Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-11-06
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER C, 1897.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM WASH
UNEXPECTED.
Proceedings, ertra Legislative, at the capi-
tai of Ve,mont.

given our readers n journal of the usual and
legitimate proceedings Of our legislature.
This, however, by 10 means constitutes all
that is done by the Legislators Of Vermont,
affecting even materially and deeply the in
terests of the people. A sort ofsecret coun-
Gil, it seems, has been holden upon the af- |
fairs of the state; and the representatives of |
tG~ minority of the people,-En assisted,
tif not in fact controlled and directed, by !
irresponsible and self elected delegates to
the lobby, have taken it upon themselves
to dictate to the Executive at Washington,
and through that channel to foist upon the |
people ofVermont certain persons to fill i'm |
portant public Offices. The following int
errstng document explains itself. We can
assure the people, and all concerned, that
this paper is authentic came fairly into our
possession, and is given verbatim ct littera-
tim ct punctuatim. The original ION
splendid gilt-edged letter shcet,) is in our
hands, and the handwriting can be fully
substantiated by lobby member from
Middlebury-th the prophet, who, in bygone
days, most happily predicted that political
Juggling ,could run shirt race NTH the
descendants Of Ethan Allen.
To His Excelency Martin Van Buren,,
President of the United States;
Sir--At meeting OF the Democratic
members of the Legislature Of the State and
others, holden at Montpelier on the Both
day of October, the following resolutions
were adopted:
"Resolved, That we hold the principle
of rotation in office to be republican in its
nature and salutary in its operation and that
it should be regarded us well in Executive
appointments as in elections by the people.
Resolved, That all Offices being created
by the people for their own benefit, II IS
not only right but reasonable that their
wishes should be consulted in relation to
the incumbents to be selected to fill those
Offices when the power of appointment is
removed from them."
In accordance with the spirit of the a.
bove resolutions, the undersigned, friends
of the administration, respectfully recon-
mend to your Excelency for Collector of
Customs for the District of Vermont, Alden
Partridge Esq. of Norwich, for Marshal,
Azel Spalding Esq. of Montpelier, and for
District Attorney, WHY'S Lyman Esq. Of
Burlington. We believe that these men
are well qualified for the several stations to
which we recommend them and that their
appointments will be entirely sati factory
to the democracy of the State. We are
fully satisfied that The application of the
D.tasr
lions, in relation to the appointments in
question, will have strong tendency to give
the democratic party of tia State, the as
cendancy at the next election.
Montpelier, Nov. l, 1887,
Asa specimen of modern democracy
that democracy which elevates the will and
interests of the few above the will and in
terests of the many as barefaced and bold
appeal to the President to act on mere par
ty grounds; and as declaring, implicitly,
that he makes appointments with view to
secure the ascendancy of the party--we
commend this document to the attention of
the people Of Vermont. Let them behold
its utter disregard ofthe will of the MAJOR
ITY let them mark the hypocrisy of mod
crn democracy.
And now, in the exercise of privilege
which belongs to all men of expressing
their opinions, we respectfully suggest to
the President of the United States, that the
sentiments, contained in the two resolutions
above, undoubtedly accord with the feel
ings of all the people Of this state; that the
people of this state, by large majority, are
politically opposed to the nominees OF the
caucus, (purporting to be composed OF
democratic members of the legislature and
others,'0 as has been recently, and for ma
nv years successfully, evinced in the state
elections and that other persons, equally
well qualified and more acceptable TO the
majority Of the people of the state, can be
selected we do, therefore, take the respon'
sbility, in behalf of a majority of the peo-
pie, of requesting LIST. that the present IN
cumbents of the off ces named may not be
renominatsd to the senate I'd. protesting
against the nomination of the caucus nom
inees; and Sd. suggesting that the resolu
tons, considered in the true spirit and mean
ing of their language, require the nomlna
ton of persons acceptable to majority, no
of the SO called democratic party" but o
the People of Vermont, without respect &c
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