The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-03-22

fos spsesnss, sss right here u nay se eel
10 recall latsle peliliesl hAstary. itn 90
ssxssg that .hsr The geptlemsA from Rat
lsaa aui catered The asia there ~ss coop I
sssfies h~iwreh ihs ms1Axefs " scCni.
lssght caapslgs ana Mr.. Clemeri, tho iai-
- hsvins ostensssiy sntefee tho race
nefsir fur the purposs 81 ecutisfaosins
Precisft isfsstee 10 Ruilapd ceUaiy ana
is,~hsse. A. The ooDlssi pfegrctsed ihs
xccullesxh managers pesbsd Tor The si' 6
gios 81 asisgsiss 10 to~ns where they hsc
n. lee, thases u seoooss, snd IN towns
.hefs CseDeri he'd s,r,ns,h he sss gives
free tlsf By thsm 10 secure esIexsss ose
u lbs Mccullough managers /. soIhoil'H
tot tss sssisneat ths, nsally after clsmeni
had securtd . Bumb,r 81 eelessies 10 th'
sosibesssrs part 81 the state The islsr,
.ish bis peculiar sense 81 political hsoe',
sutptd on his ally and nid 10 substance.
Noe am soirs In and bear you.
From ,hs outsst Mr.. Clement posed -
maa utterly wiiheu, pell,ical smeliiea.
.hoss oEly consuming desire ~n 10 sew
great cause. Yfst be stood ~ the ebsmp-
los OF local op'ion and the referendum
fbe state republican convention 81 Mott
% Iisr 10 which be vs.. entirely vlilicg .
submit bis tchsnees, adopted a platform
.mbod, irg practically = that be bad o.
msnses, but the votes showed that, follow
| log the retirement Of Proctor 10 ihNsI %
the Bennington candidate, a majority ~ th'
a, lesss.s fovored mccullough.
There IL prooably not ~ Intelligent man
Ia Vermont who doubts thai Genoa
would hsys accepted . pomisslion VI TIE
hands Of that Convention, 10 which be iub'
mlt,sd 10 successive ballots AID eiaim'd !,
AZ his own, but when he found that NC
Culloush had won on platform on which
be himself would have slsdly stood, noih'
ing remaiped as cause" demanding
champion, except 40 attack on the party
organization which he had been v.inly ul
log TO use for his own ends. From maj
slme forth nothing was too severe for Mr.
Clement to say about republican lesdsrs
and athe machine" became n bitter morse
which hs rolled necessarily under hi'
tongue.
Mr.. Clement bottled and he went 30 la
ou,slde the party that he has been tryini
ever siGce 10 get back, with unsAtisfaetor,
results. Those who attempt TO excuse o
condone or pslliate bis bolt show how h
took the stump for the State republican
ticket In 1901, and they even issist that b
contributed money TO the republican cam
/ paigp fund, OF which We shall have more Z
gay some other day.
These Apologies little dreamed ho'
deadly they were stabbisg their champion
when they sought TO demonstrate his TEN
porary return to repuolicsuism in 1904
they are to be believed, Percival W. Glen
en,, two years ago, waived all that he ha
ss,d in 1902 about the corruption OF the r.
/ publican machine, about the vsnalty OF r.
! publican leaders. about the rottenne.
republican politics, and actually joine
hands with Governor BELL ard other stat
!, | officers, Senator Proctor and Senator Dil
, inghsm, and Congressman Foster aud Cor
gresham Haskins, the State repuolica
: committee and the host Of republican l,as
! ers 10 the different counties and 10 the al
! ferent towns. including the committee
! ltbersin who make up the republican organ
: izstion. He thus oondoned all the wicse'
! orss he had charged to what he calls u
]. apachine,' II his apolosists are corree
e aud worked during the campaign procediD
D the September election to perpetuste TIL
l organization.
j. II Il to be noted, however, that this vi
! IN 1904 when Percival W. Clement coul
. not be candidate for governor witho'
y breaking the mountain rule, which he, ca
. ly in that year, even threatened with q
& | .sult and battery. 80 great was his deal
to serve as q martyr for some "csuse."
the republican ''mschipe" were overthrow
that year some martyr on The east side
n The State would be the David which sic
II the republican Goliath, and 90 the day
y m accounting WAS patiently postponed Il
!. another two years.
ol Now why did Percivsl W. Clement,
In 1904, take the stump for the republics
- State committee and the organization al
,e work for the election Of candidates he b'
ID 30 bitterly arraigued 10 1902 !;
The gentleman from Rutland could ha
,e remained entirely passive 10 the .campaii
D, Of two years ago, and allowed the CUBE
. a.torial pendulum to take another '~i'
.. before launching another thunder "bol
:. against the republican machine. He ecu
r have rested without compromising }
T. "csuse."
o. Some Of Mr.. Clements illadvised a
e. yieers Insisted, however, that he must
60 | into the game. u be wanted psople to Il
i, 20, his bolt Of 1904, and he must becor
9. regular" u he Was to run again for
b soycrnorship In 1906. And 20 this aleg
10 champion Of clean caucusss and pure Pc
u ,ics and good government managed to
ID cure an Invitation TO speak from one OF
o, friends In the orRanizstion-and be got
lie to the game, not realizing that be was ~
be ting aside absolutely and irrevocably I
IN only cause" for which he could Of
claim TO stapd-the fight against slleg
We "republican rottenness."
IT. The campaign Of 1906 Is nov at hand a
Ia Percivsi W. Clement 10 impstiently reno
m ing the moth balls from bis charges OF IL
c, for use 10 another fsht for public positi'
e 10 hia effort TO reach the kovsrnorshi2
%, 10 repeating the same old gag about
or wickedpess Of the republican administ
10. ,iop. but be scent to overlook the fact u
air Il IL an administration which he himself
~ with open syes--belped TO install
J." even have the zane State auditor be ass'
A.. rAfty hat sappnyf mi