Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-07-19
The Contest Begun.

Our annual State contest is now fairly and formal
ly opened-each party have their candidates in the
field, and we suppose the friends of each prepar-
ing to do their best at puug up their own and ira
ducing and abusing all others,-forgetting, most
likely, that men, the probability is all are much
alike, and that grounds of choice arise from the po-
litical principles respectively maintained by each,
rather than any especial difference between the men
themselves, either physically or morally. This is
notion about it. Not that, by voting for Mr..
Paine we vote for the best man on EARTH or that by
voting for Mr. Smile, we support the worst of all
men,-but, that, in sustaining the former,we sustain
the Wing party-and by sustaining the Wing party,
we sustain those principles which the welfare of
the country depends-and, in voting for the latter,
we sustain ofocoism; and in sustaining loco foco
ism, we sustain those principles which will infalli-
bly, ruin even what now remains ofgood in Sur gov
ernment and social condition.
But the locos, seemingly aware of this are aim
ing with all their might, directly the persons of
ahe candidates themselves. The Wing nominee is
represented odious 22-cent-a- pound wool buy
er-a rider in painted canage-a judge OF good
wine, and an expert dancer. Mr. Smile is shown
up as regular built practical, laborng farmer; per-
feet in mind body and beauty, from the great toe
the end of the tallest outstanding hair on his Demo
cratic head dc. &c.
But, as far as the men themselves are concerned
the plain truth 10 be this Mr. Paine is a sue.
cessful manufacturer, and takes the same means &c
promote his own interests that other men do-i. e..
he buys as cheap as he can, pays as little he can
and sells as high as he cam rides when he prefer.
riding to walking, and drinks Madeira, when he
thinks proper, in lieu Of water. In political prnc
pies, he is Wing to the core; advocate of pro
Nective tariff distribution fthe land money, nation
al bank, &c. &c. &c.
Mr. Smile is retired merchant of an ample fortune
accumulated by rigid application Of the la,cs o.
trade, and in the dexterous Of the yard-sck anc
gill-cuP. Owns lands on lands, and virtually own.
the tenants who occupy them-lends money on goot
security at the highest price which the necessities
'ofoihers can compel them to pay-does not scruple
when mortgage runs out, to take the Homestead" a
a low price, if the money is not forthcomng;-and il
IN all respects, good specimen ofthat kind of land
lordarisocrat, that while he can descend TO afabil
uty with the "common herd" if votes are at stake
can also play the hard-face aud stffupper-lip etc
quette with an English nabob--does not trouble
himself about handling either the plow hoe or shov
ell, except at seasons when it is matter of DISPUTE
whether he,is farmer not. In political senti
ment, is of course bound to the car of locofocoism
to run, walk, leap, halt skip, the party find ne
cessary:-an anti-protectonist-an anti-bank---
hard money-an anti-distrbution, sub-treasury dis
ciple ofMartn Van Buren,.
He wants to be Governoron larger scale, and SC
several years since applied to the locos of Vernon
TO give him charter of the state they have endeav
ored 10 grant his application, in several fierce con
tests, but have not yet succeeded; and whether the
do succeed or not, depends entirely upon the &C
tion of the Wings in September next, as probabl
the LATEST OF them we'll understand