Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-04-14
LETTER FROM EX=GOV. CIRCUIT.
To the Editor of the MONITOR:
Mn dear SIR:

To the Editor of the MONITOR:
My dear SIR:
Just few words if you please in re-
ply to F. G.. Williams letter of last
week.
I expect, Mr.. Williams, the papers
of this county were inclined, before
Col Proctor's candidacy, to support
DR.. Webb, as the lesser of two evils,
for both Webb and Mccullough are
New Workers and no more right seek
ing to be governors of Vermont than
Chauncey M. Depew; and these same
papers, I have no doubt, had such
mental reservation in their inclina-
tions to give such support as left
them fully at liberty to support Ver-
mont candidate, should such a man
refresh the tedium of the New York
humdrum with his appearance.
Gen. Mccullough had won nothing
against DR.. Webb. The doctor would
have been an easy winner had he re-
mained to the finish; but he quit the
field no doubt, because convinced
that Vermont wanted a Vermonter,
instead of either of them.
Gen. Mccullough is not such Ver-
monter as entities him to be governor;
because he does not live in Vermont,
as man should to ask such an honor
of the state. His residence is such,
as between Vermont and New York,
that, for any purpose, he can squat in
one state as consistently as in the
other. His residence is that ION
the fence" kind, which would make
hirn as eligible to the governorship of
New York as Vermont. He lives in
both states: in New York during the
business portion of the year, and in
Vermont during the vacation portion
of the year. He pays taxes in both
states and can vote in either state.
His business interests are interests
| in New York ten to one in Vermont
and so he is more a New Yorker than
Vermonter; and Vermonters please
distinguish between such partial life
In Vermont and the full life of Fletcher
D. Proctor, who, by birth, education
and business, is a Vermonter from
crown to toe, and always has been.
The Mccullough type of Vermonters
can play in Vermont's back yard but
must not be allowed to feed down the
red clover of her front yard. If Yer
mont establishes the precedent of ad-
itting such quasi Vermonters to the
governorship, where will it end? for
the name of the "others'' is legion,
who with their money and subsidized
influences, of one kind and another,
will corrupt, break through and cap
ture the stronghold whenever they
undertake it.
1t is true Gen. Mccullough has been
a delegate to national conventions
from this state; but we allow almost
anyone to attend such conventions.
who wants to go bad enough to pay
their own bills. 1t is true also that
Gen. Mccullough has made some gen
erous gifts recently, since he has been
billed all over the state as a candidate.
1t is not true that Gen. Mccullough
has not been an office seeker, for he
has been seeking the office he now
desires since 1886.
Now, Mr.. Williams, last but not
least and please let it be known that
Fletcher D. Proctor has not said by
tongue or pen, he would not be can
didate in the present canvass; nor
has he made any deal, at any time or
place as to his candidacy now or the
candidacy of any man four years from
now, as you describe in your letter;
nor has he done anything in this can
vass, because of which you can charge
him with bad faith as you do.
He is as honorably candidate as
Gen. Mccullough and let us have fair
play and clean work in all the little
things that lead to the nomination of
our next governor.
Sincerely,
JOSIAH CIRCUIT.