Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-14
WHAT OUR NElGHBORS SAY.
Sam Small's Somersault-S Some Of His
Sayings Regarding License
and Prohibition.

Sam Small's somersault-Some Of His
Sayings Regarding License
and Prohibition.
From the st. Johnsbury Republican,
The Rev. Sam Small of Atlanta. Ga, Is
advertised to speak in st. Johnsbury, Lyn-
donville and other places this week In the
interests of Clement and high license.
This somersault Of one who for years has
been all untiring advocate of prohibition
will need explaining before he can make
many votes for Nermont's boiling guberna-
torial candidate in Caledonia county.
November "a 1855, the Rev. Samuel gave
an address in Music hall, st. Johnsbury In
the Y. NJ G. a. course, before an audience
which filled the hall to its doors. His sub
ject was From BarRoom to Pulpit" and
was history of his own career. 1t was
telling experience and would have been
painful to hear had it not, like the good
book, come out right
From stenographic notes Of that lecture,
taken by the editor of the Republican, we
make the following extracts. They do not
sound in harmony with the @ string of the
Clement high license campaign. and are
pitched a trihe sharp for the Clement coon
quartette when they attempt to sing II
want to be the leading la-a-a-dy"
Mr. Small said High license money is
blood money coined to lay on the eyelids
of dead consciences to make the corpse look
respectable"
Mr.. Small said THE four footed hog
that roots in the mire because 1t is his ma
ture, is gentleman and Christian COM
pared with the two-footed hog who sells
his conscience and those of his fellow be-
ings for money"
Mr. Small said:--"Some simple headed
men who think they are preaching the gos-
pei do not preach temperance for fear of
dividing the church. A church that would
be divided that subject isn't fit to be
called a church and the sooner it's ripped
right open the better"
Mr.. Small said :-"There Is enough tenn
pcrance sentiment in America, II properly
organized, to run seven worlds like this on
strictly prohibition basis. The temper
ance sentiment it is. and temperance
sentiment as ii should be, is as different
as a pile Of pig iron and a perfected loco
motive. One is a pile of iron organized
and the other Is pile of unorganiZed iron.'
Mr.. Small said-"Prohihition laws are all
right If they do not prohibit it is because
the officers are either cowardly or corrupt"
Mr.. Small aid:--"They call me a crank;
W
en- sot at Atlanta they called me a mighty
clever fellow Was l crank then or
now?'
Or now
A man who has been able to rise from
bar room to pulpit as the Georgian has GER
tainly been able to do. should know enough
Of the evils Of high license to fill hook
and why he has come to Vermont ut this
time to damn his past record demands ex-
PLANTATION. Until this change of base is
fully explained he may amuse his hearers,
but cannot expect to make votes.
JONES AND SMALL
From the Lyndonville Journal)
Formerly it was Sam Jones and Sam
Small, now II is Joe Jones and Sam Small.
WILL STAND BY THE PARTY.
N'rom tho Cambridge Transcript
During the past week two Clement men.
outsiders were looking up the town as to
the prospects of Mr.. Clement and espousing
his cause. but so far as we have been able
to learn they were given the ice-house. The
voters Of Cambridge can be depended upon
to support the nomination and platform of
the Montpelier convention for they believe
that the high license men received all that
they could consistently ask for and this is
the prevailing feeling throughout the State
Judging from newspaper comments and re-
liable information. That the majority OF
the most influential voters of the Republ-
can party will stand by the nomina lions
made at that convention is an assured fact.
FLETCHER u. PROCTOR'S LOYALTY
From the Rrattleboro Reformer.)
Hon. Fletcher D. Proctor made a master
stroke at burlington when he declared his
loyalty to his party. and his intention 10
take off his coat and work for the cleo
ton OF Gen. Mccullough Mr.. Proctor is
wise in his day and generation and will
probably be the governor of Ncrmont four
years hence
A FITTING EPITAPH
OTrom the Montpelier Journal)
II is said that among Aguinaldo Jones's
papers, in his Rutland bungalow. the fol.
lowing ballad has been discovered, writ.
ten, presumably. to be sung over the re.
mains of the Hero of the Grand Isle" or
Tuesday, September .:
HE put a stick of dynamite in the stove
to heat
He didn't dream at all that night,
His rest was calm and sweet;
| Some of him rested on the hill.
Some In the f1owery vale.
| And some by the murmuring rill
That wanders through the dale
A Ludicrous Exhibition OF Tweedle
dun and Tweedledse.
(From the Woodstock Standard.)
One of the curious developments Of thu
present political campaign is the filing o.
| nominations for Windsor county offices
by the license element.
| All the regular nominees of the late re
| publican county convention are rA