Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-02-15
VERMONT PMGNIx.
Friday Morning, February 10, 1899.
ILLINOIS.

,acitlv admitted last week, that we had not
particle of evidence to sustain our charge
AGAINST him of misrepresentation in regard TO
the political character Of the Illinois Legisa-
ture. We admit no such inference IRON our
article. We stated we had no file OF the De-
mocrat for reference, nor did we deem the
subject worthy of devoting much time aud
space to il. as our readers could be supposed to
take but little interest in such a controversy
We therefore suggested to the editor, II he
wished the matter pursued, to republish his
articles on the subject, side by side with the
votes of the Legislature, and this would settle
the whole matter Instead of this, he merely
quotes one of his former articles, in connexion
with an account Of certain votes, on the au-
thority of the Globe doubtful as such author
ity ISL and affected a great triumph. AS we
are therefore in measure forcedto an examin-
alton, our readers will excuse us for occupying
some space with extracts from the Democrat
&c.
/. In the Democrat Of Sept 9th is quoted with
editorial sanction, the following from Chi
cago paper. eff Mr.. Douglass" Congressman
@is elected, zoe hare carried aH-Gov, Lit.
Gov, Senate and House ofRep. The Senate
is 20 to 90; the Lit. Gov. presides-and the
House ,uiH be Democratic by at least TEN
majority"
In the paper of Sept. 90, we find the follow
ing:
"Tne Legislature.-Tb Democrat" (Chi-
cago) estates that the House stands 46 repub.
RI f.,O
with the casting vote of the repub 1t. Cow
orr2I repub to 10 feds. with the vote OF Sena-
TOR Ross, who is pledged in writing 10 support
the Administration The editor OF the De
mocrat adds editorially, "These returns, mich
are official, contrast strangely with the state
ments given in the last weeks Phoenix, which
we believe are not quite SO "certdin" as there
represented. The guide man who edits that
paper must take back sumo of his assurance"
In the merit paper, the careful editor of the
Democrat, after thus rebuking as, admits that
hfssoffciar returns are like those ofthe Globe,
the fruit of the imagiRation.' He says, "K
appears that the official statement in our last
paper DID NOT EMBRACE FULL RETURNS, fact
of which we were not then aware" A pretty
confession this. 1t was his business to know
that they were complete, before undertaking
to reprove US. He says in the same article,
sIn the Legislature, says the Vandalia Reg,
there will be a Democratic majority on joint
ballot.n
Then comes in the paper Of Dec. 6, the ar
ticle which the editor Of the Democrat quoted
last week as the only one bearing upon the
case. In this article he says "That body"
(the Legislaiure) snow stands says the De-
mocrat (Chicago) 4s demo. to 43 aristocrats."
Such are the articles which have appeared
in the Democrat on the subject in controversy,
and we ask how are they to be reconciled with
its last weeks article7 In that, the editor
merely quotes the last of the foregoing extracts
and says, sit is the only statement of ours $50
far as our research has extended) which has
direct bearing upon the question" We are
aware this assertion is worded in way TO
allow Of equivocation The other articles may
not be editorial, but they were published under
the editorial head, and in connerion Nth
editorial remarks; and though quoted, yet
they were sanctioned and the editor is respon-
sible for their correctness.
The matter then is brought to this issue
We have proved above, by eat, acts from the
Democrat, that it has conveyed the impression
decidedly to its readers, that the administration
has a majority in the Illinois Legislature
We have certainly understood the editor as
designing so to inform his readers, and we
presume all Of them so understand it. Now
this impression we say is not correct, and in
proof of il we adduce the following particles
of evidence"
The Boston Atlas Of last month said il had
accounts from vandalia (the seat of govt. Of
ILL which stated shat the vote in the Senate
for clerk, test vote, stood for Bond (Whg)
2l-Cowell (Loco) II. Maj FOUR In the
House Ewing (Loco) had one maj. Three
Wings and Locos absent in the House,
The same paper lately stated, that "a pitched
battle took place in the Illinois Legislature on
a test vote, which resulted in triumph for the
Wings" Compare this with the first two ex-
tracts from the Democrat.
But as further "particles Of evidence" and
which are indsputable, we adduce the follow
ing from the National lntelligencer, Wash
ingion.)
"By letter from the seat of government oil
this state" (Ill.) slated Jan. 3d. we learn
that resolution declaring that sit is not the
true policy of the U. s. TO establish an indie
pendent Treasury" was passed in the House
by vote Of 46 to 40; "nor to collect and dis
burse the public revenue in specie to the exclu
sion of the notes ofspecie paying banks" by a
vote of So to 90; and resolution instructng
a