Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-25
POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
OF VERMONT MATTERS BY VARIOUS
STATE NEWSPAPERS.

STATE NEWSPAPERS.
What Editors Throughout the State Are Say
ing in Regard to Current Political Events
Interesting Points From Many Pens.
The information received by the Reg
lister is to the effect that this county is
substantially unanimous for Gen j. G.
Mccullough. -Middlebury Register.
Would any one recognize the frenzied
Phoenix of today as the calm, judicial
newspaper that urged everyone, a few
short moons ago, to keep cool?''
Vergennes Vermonter. ...
The impression is fast gaining ground
that Mr.. Proctor will not permit his
name to go before the convention,
should his canvass fail to gather more
strength than at present it has devel-
oped. Vergennes Vermonter.
The joke OF the campaign is perpe-
trated by the Brattleboro Phoenix when
it calls on the people to rally to the
Proctor banners and suppress machine
politics! Dick Croker will be running
on reform ticket next. -Vergennes
Vermonter.
You've got to nurse bottle of Yer
mont milk, play in Vermont mud, 90
to Vermont school. play with Yer
mont girls, drink Vermont agency
whiskey, be married to Vermont fe-
male, get into a Vermont Jail and visit
the quarries of the Vermont Marble
company before you are eligible to hold
office in Vermont. Burlington Clip
per.
Kit" Haskins was called to the
chair by Speaker Henderson Saturday
afternoon and presided over the com
mittee of the whole in its discussion
of the Notifications bill. This was a
marked compliment for a congressman
serving his first term, but Mr.. Haskins'
long familiarity with public affairs and
his experience in presiding over the
Vermont House made him capable of
performing the duties with skill and
crdit. Montpelier Argus.
The element which is pressing the
Proctor campaign, is the element which
the younger part of the Republican
party in Vermont most detest. 1t is
the element which has built up in this |
state political oligarchy, which has
done more than anything else to drive
the young men from the state. With
this corrupt order in power and ruling |
every convention, manipulating the /
and lobbying the legislature.
the young man is obliged to leave the /
state, or stulify his manhood, and re /
main here the abject political slave of .
the ruling house. 1t is this that has
Vermont industries and
Iri N tIa ztnt Nar
mont is suffering today too much Proc
torism. Jericho Reporter
Mr.. Clement does not stand on plat
form which would open rumshops all
along the line of his road and a score,
more or less, at the railroad headquar-
ers. - He would give to every com
nunity in Vermont the privilege of de
freeing whether liquor as a beverage
IAN be legally sold or not. We know
,nough Of the situation to predict that !
n case the state decreed that local OPP
ion should be the rule, 80 per cent of
he Vermont towns through which the
Dad runs would vote no license. How
hen can the journal be justified in
aging that in politics Mr.. Clement is ,
Il favor of the free and unrestricted
ale of liquors." We are all looking
or the best conditions for temperate
living, a half century has taught Yer
mont that state prohibition does not
roduce the best results. The local OPP
ionists are the most consistent and for
1idable temperance people in the state
f the state prohibitionsts would let
um alone, the saloons would have a
ad half hour Rutland Herald
The editor of Zions Herald thinks
ercival W. Clement is guilty of IN
arranted misstatement and presump-
on in his letter announcing his will
lgness to become candidate for gov
nor on platform calling for the re-
cal of the prohibitcry law. He claims
, know personally the conditions.
onvictions and sentiments of the
aople." He says that Mr.. Clement
as grossly scandalized the state and
Ids THE people of Vermont are agri-
lltural to a degree not found in any -
her New England state. and, as r
hole, they are temperate, law abiding
I'd industrious. Vermont is not
ate of cities, or even large towns.
here is no demand for the repeal of I
e prohibitory law except, perhaps, in |
arlington, Rutland, Bennington. |
lrre, Montpelier, Bellows Falls and
o or three other large places. But
e aggregate population of its two or -
rec cities and as many large towns is -
inconsiderable minority as com
red with the state as a whole 1t is
no means probable that the half
zen cities and towns named would
tie for the repeal of the prohibitory
v. Indeed, they probably would not. .
his information was as full and COM
etc as he says it is. he would know
at the representatives of some 80
WIS instead of the half-dozen he
,ntions voted in the last legislature
the repeal of the prohibitory law,
d that the votes so cast represented
of more than 10000 of the
Dple of Vermont, instead of can in
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