Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-29

cal matters
That this third term agitaor libel the of Yer
mont not when consider this paragraph concern
ing Smiths political master from the Concord Evening Mon'
"Nr Roosevelt says those of in New England who
for his election in November either
ignorant preudiced cowardy; which is, perhaps
kindly classification OF his could be expected
Well the candidate and his paid imported agita-
will find that the people of Vermont ignorant, but
that we remember as well as read and study
Ihey will discover That we realize they have added insult
spring when Senator Dixon the third term campaign manager
that the people of Vermont "vena and 'corrupt.''
We have not forgotten that while the third termers
trying to make out that this the result of something
that happened at Chicago the discussion of this third term third
party project started after Clifford Pncho went abroad
ish government as to its own affairs
we have s that @ lit s.d sor the
The only question is when.''
Those words which the people'of time
not forgotten uttered presence f. W.
Gibson Bratleboro showing party
had already been determined and the false charge of
theft at Chicago has been made the plea for the new party
dent Taft had majority Of all the in the presidential
Stolen from him in the Bay State than Hon. j. w. Brock Of
Montpelier and Col j. Gray Esey of Braoro and the whole
Vermont delegation falsely charged with helping steal
from the third in California Washington.
The people of Vermont who regard honesty and honor
the highest qualities of manhood read and remember this anti
third term pledge "Under circumstances will he cand
date for accept another nomination. violated by the
third term candidate
said about the dangers of trying to become Caesar
in the United States in the time of the doized Grant who
genuinely modest and safe compared with the present
woudbe Dictator whose arbitrary orders even Baceder was
finally forced to defy
welt himself said when he condemned the methods of the bril-
liant Blaine and supported Emuds for the presidency and
they have not forgotten that the considerations initiate
against the methods of Roosevelt
The people of Vermont have read and remembered the
railroad contribution during the Roosevelt campaign of 1904
though Hartman is dead and Roosevelt cit is
The people of Vermont have read and forgotten the
evidence of certain George W Perkins who admitted the
welt campaign of 1904
Perkins not dead yet and to m9night last night Roos
notes friendly Trusts is now paying the freight on the
1905 have read and remembered the famous warning eff
don't take Taft You'll have take Me- The people of Yer
mont still prefer Taft and do not trust ME"
Nor have they forgotten how T. r. advertised Taft
progressive in the West and conservative the East and
guaranteed him the best man in the whole country for the
presidency
The people Of Vermont read and have forgotten that
the dissovng Of the Northern Securities company
compisfed by Roosevelt with consequent rise in the value
of the shares of the railroads concerned Just the dssovng
of the Standard Oil company by Taft has been followed by
in the shares of the separate companies proving that
more railroads or two or more big indstra corporations like
the United States Steel and the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company could have been kept from consolidating without
DESTROYING them.
The people remembered pub
sed of Roosevelt his attorney general stop
the prosecution of the Perkins Harvester trust.
The people of Vermont have read and remembered the
of the visit of Perkins and other Steel
Roosevelt the White House before Roosevelt violated his
oath enforce the Sherman and other laws by permitting the
Steel of Perkins, Munsey and other multi mllonaes to
absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron company
You do hear evedge other imported speakers who
preach selfr rule attack of these Perkins trusts
pecaly whose and children work under
conditions Roosevelt tells Perkins dis
interested in financing his Bull Moose campaign
The people of Vermont not ignorant in political mat
ters neither they vena and corrupt.
Yet last spring the cmissas of the third term candidate
only charged the people of Vermont with being BOTH but
they also acted as though they believed it,
Mr. Roosevelt will find, however, that neither Sig
norant Towards and that his mercenares from abroad
are regarded by Greeks bearing gifts
Vermont antagonstic to the encroachments Of die
taoria overoads from New York the days of Ethan Allen
and September will again show them have for
apply the Bleach Seal to those who would steal
bhrigh of independence and make political
we'll started for
Vermont