Word: vermont
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William H. Meyor is a political anomaly. An articulate progressive in an often unintelligibly conservative state, he has managed to make his advanced ideas part of Vermont's everyday political discourse. A politician whose chief desire is to see the world attain peace with freedom, Meyer has expressed ideas that have been represented as ones which could lead to war. A man whose honesty no one questions, he has frequently been termed selfish...
Because of Meyer, the Vermont political campaign has displayed clearly the line between political conformity and political foresight. The Republicans are faced with issues which neither they nor the voters of the state had confronted before Meyer's surprising election in 1958; their only choice has been to appeal to the voter's fears. Their candidate, Governor Robert Stafford, has alternately been forced to sing a paean to American military strength and to label Meyer "dangerously naive...
...didn't crack a smile, not one smile. I can't vote for a man who's that serious." Another lady, the former head of Rutland's League of Women Voters, chimed in: "He's a complainer and a pouter. What's more, he doesn't represent Vermont's attitude when he votes in the House. He sticks to his own idealistic position, saying exactly what that position forces him to believe. I think he has a selfish attitude...
Powell is campaigning openly for Democratic votes, and both his belligerence and wide popular appeal promise to erode party lines. The Loeb papers are meanwhile claiming to be "independent and dispassionate" in backing Democrats for governor in Massachusetts and Vermont. But political virginity is not easily assaulted. In an editorial endorsing the Democrat Boutin for governor and Republicans for everything else, the Concord Monitor felt it necessary to maintain that "there is no moral or legal compulsion" to vote a straight ticket...
...other hand, Stafford's attack by insinuation and innuendo seems to have succeeded to a certain extent, and of the 30,000 more Vermonters who will come out to vote in a Presidential year, most will be Republicans. Should he lose, he has already done a great deal by raising the questions of disarmament, peace, and civil liberties. If he wins, Vermont will have shown the extent to which outspoken peace candidates are in demand...