St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-09-10

them forward. If Mr.. Clement was ur
s selfishly devoted to liquor law reform h
c should be satisfied with the result. If
was only using that question as an in
strument of personal advancement b.
has the fitting reward of having missed
his object, while being made to serve tn
i cause he had espoused.- New Yorl
/ Tribune.
= The local option party has every rea
son to feel pleased at the showing made
on Tuesday, even in the face of a system
of bribery never before practiced in this
state. With no organization at the start,
with no special occasion making prohi.
bition more offensive than it had been
for a generation or more with an un-
scrupulous ring enjoying the prestige of
years and schooled in the art OF concerted
action, the little band OF local optionsts
started forth. They were ridculed, they
were abused, even lied about, but vet
they made record of over $4,000 votes
last Tuesday. They have done more
than that. They have made the position
OF the prohibitIonists untenable. The
legislature will shortly pass bill for the
| people to pass upon which will wipe
state prohibition from the statutes.
This is not bad for FIVE months work
Rutland Herald.
The liquor question has been the only
real issue in this campaign, as will be
generally conceded. By copying the
platform OF its enemies, the republican
party lost the respect of both the prohi.
blt1on and license elements and has been
between the devil and the deep sea ever
since. When the republican party gets
back to its mornings again and goes be.
fore the people with a platform founded
upon principle rather than one framed
Tor the sole purpose of catching the votes
OF one faction or another at the sacrifice
OF principle, we may hope to see an old |
time majority rolled up in the state
Wilmington Times.
When political oligarchies months and
years in advance arrange the stools in |
all the public offices, designate each occu.
pant, and long in advance assign to each
his work in the primaries the source
from whence comes the supreme power
IN the state becomes absolutely dry, A
force springs up that is not easily over
come because constantly augmented bv
heirs apparent to the stoolsas well as by
moral towards and those who are delud.
ed into foolish expectancy by the prestige
OF success. 1t is only when state be-
comes 1ncapacitated that it should 90
I'M the hands OF receivers. The state
Whlch alone deserves or can reasonably
nope tor permanency, happiness and
honor is one which does not Weld the
selection OF its rulers to an ignoble strue-
gle, based not upon qualifications or
but upon personal claims and
individual Obligations and mutual per-
sonal services which do not touch nor
concern the state Island Pond Herald.
Judgin from the result of Yesterdays
vote it is pretty certain license local
option law will be accepted by the people
when submitted to them Barre Times.
Well the Republican party did receive
something of the jolt that Clement prom
sed.-[ Bennington Reformer.
Judging from the statement bv F. w.
he has, list of those who
were not true to the party in the present
political melee, and if democratic Presi-
lent OF the United States should be cleo.
ed next time, he would probably have
1T least something to say regarding the
distribution of the loaves and fishes
Burlington Free Press.
The license, local option party NAV be
:ounted as factor IN Vermont politics I
rom now out, and it may not prove an i
lnm'xed evil either. The republican
party has had no occasion to fight here {
otore; now it will have to consider local .
ssues and handle them with care {
Hardwick Gazette.
Grant that Gen. Mccullough is sure to
'e elected by the legislature and what
lave the boiling republicans accom-
'hshed. They have not gained single
'oint Tor the license cause for the license
ocal option law that is to be presented
% the people will be framed and passed
~ republican legislature Just as it
would ii there had been no bolt. They
nave helped the democrats elect few
state senator's and some members of the
house and with the help of the demo- {
rats tew of the boilers have been sent
10 the house. Rather a meagre reward
or the weeks of work and the thousands
d dollars spent by the boters They :
nave, to be sure, achieved little brief !
1otorlety, but they can rest assured that I
after the Clement bolt of 1902 has
ong been forgotten the old republican I
md democratic parties will still be
long business at the old stand 1t looks
% The Courier as though the boilers =
lad sold their birthright for a mess of l
cottage and mighty small mess at L
hat.-[Swanton Courier. T
1t is time to repeat. in all soberness +
ind sincerity, and without malice, WAS !,
worth the price, Mr.. McCulough?"- h
brattleboro Phoenix. G
Clement cannot stand the shadow of A
chance of gaining the coveted governor p
NIP by relying upon the vote of the law b
makers at Montpelier, and in the words g
u the dear familiar song, had best $50 t
way pack and sit down." of his own b
accord, rather than to be .pushed igno- o
into the dark corner bv the t
land which he must accept as Fate a
Woodstock Standard.
Mr.. Clement has been blamed for he
curse he has taken in not keeping faith
ylth the party to which he belonged but .
his much can be truthfuly said in ex- 7
enuatlon, that he and he only of the .
politicians of the state seemed to know IL
ina understand the wants of the people CT
u this commonwealth and to him and p
us Efforts are due the mighty tidal wave a
1at came so near sweeping the state n
tuesday, Fair Haven Era. l
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