Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-05-22
THE GOVERNORSHlP.
A Franklin County Republican Ad-
dresses tho st. Adams Messenger
on Various Issues,

To the Editor of The Free Press:
If the strenuous editor of the Messenger
is so anxious to discuss issues, why doesn't
he do SO instead of harping Hamlet like,
continually on my candidate"
The gage was thrown down to him few
days ago but he has not taken 1t UP: ia he
afraid to cross swords with his versatile
|neighbor, or Is he welded to bushwhackng
tactics?
In view of his Wanted fairness to pre-
sent both sides of important questions, it
was noticeable that in Fridays issue of his
paper he gave n page under the large
headlines Press Opinions. 1t was made up
of four extracts from the Rutland News;
four from the st. Johnsbury Republican;
two from the Burlington News; two from
the st. Johnsbury Caledonian; one from
the Express and Standard and a short
clipping from the Morrisville News and
Citizen upon Mr.. Clement, but not single
extract from a paper favoring General Nc
Cullough. This may be frankness but 1t is
not fairness. and the readers of the Mes
senRer have not yet become so Greene as
not to know that the great majority of the
newspapers of Vermont favor the cand-
dacy of General Mccullough. This is an
issue the editor of the Messenger seems to
have lost sight Of
If it is the policy of the Messenger to be
one sided. as it is in practice, why not be
manly and open about it We expect it
Will use all honorable means to aid Colonel
Proctor. but a word of caution to the edi
tor; don't do any partisan work under the
guise Of fairness. We shall all hope to live
after this campaign is over, and honest
partisans will not be criticized, but any at
tempt to deceive in politics, is as repre-
hensible as in business and will not be for
gotten.
This is an issue; don't lose sight Of it,
Mr.. Editor.
4
ers why 1t is that the long line of honored
and respected eX-governors. Holbrook,
lIendce. Stewart F'arnham, Barstow
Pingree Ormsbee and Page, whose records
public and private are above reproach. sup
port General Mccullough and why it is
that ex-Governors Woodbury., Circuit and
Smith, said to have been nominated under
a mutual alliance agreement. support Col.
Proctor? Can it be that the latter named
gentleman is "A party to such an agree
ment? Are they keeping pact with him?
This is an issue; don't lose sight of it,
Mr.. Editor.
Why should Bennington county be turned
down after more than a third Of century
has elapsed since she had a chief executive
of our State? And why should this be
attempted when she presents a candidate
with rare natural gifts, fully equipped by
education and experience in civil and poll
teal affairs, of culture and refinement, the
son of General Mccullough?
This is an issue; don't lose sight of 1t,
Mr. Editor.
| Why should the son of our honored Uni
ted States senator be forced into the field
or urged against his better judgment, for
it is we'll known that he did not desire 10
| enter the race at this time, and did not dc
so until importuned by friends who saw
Il their defeat with Colonel Webb as a candi-
date and simply desired from some motive
best known to themselves, to defeat Gen.
eral Mccullough?
Mr. Editor.
Why is 1t that present government Of
fcials who were pledged to General Nc.
i Cullough and active In his support have
become so quiet since the name of Proctor
was mentioned? Is there any pressure be-
ing brought to bear?
This is an issue; don't lose sight of it
Mr. Editor.
There are political ethics as we'll as
moral. What would the Messenger have
said four years ago, when the Benning
ton man so gracefully withdrew and left
i the field open for its proprietor, If Gen
i eral McCuloughs friends had urged oil
i forced Colonel Proctor into the field to de
feat the president of the Central Yer
mont Railroad Co., and government Of
II ficials who had supported him were a.
/ dumb as the grave?
This is an issue; don't lose sight of 1t
Mr.. Editor. but tell us what you would
have said and done
/ If consistency is not found in your cab
met. Mr.. Editor, wouldn't It be well tc
devote some of your strenuousness toward
securing it for the Messenger.
A FRIEND AND WE'LL WISHER.
QUESTIONS FOR MR.. CLEMENT.
To the Editor Of the Free Press:
Who pays the coon quartette?
Who pays Mr.. Clements expenses?
Who pays the hall rents?
| Docs Mr.. Clement receive any remunera
ton for this work?
5 You say prohibition drives ava,
capital from the State. How de
you account for the million dollal
Lumiere company now coming to Bur
lingtor and for enlarged granite firms
? for new shirt, cum and collar and new
overall factories, etc. ETC., now going III
in the State?
5 Ask the folks at Essex Junction if the,
haven't added industries in a few years.
What about the big wooden mill enter
prise in Winoosk?
4 What about the Howe Scale works IL
I Rutland, and the immense marble bushes
in Proctor?
d; What will you do Mr.. Clement with tn
1 Swift rendering plant coming to Burlng
e ten?
a Have you seen the wholesale houses il
y Burlington?
p, What is the matter with Rutland, Percy
i Why do you invest your money in tn
= big hotel In New York city?
g WHAT made you invest In the Bristo
railroad?
= VIII you have bar in the hotel in New
> York?
: Mr.. Clement have we any money investe
g. in electric enterprises in Vermont?
N
struggling drinker to come in?
= Who paid for the queries made one o
two years ago about the sale of drugs an
!, the drug habits in Vermont?
= Yes vito paid the postage and paid
doctor TO send out the letters of lncuir,
. over the State?
Please answer some OF these enquire
', and let us know what you are riding Il
the band wagon for.
QUERY
The Hypocrisy OF the License st. Albani
. Messenger Thoroughly Exposed
: Secret OF the Hullabaloo.
d CFrom the Bellows Falls Times)
v A published letter written by Gen. Nc
: CullouEh in reply to an enquiry askin
: what his attitude toward new Legislation
[ on the liquor law would be If elected gov
r ernor next fan has bceen severely crlti
:. cised, not by those who honestly favor tn
= continuance of the prohibitory law, bu
[ principally by advocates of local OPTIC
n who for the present are masquerading Il