The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-09
GOLF.
FINDS SMALL DEMOCRATIC HOPE
But God Rules and Things VIII come
Ont Right Predicts Davenport

Although the gubernatoilal coz"
noign in Vermont is some distance Oh, I
Iroenective candidates are surveying
The field and political talk IS peglh,
ming to be heard in various quarters
All that has been said to date, now
nrar concerns the republican party
and republican candidates. Inc demo'
Gratis of the state were lett pauiy o ule
oroanized after the campaign Oh law,
ne what extent they will recover lor
the coming campaign it is hard TO pre-,
dict A question as to what nope lne
future had in store for the democratic
nartv of Vermont was propoundeu
last week by the local correspondent
Of the Springfield Republican TO
charles II. Davenport OF TINS soW w.
formerly editor and publisher Oh tho e
Reformer, a prominent member Oh ' W:
Vermon+ democracy and man well IN
formed in the political affairs oil '"o
state. ,O- +bo sur-
eaaa 4 locks as if it would be hard to
fsb out of the political waters much ~ ~
+bn nature of hope. About all there ID
ii las wav down in the general fact that
Cod rules and things will come rlsie
somehow sometime lie saiu Ihe
democrats made a mistake IN the iaS a.,
oomnaipn in Joining forces with T. w.
Clomenf and that had Clement run as
~ indeneudent republican the repuph-
a" "ar vote very likely would have been
diuided on lines of just and deep DIS
olt I!Ceaa4;or which would have given
thn democrats quite chance OIL sue,
cess. Popular sentiment was S I,l - n ~,
said. that on August l, l9Vo, fletenoi
y Proctor, the republican cahaluaIe
admitted to a mutual friend thaC IL
ma , beaten. "But it was impossible
soid he, "to make the democrats see
the opportunity, discouraged ana ae
= rm as they were by nearly two
, generations of crushing defeat, Oil.
! made worse by long party management
r thot looked only to federal patronag
; when the party should be IN na'lo oha
a nower.n Mr.. Davenport says Ina
From these conditions it has com
ahnn+ that it is almost impossible I
!, Mia Young man of ambition IN III
i aon,ocratic ranks. In every commui
: ity he saws, there are instances Wher
~ Nv have started as such, but nav
, tnrned republican because that wa
: tGair only hope of office and advance
- rn He SAYS a full half Of the r,
!. publican leadership of today is niao
rs m of these men. .o
n W fter enumerating the seanda
,s which were unearthed during the la
70 onn,naion Mr.. Davenport said: 'lt
i ;s u cnnnd hat the republican party, att
% m utentiv DENYING and defending evei
- o"o IL these Abuses as long as posslol
70 ;s now reforming them. So far as tf'
~ 4bis is the result of some vigor al
aggressiveness in opposition, ana al, Is D
n. an indication of what would 1olloM ;
is strong. continuous and closely pressii
as ;ns+nad of an occasional and spasmo
- ;ll'' onnosition' He then critlcis'
he the ne judiciary act, saying tnat
I'd S;d the last thing that just govern,mee,
~ u ohorld ever do, namely, increased t
In s onOt opd burden of seeking justice, al
~ ~ 1 tot instead of the dockets bel
- . snoarod although terms of court a
Id extending way into the summer
never before, the courts are ge''i
farther behind than ever
NJ Davenport says state expens
. tremendous waste, that the
o ste is full of vicious features d
isotine in progressive ideas, that
la nrnnrste creatures of the state
u Uot properly regulated, that a syst
. of nf' representation of acres instead .
% Non continues, that hypocrisy a