Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-06-09
The ISSUE.

EthhN6 DfSf luc u0iu just BtAOiO Aht bHlAl
{ OF the ballots may be worth while.
The announced candidates for the gr
bernatorial nomination are four, as 10
lows:-Dr. John A. Mead OF Rutland
present acknowledgements, head Of til
Howe Scale Works and prominent in 9th
er business enterprises; Frederick G
Fleetwood of Morrisville, former secre
tary OF state, a lawyer; Marsh ]. Hapgoo'
of Peru, Landlords James K. Batchelde
OF Arlington, lawyer. These are nance
in the order of their entry. For lieuten
ant-goyernor the candidates comprise thr
following: Ernest W. Gibson OF Brattle
boro, lawyer; Leighton p. Slack OF st
Johnsbury, lawyer; George F. LELAND
OF Springfield, a manufacturer DR.. F. I
Kidder of Woodstock, physician. There
has been little canvass made for the second
place, and the choice is quite as apt to fall
on some new man as on anyone thus far
mentioned. The present secretary oil
state, Guy w. Bailey of Essex functions
/ the state treasurer, Edward II. Deayitt oil
Montpelier; the state auditor, Horace W.
Graham of Craftsbury, and the attorney
general, John @. Sargent of Ludlow, will
all undoubtedly be renominated, proba-
bly, without opposition.
The main interest-and that less keen
than usual-eenters over the nominee for
governor. DR.. Mead was first in the
field; in fact, his boom was launched at
the legislative session two years ago.
From this early entrance, as we'll as by
virtue of his present office, bringing him
as it has into some measure OF promi-
hence, DR.. Mead has profited. He has
pIowed the field diligently. Through his
connection with the @. A. r., the medical
fraternity and other orders. he has man.
aged to put some added support to his
credit.
DR.. Mead established several months
ago Literary Bureau with Senator John
L. Lewis at its head later reinforced by
Va ANAANbA ~ H A4aHlbCAAoAA az puDllEAA1
agent, and others. This bureau has is
sued appeals for support through the
press and otherwise and waged an active
warfare for its chief There have also
been hired workers travelling about from
town to town, besides those locally inter-
ested. In short, DIR. Mead has played the
game in the old way, so familiar in Yer
mont, without much regard to any posi-
BILE change in political ethics to conform
to an altered vision.
Those who oppose DR.. Mead in this
canvass object mainly to these methods,
introducing as they do the improper use
OF money, and the bizarre exploiting of a
man who should not require full-sheet
posters to introduce his merits, IL he has
them. That DIR. Mead has not opened
his barrel wider has been due largely to
the attention already drawn to the matter
by the opposition press. The caucuses
are yet to be held, and it is very likely
that unGer the final stress, when ii is too
late to cry out against it, we shall see
more fragrant abuses than have yet been
noted. The disposition is apparent to
wiu-by fair means il possible-bu win.
The part that DR.. Mead anticipated his
money would play in this canvass, and
his anxiety to safeguard himself, we're APP
parent when, alone among the announced
he declined to make public
his campaign expenditures. In the face
of prevalent sentiment, no other construc-
ton can be put upon this refusal. It
ought to be sufficient, in and OF itself, to
defeat him.
For some years we have heard general
of the undue and excessive use
Of money in Vermont campaigns. We
have heard it said that no man could
hope to win the nomination against an
opponent willing to use money in large
sums unless he, too, would ssloosen up"
The results in several instances have
seemed to bear this out. Now We have
he issue squarely presented once more. /
Are we to let the nomination 60 to man t
whose chief asset is his wealth, boldly 4
with the weli-understood in
erence that in such contest as this
money counts ? There are other men in
he field as worthy as DR.. Mead, who
nave pursued methods above question,
who have little money TO expend in pro-
noting their political am bitions or in
the electorate. There is the
of selecting anybody still more
worthy by real demand from the ranks
or his services. 1t does seem as though,
With the country Tide awakening in civic
righteousness and political morality that
las taken place in the past few years, the
inging answer of Vermont Republicans
text Tuesday would be, "No - to the
nan who expects his money to land him
n the governors seat.
lranae Caunf,y Ranuh4f~ar Ho,,,n- /