The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-12
CAMPAIGNING WITH CLEMENT.
A High Old Time in the Vermont Hill
 Country


 Country.
 | Vermont is probably about the worst state in the Union for q stumping tour Cities are small few and far between Railroad connections are poor and the hotel accommodations far from what the high-llcense advocate has been &C., customed to. The only way to stump the state and do it comfortably was to take his hotel along with him, so MT. l Clements private car Grand Isle, was | brought into play.
 | About that time an announcement was made by MT. Clement that he in- tended to make his speeches in evening dress, and the announcement struck consternatlon to the hearts of his fol- lowers
 That will never do. twill queer the whole game" said Joe" Jones. Don't you know that you are going to talk to the farmers? Why, when Sena- tor Proctor comes up here from Wash ington to mend his fences the first thing he does is to swap his broadcloth and patent feathers for overalls and cow hide boots'
 'I don't care what Proctor does" re- piled Clement. T don't think it would pay to try and deceive the people. They would see through the game all right. If l put on cowhide boots would walk so awkwardly in them that everybody would know I didn't belong there, That would spoil things quicker than the full dress suit would, l am going to wear the best clothes I have" A,,1 +, .l,N L,,- c these arguments.
 Another important feature of Mir. Gle ments outfit was added at this time in the shape of the Ponciana quartet of Florida. The quartet consists of four young colored men who serve up negro melodies in excellent style, This fea- ture helps to fill in between the time when the people begin to gather at the hall where the speech is to be delivered and the time when MT. Clement mounts the stump, The songs have been we'll received, and have been repeatedly en- coTed everywhere.
 This aggregation has already travelled several thousand miles, and there Is hardly a place of any size anywhere that the doctrine of high-license and To- Il. Clement has yet to speak at a place where even standing room could be had after the exercises began The candi- dates nephew, Henry w. Clement, and Editor Green, of the Rutland Herald" are the advance agents, and attend to the arranging of the preliminarles.
 As soon as it became known that MT. Clement would make public speeches for addresses began to come in from all parts of the state, and these were turned over az fast as they arrived to the younger Clement and MT. Green. These two men travel separately.
 Their method is to go to a town or city which has requested g. speech by the candidate and take quarters at the .avern. (There is rarely more than one.) A few of the best-knoWn men among those who have signed the re- f luest are called together for council, | Arrangements are made to have the | nay taken out of the opera house or own hall and temporarily stored in {, some other place. A man is hired to ,lean up the hall, somebody arranged l with to preside at the meeting and in- reduce the speaker, posters put up and he local band retained to work up en- husiasm and discords on the day of the, meeting.
 This done, the advance agent moves ,n to some other place and leaves de- ails in the hands of the local men who lre tired of the prohibitory law.
 The candidate usually arrives with is special engine and private car seve- al hours before the time set for the neetlng, but the residents of the place lways know it the minute he gets to own, and from that moment the car nd the candidate are regarded with he keenest interest. Almost invarta- ly the car is surrounded by a curious rowd, nine-tenths of the members of which have never in their liN Nes seen u rivate oar or a real live bubernatorial andidate,
 Mir. Clement thoroughly enjoys the t; 7hole business. The leading men of he lpace are always invited in to take look around and have a little talk on igh license. They never decline the invitation, but, on the other hand, it is ften a matter of dispute as to who are ntltled to enter, Those fortunste