Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-24


lectOr of customs at Newport; they, too,
undertook to rake the landslide slide. 1t
would be much mtre fitting figure Of
speech to call 1t the Great Trek of the
Proctor officials.
TIT FOR TAT.
(From the Hardwick Gazette.)
Says the st. Adams Messenger: "Unkind
people might infer that the motive of ex-
Gov. Carroll Page in supporting McCul-
Tough for governor was not so much to
elect Mccullough as to defeat Proctor.
They might also consider the amazing pub
lie spirit manifested by one who has en-
joyed this great gift of the people himself
and now seeks to make the awarding of 1t
to another the means of qualification OF a
personal SPITE
Sage the Bennington Reformer: '"They
might also consider the amazing public
spirit manifested by one who has once en-
joyed this great gift himself (ex-Gov. Ed
ward Curtis Smith, and now seeks to
make the awarding Of 1t to another (possl-
bly, the one who withdrew in Smiths favor
the means of qualification of a personal
spite. Ex- Governor Smith owns tho Mes
senger, you know
Thus are we reminded that they who
dwell In plate glass fronts should be eau
tious how they cast rocks.
EX-GOv. CIRCUITS LETTER.
(From the Montpelier Journal.)
ARENAS Ward once remarked that it
would have been worth ten dollars to
Judas 1scariot If he had never been born
or words to that effect 1t might have been
worth more than ten dollars to Josiah
Grout If he had never been governor OF
Vermont, and also considerable sum If,
having sunk in Lethe's waters after the
unfortunate incidents of his nomination
| .l...<. Il. f.-,N IL, Nod ~
lead enough in his boots to keep him be-
meath tho floods. Since his recent mo-
mentary re-appearance above the ways.
his ghost is probably regretting this lack
OF precaution on the part of his keepers.
If any arc wondering why tho Hon. j.
w. Stewart does not make n rejoinder to
CIRCUITS Easter Offering to the Proctor can
didacy. those who know Mr.. Stewart and
read his letter will understand that the ex-
governor at Middlebury could not get down
to the level of the ex-governor at West
Derby without a sense of personal de-
graduation. The latter's screed has been
properly characterized as "a dffuse state
ment of current misrepresentation" Of
which Mr.. Stewards letter was as COM
plete a refutation as could be made. Grout
shows the spirit and uses the terms of the
demagogue. For instance, his phrase,
"palatial mansion" which he never enter
ed--and which, If he had, he would have
found a substantial dwelling without any
interior display or ostentation. Again
nothing gratities the vanity Of such a man
SO much as reply, which gives a sort OF
borrowed dignity to his RECONSTRUCTED
rhodomontade In short, his letter is a
proval of every high minded Vermonter
Mr.. Stewart could add nothing to what he
had already written, save to cover al
good text for editorial comment and for
sarcastic ridicule such as the Journal gave
. L.,
ex-governor Is IL good subject for comment
who just now was for Webb and for Proc
tor is echoing the cry vermont for Yer
monters' This view of the matter in
question will unquestionably meet the APP
omission, to wit a contemptuous dismis-
sal of the narrow and provincial spirit up
on which alone the screed against McCul-
Tough Is openly based.
! A HOLLOW CRY
(From the Bellows Falls Times)
Ex-Gov. Smiths paper, the st. Albans
Messenger. has Joined the cry. vermont
for Vermonters,'' yet is was this same gov
ernor who when in office, advocated in his
message to the Legislature holding out &c
foreign millionaires the tempting bait OF
nominal taxation. His plan was to wei
come men of this class to citizenship III
the State and offer as an Involvement nom
airc would have one standard for taxation
and the all-year-around Nermonter
would have another This iniquitous meas.
ure fathercd by Gov. Smith was opposed
by Gen. Mccullough, then senator from
Bennington county. Gov. Smiths plea
then was, let us welcome millionaires from
other States to the privileges of citizenship
in this State no matter at what sacrifice
Of principle, His present cry of "Vermont
for Nermontcrs' under the circumstances
sounds n little hollow.
OR TIE RECENT CONCLAvE IN CAN.
ADA.
(From the Mortified News.)
A short time since the News referred
to statement in the Boston Globe to the
effect that General Mccullough could be
democratic enough to bring along his
luncheon and eat it in day coach while
en- route from Brattleboro to New York
1t did not consider 1t of any more conse
quence politically than the frequent an
nouncements that Fletcher ID. Proctor hao
been or is road commissioner of his town
The Mccullough matter was referred to as
a suggestion on the vermont idea" which
has run through the Proctor papers in Sc
rial form. The News said:
l 1T must be conceded that such an UMPIRE.
tcntious style is more in accordance witt
the Vermont idea than the recent meetinl
lOi d lew TlCI NeIIHOuteTS AT II
hotel in New York, to fix up the Proctor
boom and dispose Of the broken-back can
vdss of Dr. Webb
| Whereas the st. Adams Messenger, which
is being edited just now in the political in
terests of its owner rises up and talks
wildly, charging the News with joining II
the demagogic attempt to raise class
issue in this canvass, to make targets OF
the few millionaires that Vermont claim
to iniame some ignorant prejudice here
and there il such may be found sandwichet
in among the intelligent people of this
State of so many school houses!' The Mes
senger Is simply Juggling this charge in b,
the heels to cover the little bunco perform
ancc OF it's owner and others in withdraw
ing Webb and getting Proctor into the fielt
on a worked up spontaneous" movemen
plan, which utterly failed. Why doesn
the Messenger explain the conference o
the little political trust in the Waldorf
Astoria in New York? Why doesn't 1t tel
another candidate could be launched? VIII!
doesn't it expose the whole thing and taxi
the voters into it's confidence? Surely, !
could obtain the particulars from its own
er. There is far greater danger of ralsini
the rank and file of Vermont voters by at
tempting to practice smart politics upol
them than by reference to a few ricl
Vermont politicians, who have attempted
to present a candidate under false condi
lions
POLITICAL SPECIALS" AGAIN.
i (Trom the Barre Times.)