Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-27
POLITICAL AFTERMATH.
What the Newspapers of Vermont Are Say
ing About Things Political.

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The Republican party of Vermont
would do we'll to insert ''peace and
harmony" plank in its platform. -
Barre Telegram.
The Democratic smile is broadening
Now is the time for strong Demo
cratic state ticket to make itself heard.
Barre Telegram.
Elk Governor John W. Stewart of
Middlebury has been out of the har-
ness for some time but he made the
biggest hit at the convention Thurs
day. Barre Telegram.
The question which now confronts
the people of Vermont is whether the
prohibitory law and local option law
can pass each other on a single legis-
lative track without a collision. Bur
lington Free Press.
After 80 years of fight, with the
Local Option platform adopted as the
platform Of the Republican party, and
the cause almost in sight of the final
victory, the present is no time for the
Local Option people to go into the
campaign with divided counsels. 1t
is no time to make fight to split the
Republican party which swings the
banner of Local Option at its mast
head and must give us the final vic
tory if victory we gain. burlington
News.
There We're many amusing situations
and incidents in the Republican state
convention. None was more so than
when the suave and courtly and yet
foxy John W. Stewart of Middlebury
oil Il &c Jo,,,,E
Jones of Rutland "painlessly and with
out detention from business f." Ii is
very seldom that man does not know
when his eyetooth is pulled, but my
friend from Rutland" was an exception
to the general rule. Stewards anaes-
thetic was pleasing to take and very
effective. Rutland News.
Whatever may be ones opinion of p.
W. Clement and his ideas, all must
admit that he has played the game to
perfection, that his political manage
ment has been shrewd and effective.
There are few men who could have
started late, with no machine and with
an issue believed to be unpopular, and
become the commanding figure he is
in the state convention. Mr.. Clement
has doubtless spent lot of money, but
it has all been spent effectively, and
the clean manner in which his cam
paign has been conducted has COM
itself to every one. Montpel-
Ter Argus.
The candidate for governor before
the Vermont Republican convention
who was non committal on the prohi- /
bition question secures the nominal /
ton; the candidate who has stood for
the high license and local option pol |
icy secures the platform. and the dis
inctively prohibition candidate Sc I
cures leave TO withdraw. Such is the /
outcome of the warm contest waged .
over that state during the past month, /
and it is indicative of a great change .
n public sentiment on the question of I
iealing with the liquor traffic. Evil /
iently prohibition in Vermont now /
in the balance. Springfield .
The outcome of the Republican state
at Montpelier, while not
what was desired and hoped for by the
of The candidacy of Fetch
n ID. Proctor. viii be satisfactory to
he great body of Republican voters of
he state. The selection of John G.
for gubernatorial candi-
late i, the selection of man entirely
qualified from the standpoint of abil-
ty TO fill that high Office In him are
many of the attributes of a
plendid typical executive officer, 1t
must be frankly stated, however, that
he man chosen is superior to the
Methods 10y which he was chosen. 49,
rutland News
The friends of MIR. Clement, when
heir first disappointment is over.
ught to turn to and work as actively .
0 roll up a great Republican majority
5 if this contest for the nomination
ever had been fought 1t has made l
reat hubbub in Vermont But the
ews of it has not penetrated to the :
lrger portion of the country. Repub !
cans of other states will look to Yer /
lont confidently this year as always a
,r a splendid victory. which will put
ew life and confidence into the gen |
raj Republican campaign. This is {
list as essential in 1902 as it was in &
SIS or 1900. And the friends of Mr. I
lement can afford to let bygoneS be Il
ygones. all the more freely because II
I idea for which they contended is I