Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-09
WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS SAY.
What the Plain Thinking People May
Bc Relied Upon TO DO in This
Campaign.
(From the Ludlow Tribune.)

(From the Ludlow Tribune)
An interested citizen, discussing the
political situation the other day, asked
What attitude will the quiet, thinkinp
people take in this campaign"
The quiet, thinking people constitute
an important factor in determining the
result Of any political campaign. They
are capable Of sizing up men and issues
and making "A choice between them,
without the assistance of exaggerated pen
pictures and ovcrdrawn statements. They
are entertained by torchlight professions,
and band wagons and by "the tumult
and the shouting" but these things dc
not disturb the %quietness of their think.
Ing or the effectiveness of their conclu.
sions.
The quiet. thinking people do not be-
lieve In descriptions or the ndiscriminate
smashing of things on general PRINCIPLES,
1hey believe In reforms, and when they
insist upon It these reforms have to come,
They believe that more can he accom-.
plished within n party by unity Of action
than by untimely attempts to tear up,
and they cannot sec why a political organ
ization that was good enough to asso-
ciatc with two years ago isn't worthy OF
allegiance now.
The quiet, thinking people have no spe-
cial use for vitupcrative methods. for
personal attacks, for wholesale charges
that are not backed up by ntroconvertl
bic fact. They believe that the best bust
ness methods are none too good to be
applied to the administration of every
department. of tho States economy. and
they will be satisfied, in the long run,
with nothing less. They believe the cam
didates nominated at Montpelier under
stand what the public desire is in this
direction. and that they will administer
the affairs Of State prudently and con-
sistently with every demand for progress.
They believe that when Mr.. Proctor
pledged himself, if elected. to give the
State his best effort toward a careful
and busincss-like Administered ton, be
meant what he said.
The TRIBUNE believes that the quiet,
thinking people, who possess so much
more power than the mere politician,
Will endorse the republican State ticket
by a substantial majority: and If some
OF the lessons taught by tho develop
ments of the past year are horne in mind
after the battle Is over. the present Pc
culiar campaign will not nave been with
out n definite valuc.
ANENT THE CRAFTSMANSHIP OF
CANDIDATE Z. w. CLEMENT.
(From the Rutland News.)
Thanks to tho Rutland Herald for Civ
ing the public in its report of p. w.
Clements opening speech at Bennington.
so many free hand samples of Mr.. Glenn
ent's craftsmanship. Not long since .Ir.
Clements literary bureau. in trying 10
eXtricate itself from a most uncomfort-
able dilemma. undertook the impossible
task of trying to make the public believe
that Mr.. Clement had no dislike person
ally for the Proctors, and cited a spring
of water case and several other equally
silly terms.
The literary bureau. conducted by Mr..
Hindley, and the Herald, the machine
organ Of Clement. have been instant in
season and out Of season, in heaping re-
proach on the Proctors-snapping and
s~narling and showing their teeth with
great ferceness. But thA crowninc act
of squelching the Proctors remained for
Mr.. Clement in his opening speech at
Bennington. Here is his exact language:
"Ncrmont's political boss is Senator
Redield Proctor. Every man who
wants an Office has to bit the ties for
Proctor. The Rutland railroad had
been compelled to take out its S1-lb.
rail and put in s0-lb to accommodate
the tremendous travel of ofice-seekers
to Proctor. The senator controls tho
Vermont delegation in Washington,
and holds federal patronage in his
hands"
These are the words OF a man who
thinks he Is wise enough and large
enough to be governor of Vermont, This
is the statcsmanlike utterance of n man
who for nearly a year, through his per-
sonally conducted bureau has been beg
sing the common people to vote for him.
This is the bitter. sneering, personal at
tack of Percival w. Clement on Redheld
Proctor. But they are not in the same
class, and the injury is to the man who
stoops to such utterances.
The Proctors; father nor son, will not
follow Mr.. Clement into the cutters to
retaliate.
The above quotation shows how full If
political hatred Mr.. Clement is. and that
as soon as he could he unburdened him
self. An attack so full of vindictlveness
and political spleen. by a man of Mr..
Clements record, upon n man of Mr..
Proctor's record. will not make fusion
votes. Too many Nermontcrs, regardless
of political parties, love and respect Sem
ator Proctor, to be moved by an appar-
emily maddened and desperate candidate.
Mr.. Clement is surely feeling the sands
slipping out from under him.
REPUBLICAN COMMENT ON DEMO
CRATIC SPEECHES.
(From the VcrGennes Entcrprise.)
One of them, G. Herbert Pape of Barre,
is a bright young deomcrat who has
been descriptively referred to as one who
il learning his lesson. He has been well
honored by his party and has the con-
iidence and respect of his community.
That he sees fit to trek along after the
Clement phantom is his own business
Will be counted against him with
straight party men, hereafter.
Mr.. Pape's speech in Bennington seems
10 have been we'll received. 1t did not
contain anything especially new and it
entirely failed to give reason why Per-
cival w. Clement should be elected gov
ernor. The strongest thing Mr.. Pape said
was that the democrats and independents,
animated with n nov purppSn md "A auy