The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-01
A Resume of
the Situation

penses OF this State have Increased
but every cent Is accounted for In the
Auditors report and II Mr. Clement OF
any one else can show one cent that IL
not honestly spent IL Is and has beer
bis duty 70 show this fact, so that the
proper parties may be punished TO the
full extent OF the law. but II Is also
true that the expense Of living has In
creased, that the expenses OF the affairs
OF this town have increased that the
expenses OF running this village have
Increased; for example, fe~ years
ago we spent u few hundred dollars for
lighting the streets now IL costs as liv
thousand dollars and yet no one wish.
es to return TO the use OF the old fash
Toned street lamp; we have our sewer.
age, which has added expense, yet we
do not wish 20 do away with that sys-
tenn; We have orr water works with It's
additional expense, yet we DO not hear
any one advocating doing away with
the water system
Undoubtedly there Is waste 10 the
management OF this State, and every
Stata IN the Union. There is waste in
the management Of every town, of
every village, and of every home, but
we can Justly pride ourselves that IN
der the Republican administration the
affairs OF this State have been run in
such clean and economic manner,
that the waste has been very slight and
no reason has yet been shown why the
personal ambitions OF Percival w.
Clement TO acknowledgements should be
gratihed at the expense OF the State OF
Vermont.
The following is an instance OF what
Mr. Clement has done TOR the tax pay.
ers OF the town of Bennington: When
he was a member OF the Vermont SEN
ate in 1900 and the chairman OF tie FL
nance Committee of that body, it be-
came necessary to formulate a bill to
deiray State expenses for the approach
ing two years and the House Of Repre-
sentatives passed an act to raise the
money, among other ways, by In.
creasing the tax on Corporations in
stead oflevying a direct tax upon the
people.
Mr. Clement as chairman OF the com
mitiee in the Senate, 70 whom the bill
was referred, was so successful in his
opposition to it, IL was killed and the
Corporations escaped the payment OF
increased taxes ard in place a direct
tax was levied upon the people OF this
State 70 the amount OF S26s, 622 49, Mr.
Clements Rutland railroad was saved
the payment of taxes to the amount of
S2s, 1884 and the actual cost to the in
dividual tax payers of the town OF Ben
nington was S7,l47.0l His action in
this matter throws a beautiful red
light on his tender regard for the vel
fare of the laboring man which it
is claimed repeatedly in the present
campaign is'his only object in life, but
the voters will remember that when the
Legislature was rid of Mr. Clement the
voters no longer had to pay a direct
tax to the State
The Campaign of Mr. Clement has
been run by affadavits, but as yet, he
has failed to produce on the platform
one man who has seen the sale of a
pound of diseased meat in any town
Throughout the entire State, and afTa-
davits are as easily obtained as a
signature to a petition, and as TO the
beef scandal which Mr. Clement has
trumped up from his frey brain, oc-
CURED IN Burlington, it might be per-
tinent to ask why Mayor Burke, who
called Clement 1.-THE arch CRATER"
does not take some steps toward pun
ishing whoever has permitted the sale
OF this meat, rather than travel around
the State posing as Fusionist while
in fact he is the Democrat machine
boss of the City of Burlington.
This so called Fusion movement is
simply shrewd trick on the part of
the Democratic party to ride into
power-look at the Fusion orators and
see to what party they belong Patrick
M. Meldon, John II. Senter, James f.
Burke, c. II. Davenport, G. II. Pape,
Elisha May, V. A. Billiard all life
long machine Democrats, although it
is true that they have been assisted by
two Republican speakers, Daniel A.
Guiltinan and Edward j. Hall.
Again Mr. Clement calls for bust
ness administration and the Republi
cans have nominated successful bust
ness men on the ticket from top to bot
tom. Let the voters of this town look
over the list of Democratic and Inde-
pendent nominees on the County ticket
and show one successful business man
on the entire ticket while, the Repub
lican ticket is composed of able and
successful men. Let us look over the
list of candidates for Justices of the