Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-08
THE CAMPAIGN OPENED.
Big Meetings at Manchester and
BrattIeboro. The Issues Dis
cused.

cused.
The republican state campaign was
opened Tuesday night with a rousing
meeting at Manchester. More than
three times as many people were present
as at the Clement meeting at that place.
Secretary Shaw and Congressman Fowler
of New Jersey spoke on National issues
and were enthusiastically greeted. u. S.
District Atty. Martin of Brattleboro re-
piled to Clement on state expenses and
said regarding the issue of the campaign
that Clement stood for low license, as low
as So year, as shown in the bill he intro
duced in the state senate and stood by
till the end He said:
"This in effect is free rum. will guarantee
if the republicans Of Vermont select that grand
old man Of Vermont (Mr. Mccullough as
their standard bearer and have a majority of
the Senate and House they will submit
license law to the people that will by it raise
substantial revenue with which to defray
public expense and no hell holes can be
established with five dollar license. 1t will
be guarded SO far as possible to promote the
sobrlety of the people and to protect our homes
| from the sad effects of drunkenness"
Regarding the charges of bribery and
the use of money In this campaign he
said:
ave are told by Mr.. Clement that our
standard bearer is briber and that he OBJ
tanned his nomination through bribery and
promises | am authorized by General Nc
Cullough to say publicly and privately any
nd hat he
directly or indirectly used one dollar to buy
mans votes or to buy anything eatable, drink
able or smokable to influence any voters politi-
cal action.
That Mr.. Clement is an expert in manufac-
turing affdavits and IN making unholy ALI
ances or contracts is known by everybody at
all conversant with his methods. have state
ments and affldavits in my pocket showing
more wicked and wanton conduct on the part
OF his managers than he has ever charged to
his opponents
Gen. j. G. Mccullough was enthusias-
| spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen -
1t was not on the programme that was to
say anything, and my first remark is to follow
the example of my friend, Congressman Fow-
| Ter. ! call for three cheers for our foreign
guests and speakers, which cheers | ask shall
not be given only by the men and women, but
also by the Democrats. Three cheers for
Secretary Shaw and Congressman Fowler.
| Cheers.
We thank them, ladies and gentlemen, for
lifting this canvass up to a high plane In
stead Of groveling, as perhaps some of you
may have done week ago in the slime and
mud Of the populist canvass, you are lifted up
into higher air. Get out OF the meshes, the
suhterfuge, mire and bogs, the miasma and
bogs, the miasma and the sewer gas of
Clement. Get up into the better air and
breathe the Republican administration bask
in the Republican sunshine. As Gen. IIar-
rison says, "rurn your face TO the East; turn
your eye toward the rising SUM-" Its rays are
already gliding the hilltops. There is no
room for a third party in Vermont They
used to say during the war,-Bob Ingersoll
and others,-that there was not air enough in
America for but one flag and that was the
stars and stripes, and there is not room in
Vermont for any but one Republican party.
These gentlemen have lifted this canvass to a
higher plane. They have lifted it to national
lines. They are aware that Vermont speaks
first. that Vermont answers to the roll-call first
in the field. What shall your answer be ?
You know 1t has been stated until it has be
come trite that Vermont sets the pace for the
other states in the Union. That the star that
has never yet set by its radiance gives light
and inspiration and hope and encouragement
to Maine and the other September and Octo-
Der states, but the turn that Nermont's ma
iority shows is what makes it SO important.
Now what shall your verdict be? You
know, my friends, that ever since the organ
ization OF the Republican party Vermont by
her verdict has always been true to her own
interests and the interests of the nation. Dur
ing the almost half century OF the existence OF
the Republican party Vermont has always
through her Republican vote been as true as
the lode stone to the pole. No devices, no
subterfuges, no tricks have ever been played
to mislead the Judgment Of the Republican
voters. 1t has been tried before. 1t was
tried in 1872 as liberal Republicansm. 1t
failed then. 1t will fail now With the name
Of the great and the good Greeley run up to
their masthead, they failed to set Vermont
from her moorings. Think you that with the
name of Percival w. Clement they will dis
turb Nermont's equanimity in September
Think you, my friends, with the name of a
gentleman who has never been thought to be
the idol of Vermont Republicans that the
majority will be any the less? My friends,
what you can do on the I'd of September is
not simply to carry the state for the Republi-
can ticket, not simply to elect a Republican
administration, but, my friends, elect by such
a well sized majority, such a well timed plu
rality as will carry encouragement to the other
states and will elect a Republican leader for
1902 that will support Theodore Roosevelt in
his policies and that will elect Roosevelt him
self in 1904
There was great crowd at the Brat.
tleboro republican rally 10 hear j. H.
Martin, c. &. Fits and Il. c. Archibald
speak.
Mr. Archibald read some afiidavits
about the use of Clement money in the
preliminary canvass.
These aflidavits were from voters In
Bristol who swore they had been offered
money TO vote for Clement. Others