Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03
THE STATE CAMPAIGN
Shows Some Amazing Contradic-
tions from Past and Present
Conditions

Conditions.
The Clement bureau adv. this week
purports to be put out by the Indepen-
pays the bill. This "Adv." so far as the
subject matter is concerned is what The
News and Citizen and The Rutland
Evening News rightly terms chaff. 1t is
so chaffy that it lacks even in humorous
touches. The people don't want chaff.
The bureau has for its heading this
question, "Will the Scandalous Record
of 1902 Be Repeated p
The Caledonian answers, Eyes, sir ~
It's being repeated right now, Bro Hind
ley and you know it. You know right
well that unless Mr.. Clement had opened
his barrel, and commenced sowing his
shekels there would have been no bureau,
no Bennington idea, no enthusiastic
workers in the field for your candidate,
no fusion. Oh, yes, the famous alleged
Mccullough methods, of the more or less
free use of coin, which you love to men,
ton with reproach are already inaugu-
rated and have accumulated momentum,
and you now have well organized ma
chine to duplicate the "Scandalous Re-
cord of 1907 St. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN.
Hon. John G.. Burke, a prominent and
active Democrat of Lowell. Mass, is
stumping the state in the interest of Per-
cival W. Clement.
How do the Republicans of Vermont
enjoy following in the wake of Democrat
ic leaders, imported for no other purpose
than that the Democracy of this and
other states may rejoice in the defeat
and downfall of Republcanism in state
whose proud boast is, that in the galaxy
of Republican states it has been THE
star that never sets p
Will it be sweet music in the ears of
those Republicans who have always been
faithful to their political convictions to
hear the swelling chorus of Democracy
yelling itself hoarse ON the evening of
the first Tuesday in September next, if
the Grand Old Party shall be compelled,
for the first time since its organization,
Green Mountain state:
We say IF the party shall be compelled
to trail its banner in the dust" Does
any sane man believe that the Repubi-
to an extent that will render such humi-
lating spectacle possible? We certainly
hope not Morrisvile News and Cit
izen.
With nearly $50, 600 going to reimburse
farmers whose cattle respond to the tu-
berculosis test and are killed, it is very
evident where considerable slice of the
states money is squandered. (D Who
wants 10 drink the milk from a diseased
COW from which tuberculosis may be con.
tracted There are a good many who
would be obliged to drink such milk I'M
beknown to them if the state did not pro-
vide some means of paying the farmers
for killing their stock outright in the in
terest of the prevention of the spread of
the white plague. Montpelier Jour
nal.
Taxation reform was to be one of the
Democratic state issues, but when The
Rutland Herald discovered that the pres
ent Democratic candidate for governor
had voted against the people on this
issue, whereas Fletcher d. Proctor had
voted so as to help do away with the di-
rect tax for state expenses, that courage
GUS journal at once became as silent as
the grave regarding the subject of taxa
tion.- Burlington Free Press
If every voter in the State could per-
sonally meet Fletcher d. Proctor and |
know what an altogether human, unas-
Stunning, sensible, practical, level-headed |
man of strong executive ability he is
there would be still fewer Democrats !
than there are to-day From the Bar
ton Monitor.