Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-08-15

U.red and willing 10 stand and run up
- platform which repudiaied and
denounced every Republican principle
and maintained every principle and po-
si,ion favored by state and national
democracy and which contained plank
demanding the immediate passage Of a
license local option law without refer
enca IN the people. II has become evil
dent that Mr.. Clement now proposes and
desires the election OF a legislature
which will OF itself and without refer
ence. make license the law OF the
state.
He processes devotion and loyalty 10
bis native state but to advance his own
selfish interests he causelessly defa mes
and degrades her. He assumes the
role of exemplar and teacher Of political
HONESTY and morality but erters upon
his new roe by teaching that men may
participate in caucus and convention
and witho 1t political dishonesty nay
bolt the convention when it's action is
not in accord with their own desires
As an exemplar In political morals he
leads in the most causeless and wicked
bolt known to political history.
He attacks the financial management
of the state and yet his convention ac-
cepts as its Candidates the nominees Of
the Republican party who are the re-
sponsible financial managers OF the
state.
He discourses upon the increased
state expenses, expensive commits
sions and unnecessary Offices but names
no change except TO establish another
salaried state board TO be its purchasing
agent with . large array Of clerks aud
assistants. for all the different institu-
tons of the state.
No one denies that the state expenses
have largely increased during the years
of Republican ascendency but 1t is be-
cause of the settled policy Of the state
regardless of party requiring such eX-
penditures and shifting large burdens
| of expense from the towns to the state
| and not through corruption, ineiiici-
ency, prodlgality or acknowledgement.
Which part of this settled policy
would Mr.. Clement repudiateF
We have now hospital for the insane
owned and equipped by the state,
equipped with modern convenienceS
| and conducted In accordance with ad-
yanced and approved methods for the
safety and recovery of these unfortu-
nate members Of our society, answering
the proper demands of n sympathetic
and philanthropic people.
We have a House OF Correction for
the less incorrigible law breaker where
reformation may be secured; we have
the industrial school for the young
where vlrtuous manhood and woman
hood may be wrought out Of what would
otherwise become fixtures among the
criminal classes. Our Colleges are
aided from our state treasury in order
that poverty shall not prevent the am
bilious youth from obtaining broad and
thorough culture. We provide nstruc-
ton for the blind, the mute and the
weak-minded. We raise , percent
state tax TO distribute among our towns
which are richer in road mileage than
In grand list. We equalizr in degree
the burden OF school taxation by an
eight percent State tax. We lake lib
eral provision for our State Normal
Schools. We care for the insane poor
at the state expense and thus relieve
each town OF this burden and secure
better treatment and care. We eNpend
a considerable amount upon our state
militia and our Soldiers Home.
All this and much more Is done be-
cause the state has approved of ii and
J yet this large expenditure has been SO
| provided for by our system of corpora.
ton taxes that the state tax assessed
upon the Grand list is less than II was
twenty years ago. Undoubtedly this
method of corporation taxation can be
improved upon and extended and the
state tax be still further lessened and
even entirely dispensed with.
A commission reporting when Mr.
Clement was in the Senate that the cor
porations were bearing only about one
fourth of their fair share of the burden
of taxation an effort was made to in
crease corporate taxation, but Mr.. Glen
ent was strenuous in opposition and il
was defeated. He was then President Of
the Rutland Railroad system. He now
asserts that no state tax was needed ant
that he voted against increased cor
poration taxation because no additional
revenue was required. but as the chair
man of the Senate Finance COMMITTEE,
Of 1900, he in fact recommended tn,
very day, he brought about the defea
of the corpora ton tax bill, the very
tax which you are now paying.
He describes the method of liquor law
enforcement In his city and draws many
Illustrations therefrom. He has foI
many years been an influential either
of Rutland and has been its Mayor ant
yet these abuses continued without cor
rection when he had official power. ant
without rebuke from him as man.
Mr.. Clement alleges that he doubt
the sincerity of the Republican party il
Vermont in its plank concerning the sub
mission of the license local option Law
to the vote of the people and seeks thu
to justify his secession. But when wa
the Republican party of Vermont or o
the nation untrue to it's pledges? From
its inception to the present hour has tn
party of liberty under Fremont, of tn
Constitution and Union under Lincoll
and Grant, of sound money and protec
ton to American Industries unde
Hayes. Garfield, Arthur. Harrison an,
Mckinley, crowned by its honorabl
and philanthropic position toward
Cuba and the Philippines when an
wherein has it in either state or patiol
betrayed its trust or wandered iron