St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-07-24

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al lines. There is danger, however
that such legislation would react an
that the man of little means who's
laudable ambition it is to own
small farm would find the price jack
ed up SO that the man who own
the property will gain more thar
the small fellow.
The legislation we need along thi
line is for the benefit of the borrow
er; surely the man of means hal
ample protection, and in the past al
legislation, it would seem, has beer
in the interest of the money power
The argument advanced that the
West offers much better opportuni
ties for investment may be true to-
day; but if it had not been for the
Vermont money that has been lost
in the development of the West the
advantages would not be in favor OF
Western loans. If the money that
has gone West in the past, never to
return, could have been spent in the
development of Vermont the home
investment would discount the out-of
State loan.
What Vermont and every other ag-
ricultural State needs for it's adj
vancement is money at a lower rate
of interest and certain tax restric-
tions. Money used for State devel-
opment should receive all the con-
cessions possible, and the Vermont
money that goes out of the State
to Western territory-should stand
its full share of the burden of taxa
ton. Waterbury Record.
As to Fraud at Chicago.
So long as the loser in the Chica-
go convention insists that the renom-
ination of Mr.. Taft was accomplished
by fraud, temperate statements by
members of the national republican
committee concerning the disposition
of contests will have a certain value.
Victor Rosewater of Omaha, who was
a member of the committee four
years ago, and acting as chairman at
the time of the last Chicago conven-
ton, finds no merit in the contention
that the Taft majority was secured
by fraud.
Four years ago when Theodore
Roosevelt brought about Mr.. Taft's
nomination, there were ZIG contests;
his year there were 262. In 1908
he hearings were in executive ses-
sion and this year in open sessions
% which reporters were admitted
1ut the procedure was the same. In
IN article published in the Indepen-
lent, Mr.. Rosewater says that four
years ago it soon became apparent |
hat the vast majority of the con-
ests ''were absolutely fictitious and
up by inspiration of trouble |
The same was true this |
ear GAS case after case was either |
or fell of it's own weight |
lnder the unanimous vote of the |
committee, the Roosevelt men and |
he Taft supporters joining in con-
lemnatiOn, it was inevitable that sus-
Dicion should attach to all of the |
asses championed by the same con-
est attorneys who had practically |
confessed to the preparation of these
axes" The conclusion reached by |
his obse~vant member is very likely |
hat drawn by a large proportion of |
newspaper readers. Mr.. 1.osewater
ecalls and newspaper readers re-
member that most OF the contests /
n southern states followed the ap-
'earance of a mysterious stranger !
Who had, by some occult power or
overt influence, set in motion I'M
place hunters and other |
Iiscordant elements for some reason
dissatisfied with what the regular
and their conventions |
lad done" Ormsby McHarg, among
thers, will appreciate the delicacy |
With which the work of mysterious /
tranger" is described.
The cry of fraud comes with poor
race from the candidate whose NOM
ers of the national committee show
d singular indifference to the pro-
n Of ~
privileges was abused, Mr.. Rosewater
ays:-
The Roosevelt members, however,
eemed to regard their seats on the
ommittee as mere voting rights to
e transferred at will, ard from the
utset scandalously overdid the privi-
eye of being represented by proxy.
1t the opening session one of their
roxies was given over to the political
correspondent of a friendly Chicago
ewspaper, and later those proxies
7ere passed around among Mr..
loosevelt's campaign managers and !
dvisers, and even contest attorneys,
D be voted in favor of seating Roose-
cit delegates irrespective OF the evil
ence or merits of the case.
Contest attorneys sitting as judges
D decide contested casesi And they
yere there, not in Mr. Taft's inter-
st, but in that of the self-appointed
postle of the square deal. Rutland
Terald. I
Senators and the People
Many of the senators in Washing
On are prepossessed by the idea that
hey are the chosen representatives
f Sovereign states" as they have
AIKEN occasion so often to remind US,
ave heard from the plain people in
he last year or two, and are begin
ing to take notice of the fact that
eople as we'll as boundary lines
make up a state 1t is we'll to talk
bout the Senate being self-perpetua-
ing, an always existing, never end
ng body, about Senatorial dignity
nd sovereign states, but when it
ONES down to sbrass tacks,' the
eople at home do not care so very
much about those frills. They are
ot long on the dignity of the
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