Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-08-07
The Canvass for Senator.
+ Woodstock Standard.

The Montpelier Waterman ana lhe
Burlington Free Press are busily en-
gagged in explaining that candidates
for election to the United States SEN
ate should have some other quallllca-
tions besides a disposition to vote
right on the circuit Oleomargarlne
bill: fact which is as plain as Abe
Lincoln's face, and needs no cXplana-
ton. Only recently, however, these
papers were arguing that Dillingham; S
oleomargarinc record was much more
creditable than Gen. CIRCUITS record in
the same matter, and that Nh Dill
lingham's record proved him to be a
good lawyer far-seeing Statesman
and almost a farmer: at least Il
friend whom every farmer should sup
port in bis political aspirations. Why
are these papers now proclaiming that
friendship for oleomarga,ne legisla
tion don count for much anyway?
The Free Press had said in sub
stance that, while member Of the
Vermont legislature in 1854, Mr.. Dill
lingham defeated an anti-oleo bill,
which would have been unconstitu-
tonal if passed, and procured the
passage Of wise law prohibiting the
sale Of olcomargarine in this state
An investigation fails to show thai
Mr.. Dillingham; defeated the first bill
for il passed the House in spite Of
his opposition, and vas defeated in
the Senate; fails to show that the
of the bill were unconsti- !
tutiOnaI fails to show that Mr.. Dill |
'ingham was Instrumental in the pas
sage Of the present law, or that he
advocated its passage on the floor Of
thc House. And it is a notorious |
fact that the present olcUlaw is prac-
NINHIiN WIZ oliltSo.
The Free Press had informed the
public that law similar to that which |
Mr.. Dillingham; opposed, has been de-
;lared unconstitutional, by the courts
If New York state. Then the Free
Press refused to publish a letter from
W. H. Parker, of Cambridge, denying |
that statement. And the Free Press
las not yet produced the decisions of
jhe New York courts, in which "a
similar law" was declared unconstitu-
-ional. Probably the Burlington
paper will not produce them, either
The bill which Mr.. Dillingham; oppos-
I'd in the Vermont house was very
similar to the bill which will be pass
I'd by the national house next Deem
oerr and it has not yet been discover
I'd in Washington that the provisions
)f the Circuit bill are unconstitutional. |
The bitterly partisan Barre Times
delivers this lump Of logic:
- tar as we are aware the cleo bill |
S the one and only bill of national
Importance that Gen Grout has been |
Identified with during
us Is years in Congress and it's SUI
;ess at the end will crcditably round |
1ut his career ia WASHINGTON and |
)erllapS compensate him for bis fail
IRE TO get into the senate. The cleo
Dill is good one and we hope it win !
oec ''ne law at the coming short
session OF congress. Gen. Grout will
DC there to vote for it ia the House
md Senator Dillingham; We feel
'ure, will d0 his b, st for it in The
senate
Perhaps Mr.. Dillingham; will "do|
MS best for it" III he gets thcle) but
certainly his record does not Indicate
such action.
ANS question Of the fraudulent
competition of oleomargarinc is one OIL
The most vital probltm ms which now
the farmers of Vermont and
he country at large. 1t touches
heif pockcibooks, and they realize it.
'erlaps the anti-Grout papers can
nut UP song and dance which viii
axe lhc minds of the farmers off
rom lhtlf own wounds for the limo
,einE, but 1t ism t probable.