News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

| uOueSly anu uOEdllly Dul el-lerS upon
his new role by teaching that men may
participate in caucus and convention
and without political dishonesty II ay
bolt the convention when its 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-
sponsibe financial managers of the
state.
| He diScOurses upon the increased
state expenses, expensive commis-
siOns and unnecessary Offices but names
no change except to establish another
salaried state board to be DISTINGUISHING
agent with a large array Of clerks and
assistants, for all the different institu-
| lions of the state.
No one denies that the state expenses
have largely increased during the years
of Republican as4endency but it 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, inet1ici-
ency, prodiga1ity or mismanAgement.
Which part of this settled policy
would Mr.. Clement repudiate?
We have now hospital for the insane
owned and equipped by the state,
| equipped with modern cOnyeniences
| and conducted in accordance with ad-
| vanced and approved methods for the
safety and recovery of these unfortu-
nate members of our society, answering
the proper demands of a 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 virtuOuS 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 instluc-
| ton for the blind, the mute and the
weak-minded. We raise a ) percent
| state tax to distribute among our towns
which are richer in road mileage than
| in grand list. We equakzr 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 eXpend
a considerable amount upon our state
l. militia and our Soldiers Home.
All this and much more is done be-
cause the state has approved of it and
yet this large expenditure mas been so
provided for by our system of corpora
ton taxes that the state tax assessed
| upon the Grand list is less than it 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.
\ commission reporting when NJ.
| 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 it
was defeated. He was then President of
| the Rutland Railroad system. He now
| asserts thai no state tax was needed and
| 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 the
very day he brought about the defeat
of the corporation 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 for
many years been an influential citizen
of Rutland and has been its Mayor and
yet these abuses continued without cor
rection when he had official power, and
without rebuke from him as man.
Mr.. Clement alleges that he doubts
the sincerity of the Republican party in
Vermont in it's plank concerning the sub
mission of the license local option law
to the vote of the people and seeks thus
to justify his secession. But when was
the Republican party Of Vermont or of
the nation untrue to its pledges? From
| its inception to the present hour has the
party of liberty under Fremont. of the
Constitution and Union under Lincoln
and Grant. of sound money and protcc-
| ton TO American industries under
| Hayes. Garfield. Arthur. Harrison ana
Mckinley, crowned by its honorable
and philanthrorr position towards
Cuba and the Philippines when and
! wherein has it in either state or nation
| betrayed its trust or wandered from
| the paths of honor justice and recti-
| tude? In the light of its history then.
he who would impugn the Honor and
| good faith of the Republican party i'm
| peaches his own.
| The Convention favored the submits
sion to the people of the question of
| license and local option or state pro
! hibition because it was deemed a wise
| and proper concession to a growing MI
| insistent demand for such Il reference