The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-21
The Triple Alliance

Clothing our caption in an appro-
| pirate and familiar war heading, this
little statement is intended as
an open declaration of war against
the very apparent triple alliance in
the Republican party OF Vermont,
Clement-Dillingham -Dunnett. The Mon
| itOr is Republican to the core, but not
the brand OF Repubicanism that can
support this triumvirate, either be-
| fore or after the convention. And the
| Monitor is sure it expresses the senti
ment OF hundreds of Republicans OF
| Vermont.
Republicanism to live in Vermont
must advance II can never do it un.
der Dillingham-Dunnett al
lance.
Let the program proposed in this
alliance be put over ut the Republi-
| can state convention and there win
be little left OF the Republican party
after the votes are counted this fall.
| The Monitor was never in a more
| earnest attitude than when it makes
| this statement Men in high position
and men in lowly places who now
declare themselves staunch Republic
cans have vowed they will not stand
for the program proposed by this tri-
pie alliance.
That the Monitor is not alone in
this position let us quote from the
Enosburg Falls Standard:
Unless all signs fail, the reaction
AIRY wing of the Republican party pro
poses TO carry out its own will in the
coming Republican state convention
and put Percival w. Clement across
as the party's candidate for the go
vernorship."
The Randolph Herald and News,
another strong Republican paper,
says:
"At present Mr.. Clement is in close
sympathy with Republicanism, If by
that is meant the Aldrich.Penrose
Barnes Foraker Cannon type - the
Gtandpat kind in its essence He is
not in sympathy with the Cummins
Borah-Iladley- Hinman Prouty kind of
N'IluhllNhiliHii. y blb NtoA btNNt'h
these two brands is coming shortly.
Then comes the Burlington Free |
Press with this
Instead of being conciliatoTy ald
seeking to appeal to the younger yot-
ers representing more advanced ideas |
the old guard is apparently aping that
famous railroad president in the En-.
pire state who expressed a world OF |
defiance in the four words, The pub
lie be damned
n a stffnecked combination of po- |
litical hacks can seize upon a great |
party's organization and divert its |
energy and prostitute the very gov
eminent itself to their own ends, tnen |
il is time for the voters and taxpay-
ers to seize the most ready and eff |
cient means that presents itself to rid |
the commonwealth OF the barnacles |
and bloodsuckers that thus infest ii.
II any candidate for United States |
senator thinks he can afford to let his |
to prostitute the attorney generalship |
TO their. own unrighteous ends. then |
he should beware. for the people are |
not Knocked. neither will they sup
press their righteous Indignation for
eves.
No political party in Vermont can
afford to permit itself to be used by |
selfish men for the exploitation of the |
interests OF the commonwealth for |
their own benefit. II no political par |
~ can be found to espouse the vel |
fare OF the people and the interests |
of the voters in opposition to the |
standpat public service corporation
combination. then will something like |
a citizens movement be instituted in |
the Green Mountain state that will |
rise above party and give patriotic |
response 10 the demands OF the best |
interests OF our commonwealth"
The evidence that there is to be
test, and that right soon. must be
plain. That there is a triple alliance
as named is not much further To seek
MIR. Clements paper. the Rutland
Herald. early came out for Dilling-
ham aud last week approved in lauda-
tory terms the candidacy Of Mr.. Dun
nett
That Dunnett is for Dillingham; has
been made plain to those in converse
ton with Mr. Dunnett. That Mr.. Dill
bingham favors Clement and Dunnctt
goes without saying
The Gonitor believes the best IA
terests OF the Republican party AMI
Vermont Till be scr &c by seeing 20
IL that delegates 90 the Republici1
convention are eiscted who are OBJ
posed 10 this TRIPLE alliance IN Yer
mont Bepuhlicanizm Clement-Dllins
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MOnito-.