Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-24

ttIEptS 10 StdIpeue puDIC SeHtlIucHb w
any Kind of political device whatsoever
are unworthy the support and approval
of soberminded men.
The Messenger denounces the law, sup
ports a candidate for governor who BELLE
YES In the law and sets down as "politi-
cal device" any attempt to sweep the Of
fensive statute from our book Of the laws
this year. This is a cruel treatment of
Proctor. He stands for law which the
Messenger calls "a shame and reproach
to our moral sense" While Proctor Is
boltering up this "reproach to Our moral
sense" the Messenger Is bolstering up
Proctor They both have got their hands
full, but why did the contemporary give
the thing away?
JOsIAHS uNDERsTUDY.
(From the Montpelier Journal)
1t is bgotry and narrow rrovincialisn,,
we are told, to object to Gen. Mccullough
for governor on the ground that he has
summer residence in Ianuireton and his
winter palace and his business interests
are in New York city. Mpssachusetts Is
considered by the sister states as the
most enlightened cornUnw ealth of the
union Just imagine all the conditions at
present transplsnted Suppose Gen. Nc
Culloush had his sunni er residence IN the
Ee rk shire hills. and the sane interests and
connections here that he has In Bcnniny'
ton. Would he be considered es canhi-
date for governor of Massachusetts?
Think it over-"Flea-nix" Brattleboro
The contemporary has bcen told correct
ly respecting it's objections to Gen. McCul-
Tough for governor. 1t isn't asking much
this suggestion OF the "Flea-nix"-
think over one of its propositions 1t S
ar easy job The first thought that one
| inevitably thinks after reading the forcSo-
ing paragraph is that its nimhle little au-
thor-what there is of him deua-
gognc. Did he ever enter, las he ever
seen. McCullough'3 "'virter palace" in
New York? Can lie tell a palace from
| q plain, substantial. urCstcntatious, SIM
ply furnished wtilinE? Or is he simply
an understudy of that other demagogue.
Josiah Grout who wss Just now ravng
about a "palatial niunsion' he never OF
tered and probably never saw? "Wntcc
palace" Gas Maa Addicls,' Copper
King Clark of Montana. we'll the lower
case fica-nix can't help it. 1t see,rs to be
built tina. way. But
let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For It's their nature to-
| likewise certain title animals. As to thu
berkshire hills" matter-tfat too. is an
adaptation from Josiah If the circun-
stances are no more credible than every
thing else this volatile insect mas evolved
from it's diminutive inner consciousness
since, in tryin; to rip Gen. Mccullough. 1t
began to do the very Girty work Of the
Waldorf oria combine. 1t merits the
contempt Ats every Ctncr reference tc MI.
Cullough has ref oivcd. even from Its fell
low dupas of the Now York sc hcme to put
Candidate Mccullough out ct the race nv
was winning against DR.. Webb by with
drawing the latter and substituting Proc
ter. Nothing Appeared in the Canuck cN-
governors screed, OF In its Brattleboro
echo t. show that in the fGct nd circtii-
stances Of GEN. McCullonehs residence
and citizenship in Vermont there is any
nearer resemblance to the osse of the al
Legged berkshire hills summer residents
than there is between eny high minded
| honorable man and .Tosish circuit or his
undcrstUdy.
i FAR SEEING CRAFTSMANSHIP
| (From the Green Mountain Pre.s)
i That "anti-imperiaii.tic speech which
tie st. Adams Messenger sttcmr,s to use
as an argument against TIE state smnnshin
4 of Mccullough. is one of the Fest evidences
II Of his far seeing state snlanship, and If he
had the stamina to stand by these broad
principles Of state smanship, with She n,I.
jority Of the Senate against him, that is
still another point in his favor. Modern
imperialism Is far from SOUND American
ism. The keystone of the American gov
eminent is anti-imrerielism Opposition t.
tie imperial policy of Great Britain was
the great principle over Which the Revolu.
tion was fought. The ctlaTation CT irdn-
pcnGence enunciates the great anti imrcr-
ialistic principle that al governments
derive their just powers from the ocnscn,
of the governed" Mccullough forese cling
that for our government to enter upci i
course of Colonial conquest. would 10 &c
ataJ don the very primo irles for which sh:
has heretofore commended, could do moth,
to use his influence against it. The Mes
scnEer has simply rnked UP one Of tho
strongest reasons for making Mccullough
governor. He is u Verriorter, and above
all an American of the original type.
BATS IN HIS RELFRY.
From the Lyndonville Journal)
Here is ex-Gov. Grout out with a Iona
; Letter scttirg forth the essential qualtie,
requisite for ar able governor. Josiah
ought TO lie an authority. Few. if any
have made more of a failure in that ofl,c.
than he. The lamtn;ahlc appearance he
rnadc before the CON IT .ttec ct investigation
has net yet beer FOL gotten.
This suggests thu thought: Why are the
Grouts so ardent for Proctor and 50 hos
tile to Mccullough? II view of what ha;
gone before it cannot b. fer past faycrs
We have it from friend OF Senator Proc
tor that the senator did not want Gen
, Grout elected as tho junior member from
Vermont and this statement would seen
to lie borne out by the fact that the gercr
al received only four votes from Rutland
county. Thar are seven or eight towns II
} that county which the Fro ctors are saic
to control absolutely How did 1t harper
that all Of these Gowns cid not send Grou
representatives to the last Legislature?
, LATEST OUT-OF- STATE CONFER
ENCE.
(From the Rutland Herald.N
The Brettletoro Phoenix, which gained
an envable reputation q few weeks age
, by an editorial forecesting the candidacy
, of Fletcher Proctor, rescnts the rcmarks
, OF certain papers in reft renee to an ALLEGED
dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel ir
, New York last February. The Phoeui,
gets little sporty over this matter anC
even risks a portion IF It's pt sessions
when 1t says: I'VE will wager a hig rec
, apple that neither the Lyndonville Journa
Tor the Landmark can tel a sin,le fac
about any political conference of Yer
nonters held at the Waldorf Astoria OF
, elsewhere in New York city which had an,
bearing whatever uron Fletcher D. Proc
, tors entrance into the gubernatorial con
, test Mr.. Proctor never attended such :
, conference, and never knew that such
: one was held"
r We wonder If the Phoenix is Wiling tt
go step farther and risk another appl,
on wage that gentleman who ATTENDED
/ the Waldorf Astoria dinner did net max,
n trip to Canada on Saturday in order I,