insinuated. -lWh
mington Times.
'Why squirm so?' is a question the
Reformer is continually compelled to
ask its Republican contemporaries in
this business. The Reformer has
"insinuated" nothing. 1t stated ex-
plicitly that liquor has for years been
furnished constantly and Systematically
in the Van Ness house by employees,
who have even gone to the point of
soliciting trade. Editor Davenport not
only knows" this, but 50 does Editor
Packard or anybody else who has ever
been at the Van Ness house for any
considerable time and who has kept
his eyes open. The Reformer has also
charged that it would be ridiculous
after all these IA years of the practise
to claim that GOV. Woodbury. does not
know it, as the whole travelling public
does. or that he could not stop it if
he set about it in earnest, and there
fore that he is liable under the law,
applying to owners of buildings who
"knowingly permit the selling,
furnishing or giving away of intoxi-
eating liquor on their premises. This
is true not only of the Van Ness house
but of the drug store block of which
Gov. Woodbury. is half owner, and it is
a phase of the ease which the Times
and our other Republican, cotcmpo-
raries cannot be dragged into consid-
They prefer to talk about
insinuations, " and they are
making a very unanimously ludicrous
exhibition of themselves in their pre-
tense of sustaining the n~onsensically
provisions of our prohib-
itory law and then getting into such a
when it is pointed out how
they apply to the case of the highest
of the state. As to the wages
Of the employees of the house being
effected by the profits they get out of
this traffic, just as those of hotel en-
always are by the practise Of
tips" the Reformer merely pointed
out that if there was any such effect,
t would be an ''indirect participa-
.ion' in the profits Of the traffic, which
he Governor had denied receiving.
The Reformer gave him credit for his
ienial and professed no knowledge
bout it. but observed that it would
,e a natural supposition' that wages
be gagged somewhat upon the
act, - as the Governor is a sharp, keen
business man who would hire as cheap
S he could, and the laws of supply and
would make men willing to
'ork cheap in "A place where SO much
can be pocketed from liquor
ales. There was no ''insinuation"
'hatever, but a statement of a plain, :
yery-day business fact, in no way
iscreditable to the Governor except |
n his professed zeal for prohibition. ,
nd the Times and the rest are max /
IL their noise over side issues because {
are well aware that on the main l
they have no standing ground, and ! !,
it'll the usual organic logic they ex- 7
act to be able to obscure the truth |
y raising dust about ''insinuations'' .
Id attacks on the fair fame of the q
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The fact remains that no political r
ganization was ever left in a more :
'ntemptible position than the Repub- q
party of Vermont is by this case. n