Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-28

that the druggist and the man who wanted
the rum constituted the tribunal to pass
| upon the matter. Such provision as that.
the speaker said, could mean free rum. lie
said that If such law as that was passed
drug stores would increase so rapidly that
| III Burlington alone there would soon be
| as many in one block as there arc cand
dates for city representative this year. The
| speaker said that II the enactment "
| license law was trusted to Clement some
such result as that would he reached. He
said that the matter should be settled by
the Republican party which would frame
a law that would be the best for all the
people.
In speaking of the local situation Mr..
Powers referred to the attempt Of Glenn
ent to bunco Burlington out of large sum
of money by threatening to run the Rut-
land-Canadian railroad around the city
and thereby cut the city off He asked If
the people of the city were not thankful
when DR.. Webb secured control of the road
and If they were not looking to him for the
realization of their dream Of a greater
! Burlington The speaker said he was not
discouraged because Clement was trying
| to bunco the State of Vermont. The State
has been tested and can stand It, ne said
| tie said that what Clement wants is votes
and he is willing to get them anywhere
| re even tried to have the democrats take
| MN IN but they could not stomach him
| In closing the speaker said that there
| must be political parties; that men of the
same opinion must get together; that the
majority must rule and that without party
the voters would be in chaos
| Let Burlington make the effort and
| when the result is announced next Tues
DAY night the glad tidings will be tina I
burlington has given General Mccullough
a majority"
OVATION FOR GEN. MCCULLOUGH
chairman Foster then introduced the last
speaker of the evening, calling upon Cen
erol Mccullough, whom he designated "a
tne next governor Of Vermont General
Mccullough at the outset paid a tribute n
the excellent preceding speeches Of the
evening. in which both local and nation Al
issues were discussed. He said that prey.
= lousy during off years there has been al
, most no canvass in this State and moth.
ing but the vanity and inordinate ambition
OF one man IS responsible for the conditions
confronting the party this year. He sale
: II ne was placed in a position to do So his
B. aim would be to give the State an honest
n fair decent and an economical admin
! igtration.
! Tie said the honesty Of the boiling can
p didate is dishonesty and his reform de-
grcGation. He would shift back from tht
State to the town and turn the inmates al
the insane asylum loose upon a. cold world
His reform to the old soldiers would b
+ unjust and ungrateful and his reform tc
2 education would be its destruction. He
{ would blot out the agricultural society
I maple sugar exchange and board of health
? Is this the reform you wish? They would
! reverse your history for a hundred years
I and | repeat, their honesty is dishonesty
and their reform degradation
Boiling republicans, General mccullough
' said the Republican party gives you tn,
p referendum and If YOU get from your ole
rarty all that any new one may offer, theI
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