Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-06-06
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.
THE REPUBLl CAN CAUCUS.
Clement Won by Majority Of IIS.
The Result Was Decisive, Whatever
Else One May Think or Say About

II.
Whatever feeling of disappointment may
have been occasioned by the result of Sat
urday's caucus, there must be gratifi-
cation to the right-minded citizens at the
fact of there being no uncertainty as to
where the majority of The Republican
voters of the town stand on the prohib-
itory law. and no question of fraud could
have changed the result. The Clement
ticket poled 4i4 votes, while the McCul-
Tough and Proctor combined ticket was
but 1926. or rs SHORT of a majority. The
total vote of 40 was the largest b. far
ever polled in the town.
The Clement forces were well organ
lied and had made a careful canvass of
the village and town for some weeks,
having attractive club rooms open at all
times over Gray's clothing store. The
other contestants had not put as much
effort into the canvass. but were alive and
deeply interested. The morning of the
caucus the Mccullough and Proctor ad-
herents agreed upon joint ticket APP
portioning the seven delegates as three
for Proctor and four for Mccullough, but
agreeing to vary the proportionate rep
resentation as shown by the relative
vote. The same list of delegates was
used on two tickets, one headed as for
Mccullough, the first of the delegates
named being well known as his adher-
ents, while the ticket headed as for Proc
tor reversed the order of delegates MAX
ing Proctor men read first. The result
was 2O4 votes for Mccullough while Proc
tor had 122.
The delegates elected on the Clement
ticket to the state convention were
Cushing Adams, NJ. r. Lawrence, G. NJ.
Cory, e. f. Keefe, c. T. Grout, d. p.
Higgins and c. II. Gibson.
Those elected to the district convention,
and unanimously instructed for Kittridge
Haskins for congressman were c. II.
Williams, N. L. Divoll, N G. Williams,
G. H. Gorham, F. G. Pierce, G. B. Wheel
er and G. NJ. Cory.
The polls We're opened at o'clock and
closed at $780, the result being given soon
after The Clement admirers were nat
urally jublant and spent the early part
of the night with fireworks, torchlight
parade and a general uproar. The knowl-
edge of the strong majority of the voters
for high license will evidently color all
politics of the town for the coming year.
as they will be in position to control
the local politics to a large extent. In
the ranks of active workers in this wing
of the party are number of well known
business men who have never taken an
interest in public matters. The Clement
headquarters are already made perma-
nent and will make quite a social as well
as political centre.
Fred II. Babbitt was agreed upon as
chairman and f. A Bolles as clerk. A
board of judges of challenged voters con-
sisted of D. p. Higgins, ]. S. Hill and C.
w. Osgood. About 175 voters We're chal-
lenged and sent to the board of judges in
banquet hall, but only or 10 were denied
the right to vote. A large proportion of
those challenged were well known as
Democrats of former days, but were able
to certify that they voted the Republican
ticket two years ago, and intended doing
hence he RI ub
to vote now. The town has upon its
check list about 400 voters, of which
about 400 have been considered as Dem
ccrats.