The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-05-07
A MAYNARD MONITOR.

man and Journal is credibly informed
that these editorial statements are
by clergyman who is doing the edi-
torial writing for the contemporary
in the pending canvass for the nomina-
ton of Governor. We are sorry to
know this 1t is a bad enough for
laymen to be fishing up false reports
from the muddy pools of politics; for
a clergyman, it is shocking.
A clergyman would not undertake,
it is assumed, to justify or excuse on
any ground of individual or public
emergency, or on any ground what
ever an ancient transaction in which
one Ananias was the principal
"Served him right" would probably
be an orthodox preachers judgement
on the fate that befell the ancient
liar. Holding these views of moral.
ity, public or private, how could a
clerical writer justify the breaking of
pledge, or treat with Indifference an
act of bad faith, as it did in recent
editorial articles Has he any clear
understanding or personal knowledge
of the facts and circumstances of the
specific act of bad faith in this can
vass which he dismisses so lightly?
If not-as clearly he has not-how
does he justify himself III excusing
this specific act, and in declaring that
current comment thereon under exist
ing circumstances, "sinks into insig-
nificance"? Is the writer merely
banking on what his political allies
tell him?
In evident reference to Gen. McCul-
Tough, how can this clerical editorial
writer declare that "one of the can
didates is a non resident two-thirds
of the year,? Is he making this state
ment from personal investigation of
the facts of Mccullough residence,
and from knowledge thus obtained?
Or is this one of the bits of falsehood
he has fished up from the aforesaid
muddy pool of politics and which he
is proclaiming as gospel truth? Does
man who has been for nearly thirty
years legal resident and voter be-
come "non- resident" when he pass
es over the Safes boundaries for a
day, week or month, on business
or for pleasure? If he breaches the
holy gospel on the same lack of UNI
derstanding of its real facts as the po-
litical gospel he is proclaiming, the
truth of the Scripture respecting the
blind leader and his following is like
ly to be verified up in Orleans county.
Interrogation might follow interro-
CATION indefinitely did this subject
have any foundation in fact or any
reasonable place at all i'll this canvass.
Mr.. Proctor becomes mon resident"
in summer, and at other times during
the year, just as does Gen. McCul-
lough according to our clerical
friend, in winter or at other
times during the year. 1t is as rea-
sonable for some inconsiderate or I'M
knowing newspaper or individual to
assign Candidate Proctor's residence
to Massachusetts as General McCul-
lough's citizenship to New York If
some graceless newspaper editor
should proclaim our friend hereto
he would not necessarily be one. And
how preposterous is the further claim
that the true interests of the State
require a Governor who resides here
in throughout the year." or that there
is any necessary relationship between
Vermont's true interests, and char
mony with the national administra-
tom in respect of the retention of the
Philippines. Absurdities all If Yer
mont would grow, expand progress,
increase in people and prosperity, her
executive Officers must know some
thing, in a practical way, by parti-
cipation or direct contact, with the
affairs Of the outside world That
is proposition which ought not to re-
quire demonstration or enforcement.
1t is not proposed to rebuild between
Vermont and adjoining regions the
wall, now tottering to it's fall, China
reared to shut out the outside bar
barians.
Now, as to ST the lavish use of mon
ey which has become so scandalous
that the good name of the State re-
quires his (McCullough's) defeat"
What does the reverend scribe actu.
ally know about the use of money in
this campaign, lavish or scandalous,
or otherwise, against which he is in
Weighing? He ought to come down
TO particulars Fling them out We
cannot escape the impression, how
ever, that the brothers Proctor eye
is fast closed to what is going on
around him, but his ear is willingly
taking in every roorback afioat about
Mccullough Why is the alleged use
of McCullough's money so scandal
Gus as to require his defeat" but
Proctor's notorious and all pervading
SHINING in the same Darticular--as the