The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-08-24

ter, ana, SO lar as lie hleW, AlE. OAK
ter had treated him fairly.
More calls for Mr. Baxter, but no
Mr. Baxter
The customary motion that the Con
vention now separate into County
Conventions to chose members of u
nominating committee, on the basis of
twice the number of the Senatorial
delegation of each County, was here
made and carried, and the convention
took q recess of an hour or two.
The various counties met immedi-
ately, at the places designated.
The proceedings in the sub-conven-
tions have been already sufficiently re-
ported in our columns with the excep-
ton of that of
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
This met at the Court House, which
could hold not half of the Franklin
County men present. Great disorder
prevailed and several knock downs
took place. At last, Mr. Henry f..
Seymour, of St. Adams, succeeded in
calling the meeting to order, and NOM
mated Mr. S. =. Carpenter for chair
man. Before the motion was put, it
being evidently impossible to do bust
ness within, the meeting adjourned to
the outside of the house. Here mo
further organization was attempted,
but Mr.. Seymour acted as chairman
bv common consent. Divers propo-
sitious were made for trial of
strength, resulting in an agreement
;hat those present should pass thro a
gate two by two, Hoyt man and a
Baxter man side 10y side, be counted
as they passed, then divide and re
main standing in separate crowds till
all were counted This was done
While it was in progress the Hoyt
men soon discovered that some of the
Baxter crowd were leaving their pla-
ces after they had been counted, and
slipping around to the rear, were pass.
ing through again. An immediate
protest was entered, and several Hoyt
men refused to pass through, stating
that they would not be parties to such
aSarce. The other side passed thro
and claimed a majority of %. The
chairman entertained the protest, and
declared the count null and void and
the county convention thereupor
broke mp in row, without ever hav
ing organized, and without the ap
pointment Of any members for that
county of the nominating committee
without in fact any motion for the APP
pointment al such members of til,
nominating committee for the county
or presentation of any ticket for suel
Il committee.
AFTERNOON.
! The convention met after the recess
many who supposed their work wa.
done when they voted in the county
convention, having left the ground, bu
highly respectable crowd both il
numbers and quality remained. TIL,
chairman announced chat the nomi
mating committee would meet in tn,
court house and bring in the nomina.
,Ivn. ehn D~a~st.~s -Lj~4.sl ss.'
such shortcuts to the object of til,
convention, and called for the repor
to the convention of the names OF tia,
nominating committee chosen by tn,
counties The chair thought that wat
unnecessary Mr.. Benedict insisted
that it was unheard Of, to procee,
without a report to the convention o
the names Of the most important com
mittee and on motion it was yoteC
that the secretaries of the various
County Conventions report the name
of the committee men chosen. Chit
tenden County being called, the Sec
rotary reported the following name
, of the Chittenden Co. members
Carolus Noyes, VIM Harmon, j. L
Mason, James Miner, c, w Brownell
Mormon Brownell.
Franklin County being next called
Mr. Seymour made an admirably cain
and fair statement of the proceeding
i'll Franklin. County Convention, stat
ing chat no committee had been chosel
on the part of that county.
Mr. Bradley Barlow admitted tn
truth and fairness of the statement
but claimed that the frauds alleged
were, if true. not sufficient to affec
the result, and that the Baxter men
having the majority, should be Above,
to name the committee men they ,co,I,
haze chosen if the trial had been on
motion for n committee.
Henry A. Burt, Esq, rejoined in al
exceedingly clear and conclusive state
ment of the frauds, that men of othe
counties had been counted among tn,
Baxter men, and that one of them ha,
acknowledged that he was counte,
four times on that side. NJ Buck
Esq, further supported the statement
Mr.. Geo. Ballard, OF Georgia, adde,
the testimony of his own eyes to th
frauds, stating that the Baxter maj
who passed through the gate with hin
passed around and was counted
second time He further eloquent,
denounced the corruption of 9Th
ring, and said it had been long enough
submitted to, that when POSTMASTER
was wanted in Franklin County the,
must go to Rolla Gleason to know VIII,
it should be,
What was TO be done in such a stat
OF the case was evidently puzzle TO
the President of the Convention, an,
for many others when Hon. Home
f. Royce of Berkshire, took the stand
MR.. RoycE's REMARKS.