Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-29
POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
OF VERMONT MATTERS BY VARIOUS
STATE NEWSPAPERS.

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What Editors Throughout the State Are Say.
ing in Regard to Current Political Events
Interesting Points From Many Pens.
No one has to our knowledge even
suggested any change in congressman.
Messrs. Haskins and Foster will be re-
turned, without dissenting vote, to
continue their good work at Washing
ton. -Hardwick Gazette.
Snap caucus scheming that involves
the holding of primaries without due
notice given to all voters alike, de-
serves and will have emphatic rebuke
The people of Vermont will not stand
that sort of plotting, and the candi-
date whose supporters play that game
is in peril. st, Johnsbury Caledonian.
If the caucuses already held through
out the state indicate anything it is
that Fletcher ID. Proctor will be the
third man in the state convention. Mr..
Clement has shown greater strength
than was anticipated by the support
ers of either Gen. Mccullough or Mr..
Proctor, and while Mr. Clement occa-
sionally captures a town that had been
counted on as favoring Mccullough,
he has captured several important
Proctor strongholds. Furthermore,
Gen. Mccullough is proving to be the
favorite in many towns claimed from
the first as being for Proctor, two not
able cases being Richford and High
gate in Franklin county, which the st.
Adams Messenger has been claiming
as solid for its candidate Barre
Times.
Nowadays we remove the wrapper
from the Brattleboro Phoenix with
caution and deliberation that no word
of its valuable contents may be marred
or etfaced; we pore over the soul stir
ring editorials therein contained and
learn that Fletcher ID. Proctor is too
pure, too clean, too far above his fel-
low mortals to remain long on this
mundane sphere, to tarry long in this
world of wickedness. we gather that
the men supporting him are surround
ed by a halo of a righteous cause
we are informed that Gen. Mccullough
is a poor stick and that all the thous-
ands who believe in him. who respect
him and who are going to honor him
by making him governor of Vermont,
are reprehensible cusseS who would
wreck the ship of state and usurp the
divine rights of the family of Proctor.
And after reading the entire editorial
page we borrow soap and water from
the neighbors and wash up, Hardwick
Gazette.
There has been so much talk about
Democrats voting in Republican eau
cuses and Republicans voting in Dem
n that Il &c Ig,,,.A ~, nj
the legislature will pass a law at the
next session regulating the holding of
these primary elections. 1t has been
by this and other papers
for long time that such law was
necessity but the solons who gather in
Montpelier once in every two years
have thought otherwise. Under the
Australian system of voting it will be
a very hard matter to define a Demo
crat from "A Republican so that the
most a law can do is to make Il man
elect which caucus he will vote in,
penalty being made for his voting in
any other. \ man may declare his
politics what he please but under the
present system of voting just which
side he takes can never be known. I'm
der the old system of voting party eau
cuses were in the control Of the party
but now they are not. Barre Telegram.
A Montpelier despatch to the Bur
Iington Free Press says: "E. Il.
Morse of Proctor was in Montpelier
Saturday in the interests of Fletcher
D. Proctor's candidacy for governor.
He had a private interview with G. \.
smith, the leader of the Clement local
option forces here. at Mr.. Smiths of /
ice, and from what can be gathered /
he interview would be interesting to /
he prohibition voters of Vermont. AS !
Mr.. Proctor is running on "A platform .
ust opposite from that of Mr.. Glenn +
-nt's on the liquor question, and is
losing as the enemy of license, il (
would be but reasonable to expect that
lie would be consistent enough not to
rade with the enemy to defeat Nc
}ullough. but after the interview with
lr. Smith it came out that Mr. Morse
ried to get the Clement delegation of
his city pledged to Proctor as a sec
nd choice. Mr. Smith told Mr.
lorse that he had done business with
he Vermont Marble company for %
ears and had always liked Fletcher
Proctor, but that though he were his
wn brother he would not vote for him
o long as he ran on the prohibition
latform, and he thought the rest of
he delegation felt the same. Mr..
lOrse left on this Door consolation -