Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-28
PUBLIC AND NOT Personal GROUNDS.

candidate. This intimation is based
wholly on the ground that he did not
expect to be candidate and said so,
and that many of his friends thereby
became committed and cannot change.
Very well, Mr.. Proctor does not ex-
pect them to change on his account.
If they do not see as good public rea-
sons for changing, before this canvass
is over, as he saw for becoming a
candidate after he had thought he
would not be, they will, of course, ad-
here to their present commitments.
But, although the personal element
has some bearing in canvass of this
kind, much greater and more impor-
tant considerations should determine
it in every mans mind, and when
they come to bear as they should and
will, all this talk about individual
purposes or promises, and about al
legged agreements for the withdrawal
of one candidate and the coming in of
another, and all the filings which ap-
peal to prejudice will sink into insig-
nificance.
What are the republicans about to
do, make choice between three
equally good men, of the same
public convictions and with the same
qualifications, personal and residen-
tial? Not at all. One of the candi-
dates is a nonresident two thirds of
the year, so much so in fact that pa
pers outside of the state refer to him
as a New Yorker, and it is well
known that large sums of money are
being expended in his interests in va
rious sections. Another is running
on fad, not because he expects to
be nomina ted, but because he hopes
for the success of that one of the
others whom he least dislikes and
who shares his views. The other be-
came a candidate, contrary to his ex-
pectation, because it was made clear
to him that the true interests of the
state re quired a governor who resides
herein throughout the year, who is in
harmony with the national admins
tration, and who represents the tenn
perance principles and policy of what
he believes to be a vast majority of
the people of Vermont.
Now every body does pot know in
advance just how things will appear
when the decision must be made
On the early and easy going assump-
ton that Gen. Mccullough was al
right and unobjectionable, it was
natural that men should become com
mitted to him, but what is such com
mitment worth in the face of the
three grave public objections above
mentioned? 1t is the highest duty O.
the citizen to determine his course
on public grounds While in the
campaign which is being waged fol
Gen. Mccullough it may not be in
tended to corrupt the state, yet thu
lavish use of money which is being
made has become so scandalous tina
the good name of the state require
his defeat. Besides Mr.. Clement
course justifes and indeed calls for
J revision of earlier opinions or lean
, ings. He is not running against Nc
, Cullough. None of his adherents vii
t say a word against Mccullough
5 practical alienism, the manner o
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!, him, his anti-expansion views, or hi
+, lack of opinions on state issues. VIII
| is this? Because Mr.. Clement, know
ing that he cannot be nominated him
self, greatly desires Mccullough
= success. This is partly because b
f believes Mccullough thinks as he doe
9 on the liquor question, and partl
: because "anybody to beat Proctor"
g his daily thought, his settled purpose
: Therefore McCullough's success wi
: be Clements success and will b
If hailed within and without the state 6
n a triumph of the license cause. No
9 that the people of Vermont, the ten
10 perate, sober, conservative and higf
n minded people, the class which b;
IS so long given the state its high cha
= acter, can see the situation in it's trr
y light, how can they consent for MT
If ment to play into the hands of me
: who stand for such a cause and reso
I'd to such practices?
n The time has come for plain speal
Of ing, for the separation of the whe
se from the chaff, and for public m,
g. and political leaders to decide wheth
Of or not they will be bound hand al
ce foot by pledges given without fl
ns knowledge of the facts, and for t
V. great body of the plain people to 8