Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-06-12

ent 219 and Proctor 1863. There still
remain to be reported 10 delegates.
The nominee OF the convention will
have to receive 1868 votes.
Mccullough will lack about 80 votes.
They will not come easily. This fight
has been a sharp one, and considerable
bitterness has developed between all
three factions. 1t is now the field
against Mccullough. and the other
parties will bend all their energies
to keep their strength together and
prevent votes enough going 10 the
leader to nominate him. As Proctor
and Clement delegates have generally
been elected after struggles in caucus
with the Mccullough wing, they will
not be inclined to drift to Mccullough
readily, but will hang out to the end to
defeat him.
So bitter and malicious have been
the personal assaults Of the McCul-
Tough wing against Proctor that his
friends will not surrender readily to
the advantage of persons responsible
for them. Gen. McCullough's partisans
may now discover where they have
erred in the kind OF warfare they have
waged.
All eoncede the surprising nature of
the showing made by Mr. Clement.
Starting in late, without any organ
ization, and with only his own news
paper advocating his cause, the pros
pect of his securing many delegates
seemed very remote. But he struck a
popular issue at the right moment and
in the right way, and his success
amounts to a virtual triumph Tor his is
sue and himself The demand for
some change or modification of the
prohibitory law, evidenced by the sup
port given Mr.. Clement, cannot be
ignored, and Mr.. Clement is not the
man to let the opportunity pass with
out making the most of it, He owns
every one Of his delegates completely,
and they will follow his directions i'm
plicitly. Neither Mr.. Mccullough nor
anyone else will be nominated until
the issue that Clement has raised is
in the way he wants ii to
be recognized by the party in its plat
form. Unquestionably, a considerable
number OF McCullough's delegates
would not be playing false to their
own convictions if they should sup
port such plank. Others might be
induced to do so by the exigencies of
The situation. If that is done, Mr..
Clement may provide the necessary
votes to nominate Mccullough. So .
hat, il Mccullough is the nominee, it
is quite likely that Clement will write
the license plank that our good friends
who have been insisting that McCul-
ough was prohibitionist will have to
vote for in September. Unless Mr..
Clement, himself, secures the nominal
ton, or gains his point as to the plat
'orm, we may look to see him in the
ield after convention as an independ-
mt candidate, to be supported by local
option Republicans and Democrats.
1t is not impossible that some other
nan than Mccullough may be the
lominee. The Clement and Proctor
orces will outnumber the other side.
md if they can agree on a candidate
to both, Mccullough may
all in his ambition. The name of at
east one such person is already being
mentioned. 1t is exceedingly improb-
Ible that either Proctor or Clement
'ould or would throw his strength to
he other, under any circumstances. e
1t is believed by some that Gen. Ne
Julloughs support is not of the fervid
md enthusiastic order that will carry
lin through thick and thin to ultimate
riumph, but that, after successive bal +
OTIS have been taken, without promise
# result, his strength will disintegrate.
md it is the hope of being able to prot
t by this that will keep Clements
orces intact and discourage him from j
deals or compromises. A
All things are yet possible in this
never-to-be-equalled gov
rnorship fight.
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