Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-06-22
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The Washington club, Bennington as~
osra,le organization, has issued the 'O''''
inc letter to the democrats Of Vermont
As Nc are about to enter into pa''''
q, h,,lo,, I'm our dear "old Green Noun
lain state" We deem Il our daN as VIZ
,sn, aud democrats to state clearly our
nosltlon. We endorse the sen'lmeh" VI :"
Jefferson Democratic clab OF Barre :"
democrats Of Vermont can at thef s'a"
sonvsn,Ion. say which man they wan'
.,.,,,,,, proe,or or Clement, There arc
~ chances for A democrat and the clre,'on
Al one Of these men Is assured. Whlsn s"1u
!, ~ I, IA all In our hands TO decide,
~. .,.,, "a continue the "old machine
newer nominate n straight ticket anu ~
,oy will be elected and the democrats /"
vsrmont will be given the credit OF his w
tory and will get nothing In return
,,a want ia break the odd machine anu
a,ae, one or two democrats TO stare om'es
,,a will stand for the same prineip'es
have always stood for let us IN the h''ne
N democracy. fuse and get more ihah w
svsr had. bennington, like Barre democrats
LA ha The last ones TO do anything de''
$500 ~ ,he marty We have heard the
,r'',,,nsn,s put forward by some OF the prom
lnent democrats fayoring s'raigh' uv
s,eb arguments would make good edliof,sN
~. me proetor papers. Led by no lrauer
driven by no herdsman, the democrats ~
psn,lnsten will stand with the RANK anu nv
~ our party for the good ana welfare v
Vermont Il, Var.
We appeal to all true democrats OF yer
mont 10 attend the 'caucuses on june = ai ~,
send men 10 the state convention VINO W"
represent the rank and hle See 10 ,".'
they are men favoring fusion ana ,ne ps'
lie i ours Democracy viii inlhh w ",s
sion. the machine will go. TINS ma!
the las, opportunity we will have, lei Us ,sSs
advantage Of Il. Having noihlhs
and all 10 gain We hope the dewo''''
Vermont will vote for fusion
Washington club. John =. Hogan pres''
dent M. r,us
saturday evening the following we're eieei
al 10 state and distric, conventions; p j.
u,u r J. Wolfe. George b. Allbee' D. II,
CRAY Edward stapeton, David Savage ana
Jobn T. Brosnahan. They were instructed
- vots the straight democratic ticket ana
no, 10 fuse with the p W. Clement inde'
pandeni PARTY. Four Of the eight delegates
are strong Clement men.
As 10 the feeling among Brattieboro aeh
orrats the local correspondent OF Tue
Springfield sunday Republican says
Whatever the sentiment may be in other
parts Of the state the democrats OF bratue
bero. with few exceptions, are opposed 70
,ba idea Of a fusion between the democratic
marty OF the state and the Clement faction
~ the republican party in the gubernatoriai
c,mnaisn. They are outspoken in their AIS
approyal OF the idea, and when their stare
convention comes they will bend every enort
10 prevent political marriage as MT
Clemen, terms II. In the first place me!
believe that il would be impossible Tor me
Clemen, Independent ticket to win even win
democratic support, and in the next piaee
they believe that even II the eomOiha'io.
was successful the democratic party a. sueh
y,,Id share little in the glory Here in
Brattleboro the Clement sentiment mas SUI
tered an appreciable decline since the cam
n.;.r ~ 1909 among both democrats and
ranpblicapx Then Mr.. Clement had vital
prinelple to stand on--the principle OF local
ontinn in which every voter was interested.
THE principles which he now advocates and
| has advocated persistently through the me-
dipm Of the Clement literary bureau may
have more or less merit in them, but they
do no, appeal with any great amount OF
force 10 the general public. Four years ago
Charles r. Crosby and John l.. Roess were
among the active republican supporters OF
Mr. Clement. Now Mr. Crosby is one Of
the delegates to the regular republican state
convention which will nominate Fletcher d.
Proctor for governor and Mr. Roess heads
the list Of alternates.
! II is interesting TO note the ideas which
The local democrats of prominence nave
with respect to the proposition 10 fuse,
which had its birth in the northern part oil
the state One Of the members Of the demo
cratic state committee is VI, j. Moran MI
Moran SAYS: ~ am opposed to fusion.
Clements following is on the wane' and
do not believe he can be elected. !. we
fuse with him and are defeated we are DC
feated without honor. We are IN the Pc
culiar position Of considering among our
selves whether a republican who mas nj
,la sympathv with democratic principles
shall head our ticket" Charles II. Daven.
mort Is democrat Of considerable promi-
nenra in his party in the state Mr.. Dav.
enport saws: II see no reason why the
democrats should fuse with Clement and
I don't believe they will. ! doubt very
much II Clement can be elected anyway.
Rouin S. Chlds, who has participated In
the councils of the national democratic
marty. sounded q different note when asked
! FOR his opinion. 'They will vote for fu-
sion two 10 one" said he. II presume the
local democrats will be against it, but |
am for overthrowing some Of the old Gus
toms in this state John Calvin. chairman
NJ the village board of bailiffs and demo
crat who is known throughout the state. Is
pronounced in his opposition to the idea OF
| fusion. He says: 'If the democrats fuse
with Clement it will mean the disruption
Of the democratic party in Vermont. / can
see no reason why we should sacrifice our or
SANITATION for the sake of helping Clement
out. II we fuse with him and he wins it
will not be our victory Ex.Representa-
tive John E. Gale does not believe the
democrats will vote for fusion. He express.
ed his views of the matter in these words:
| 'sWhy should we tie up with Clement I
We might as well die natural death as TO
commit suicide. Clement cannot begin to
uoll as large q vote as he did four years
ago and il he gets the whole democratic
vote he cannot win. As matter of fact, l
don't believe over half the democrats would
vote for him on fusion ticket, -
At the democratic caucus at Pittsford Sat-
urday evening, the majority favored the fu-
sion movement.
A BRAVE MAN
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