The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-09
HARDLY \ JOKE.

The Rutland News, without any pre-
tence OF apology for its recent SLAM
derous statement regarding a news
dispatch in the Journal which it de-
clared fake" because it happened
to tell an unpleasant truth regarding
its candidate for Governor, evidently
worried by the printing Of another
article in his paper showing how
Moad's strength is slipping away
from him. returns with another at
tack. as follows:
Not having learned its lesson in
! the complete refutation sent out from
! the localities involved in a previous
news dispatch concerning the Cove
norslip campaign, the Montpelier
journal assumes responsibility for an
other Of kindred purport and OF prop
/ able similar value as piece OF lnlor-
imation in the Governorship situation.
/ This time, news is supposed to
; come from Lunenburg Ga town that
will send two delegates to the State
/ Republican convention) with mis-
! sion TO report critical slump OF the
strength OF DR.. John A. Mead in that
town. OF course, the item is stretched
TO cover other sections OF Essex coun-
Rather odd, is it not, that all such
news finds its way to the Montpelier
Journal for first appearance!
THE Journal has a department on
its editorial page headed, Not 10 he
Taken Seriously ,...,
"Wbv are not the Journals political
dispatches placed under the heao
where they belong?
Ii the Journal cared to take us news
from the Mead Publicity Bureau very
likely the dispatches which worry the
Rutland contemporary so much would
not have appeared The Journal has
made If a point not to take its news
from prejudiced sources, nor to wan
for its information until it has appear
ed in some other paper, but to gel
If from unbiased sources, and to get
it early.
The Journal considers this the prop
er Dolicv 10 be followed by an up-to-
date newspaper. For that reason er'
forts have been made from time &c
time to learn the t1end of sentiment
in various parts OF the State on t9t
IGovernorship. If the News will seno
Ito Lunenburg some fair minded per
son. not on the payroll of the Mead
Bureau. it will find the situation &c
be lust what the Journal reported
unless by this time the Fleetwood
forces have gained complete ascend
ancv 1t is true that Essex county
has only a few votes in the conyen-
ton. but the efforts put forth by the
Mead interests to get those few snow
how much they are needed Inc
Mead Bureau literature appearing IN
New Hampshire papers circulating in
Essex county is an illustration OF the
thoroughness with which the field has
been cultivated.
The News desires to know why the
Journals political dispatches are not
placed in its joke column. Chiefly be-
cause they are very sober brand OF
truth. When the returns come in the
News is likely to find that these news
reports were anything but jokes
AS a particularly rich specimen Of
bumor the journal ought to reserve
Iplace in it's column headed MOI lo
| Be Taken Seriously" for the claim made
by the News that Washington county
was as strong for Mead as LamoillF
county is for Fleetwood.
The News and its candidate VIII
learn within a few weeks that it takes
more than a barrel" of money &c
obtain the Governorship OF vermont
The people are becoming aroused II
their ,antagonism to the Mead cam
paign methods and are determined
that the time has come to put an enc
to such practices. A lot Of poliuca
J housekeeping is being done TINS year
throughout the country and this is
good time to do some in Vermont