Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-07-16

DDS of lettering them. BE alleges
all sorts of wrongs but offers 30
specific remedies. He charges mis-
government but fails utterly To verify
his declarations.
We appeal TO the sound reason and
SOBER sense of all good citizens of
Vermont who love our state and our
Institutions to weigh carefully and
we'll the two men and what they
re present.
Percival ". Clement now heads
the Democratic state ticket. He has
secured that nomination not because
the Democratic convention. endorses
| him or what he represents, but
/ because it expects TO maze more
1 havoc in republican ranks and attain
| nearer to the destruction of our party
than it could possibly hope to accom-
plish by nominating Democrat to
the office. Mr.. Clement has sold his
birth right as a Republican, re-
pudiated the organization that has
repeatedly honored him with office,
thrown away the principles and
policies be has advocated and voted
for all his life and reasonably re
nounced his allegiance TO his party to
the end that he may sit in the gov rn-
or's chair at Montpelier. To every
man honest with himself this will ap
peal with over powering conviction
as "trafficking honor for Officer to
the extreme limit OF the business.
Mr.. Clement four years ago went
before the people of Verm ont with an
issue. 1t is true that the Republican
platform Of that year promised
20 give Vermont local opt on
law, but Mr.. Clement and his sup
porters claimed they had reason to
believe that the r spu1lican party
would not do what it promised in its
/ platform. Many good and sincere
men held to that belief, but the fight
was won and the party Immediately
carried out it's platform pledges and
enacted that law and many others
i which it promised. Mr.. Clement him
self than came back to the party and
asked the privilege of contributing TO
the success of the ticket in 1904; he
was accorded that privilege, and went
about the state advocating the cleo
ton of the Republican state ticket
| and advising his fir ends everywhere
to support the Republican platform
and the Republican nominations. He
had no use for the democracy of Yer
mont in 1904 His friends did come
! back and Governor Bell was elected
by more than 10000 plurality. Mr..
Clement by his every act and word
admitted that the Republican party
had met his wishes and redeemed it's
! pledges by enacting into law the re-
forms he had demanded.
When it became evident that Mr..
Clement could not secure the Repub-
lican nomination for governor in 1898
and that the prize would go to nan
!. whom he viewed as personal enemy,
Mr.. Clement INN sdia6ely ooshmenced
a campaign for himself which has re-
suited ia his becoming the candidate
Of the Democratic party and he is
now asking his Republican friends to
again retrac5 their steps and follow
him, without an issue save personal
hatred Of Fletcher D. Proctor, into
men followed him out of the Repub-
lican party in 1902 because he had an
issue in which they believed; they
} followed him back to the Republican
party in 1904 because he assured them
tta5 he was satisfied with thu party
, and its platform and he had no issue
to raise against it; now he asks again
because, vile he has no i sue, he
does harbor personal ill-feeling of
many years standing against the Re-
:. publican candidate which he hopes to
settle, with the help of his friends, in
, this campaign.
, This is the sum and the substance
of Mr.. Clements position to-day
Does it appeal to Republicans a
worthy OF support? Is this the kind
of man that right minded Republicans
: and Democrats. should elect to the
, office highest in the gift of our peo-
: pie? Can you trust man of such
character to administer the affairs of
our staff? Does he come up to the
' standard of the long line of governors
7 who for more than fifty years have
! shed luster upon the Office and made
! honorable the history of Vermont?
We.counsel the pc pile of Yer ont
, that integrity of purpose, fidelity to
high ideals and Jealous regard for the
j mterests of all Vermonters as exem.
, plified in the life of Fletcher D. Proctor