Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-28
WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS SAY.
A Demagoeue without a Peer-what
the Figures Show.


ONrom the Enosburgh Standard.)
The canvass for the govcrnorship of YER
mont has progressed far enough so as to
enable all unprejudccd and thinking
minds to satisfy themselves that never i'll
the history of a canvass for the governor
ship has such a stupcndous bunco game
been foisted upon the people as that being
worked by Pcrcival w. Clement at ths
present time.
Mr.. Clement in his speech of acceptance
starts out with the proposition that fraud
vitiates Il contract and that this in par
ticular applies to the candidacy OF Gen.
Mccullough, whom, he charges, went into
the convention at Montpelier. June 10,
with more than 60 delegates from towns
where voters had been bribed in caucus
to nominate him; and yet he does not give
one iota of evidence to suhstantiate this
claim, except few aflidavits from ire
sponsiblc parties and one in particular
from man from Burlington by the name
of Beatty. who claims he was offered soO0
to vote for Mccullough In the State con-
vcntion he being n Clement delegate.
Yet this man Beatty, upon being inter
viewed, pcrsistcntly refuses, up to the
present time, to divulgc the name of the
alleged corruptionist, which makes his
allegation absolutely valucless. unless he
sustains his charges by tangible evidence
WIll'n Will invest tnef Oh lueir eA phi NC
character.
1t now appears that MIR. Clement himself
and his party managers are as deep in
tho mud as they would have Mccullough
In the miro, as Gen. McCuloughs man
ayers have a large number OF ahldaVltS
showing where money was offered ana
caucuseS carried by the same means ana
methods that he charges AGAINST McCuI-
loushs candidacy, and that he had demo
cratic emissaries travelling throughout inc
state for the purpose OF making con-
ccrted movement to pack republican eau
cuseS in his favor Wmch IL is now known
was successfully done IN a large humpcr
of towns.
1t Will be remembered that element
made charge against the hon. Ihomas
NJ Deal of st Adams in regard to the
st. Alhans town caucus being carried 10y
the improper use OF money, TINS charge
| being based upon an aiildaVit secured ny
one of Clements heelers from an irrespon-
sihle party. Its falsity became so patent
to even Clement himself that the affidavi'
was repudiated.
This claim of fraud from man Ike
Clement who is known throughout the
state as ono who does not hesitate to en-
ploy every means in his power to carry
his point, Will not he received with favor
by the thinking rcpuhilcans OF Vermont
But Mr.. Clements greatest hobby as a
Justilcation OF his Unreasonable bolt, Is
what he calls the large Increase in state
expenses, which he characterizcs, in his
speech OF acceptance. as follows:
The State has really nothing to show
for these tremendous annual expenditures
The money is used by the machine and
by one channel or another good share
of ii finds its way into the pockets of these
mon who undertake to run the republican
political organization of the State
] Gill ia1A .hA, hat
the above was never made. The Hon
james i. Martin of Brattlchoro, in hi.
speech at Manchester conclusively show:
that Mr. Clements charges are absolutely
untrue. We give the figures herewith
/ taken from the auditors report for 1SS
/ uhi in all hal 90