Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-09-30
(l)ccItln free })rcss,
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 80. 1888
The Tribune on Burlington Affairs.


The Tribune on Burlington Affairs.
The New York Tribunc has " friend" in
Burlington who has written to it, what it
calls " Il graphic account Of the means where
by that important town was brought to elect
Mr.. +. c. Palmer, Il partisan Democrat, to
the legislature" 1t states, we suppose on
its friends authority, that - it is unqucs-
tionablc that hostility to the Maine law was
the imprllng. anmating power which led to
his election. and yet not only are his consti-
tucnts decidedly for the law, but Mr.. Palmer
hmscD is plcdgW 10 SWStoM it. Which side
is to be cheated remains to b" seen" 1t
quotes also Il portion of the said letter. the
substance Of which is, that " the Wing party
have lost ground by not trcading square up
to the Maine law question: The IribUHiS
correspondents, have heretofore been found
occasionally to draw ON their imagination, for
Indian names and legends for our vicinity, and
the Tri5Hnc should be careful lest its politi-
cal information b, manufactured out of moon
shine i'll the same way. Apparently its
=. iricnd' did not know much of what he was
talking about. If he did. he knew, and ought
to have stated, that Mr.. Palmer owed his
election mainly to personal differences among
the Wings. and private objections to their re-
gular candidate. arising from matters having
no connection Wh0tcrCr with the Maine law
question. The fact is no credit to the Wings
of Burlington. but it is 50. The Tyibunc is
mislcd also on one or two other points. The
statement that Mr.. Palmcr's constituents are
" decidedly for the law may well be ques-
toned. 1t needs a strong qualification to
make it any where near the truth. No doubt
IL large majority of the voters of our town
are for the law, and Of the number are more
or less of Mr.. Palmer constituents. But it
is also fact, that, of the opponents Of the
law, four ont Of fire are Democrats, and that
Mr.. Palmer drc,c all the rotcs Of Mc anti
Maine hc men Of all parties, with hardly an
exception.
We doubt too if Mr.. Palmer is personally
''plcdgcd to sustain the luw.' He has COM
monty, and we suppose universally, since his
nomination., refused to commit himself on the
question. From what we know Of his views
on kindred subjects, however, and from the
fact that he was opposed to the old law. and
at one time in favor Of an unrestricted sale of
liquor, we are inclined to believe that if he
has pledged himself at all, it is not to sustain
the law. His friends, it is true, pledged him
Internationally, on boM SidcS. To anti Maine
law men, they made him anti-Mainc law, and
Maine law men they assured that he was for
the law, and thus gained for him II few votes
OF temperance men. " W hlch side is to DC
cheated, as the Irijunc says, "rcmains to
he seem The Frcc-soirrs moreover, while
pretending to be Maine law men preferred t,
go for doubtful man ON the question, and
an old line bunker of the straightcst sect tC
boot, than to throw Il vote for the Wing can
didate, one of the makers of the law, anC
p pledged to its support by the whole course o
his public and private life, as well rs hy hi'
vote. And 50 partiMn Democrat wa
elected.
As to the statement, that "thc Wing
party has lost ground 10y not treading square
up ON the Maine law question: we have
only to say, that we have yet to learn tha
e the SUI port OF non.Supl ort of the Maine Law
! is among the wing doctrines as such. iii
shall ever become necessary or cXpcdicnt t,
, break up the old parties and organize new
i ones on the temperance question, let it b
done, and we need not say that then, as ever
r we shall he found on the side of the Main
q Law. But we have not believed that ncccssar,
as yet, We, with other true friends of tn
u law in this county, believed that the hes
!, way to support the law was to elect on
), ticket, composed as it was of men who wcr
- for the Law, and to defeat if possible tn
= coalition ticket composed mainly of men ol
-. poScd to the law \ Wing legislature cnacte
,r the law last year. With Il wing legislator
I, it would have been safe this year. The free
II sellers, however the pretended friends Of til
" law, by uniting with the Democrats, an
,- nominating men who drew the votes Of I'll
Is few wing opponents of the law, elected
ii House which will probably repeal the law
it can, And now, they look to the viii
i. Senate to save it. With the Wing Soma
le we believe it rW be safe.
IS ARRIyN.- Com. Nandcrlilt'S Stea