Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-03

republican, prominent in Rutland nolitics
ara member of the State senate He
has also been, lut IL is generally under
stcoo Is not now. the controlling power in
the management of the Rutland railroad
bis domination for the govornorship by a
combination of democrats and license 70
puohoans would make about as PRETTY a
mark as the voters Of Vermont ever ha5
10 aim at. 1t is not likely. however. thu
d Eropt sition like this would ever be ser.
lously entertained.
MIR. PROCTOR'S CANDIDACY.
O'rom the st. Adams Messenror)
What constitutes a Vermonter? Not
birth, that is an accident. Not mere resi-.
| uence; that may be simply oXpedioncv.
what does constitute a Nernonter then
nut the keenest sympathy with the Yer.
mont life and Vermont institutions and
day by day participation in the one and sup
port or the other. In fine, the man who is
porn IN vermont and lives his life here or
the man who comes into Vermont to live
MS lie here, whose citizenship is nourish-
ed by Nermonts traditions who exempli-
mes IN character her own strength and her
own weaknesses, who lives the life OF her
people and aspires to their ideals is a Yer
monter in the truest and best sense Of the
| word.
Partaking to the inmost fibre of its be-
ing or TINS sentiment and sharing in the
anxiety Of the people of this State that the
Vermont idea shall continue to animal.
and inspire the government of this COM
monwealth. The Messenger supports the
| canvass Of the Hon. Fletcher D Proctor
OF proctor, for the republican nomination
Tor governor. 1t believes that in SO DO
ing 1t is Voicing the underlying sentiment
Oh the people or Vermont. 1t does not urge
upon its readers at this time the merits Of
Mr.. Proctor, nor the claims upon the Of
nee to which his talents and his public SER
wees may appear according to the custom
OF politics to entitle him In fact If does
not look upon his canvass as a mere noli;-
teal move in any sense whatever II be.
lieves that this issue has taken a loftler
plane than mere political expediency; that
It's roots are in the very soil that MAS
nourished Vermont glorious past and from
which all her hopes of a glorious futura
must spring. that it is 81 question of prin-
ciples, not of men Political conditions her,
had reached that situation when there was
an unmistakablc demand for a third can
cidate for the republican nomination for
the govcrnorship. To fail to read 1t in tha
signs of the times and the acts of the peo-
pie was to lack discernment of human ma
ture: to shut ones eyes to il was th.,
supremcst folly Or. W. Seward Webb
recognized il, and. with the true instinct
OF the man whose only regard for the
proper desires Of his fellow citizens is II
see them accomplished. OF his own ac, ord
has cheerfuly and manfully withdrawn
from the contest. This underlying senti-
ment for third candidate, born Of an in
tense loyalty to the traditions of Vermont,
naturally seeks out that man in whom
the qualities of character and statesman
ship worthy of those traditions are known
10 exist There are many such men in Yer
mont to-day. nor will the grand old COM
monwealth ever lack for them if Vermont
be but true to the Vermont idea. But in
times of political emergency like this the
trend of public opinion pursucs tho line of
least resistance and points to that man
VINO, all things considered is the most
conspicuously available. The whole story Is
told when the Messenger says that when
the idea of third candidate was preached
anywhere IN Vermont, the popular mind
instantly reverted to Fletcher n Proctor
1t is not necessary to prove that he lives
in Vermont and is a Nermonter
No one can say that he has sought the
office save that because of his Industry.
sobrety, and conspicuous merit his life
has day by day reminded his follow cit
liens that he was iit for it.
THE CLEMENT POSSIBILITY.
From the st. Johnsbury Republican)
Tho rumor that Hon Percival w. Glenn
ent Of Rutland may he a high license can
didate for governor does not seem to throw
much Gust in peoples eyes up to date.
GEN. NJ CULLOCGH'S LUNCHEON.
From the Bellows Falls TimcsN
A BrattlobOro correspondent of a Boston
paper makes this statement: Those who
saw Gen. Mccullough as ne took the train
from Brattleboro for New York the day Of
the funeral of Gen. Estey would hardly
suspect him of being a millionaire He
had his luncheon with him in his satchel
and as soon as he boarded the train he ate
his luncheon in the most democratic man
ner. If any of the people have an idea
that he is distant and unapproa enable
simply because he has great wealth, the
idea would have been dispelled if they had
seen him on the day in question" Gen
Mccullough carries his luncheon in his
satchel Now let us hear how Fletcher
Proctor carries his luncheon.
CLEMENT INSIDE THE PARTY"
From the Brattleboro Reformer.)
The most interesting development thus
far is in suggestion that Percy W. Glenn
ont of Rutland may appear az high
license candidate. OF course such a can
dldacy inside the party would have no
practical result, The men who set EN- up
Ilr caucuses and conventions are too unall-
imously 'prohihitionists," the voters
who register their DEGREES for the part"
at the polls are too impossible to bring out
to the primaries, and the plumber that the
present law contains in its enforcement"
Tor the politicians is too necessary as
party cement, to leave any chance for even
so aggressive a chap as Mr. Clement The
only way the present law can ever be over
thrown is by the way ii has been over
thrown in all the other States when it
has been replaced by a more rational and
practicable system, by "A revolution in
party control But such a movement as is
threatened in Clements behalf would have
Il large educational value, would tend 10
dissipate the moral terror under which
many of our more honest and thoughtful
men are lahoring and would help along the
day surely coming when q majority of Yer
monters Will vote the democratic ticket
once or more 10 bring about this among
Mr., Clement to make himself useful is to
hsht his hglt inside his party, not as
bolter in hopes of democratic support. MIR.
Lia1ns1t ~ nav Said n h IN Cs,lcarnlA