The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-04
LAW IN ORDER
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of a nominee for a tax collector gave the
information that about $4,000 in delin-
quent taxes were outstanding at the pres
ent time. against an average of $4,000 in
a normal year. The present incumbent
in the office, William A Savage is on
the union or Good Government slate.
The executive committee of II was asked
to withdraw from the meeting to deter
mine a candidate. The name of w :.
Severance, former chief of police, whose
resignation was forced by the present
/ board of trustees owing to complaints
arising out of the local strike situation,
was presented by this committee and was
unanimously made a part of the slate
y. Il. Iuttle, principal of the Bellows
Falls high school, who is on the union
ticket for the position of moderator, also
was placed on the Law and Order slate
for this position. sI..,. -.t--s"
The executive committee then made the
recommendation that the Law and Or
der slate be filed Immediately, and that
no participation be had in the caucus to-
morrow evening. DIR. BlOdgett and At
tOrney Warner A. Graham, both men,
berS of the committee, explained that this
was advisable due to the fact that night
in the caucus would mean nothing as far
as candidates and issues were concerned,
and that many of the women voters of the
town did not wish to attend such an affair
as the caucus probably will be. w. G..
| Belknap, editor of the Bellows Falls
Times and member of the executive COM
mittee, protested this step on the ground
that it would give the voters, especially
| of the, opposition, the impression that the
Law and Order" ticket was one which
! Its supporters were ashamed of. He adj
yOcated going in and making the best
fight possible The recommendation of
the committee was accepted, DR.. BlOdgett
announcing that a public mass meeting
: h., bxII ! l.
to election Jan. %, at which time the can
didates of the Law and Order ticket
would be placed before the public
1t was voted by the meeting to perfect
an organization for canvassing every voter
in the village with the idea of urging full
participation at the polls, also to aScer-
tain which side each voter favorS Joshua
ii. Blakely, former postmaster and
\. NJ. {. y. man, was placed at the head
of this movement. The executive com
mittee, with NJ. Blakely, will select 20
captains and teams of workers to do the
CanyaSSing.
! The meeting was informed by several
speaers of similar activity on the part of
the union ticket supporters, and it was
limited that many of the opposition in
sisted in making it a fight between the
Catholics and prOteStantS of the village.
Both sides have repeatedly pledged avoid
ance of tins issue, Yet both sides talk
4IduhiN oi SuCu an issue on the street.
The real issue, however, is one of
whether the union striking employees of
the International Paper Co. shall get con
troll of the village government, according
10 many. Each of the opposing factions
. claims to fight for rule by all, not by Il
faction. 1t seems a case of two different
viewpoints fighting on the same platform.
3 Recent additions to the states proposed
by the Good Government" club and the
Leading Citizens" grouD for the villa ge
offices include the name of Town Clerk l..
:. Hayes. who has sent out circular let
terS to the voters of the village suggest
ing that the offices of town clerk, town
treasurer. village treasurer and collector
of poll taxes be vested in him, with the
idea of cenualiZing these various duties
in one efficient bureau in the present
! town clerk Office. The name of Edward
{. Rice of the International Paper Go. is
entered for the office of clerk. opposing
that of John Long of the Good Govern
ment" ticket