Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-23
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.

The appearance of Mr. Finn of St
Adams as candidate for the Office o
state auditor. doesn't seem to lesser
the chances of the gentleman from
Newbury in the least. -Hardwick Ga
zette
p. w. Clement license local option
clubs have been formed at Bethel,
Bristol, Burlington and Castleton.
The Burlington club numbers, ii is
claimed, 800 members: Castleton, 2Gs
members.
Let us hope it will be Felix w. Nc
Gettrick of St. Adams AS Democratic
candidate for governor. He is one of
the best campaign speakers in the
state and would give "A vital feeling to
1 the campaign if he went on the stump
-Nergennes Nermonter
The eruption in Vermont political
circles now going on is like unto the
recent volcanic eruption in that it has
narrowing features. Many are the
good old Vermont traditions and Gus
toms that are being torn up by the
roots and obliterated. Barre Times
NJ. A. Moody of Bethel is being ia .
vorably mentioned as candidate for
the nomination for lieutenant govern
or on the Clement ticket, says the Mes
senger. Mr.. Moody is a wide awake
successful business man. He was born
in Bethel, Feb. D, 1S40. He enlisted
in August, 1862, Co. A, 18th Reg. Vt
Vol. and was wounded at Gettysburg.
Mr.. Moody has always been prominent
in town affairs and represented Bethel
in the legislature in 1878.
Mr.. Clements canvass and its at
tendant crowds of interested auditors
must be revelation and an unhappy
awakening to Candidates Mccullough
and Proctor, Indeed, perhaps the day
has passed when few machine poll
ticians can get together and name the
man who is to receive the nomination
for governor without any opposition
and with no appeal to the people. Mr.
Clement is showing how the operation
of electing a governor might be done
otherwise. and il is not for anyone to
say yet that his demonstration will not
end in the total disruption of existing
combinations. Whatever the immed
late outcome, matters will be worse
for the machine politicians another /
year. Vermont voters are on edge, -
there is some life in the old state yet .
and are not likely to sit tamely I
another campaign under the .
old system which made the governor
ship a game for few old ringers Mr.
Clement and his colored quartette have
turned things upside down. Wood
stock Age,
1t is, and has been some time past,
he established rule of the Republican
)arty in this city TO issue its call for
,aucuses by giving five days notice to
he voters. 1t is the custom to pub
ish such notice in newspaper. a
all for caucus of the Republican
'oters of the city of Rutland, to be
leld May -, signed by a majority of
he Republican city committee was
handed into the office of the Rutland
evening News for publication this
9TH inst and payment for its inser
ion made to and received by the pro-
,rietor of that paper, who promised
hat the same would appear in today's
ssue. The Rutlard Evening News is
he Proctor organ in this city and Vi
Unity. Notwithstanding the facts set
orth, after consulting the Proctor re
ainers, the Proctor organ, seeking to
,ostpone the caucus, changed the no
ice and printed it in such form that il
; not proper call. What do the vot
RS of the state of Vermont think of
be tactics of Proctor, his henchmen
nd his organ, especially in view of
be loud cry made by the Proctor peo- ,,
lie about snap caucuses and unfair ..
lethods in Chittenden county: Is
his some more of the Vermont idea?''
t is up to the people of Vermont to {
ay Rutland Herald.