Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-28
WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS SAY.
An Exemplification OF the Pure Cam
paign for Clement-Money Enough.
(From the Burlington Clipper }

And now comes a story from Middlebury
VouChcd for by some of the best citizens
of that place. that shows pretty conclusive
ly that Mr.. Clements one and only desire
In this campaign has been and is to be
made governor.
A certain Clement Worker-a leader-in
Midlebury was tclephoned to the day be-
fore the caucus to find out the situation
What he replied was anything but encour-
aging to the candidate and his Rutland
workers. The next morning one of those
CLOSE" fellows to Mr.. Clement is said to
have put in a bright and early appearance
in Middlebury. lie saw the man who had
kept in close touch with the politics of the
town and the conversation that took place
was something like the following:
what appears to be the matter" in
quired the man just arrived from Rutland
The matter is Just about as 1t has been
replied the Middlebury man. Il have re-
peatedv said that this was a Mccullough
town and l have seen nothing to cause me
to change my mind. That's why | tele
phoned as l did yesterday"
Cant the situation be changed" asked
the Rutlandite. IF money will do it ther
we are ready" and he pulled out a roll OF
bills as large as your leg, according to the
story of the Middlebury man.
1T took me few minutes to recover
from the shock" said the Middlebury mar
in telling of the affair later. but when dio
| told the fellow that that was not my kline
of politics and would have nothing to d.
with the transaction"
| As everybody in the State knows. Mid
dlebury was almost solid for Mccullough
in her choice of delegates to the Stat,
convention
After the Middlebury caucus the gentle
man who had been so interested in Mr.
Clements success but who refused to han
n Ia
ment out in Middlebury. Naturally this die
! not increase his enthusiasm for the boltin,
candidate and since the bolt came he ha
not been Identified with the Clement forces
AN OUTSIDE VIEW.
| From the Troy New York Times)
Az the date OF the Vermont election
draws nearer it becomes more and NOR
apparent thatthe republicans of that Stat
steadfast for so many years to their party
its candidates and its platforms that tn
republicanism of the Green Mountains Ia
become proverb throughout the Unite
States for constancy, Will not allow them
selves to be alicnGted this year Gen j. G
Mccullough, the republican nominee 70
governor regularly nominated in the part
convention after a fair and open contest
is worthy of the support of the electors q
the State. Any independent candidacy tina
is the result of open defeat in the part
convention cannot be viewed as other tina
a bolt. The minute a candidate for a non,
nation takes his candidacy into the part
convention. to be submitted to the decisio
| of the regularly elected delegates, tina
minute he precludes himself from dissen
from the duly recorded choice of the con
vention.
President Roosevelt has just expresse
disapproval of any factional divisions |
the Republican party at this time, whe
1t 10 so important that a republican Con
Eress should be reelected. That dsapprc
val may be applied with force in Vernon
as well as In Texas or in Virginia.
The republicans of Vermont for the SAX
Of the nation and for the sake of their pan
tY which has ably administered for S