Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-06
POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
OF VERMONT MATTERS BY VARIOUS
STATE NEWSPAPERS.
What Editors Throughout the State Are Say.
ing in Regard to Curr mt Political Events
Interesting Points From Many Pens.

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Interesting Points From Many Pens.
What tremendous Call for Proctor
| there was at Brattleboro and how mean
of Clement to answer it Londonderry
f., Sitter.
Now that the 'Rising Proctor tide
has failed to ascend the Milestone
brook and Otter Creek will DIR. Webb
be able to tow it up Lake Champaign
We shall see. Londonderry Sitter
And after all the Phoenix of Brattle-
boro has said to convince the voters of
that town that they should vote for
Proctor those unregeneratec critters have
had the impudence to elect Clement
delegates to the state convention.
Gosh -Hardwick Gazette.
Brattleboro the home of the Phoenix
sends Clement delegates. This was the
paper which advertise some of Gen.
Mccullough New York property The
argument did not seem to meet with
much favor at home-the same is true
in other sections of the state Water
bury Record.
Those inveterate foes, Ropes of the
Montpelier Journal and French of the
I)ldtbltDOlo uOtliA. might dS well
shake hands and call it quits. They
have been defeated on their own ground
by their most despised foe, Percival W.
Clement. And the end is not yet -
Vergennes Nermonter
Fletcher Proctor could not carry
Brattleboro, Notwithstanding the boast
of the Phoenix that NINETY nine out
of every hundred people in Windham
county were clamoring for him to en-
ter the contest The Proctors left no
stone unturned in their desperate eff
fort to elect Proctor delegates at the
caucus last Saturday night Congress
man Haskins came all the way from
Washington to put in his work and in
tluence for Proctor and an army of
workers were on the field in his be
half If ever a candidate tried to carry
a town Proctor tried to carry Brattle-
boro. and his defeat must have been
humiliating in the extreme. Proctor
has lost Brattleboro and Rutland city
and large share of Rutland county.
Wilmington ines.
When all the chatf is sifted from the
columns of argument and other matter
printed and circulated in the inter
this campaign, the fact remains that
Gen. J. G. Mccullough is the ablest
man in the field. In ability. in char
acter and in dealings with his fellow
men he is the peer of the Others. Gen
has been and is a large
of labor. As such he has al
ways paid little better wages than
his competitors, and paid them prompt
~ and in cash Gen. Mccullough as
senator in 1898 was instrumental in de
feating the Ubiquitous measure advo-
Gated by Gov. Smith to make Vermont
an asylum for rich tax dodgers from
other states by offering them lower
Tax rate than the man who lives and
works in the state the year round -
Barre Times.
EX-Gov. +. }. Ormsbee denounces as (
lies some of the stories that /
lave been published about Fletcher ID. /
Proctor and says he does not know of /
in the state where the pro
law is better enforced than in .
he town of Proctor. We must pre-
sumo that when Mr.. Ormsbee uses such .
strong language in referring To this
natter he is honest and informed, but
lie should go further and tell why or
low five United States taxes for the
ale of liquor are paid in Proctor. We
inow nothing about the situation at
Proctor, but men seldom pay these
axes unless their business requires
heir payment. If five men in Proctor
ire selling liquor the proportion with
to the population is greater
han any license man would propose.
t appears, also, that if these men are
DING business Proctor must share the
loral responsibility The facts ought
O be plainly told Mr.. Ormsbee's pro-
est will be regarded aud respected
ut it does not 60 into details in
lanner to indicate his full familiarity
18th the situation. If there is no truth
4 these stories the fact ought to he
wen the fullest possible publicity. If
be charges are true they Indicate a i
ocular situation for the professed pro
ibition candidate for governor. For {
he sake of the good name of the state. |
nd without regard to the effect on any
lndidate or candidates. we would be
lad to see these charges of liquor sell y
Ig in Proctor authoritatiyely denied, =
I'd the denial made with such circum- !
antiality that there can be no doubt !
it. Montpelier Argus. :,