10 THE VmtONT PHOENIX.' BRATTLBI30HO, tfHtXUlf, JULY 28"; 19lG. ' P6!UtflCAL AD'ViifcMSrff'tf. I POUTIOAL ADVBRTISINO. I rOLITIOAL ADVERTISING. I POMTIOAI ADVEfcTlSINtJ. POLITICAL ADVERTISING? - mil rriinTiiYiiin ii 0. H..Tll6fejtf Tductfos tfrioif BdilUfei'. ai1 Record aii'd1 ifaWoWriVa ftV 6hl- -' ca'stf lrf 1012. Gov-Smi- F.dltor of Thp phootii'x! Ex - Why Does Re Election Sen. Carroll Senator1 Pago,- seeking th teethe el S.Page? from the state of Vermont to the United States senate,' s'ciiitlB to bo bod ing hia reasons for the Statement that Mont-pclic- r, in 18(lfl-(iS-7- At a meeting of the Greater Vermont association and a member of congress in 0. Should he have been ho should bo on his record RCP""' ,0 1,0 1,10 1.1- of tl,u oters of ... ' JV. - ....4.11. .!' Edward . l",rl,08 Wlincfl. in ttfnnsuinnion uno; "is, wurn im, ftcfd July lath, 1!)K, former Governor Curtis VeSit.' barred Ottt on account of the native son rule? tho vnri'ous committees on which lio hns Smith of St. Albans was a guest of honor and one of the prin- served wliilo tlierc. In ,ono of Ills let See the array of distinguished senators who have repre- ho stntes da followa: cipal speakers. ters' II'?!ttncss of Vngfleld, one of the ih&st sented Vermont in the past, all born outside the state: "Whenever the Republican party re iiihJiillrJttT bettermqfit. tnrns to power in the somite iny rank Among his varied activities, Gov. Smith is head of the Cen- N- - from such as he Stephen R. Bradley, Wnllingford, Conn.; Elijah Palno, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 7! IZT1 " scrvieo is such Uint win select the cnnirninn tral Vermont railway system, which is one of the corporations rondorftl e the recent national sh.ii) of either the conliriitt'co on print conviction. Nathaniel Chipman, Salisbury, Conn.; Dudley Chase, Corinth, N. II. f1ro "tivc life John' W. Tltcomu, whose lug", Indian nffni'rs, or agriculture and whose taxes were materially increased by the legislation of t!'K ma f,ir James Fisk, (IroeiHWch, Alrtsa.;.... Horatio Seymour, Litchfield, Gonn. P,,liluZw, , '''' thR oiiRorvnt!on of Verm .nt llsh forostrv." ''fr'' " l0St Vor",0,lt ",t,lcr SamuOl Prdntiss, Stonlngton, Conn.; Benjamin Swift, Amehin, N. Y. Ho also refers his. is not Surprising, therefore, that he should feel some re- "ule t0 tho "ilative to. tho fnct thnt It Z'' S. 8. Plielps, Litchfield, Conn.; Win, Upham, Leicester, Mass. studding on tho conuiuttoo on nuvui in sentment toward the executive whose influence was jxitent pln(,n.rf,l11!),'nJ'0.isTm,!i',(,,1ohn W- - Eocil' whoso nffnirs Would. bo vOry good. Aimo .lrit hp qoul porsonnlly legislation on the statutes. ,i J "? "f ns nn nblc judge nn Upright Ad:nittjng that J placing such citizen nnd n true Vefnionter could ftrattleboro Deprecates select the chairmanship of these com- - hardly be disputed. Reformer Attack mittces if ho desires and that the Re-- ; After attacking the legislatures responsible for increasing Referring to Gov. Smith's attack The Brattleboro Reformer jmbllc.nii party will' como buk info' railway faxts, Gov. Smith made a direct Attack on Allen M. Would Have Barred tfistinguistied power next full, would' it riot ho Well Governors s said : lor senqtor iorc to, .state to his con- Fletcher, who was governor at the time the taxes of the Central stituency whv ho voted a'Cainsf th'O Vermont Railway company were increased by law. This rule, if applied during the lifetime Of Vermont as a state, , Ex-Qo- E. Hiriith opened his mouth an'd stuck his foot In it Jlollis rural credit bill, as long as ho wheli in addressing the Greater Vermont association he injected seems to hnvo in hip power, Under tho would have prevented the following men of distinguished attri- t.J ....... i t m' r ,. ai' . .. politics into his remarks. What he said, in the language of one uuoye suuru couumuun, wiu iiniifi iu concerning which hnvo some butes from becoming governors of b'o (maTo c.h'alrmnn.of thp committee oil "There is another subject I Vermont: of Belasco's characters, was "Irrelevant, immaterial and not nropo'rfion hesitation in speaking, solely for tho reason thnt my motive in agriculture A, very larO Thomas Ohittonden, germane to tho subject." his. cpnptitKcncy nrO And doing 90 may bo misconstrued, but nt tho risk of the criticism the first governor, born In East Guilford, Conn. of farmers be political economy to tho Greater Vermont association is to be used as a politi- will be nffectcd by f ho successful work- - that I may passing from the realm of that Roswoll Farhllam, born in Iloston; Asahol Peck in Iloyalston, Mass. If . : . Of say belicVo our high offices in Ver- oii tueit. jioiusyiltlj jai crcqii Liltuiu. politics, I want to that I Samuel Plngroo, Salisbury, X. cal agency it will soon lose its usefulness, and it hns started on a ing rural mont shflulcl 1)6 kept fo'f Vermontors. This doctrine ought to be ll.; Levi K. Puller, Westmoreland, N. II. I hnve seen Senator Pace's stnto Vrban A. Woodbury, course which ought to make it the most potential force for up- i a principle of state policy at nil times and under all circum- Acworth, N. II, j Joslali Grout, Compton, P. Cj. incut in tli matter in which he sue- building- the stnto thnt has ever Oxisted. cossfnlly dodges the interrogation by stances. It matters not whether the position involved is tempo- Paul Dillingham, Hhutesbury, Mnss.: Frederick Holbrook. E. Windsor. C.t Vermont should be gov-orno- d People also will revolt at tho idea of railroad Influence in a clever detour, calling tho attention rary, or whether it is for a term of years, Martin Ohlttenden, Salisbury, Conn.; Erastus Fairbanks, Primficld, Mass. by Vermonters and I mean true A'ermonters. Any departure public nll'airs. There was too much of sort of thing years of the interrogator to tho fact that the Poter T'. Washburn, Lynn, Mnss.; Julius Converse, Stafford, Conn. that rural, credit bonds of this banking from the strict enforcement of this principle ns a state ago, re- John G. McCullough, M. but fortunately there has been little apparent attempt in e in policy will in the end lead to a system of government of the Newark, Del.; Allen Fletchor, Indianapolis, Ind. scheme would bo the cent years by the railroads to uso their influence in public mat- state of A'orinofit. which is not rel- state by absentees that will bo humiliating and disastrous. Moses Robinson, Hardwlck, Mass.; Paul Brigham, Coventry, Conn. would Intro- ters. The peoplo of the state have shown a disposition to be evant to tho matter nit nil as to the Thcr6 Is not a state In tho Union that tolerato tho Isaac Tichohor, Newnrk, N. .1.; Isroal Smith, Sheffield, Conn. fair merits of tho bill itself. Ho also re- duction of outsiders to its high offices. Jonas Galusha, toward the railroads and t6 with them. Cum-ming- Xorwich, Conn.; Richard Skinner, Litchfield, Conn. fers to the speech of Senator s Another break like made will arouse an- "If it is right to permit a man who is a temporary resident Cornelius P. Van Ness, Kimlerhook, N. Y.; Ezra Butler, Lancaster, Mass that which Smith of' Iowa, .in which ho refers to state to represent in one high olllco, why is it nnd of the the state Samuol C. tagonisms which will be hnrmful to the railroads. We are willing this particular feature of tho bill not n in Crafts, Woodstock, Conn.; William A. Palmor, Hebron, Conn speech Cu.nmings efptnlly right for such man to represent Vermont the to forget what Smith said, and we hope the newspapers and the iu which Senator other olllces .State in the legislature, in the John Mattocks, Hartford, C't.; Chas. Kilborn Williams, Cambridge, Mass falls on the old phrase of the Government, public generally will back hackneyed judiciary and in all public offices? If it is right in any of these and ninny others. take tho same attitude. that tho bill is "unconstitutional." is wrong in But for heaven's sake, Eddio, don't do again. We in nre not particularly in instances it is right in all of them. If it any of them it Vermont is wrong to congressmen, forested in Senator Cummiuga' idea it in every one of them. As tho list is legion. It includes such names as Nilcs, Lyon. Morris, Chamberlain, Olin, Elliot, Wltheroll, Shaw, Strong, tho of tho constitutional!-- . the sequel to Gov. Smith's speech Vermont along lines ' "Tho practice can only be justified on the prlnciplo of a Rich, Jowott, at the Greater ty of this lull. We wish to Know why quid pro quo, and this menus nothing else soiling our birth- Langdon, Marsh, Noyos, Morrill, Richards, Meoch, Mallory, than Koyes, Whlto, Allen, meeting is the Carroft Senator Page .voted against it. right for a mess of pottago, larger or smaller. Such a practico can Homan Cahoon, James, Isaac Fletcher, John Smith, endorsement of Senator S. Page's can- Henry, Joyce, William W. I also note that on July 12th a let- bring no ultimate benefit to the State. It only stamps tho peoplo Grout. didacy for by the St. Albans Messenger, Gov. ter purporting to como from Senator of Vermont as easy and holds tho state up to ridicule and con- Page to his constituents in Vermont tempt. What expectation or hope will there be if such a practice Cbilamer Smith's newspaper.