Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-08-24
The Facts In Brief.

The facts in regard to the alleged sale
for food of the meat of tuberculous cattle
condemned and killed by the cattle COM
mission are briefly these so far as they
have been made public: In November,
1905, AZ cows of the herd of Frank T.
Hutchinson of Worcester were condemned
by the cattle commission and were driven
to the plant of the Burlington Rendering
company and killed there. Eight months
afterward, on the 21st of July, 1906, Mr..
Hutchinson made affidavit before John
H. Senter at Montpelier that he saw his
cattle killed and dressed and started
toward the Swift company's cooling ROOM
The affldavit of Hutchinson is supported
by a very short affldayit from +. p. Whit
ney, who says he accompanied Hutchin-
son to Burlington and saw the cattle
, slaughtered.
On the 18th of August Perley e. Pope,
a merchant Of Montpelier, made afidavit
before H. c. Shurtleff that State Auditor
Graham had told him that II was true
that some OF the meat taken from the
cattle which had been condemned as dis
eased and which had been paid for by
the state had been sold to the Swift
Beef company knowing that Il was to
be put upon the market.
On the 18th of August in a letter print
ed elsewhere in this paper, Mr.. Pope re-
pudiated the essential part of this af1i-
davit, saying it was not drawn by him
self and was not drawn as he should have
drawn it.
ON the 18th of August Mr.. Shurtleff sent
letter to the Rutland Herald charging
that Mr.. Pope knew all about the aff1-
davit and what 1t contained.
All these publications were first made
in Mr.. Clements newspaper, the Rutland
Herald. John H. Senter is a prominent
man who has held high ONCE and Is
supposed to be loyal to Vermont. He
knows that it is a crime under the YER
mont law to sell diseased meat but not
withstanding this and the fact that the
Hutchinson affidavit was made before him
on July q, his first public action in this
matter was when he disclosed in a
political speech at Northheld that the
State of Vermont was engaged in the
sale for human food of the meat of
tuberculous cattle. He repeated this
statement in a speech at Burlington
August 8.
The Clement literary bureau is using
the affidavits as matter for its displayed
advertisements throughout the state. 1t
is perfectly evident, therefore, that this
sensation was sprung just when It was
for political purposes, and that there was
no thought on the part of the Clement
people of prosecuting the alleged guilty
persons for the protection of the health
of the people of Vermont. Their only
purpose was to help the Clement cause.
The statement from Attorney General
Fits shows what action the Republican
administration is taking, regardless of
who is hit by the disclosures. If the Swift
company has knowingly sold for human
food the meat of diseased cattle the per-
sons responsible can be put behind the
bars. II any state official, no matter
whom, has been guilty of offence he must
and will be brought to full punishment
and there Is no Republican in the State
of Vermont whether an official or a plain
everyday voter, who will wish to see any
guilty man protected.
This matter is entirely outside of poll
tics, and there is no true Vermonter Re-
publican or Democrat, whose first impulse
| will not be to demand that the health of
the people of the state be protected, and
the good name OF the state be vindicated.