Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-08-03

through the fault OF Fletcher d. Proctor,
who was then speaker OF the house, II
was referred to the wrong committee and
was killed when brought up the last night
OF the. session.
Mr.. Clement then related how. in 1904.
State Auditor Graham refused access TO
the states books OF account to a man
whom he Clement sent to Montpelier
to get information about the states ex-
penses; how the matter was taken to the
courts, and how 1T took a mandate Of
the supreme court TO persuade Mr.. Ora
ham to do what was his plain duty and
let any one see the books" The last few
months. Mr.. Clement said. he has had
Mr. Pratt OF Brattleboro at the auditor
| office getting Whatever he could
Mr.. Clement then went over with the
years from 1882. shSwing how the state
expenses have crept up from the sum OF
S262,OO0 In that year. Twenty years
later they were S67,0OO. In 1904 they
were 100000. We haven't the expenses
for 1905 because up to last Friday mot
a scratch OF the pen had been made by
the auditor for the hst years accounts -
Mr.. Clement then Rad from Mr. Pratt's
report to him showing errors and dis
crepancies in various items, some too
much, some too little, some not reported
at all and the whole indicating a faulty
ana unreliable System OF accounts The
waterbury asylum was especially mem
TONED as a state Institution where there
Is graft, mismanagement and expensive
help, causing a high rate per capita for
the care OF the inmates. In the cost Of
operation at the horse of correction, too
he said there is the grossest wrong that
you ever heard Of"
Mr.. Clement dened that he had ever
advocated bonding the state to build lines
OF state highways. All that he had ever
said about this was that I'VE fooled away
money enough every year to build so
miles of good ma,adamized road that
would cost $4,000 a mile
Mr.. Clement entertained his audience
by his pantomime description Of the way
odd Proctor lifts up the Republican yoke
and takes one end )f it in one hand and
the bow in the other hand and says Haw,
Buck, come under, and he expects the
whole Republican PARTY to make a rush
to get in under the yoke. Now
he gets few men TO come under He
will take and put on the yoke a good lot
OF grease labeled United States District
Attorney and he will get some fellow 20
pimp under the yoke at once and he will
stick rusty nail in the bow and twist a
wisp Of straw about him and he will have
that fellow going about telling how good
the yoke feels; or he will go over into
some other county and take man and
make United States marshal Of him, or
ne will give him $4,000 pot of grease la
beled Custom House and the fellow will go
away saying how good 1t feels.
Wen 1 never had any of that kind Of
grease on me and don't know, but when
Proctor takes off the yoke you will see
that they go around like this'-Omitat-
ing, with his head on one side and one
shoulder higher than the other)
The fusion" remedy for all this ina
chine" state of things, Mr. Clement said,
is to turn every one OF these men right
out Of office. Tip the whole gang over
that is our plan of reform-and, my
friends, I tell you they see the hand
writing on the wall"
In conclusion Mr.. Clement urged the
formation of fusion clubs in every town
to study these questions. He declared
that he did not want any vote that could
be bought, and closed by predicting vic
tory in September.