News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-06-17
A PROTEST FROM zE0 s. STANTON

Mr.. Editor
The letters and editorials in various
Prouty newspapers attempting to make
me appear the tool OF candidate of the
railroads, have not the slightest basis in
fact. An editorial in the Enosburg Stan
dard, reprinted in the st. Adams Messen-
ger, says that it is asserted on what is
said to be good authority, that confer
ence was held in the Office of the Central
Vermont Railroad Company in st. AL
bans at which were present Mr.. Stanton
and the attorneys and lieutenants of the
Central in the county," The statement
is unqualifiedly false in whole and in
every particular. A letter printed in the
Burlington Free Press in its issue of
June 9th and signed Fair Play by in
nuendo and indirect attack makes asser-
tior that have conferred with Mr.. Wit
tiers at st. Adams and attacks my honesty
and fairness. All the assertions and in
situations in that letter are wholly and
entirely untrue. Not only are the rep
| reservations as to my attitude false, but
so far as L am aware there is no senti-
ment whatever in the state favorable to
| the repeal or weakening of the valuable
corporation laws now on the statute
books, SO that the argument is based on
two false assumptions, one that there is
a movement to repeal existing corpora
ton laws, and the other that am allied
with such movement.
l have said before and l now repeat
that amin full accord with the policies
of reform aud the regulation of corpo
rate interests that are already established
by law in Vermont, and if elycted to the
office of Governor l shall be Jealous in
my efforts to continue and make perma-
nent these policies. If individuals co.,
nected with corporations advocate my
nomination they do so with full and com
plete knowledge that am entirely indie
pendent of any influence that would urge
backward step In legislation calculated
to relieve them of just obligations to the
state at the expense of the people.
My opponent has resorted to method
of campaigning heretofore unknown in
republican politics in Vermont of
paying for advertising space in the news
papers in the attempt to have the materi |
al which he sends out lr'm Newport |
appear under the misleading guse of |
commu mic ations from bona fde CORE
spondents or as editorial matter. could |
,o%s T T e
adopt the same method, even if knew |
it would give me the nomination. If Mr.. |
Prouty sees fit to buy and use advertise
ing space in the newspapers of the state
to further his own candidacy by display
ing articles prepared under his direction
calculated to create false impressions as
to my standing on public questions and
printed in such form as to deceive the
reader as to their authorship, l would
under no consideration compete with him
in that kind of canvass, believing that
such devices would be more properly
employed in the sale of patent medicines
and breakfast foods.
I have no machine to back me; am
still without alliances. | cannot believe
that public opinion in this state can be
manufactured by such un-
fair and deceptive methods, for in my
opinion the voters will discover and con-
denim them. Mr.. Prouty has the where
withal to conduct this kind of cam ;
paign and may employ his money to this
and if he sees fit, but the people of Yer
mont will decide whether the governor Z
ship is the proper subject of promotion q
~ such means.
Yours truly,
FED S. STANTON !