The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-05

A Mysterious Someone.
In spite of this record someone who,
up to this time has not seen fit to dis
close his identity, has appealed to the
record in the office of the auditor of
accounts and published the amount of
expenditures for detective service
for each year following the act of 1905
and the resolution of 1910, in eompari-
son with the expenditures for like ser
vice in the year 1906 when the attor
ney general had no authority in this
matter but was deploring the want of
| such authority.
In no one of the various statements
published, headed especial from Mont
pelier,' has there been a suggestion
of the purpose for which these ex-
penditnres were made or of the result
obtained, or of whether such result has
proven a public benefit.
: Publications of this character, cal
; culated to arouse suspicion, distrust and
unrest in the public mind, may be char
: acteristic of one interested solely il
the public welfare and in the interest
of the good people of Our Green
Mountain state On the other hand
they may be Characteristic of tht
: q niue k-raker' or political "bush
1 whaeller who is interested solely il
] his own political aspirations. This is
i question the people must settle-thinl
: it over
/ Following the lead of the first q Spe
] cial from Montpelier, published il
r the Burlington Free Press, May 4tf
S many newspapers of the state hav
n taken up the cry and apparently with
Il out pausing to inquire into the merit
Il of the ease have published and repuh
e hshed these so.called "Specials fror
q Montpelier, with various comment
o thereon, based upon nothing save til
e bare statement that a certain amour
n of money has been expended.
+ A few of the newspapers of tn
n state have been thoughtful, frank an
d fair in this matter and have said tina
o. both sides of the ease ought to
Sc heard before passing Judgment, On
u distinguished Journal, published almos
II in the shadow of the state house
e which is located the office Of the a,
r ditor of accounts, in its apparer
Of eagerness to prejudice the public min
es regarding this matter, has gone so f1
te as to say editorially THAT the stat
re ments. which have been copied repea
IL edlv in its own columns, were unsati
G. factory and ought to be explained h
n the attorney general. In this come
t. ton may we inquire why the owner
rs this publication (if it has one) if !
of intended 10 be fair and serve the pul
or lie welfare in this matter, did not :
or send a representative to the Off,
n of the auditor of accounts to obtain I'll
n other side of the story. at least so f;
to as Washington county is concerned
r. Was it because such investigate
Sc would have disclosed that during Il
he same period in which the extremely @
of trava CANT and Incompetent legal d
he partment of the state had approve
as bills for detective service" in TIN
ii county amounting to approximate
W. S., 600, expended in an attempt
bring a murderer to justice, that san
legal department, which, so far
IA Washington county is concerned mea
OF the state S attorney and the attorn,
at general, had caused, through Grimm
fy prosecutions, to be turned into Il
S. state treasury in fines and costs a
proximately 100000?
al 1t is not the purpose of the attorn,
to- general to enter into a newspaper GO
err trovefsy regarding this subject, his on
on. desire being to call the attention of &
zee public to the manifest unfairne
We lof many of the articles that have a