Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-02

tive branch. DIR. Mead did not lead,
ncr could the notorious" legislature
of 1908 be led, as our able governor
we'll knows. Possibly DIR. Mead's
failure to lead this body was less
offensive than the determined at
tempt of other members of the execu
tive department to guide it,-and it is
pertinent to say that the organic law
reads that the executive and legisla-
tive departments "shall be separate
and distinct, so that neither exercise
the powers properly belonging to the
other" 1t might be wise, by the
wa-, to return more closely to this
first principle of government from
which state and nation has of late
been wandering, and not continue the
dangerous trend of giving the chief
executives the power of initiating
legislation. The machine DIR. Mead
built in the senate must be what Sen
ator Lewis of Lamoile and towns
man of Fleetwood recently expressed
in these words, "Dr. Mead greatly
endeared himself to the senate and
every member holds him in the high
est regard"
6. Our anti Mead friend now says:
He has never displayed notable abil-
ty in any public Office he has held.
Until DR.. Mead's advent into the GU
bernatorial campaign not the slight
est HINT of inefficiency had been
charged against his services as sena-
tor from Rutland county in 1892 when
he served on important committees
and was active in securing the char.
ter for Rutland city; when he served
Rutland as their first mayor; when
he served Rutland in the house in 1906
and acted on important committees |;
since he took the Office of lieutenant
governor nor in the minor positions
general of the state G. A. R., COM
missioner to the Worlds Columbian
exposition at Chicago, in the same ca
pacity to the Mexican National Expo
sition of Industrial and Fine Arts, as
house physician in a hospital in his
younger days, his services on the
| pension examination board and doz-
en- less important places of trust. 1t
is also significant that he was at one
time rendered a chair in the medical
department of the University of Ver-
mon and is serving as a trustee of
Middlebury college. Compared with
DR.. Mead's only rivals, his (Mead's)
length of service and multiplicity of
positions, official and semi-official,
each creditably filled, admits of no
comparison.
z. Seventh the Herald says: He
profited, in the convention which nom
mated him two years ago. by a state
ment made on the floor by one of his
leading supporters which was taken
to mean that if nominated then he
would not be candidate for the gov.
ernorship this year. Even if unauth,
oriZed it, had an opportune influence,
and it went uncontradicted until q
few months ago.
DR.. Mead may have profited in the
convention two years ago by this
unauthorized statement, but his pres
ent strength with the penple-not the
politicians-would indicate that they
are perfectly satisfied with the trust
they placed in him and are satisfied
that he can and will give them a gooc
administration as governor.
8. The Herald says: He is ricf
man. with plenty of money to spenc
in promoting his canvass, and mani
fest willingness to do so.
Here again DR.. Mead may be the los
er. The 'truest ambitions and desire!
of the rich today are often given ul
terror motives and the rich man is tn,
loser thereby. Here is a man VIII,
started as poor boy without oppor
tunities except as he made them him
self. He worked and worked hard
early and late, educated himself
grew in character and ability until h
established himself in a lucrativ
medical practice and later by shee
Kwortn he became interested in variou
business enterprises which by adj
management and foresight have re
turned him competence. Now be
cause he has money and seeks prefer
ment by the same road and the sam
methods that many other honored me
e parsued he is handed i'll will by thos
who should give him courage, becaus
! ne does not bask in the sun of favor
: itism-and his failure to stand in tn
g blaze is because he has dared to b
Independent and travel his own cours
f unyoked to influences not to his tast.
, 1t might be further truthfully sal
{. that the methods employed by d
t Mead in gaining his wealth land tn
. Monitor understands it is not colo
t saD have been in every way by legit
mate business and others beside