Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-13
From the Y. Anti-slssss, ssandasd, Aac ~
The Republican Party " yerlneul,

The Republican Party " yerlnenf.
In a recent communication oryUsv rs,l.
nmns brought matters to the Ina>10wsatixRA
of the Republican parry in Vcrn0,ss, Juiy
i3, 1854, which was done BY the p%npl3
themselves. And they made good nunsina.
tions for Governor and Lieuienant-G Govern.
or on the spot. But the tricksters and OF.
fiee-mongers (who had stood without AMI
trembled during the Convention) conirived
10 cheat the people out Of their Governor
by inducing him to decline in favor Of the
regular Wing candida'e. An indignation
almost boiling over was felt slHnng the
Liberty and Temperance men, B6tst was
smothered by tse State. Committees Of the
Wing and Repdhlieans patias. And the
very next spring ESQ dormant had the anii-
slavery masses tccome), il was proposed
(by the Governors organ) to re-nominate
this mongrel ticket without even the .fosm
of a Convention. A meeting Of come Of
the leading editors of the party was pro-
posed as substitute for Convention. One
paper rebelled, and Convention was call.
ed. But. with a Wing ex-member of Con.
gress for chairman on Resolutions, there
was such a toning down of the platform rs
produced no small dsafftctipn. However.
the smothefing process was resorted to and
all was stiit In the Convention Of 1856,
the Temperance resolution, which had been
quite diluted in 1855. was dropped. Soma
Kanzas pepper had to be sprinkled into the
aDti-slavery resolutions to meet the tastes
of the people. But the great struggle was
on the candidate for Governor. Here the
Wing managers were determined and in
battle array. They fought valantly. and
would have won, but for two things. First,
the Americans had nominated the Lienten.
ant Governor, General Fletcher, known as
Liberty and Temperance man and, Sec
ond, Abolitionists and Prohibitionists had
secured the State to get their men into the,
Convention. So that the fear of rupture
with the Know Knohings and the strength
Of our element was all that saved us from
defeat There was Wing sciR enough, but
it lacked courage and uthe staff of accom-
plishment." However, the managers re-
paired their defeat measurably by taking
Gen. Fletcher to their bosoms, becoming
his privy councillors and inducing him to
snub or forget his old Liberty and Tenn
perance friends, SO that they had it pretty
much all their own way during the reign.
| The General went SO far as TO even revive
the red rag of the military to please his
! Wing friends. He was SO siiiy--had such
over-weening confidence in those Whis man.
ayers as TO look for reelection beyond the
customary tsco years He found the value
of Wing leader friendship, however, at the
Convention of 1888. He saw that they
had not only forgotten him, but all that per-
tn,n al "a
They would accept nothing less than pure
"original Wing, one "dyed in the WOOL,
They took no small pains to proven. the
promotion of Judge Kittrcdge even, whose
location, antecedents and then present po.
sition especially entitled him 10 the post.
He had been Lieut- Governor, was out of
his judgeship and good Wing enough, but
was tainted with Prohibition. And they
must have a man on whose garments nei.
ther the smell Of Temperance nor anti.
slavery had passed. And they got such 4
man, one who totally ignored Temperance
in his message. True he said come things
against slavery extension, as any Wing Gov.
ernor in Vermont might but he was afs
fcted with no fanatical or reformatory no.
tions--not he. The Lieut. Governor = :
| Wing Of the old school (As the Treasures
always has been), and the man who, in tho
! House,, voted against our Liberty bill Of
l857--a bill less stringent than the law Of
1858. notice rather an ominous mistake
Of The Tribune in recording his fe-nomina.
ton this year. His Christian name Is print
ed g Barab6as" instead Of Durham, the true
name, in that paper.) So now, in every
sense Of the word, we have a Why party