Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-23
Mccullough Proctor Clemen

OF Proctor's little 10, only 6 are un-
disputed or sure of admission to the
convention. The McCulloughites will
contest the Essex delegation on the
ground of fraud and they have at least
specious grounds in the fact that the
vote was way beyond the party vote ever
cast in town. and undisputed fact that
I ii was swollen by special train of Ca
nadians brought in just before the bal
/ loting, imported last fall and brought
/ in by the Proctor management as
charged. Also in the record fact that
! there were II more ballots in the box
! than names checked. The Mccullough
I ties protested the result and demand
ed another ballot. which the manage
ment refused.
Clements IL from Rutland are also
disputed and sure to be thrown out of
the convention if necessary to carry it.
The facts are that Clement wanted
caucus there for moral effect and that
was just what the Proctorians didn't
want to contrast with their Dragging
about what they would do to Clement
in their mutual home. Six of the IL
members of the city committee met,
decided to call the caucus last even
ing, signed it and sent it to the two
city papers to be published. Before it
appeared one member backed down
evidently under Proctor pressure-and
ordered, in writing, his name stricken
from the call. The other five refused
to recognize his right to thus reverse
his action. and went ahead regardless
of it. Then the other six met Tuesday
and issued another call, signed by
them for another caucus June 6. The
Clement crowd met that yesterday with
a call, signed by 564 of the Republi
can voters of the city, for mass meet
ing also held last evening to give the
party a new organization.
That and the caucus were attended
by S53 out of the 1904 Republican
voters of the city as shown at the last
state election--or just 100 more than a
Majority of the whole Republican vote. |
There is likely to be a very interesting
subsequently when this delegation is
thrown out of the state convention.
AT any rate it is to be described as
anything but pretty politics on Proc
tors part in either of these places.
The Montpelier fight Wednesday |
evening was a pretty one. Proctor's
name didn't appear at all and both /
factions united in the effort to down .
Clement. and fell Just six short of it. /
The vote was 2s6 for Clement ticket
and 80 for Mccullough, SO Proctor.
All the caucrses thus far have been
held in what were supposed to be
either Mccullough or Proctor stlong
holds-for prestige purposes. - Glenn
ent's show has now just begun and
will be worth watching until the end.
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in Chittenden county last week was to
get ahead of Clements speechmaking
there.
The votes at the Bennington, Rich
mond Charlotte. Shaftsbury, Wood
we're unanimous for Mccullough.
These represent Republican vote of
1860 at the 1900 state election. If
the dispatches do not record the fact.
The Williston, Bolton, Huntington
and Jericho results are simply given
without the votes. In South Burling-
ton the vote was 80 Clement and 46
Georgia, 76 Proctor, 73 Mccullough;
Essex, 21S Proctor, 1913 Mccullough
Arlington, JOG Mccullough, and s
Westford, lbs Mccullough
and IS Proctor: Elmore, % Mccullough.
To get an index so far as possible
Of the popular vote, besides the vote
given where contests are reported, we
shall have to count the whole Republi-
,an vote in towns that were unanimous
for Mccullough: and in order to be
sure to be fair to Proctor, we will also
count the whole vote on the side that
won in the towns where no contests
are mentioned. The result of this
is:
3766-Proctor 400 Glenn
ent 1908.
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