Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-02
POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
OF VERMONT MATTERS BY VARIOUS
STATE NEWSPAPERS.
What Editors Throughout the State Are Say
ing in Regard to Current Political Events
Interesting Points From Many Pens.

ing In Regard to Current Political Events
Interesting Points From Many Pens.
What is this we hear? Do the Fed
eral Office holders in Vermont take or
ders from the Proctor manager? II
not, why the flop" from Mccullough
70 Proctor of several United States of
ficials who were outspoken for the
Bennington county candidate when the
opposition was Dr. Webb? Has il
come to this that prominent men as
4 sign their liberty in Vermont when
they accept Office from Washington
The people are back of these inquiries.
bennington Banner.
We doubt if the proportion of
men who honestly want to see the
! liquor business done away is any
larger in Vermont than Massachusetts
What has come to be the settled down
conviction in this state is that public
sentiment, local public sentiment, is
the necessary bulwark of the liquor
law, and local option is the form this
sentiment takes. 1t is not theoretically
a defensible policy What is wrong
and ought to be prohibited in one
town cannot be right and permissible
in the next, but out of its own eXper-
fence the state learned that the trans
fer of the question to the towns and
cities was the nearest practicable APP
proach to the solution of difficult
problem in the present state of the
common morals and mind. The Yer
mont case cannot be much different
There is a deal of hypocrisy and shift
mess in that states treatment of the
liquor business. L furnishes a notable
illustration of prohibition that doesn't
prohibit. Mr.. Clement is able to strike
some very effective blows at the pres
that the voting of Nermonters on their
honest judgment would give him
support quite beyond present calcula-
lions. Greenfield Mass. Recorder.
The splendid richness of the Repub
lican party of Vermont in variety of
things that are discredit to the state,
that pull down instead of build up and
make for the continuance of laws.
rules, regulations and customs which
were new in the beginning of the last
century, is Nermont's prize exhibit in
this campaign year. The show is
great one if not enrolling. The peo-
pie of no state labor under more dis
advantages in the matter of leaders /
who are for themselves first and last /
and who do as little as the law allows /
for the general welfare, for progress
and enlightenment. So far as they /
dare to do nothing, the party behind .
is responsible, and the party must also
answer for the weakness of its officials .
and they have not made a brilliant
showing in recent years. Here are
.hree or four candidates for the gov
and not one of the whole
collection stands for anything but him
self, representing nothing, advocating
nothing new or good. We might ex
,ept Mr. Clement, who aims violent
)low at a shining piece of humbug
gerry and corruption, but he appeals to
he party that has enacted most of the
Existing abuses-a party not much
,iven to house cleaning under any
One of these Republican
will be elected-rot Mr.
clement, who will be penalized for his
entiments- and the strings will be
Irawn a little tighter at Montpelier
Inless some spirit of independence in
bought, action and in voting is shown
n the next few months. Woodstock
Age.