Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-27
The Cry Of BOSS" and Machine"
Huntington Free Pressl.

1t is easy for ny man to raise the cry
of boss" and machine" II Is easy to
play the demagogue. II one tries to keep
up appearances. The people do not like
to be humbugged and have a man show
them in their very faces how easily the
juggler thinks 1t can be done. The Rut-
land News gives the following striking
instance:
THE efforts OF p. w. Clement to die
tate to the Democrats of Rutland county
whom they must nominate and the con-
tinued peIsistency OF his newspaper to
misrepresent the facts about 1t in its
news columns simply go to show the depth
of the ditch into which the Clement fusion
wagon has Slowed. Its plight is hopeless.
1t cannot be extricated And the rea-
son is plain: Clements campaign is ad-
vertised to be one against bossism. The
claim is ridiculous. Mr.. Clement is at
tempting on Rutland county Democrats
the most bare faced piece OF bossism on
record in Vermont politics. And the
Democrats won't stand for IT,"
Rutland is not the only county by any
means In which the head OF Clementoc-
racy is playing the boss. The news col
umns of different papers have already
shown how the heads of the Rutland
Herald's political bureau has been run
ming up and down different counties en-
gineering deals to force the nominal tior
Of their choice upon the people.
Is not this pure "bosslsm" and ma
chine" work?
Franklin county witnessed the spectacle
OF a Rutland paic agent scheming with
a local representative of the bureau and
going from town to town in the effort to
tell the people Of thar county whom they
should nominate on their county ticket,
while the Clement organ was shouting
machine" and boss"
Was this not playing the demagogue as
well as the boss?
Burlington saw n man engaged to look
after Clements interest in Chittenden
county call a county convention, send
out notices to the multitude Of followers
in this county to flock into mass con-
veution and help to select the Independent
candidates some of whom did not have
interest enough to come to the conven-
tion until telephoned the night before
about the use of their name on the ticket.
Was there ever a more machine
made" convention than this?
The call was needed by only a baker, s
dozen and 1t was to this unauthorized.
politically irrespor siole multitude" sup
plemented by an equal number of Dem
ocrats that the Democrats Of Chittenden
county surrendered half the officers on
their ticket In the vain hope that the
sensible voters OF this county could be
cheated into the belief that there was a
formidable independent movement in this
county.
And yet this convention was PRO
test" against "bossism" and machine, u
we are told.
Not a few Democrats waiting in the
rear of the hall were thoroughly dis
gusted when they found what a beggarly
array Of empty benches they had sur
rendered TO under the Clement leadership
In this county, and scme of the delegates
| in the Democratic county conWntion
win not vote for the leader Of such a
piece of political fakism
II the Clement machine convention in
| Chittenden county stands for freedom
| from a boss" and from a machine, -
the people Of ermont may well pray L
| be delivered from such an autocrat as
| Clement would make were he TO gain con-
| troll as boss" of our beloved state.