Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-08-11


action OF the convention, in its view, was 50
bad, that it seems 0 ha &C been thought unne.
cessary to speak the truth about it. The
grossly distorted account given of it in the
Sentinel of the 9th of July, by one who
has done most Of the political writing for that
paper for months past, and who was present
at the Convention, has been kept up by like
mlsstatements in subsequent numbers.
As for the candidates, IN the Sentinels
view, more unlucky set could not have been
picked up. How could the convention make
such blunders Why did not the Scntinels
writer take compassion on the assemblage.
and tell them better Proceeding to knock
the whole set on the head in detail, lie begins
with the Editor OF the Free Press. Any
talk about principles Of law or liberty it
thinks would he foreign to the important
work it has taken in hand. Zone of the pro.
positions of immediate interest to the ireemen
OF this county is, whether the Editor of the
Free Press shall be chosen Senator tins fall.
and it ought not to be lost sight of by any
useless discussion about the principles of
the Nebraska bill. Now. we know some
thing Of that Editor, and can speak bv autbo.
rty lie sought no nomination last year or
this year, and personally cares is little about
beng elected any one can Buf,-if ne
should chance to he in the Senate this wear.
there will be a clear difference between his
case and that of - the member from Burlinr-
ton, Of last year, who went in by ,pi,o,i-
~ vote. and when in the legislature, ,o,sre-
presented the general sentiment Of his towns
men on every subject OF public interest. The
habit of Misrepresentation which was then
begun, seems to have stuck to him, and to have
affected him seriously political writer
Should he be be sent again. we fear the
disease would he part all cure.
But if the Editor of tic Free Press Is the
chief incHrnote evil Of the ticket. there are
others Of no small size. Rulla Gleason is a
mighty bad fellow also in the SephneiS opin-
ION. He not only got beaten for Senator last
year, hut he had the impudcnce to be chosen
Representative in Richmond, after it was as
ccrtained that the Wing Senatorial ticket
was defeated
But, "E. II. Wheeler, Esq, stands next
an out-and-out Wing, but heretofore acting
with the Free-soicrs, because Of the yromi-
nance Of has anti-Siarery sentiments" That
seems to be the only objection to him and
somehow we do not see the force of it. The
voters generally will not see it either
The assertion that Mr. Wheeler was defea-
ted in the vote for Commissioner last spring,
'principally by the maneuvre of his present
leader on the Senatorial ticket is untrue IN
erery respect. The Free Press neither ma
nGvred nor used any influence against him,
and if it had, it would have had nothing to do
with Mr.. Wheeler merits as a candidate for
Senator.
Mr.. Green. too, is not satisfactory to our
iault-tinding neighbor. He seems to have
had something to do, in the ScnGuei's opin-
ion, with some extra votes which Mr.. Gleason
got last year in his own town. Mr. Hall,
too, "was on the last year S ticket, and in
common with his brethren got most essenti-
ally logged" We think that will be piece
Of news to Mr. Hall, and TO the voters gene
rally. Mr. French comes in for a left handed
blessing with the rest. Democrats voted for
him last year and year before, and he ought
to be ashamed not to vote for them now T.
L. Wales is "a clever fellow" but he is in
bad company again. S0ltlctrc won't save
him. II. Paul, the candidate for Sheriff,
"gcncraliy efficient Occasionally little