Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-28
The Candidacy of Bolter Clement
Roughly Handled at Rich
mond Rally.
EMINENT LEADERS THERE
Dillingham;. Mccullough, Powers and
Foster Sound Keynote OF True Re-
publicanism-P Present Strife Is be-
tween Republican Party
and Clement.

Richmond. Aug. 26-The republicans of
this town gathered at the high school
! grounds this afternoon and heid a rousing
| rally, several speakers of prominence be-
ing present The gathering was marked for
the enthusiasm large attendance and tie
4 high order of the speeches. The candidacy
of Clement was handled without gloves
and the issues he has made were dis
cussed from every point OF view ana .leir
| weaknesses shown. Aside from the peo-
pie OF Richmond there were delegations
| from surrounding towns, who had driven
/ miles to hear the issues of the campaign
discussed
There could have been no more desirable
day for such a gathering and the town
| republican committee had made every
preparation for the event. The speakers
| arrived from Burlington shortly after noon
/ and were met At the station by the town
committee composed of A. J. Hall, f. l.,
Jones' e. A Rhodes. +. G.. Nichols, f. W.
! Fay, J. II. Goodwin, Joseph Stone, W. S.
! w alker and E. I. Jacobs. The Essex juno
| ton band was also in waiting and the
party was escorted to the hotel.
At o'clock in the afternoon the speak
ers were escorted by the Hnesburgh band
| to the grounds where the stand. decor led
| with bunting. had been erected. The two
! bands played several selections after
which the gathering was called to order
| by F. G. Nichols, who announced tla:
| Congressman d j. Foster would preside.
| The hundreds of people who were pres
ent paid close attention to the remarks
of the speakers and the telling points wero
loudly applauded. The speakers were the
/ Hon. II. H. Powers of Morrisville Gen.
J. G. Mccullough of Bennington. republi-
| can candidate for governor and United
! States Senator w. =. Dillingham; of Wa
/ terbury. The latter did not arrive until az
I o. tho rally. hap hut u ,,.,
was the signal of applause and he received
| an ovation.
Congressman Foster made few brief
! remarks. He said that the voters had been
told that the only issues of the campaign
were local issues and that they had no
| national importance, This. thu speaker
! said, was not true; that Vermont could
| not hold an election that would not have
! national Importance. lie said that the
other States looked to Vermont for big
republican majority and that if II was not
rolled up the effect would he noticed the
country over lie said that Nermortcrs
are proud of the fact that they belong to
| that great national party which 20 years
| ago found the union dissolving and took
| that union ard cementod il more firmly
! than l. had ever been before and made
the flag loved at home and rosne"t, Il
| abroad He said that If Vermont did its
| part in tho election there need be no fear
put that the rest of the country would
keep up.
MR.. POWERSS REMARKS.
Ex-Congressman Powers was the first
speaker Introduced. He s9id that previous
to the State ropuhli"an convention both
Mccullough and Clement had cxerted
themselves vigorously and honestly to Sc
cure delegates to tn" convention favorable
to themselves. Clement announced that he
had no personal interest in the matter but
that he wanted resolution embodied in
the platform providing that the liquor
question he submitted to the people.
The speaker then told how Clement got
the resolution and it was accepted by him;
of how Mccullough was nominated and
tne nomination made unanimous by Glenn
ont's friends and then of how Clements
delegates left the hall The bolt the speak
er said, was in accordance with precon-
celVed plan. lie said that the Clement DEL
eSates left the convention without tho
slightest justification and that he ha. had
| no justification for his bolt He must have
some excuse for boiling so he started the
old busaboo of extravaganza in State af-
fairs.
The speaker then went on to show that
although state expenses have increa sed
the direct tax had decreas sed; that in fact
the dlrect tax 20 years ago was four times
as large as 1t is now. The reason for this
given by tho speaker was that that a meas
ure taxing corporations and a measure
relating to inheritance taxes had been
passed and so increased the income Of the
State. If the bill increasing the corpora-
Ition taxes introduced at the last session II
the Legislature which was killed In the SELL
ate by Clement, who was chairman of the
finance committee had passed there would
have been no, or almost no, direct tax to- |
day. The speaker said that Clement has
never specined a single dollar of State
money that has been wrongfully used and
has not mentioned the name Of single
official who has misused funds and remark |
ed that 1t needed something more than
Clements mere word to prove his state
ments. He refuted Clements statements
relative to the misuse OF money and said |
that the assets Of Vermont to-day are
more than equal to the increase in the ex-
penses.
Mr.. Powers said that the present fight
was not between General McCullough and
MIR. Clement but was between the republi- |
can party and Clement, whom he charac-
teriZcd as a holter and a traitr. In closing
he said: "If You propose to treat General |
Mccullough with the same measure of
fairness that you usually give republican
nominees you will go to the polls Tuesday
ard give him the usual republican major
ity
GENERAL MCCULLOUGH.
General Mccullough was the next speak
er He said that Clements campaign had
been one of villihcation from the very he
ginning; that neither sarced nor profa ne
things had escaped him; that every d,-
partment of the State government hid
been attacked. He said that the republican
party had put the referendum plank in
their platform and that 1t was their duty
At the next session OF the Legislature to
form the most perfect license law possible
and then submit it to the people. He said |
that the Republican party had never yet
failed to fulfll its every pledge, both ma
tional and State
In referring to the finance question Cen
eral Mccullough said that II elected he
would endeaVor to give the people an
economical administration. He said that
Clement cried for honesty and reform In
State politics lie said that Clements
honesty consisted Of misstat ements and
that he would reform out Of existence the
insane hospital and other State nstitu-
tons He would raze to the ground tho
Soldiers Home, which was the gift of the
commonwealth; he would destroy the edu-
cational system and the library. The bolt
or's honesty Is rank dishonesty and his re-
form the degradation and demora lization
of the best state Institutions.
SENATOR DJJJJNGIJhM