Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-23
PRODUCE YOUR EsoUIMAUx."

Rr0SSlVe Republicans favored LIZ.
Mead for governor, and proceeded to
throw a broadside of questions at the
Herald. The Monitor does not intend
to take up the cause of the Herald
because the Herald promptly pro-
duced the goods. but by way of intro
duction to what the Monitor intends
to say hereafter. it seems necessary
to mention this esqui mau episode
In its Issue of March II. the Mes
senger under the head of "Not Mere
Insinuations, said:
"When the floods subside in Rutland
county Noah Mead will pry open a
window and send out a dove to carry
the green back. st. Adams Messen-
ger.
'Quite amusing but not apt to win
any votes for The Messengers candi.
date. The Evening Argus believes
that the insinuations which are scat
tered broadcast by some papers are
not hurting the candidacy of Doctor
Mead. Montpelier Argus.
Well, Brother Argus, The Messen.
gers little paragraph was not expect
ed to be an out-and-out vote winner.
It was designed more to point sugges.
tion through smile than to carry
conviction through a ponderous argu-
ment.
The Messenger is not indulging in
any "insinuations, Brother Argus.
1t never means to hide behind innuen-
do.
BY its own hand, the Messenger, in
the heading, and again in the body
of the editorial says it is not insinu.
ating. All the Monitor desires to say
is: produce your Esquimaux !"
In another editorial composed large
ly of insinuations and questions and
headed "Mammon - the Messengers
last words are: GREASY with dol
lars ~ The Monitor may not know
what insinuation is. but the average
person would take this to mean that
DR.. Mead was using money improper.
ly in this campaign. If he is not so
doing, why insinuate? If be is, why
not expose? produce your Esqui.
maux !"
The fact of the case is the Messen.
ger has done little thus far in the can.
vass but to insinuate. 1t has given
no overpowering reasons why DR..
Mead should be thrown down, nor has
it given any extremely weighty rea-
sons why anyone else should be select
ed.
~ But let US leave this Esquimaux anC
insinuation business for some of the
real, live, dyed-in-the- wool. straight
from the shoulder. heart throbs OF
the Messenger. Here are two. taker
from recent editorials.
Candidates whose record of achieve
ment and personal worth is generally
we'll known of men to merit recogni
tion and reward in public office dC
Organization" as all this, even il
these days of so-called practical poll
tics.
A man that is among those pre-em
inently worthy to be chosen governo
of his state does not have to hire any
body to make the fact known.
o course if the Monitor shout
suggest that this standard of tn
Messenger applied in 1906, the Mes
senger would promptly say, "We ar
living in the present. Let the pas
be the past. 1t is today we live." o
words to this effect. How convenier
to sweep away all that is behind wit
such ease-we could not say force
But the Messenger should remembe
that all things political, except til
campaign of Mead and Fleetwood al
not past. The past of the present a
ministration does not begin unit
another fall and we venture to sta
that the campaign of DR.. Mead WI
not cost one-half as much as the cal
paign of Gov. Prouty cost, and Il
Messenger was one of the most a
dent admirers and supporters
Prouty. The Monitor can demonstrat
to its own satisfaction at least, tn
the above statement is true.
The Messenger supported Prou
with apparent good grace, and t
Monitor lent it's feeble aid
him, believing not only in Prouty b
finding nothing to criticize in his ca
paign methods. The Monitor m
even have been led in its support
men and methods in the past by su
journals as the Messenger which
older, wiser and more conservati,
but this sudden raising of new sta
ard, in the year 1910, is surprising
the Monitor to say the least, and
must admit has somewhat shaken {
faith in that journal, and others.
may be that by another campaign
Monitor, again following the lead
the Messenger, and others. will
shouting for some "poor" candida
who will operate no "headquarte
and will have no Organization, 9
to find another standard raised