Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-06-10
r. C. Fleetwood for Governor.

The Journal admires the splendid fight
that Frederick G. Fleetwood, of Norris
vile, is making for the Republican nom
ination for Governor, Single handed,
without manager or publicity bureau, or
"barrelP', he is going direct to the peo-
pie, discussing with them the issues
that are of interest to the voters of
Vermont Believing that he is fighting
the battle of good government and clean
politics this paper considers him the
most available candidate in the field for
the office of Governor and will be glad
to give him its hearty support.
Mr.. Fleetwood is young man, 40
years old, prominent attorney, who
has seen active service in public life.
He has been States Attorney of his
county. Presidential Elector, has rep
resented his town in the Legislature
and served six years as Secretary of
State. AS member of the house in 1900.
Mr.. Fleetwood introduced bills regulat
ing the party caucuses in the interest of
purer political methods, regulating the
fees of Justices of the Peace, and pro-
viding for the carrying of pupils to and
from school. He made speech in ia
vor of the weekly payment bill and
voted for the measure.
In his opening campaign speech Mr..
Fleetwood declared that the Republican
party of Vermont should keep to the
party pledge made in the platform of
1908, favoring an employers liability
law and an act exempting from trustee
process wages to the amount of $40.
He is the representative of progressive
measures. He stands distinctly for the
newer ideas that are winning their way
rapidly in this State and must be adopt
ed if Vermont is to take her rightful
place in the sisterhood of States.
Mr.. Fleetwood is not afraid or ashamed
to make public his campaign expendi-
lures. He is not employing an army of
paid workers and agents to manufact-
ure sentiment for him. He is not hiring
politicians to carry caucuses for him
and he will not bride delegates to sup
port him by offering to pay their ex-
penses to the State Convention. He
will observe the spirit and the letter of
the law.
Mr.. Fleetwood is making a square
and open fight fearlessly and honestly
and is bearing the brunt of the contest
against the discredited methods of the
Mead forces. The issue is clean cut.
Fleetwood refuses to use money to con-
duct his campaign, but goes direct to
the people and in an open, manly way
states his views on the questions of the
day.
Every indication points to the use OF
much money by DR.. Mead in the employ
ment of the old time discredited machine
methods, and his refusal to publish his
campaign expenditures is tacit ad
mission that he is afraid to make the
figures public.
Mr.. Fleetwood is a man of exemplary
character and the highest integrity, but
he does not advertise his piety, or hi:
humility in fifteen-inch double column
advertisements. He is not the kind OF
man who considers such performance
in good taste. He has a sense of mod
esty, also a sense of humor.
Because he stands today as the eX
ponent of clean and decent politics, fan
dealing between man and man, effcien
government, and progress onward high
err public ideals, and because his RECORD
does not discredit his principles announ
ced on the stump, the Journal hearth!
endorses Mr.. Fleetwood's candidacy
hoping and believing that it will prove
successful. Montpelier Journal.