Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-07-19
PRETENSIONS OF "THE VAN Blu.
REN DEMOCRACY"

The plan OF the ensuing electioneerins
campaign seems 10 have been long settled
with the Van Buren, party. II was clearly in
dicated by the course Of legislation for e6ea +
which was SO profusely undertaken at The
last session OF the legislature, on the subjects
Of banks and banking. Three prominen
objects seem to claim the attention ofthe aa
ministration party in this State.
l. 10 make the people believe that tn,
Van Buren, party Otherwise The adminisira
ton party, which distinctly took and avowed
the name oil Jacksonian, in the administrator
OF j. O. Adams, is the identical Republican
party which gained the ascendcncy in this
State in the year 1901, and kept ii so long
as the lines Of demarkation between the re
publican and federal parties were disln
guishable. with the exception Of the cleo
lions OF 1908. 1918 and 1914.
q That banks are an unqualified evil
and that they owe their origin and existence
to the whig party.
g. The third attempt is TO magnify every
man and every movement of the parry so az
rogantly called The Democracy" Ly
claiming victory in elections. however lhs
result may be--and swelling 10 a multitude
every convention held by the party, and b.
prophecying smooth things, and mighty
gains in The elections 10 come TO the linlem
that il may be believed that the people are
with the administration.
There seems 10 be, with some OF the press
es ofthe party. desperate jesuilism, pracii
sing entirely upon the principle that the end
justifies the means.-tbat it is desirable tina,
Vermont should be Van Buren, State, and
that ii matters little in what manner this con.
summation is brooghi about. so il be effect
ed Foi this purpose, selections are made
in the history oil the Legislation Of this State
and brought to bear upon present times and
present parties. when every one. at all ac-
quainted with the events cited knows full
well, that the promises laid down. and the
conclusions drawn from them. are as foreign
as il would be TO infer that the late pressure
in the money market was owing 10 the
French revolution OF 1892 An instance of
this kind occurs in an article now in clrcu-
lation, taken from the Windham County
Democrat, respecting petition for bank at
Windsor, which was not granted. The
bill, il seems, passed the House Of Represen.
ta,iyes, but was rejected by The Council
The House, il should be remembered. was
thoroughly republican. the majority Of it
was the party which the Van Buren, men
assert to be the very same party claimed by
them, TO be The Democracy" ofthese days,
and the drift and intent Of the article is to
prove this identity, and yet, the history Of
the event shows that the bill was passed by a
republican house. But the bill was reject
ed BY the Council OF that venerable body.
whose names are given 10 the article. every
one, who survived to the days of Gen. Jack
son, was opposed TO his administrations
one Of them belonged 10 the modern demo
crazy. as any Que may see. who was ac-
quainted with the meu and will examine the
"a Az H. -. .i-s~ tSpic--tho identity
OF The republican party Of those days 1903
and successive years)-we feel warranted
IN asserting that great majority of the sur.
wing republicans OF those days are found
in the present whig ranks. We do not think
II necessary TO particularize. BY calling
names. but call on the readers Of this article.
10 recollect for themselves Call 10 mind
who were the republicans ofihose days and
see where you find them now, and look at
towns, and see whether they have experien-
ced any political changes 10 justify the as
seIllon, that The Democracy" OF 1889 is
the repubieanism Of thirty years since.
The town of Woodstock, in those days, car
rled about the same proporiionabe majority
OF republican votes that il does, in these days.
OF wing votes. The County of Windsor
was the strong hold of the republican party,
as it is now of whig principles A little OBJ
servation will convince any one, that the
party which commenced as the Jackson
Party, professed "retrenchment and reform"
andpractised prodigality and extravaganza 10
such degree that they have been obliged,
like rogues, leaving the peniieniary, 10
change their name, have no claim to identi-
~ with the old republican party Of Vermont
and like the ass, who stole the lions skin
and threw II over him, that he might inspire
terror and carryinfiuence. among the herds.
as the king of beasts, the long ears, which
peer up through the disguise they assume.
show themselves TO be the ass sill they
are butt Jackson party. the advocates Of
veto power, the only despotic feature in our
constitution in the stolen garb of republican
ism.- Woodstock Mereury
EZRA MEEcH- The locoCocos have mar
Vicious short memories. Some Of them seem
entirely to have forgotten Ezra Mech Of
biggest man aud largest far,
mer IN Vermont WellA-we pity their mis-.
fortune and beg to tell them that Ezra
Mech was for many years the candidate of
the Jackson party for Governor. and in that
capacity was cracked up 10 be democratic
republican ofthe first water He IS Wing,
and has entered the field to fight against the
spurious democracy of the locofocas Ha