Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-08-31
REPUBLICANs OF VERMONT.

We have few words to say TO you about
your duties next TUESDAY. We need not
say q word about the importance Of the great
issue Of the Presidential Campaign this year.
You know it. you admit it you feel II.
But do you realizs that the Republican vote
of VERMONT, on the State, Congressional,
and County Elections of next Tuesday, will
have strong bearing on the issues before
the Nation? You have had no great gather
ings to hear speeches. great parAdes OF
banners and music, Of wlde-awake CLUBS
and torch light professions for the simple
reason that none Of these things were felt to
be needed in VERMONT Her people are
understood to be sound to the core in the
cause Of free principles. They more Of ther'-
sclres when the hour for public action comes.
So much the more powerful will be the
example of the Republicans Of this State II
they come out in full force to the polls, and
vote with O will for the Tickets Of their own
choice. A heavy Republican vote in Yer
mont next Tuesday, will tell on the Repub-
Ucans of Maine the Monday after, and
help on a corresponding good work IN that
State. Full and united Republican votes in
Vermont and Maine will affect strongly the
votes of seyera. other States a month later
-Pennsylvanla. Ohio, Indiana and Iowa.
and all these STATE VOTES bear on the
PRESIDENTIAL election in November \
languid vote here viii have a depressing
influence elsewhere. Your duty to the cause
and to your own honor demands Of You
FULL VOTE
To the Republican voters Of CuIT1fN-
DEN COUNTY We have word 10 s,y
further Your own interests. due
regard to your own relative political
influence In the County and State, urges you
to exertion. Remember that the number
of delegates in Convention next year for each
Town, depends upon the number Of ReTubli-
can votes given FOR Governor by its inhabit-
ants. Idle voters, who stay at home-gram-
bling voters who wanted somebody else
nominated, and therefore will not vote even
when present, 20 for nothing on that ques-
ton. The living, earnest, active and united
men who VOTEior the Republican Ticket,are
those who have the influence, the honor and
the respect of their fellow citizens.
Shun all SPLIT TICKETS. Douglas men
will tempt you, Breckenridge men viii tempt
you with tickets for their respective candid /
ates, and every now and then, sly ticket, |
wearing the appearance Of an honest Repub- /
lican ticket. but with false name here
and there in it, will be shufled into your
hands, if you are not careful. Scrutinize |
your tickets throughout, compare them with
the list in our Republican paper, and see to 1t
that every vote tells as you wish to have It,
Every effort will be made by the Democratic
factions to increase their respective votes;
their hostility TO each other will ensure that.
Putting them together you may expect to see
the total Democratic vote larger than usual ;
and the Bell and Everett folks-the dozen or
two there are of them-will hardly fail to |
unite their votes with the Democrats of one |
stripe or the other. 1t is your business not
only to beat them all. but to beat them on
the vote for TOWN Representative, on the
vote for COUNTY officers, on the vote
for STATE Officers, and on the vote for
MEMBER OF CONGRESS, worse than
they we're ever beaten before. You can do it
if you WILL. but the WILL must show
itself in voting, not in 0ishing, nor in feeling
very sure that there will lie quite enough at
the polls without YOU.