Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-21
A Miserable Lie.

lOUdl COuIcSb uOu Vic OSuOAoooASh
IN. W Journal, which we opine was
gotten up by some over-zealous friend
of Mr.. Baxter in this District, and not
by the pen of the editor Of the Jour-
nal:
"VERMONT CONGREssNEN.--ln the
Third Congressional District of Yer
mont, a desperate effort was made to
defeat Mr.. Baxter, present incum-
bent. A game was adopted which we
may expect to see repeated in many
of the Congressional Districts. The
attempt was first made to defeat MIR.
Baxter in the nominating convention,
and when it was apparent that that
could not be done, his enemies retired
and put up Mr.. Hoyt, another Repub-
lican. Of the Republican papers
printed in the District, all except the
St. Adams Messenger, were roped in
to the support of Mr.. Hoyt. In the
election which occurred on the 4th,
Mr.. Bakers plurality over Hoyt, is
2,645, though he lacks about 600 OF
an election. The contest seems to
have developed this fact, to wit: The
tools of Andrew Johnson in their eff
forts to do the bidding of their mas
ter, have succeeded in duping Judge
Hoyt to run for Congress, and por-
ton Of the honest Republicans to sup
port him, while the fact that Mr..
Baxter belongs to the present Radical
Congress, has afforded h i'm more
strength with the people, than the
Republican press with one honorable
exception could bring against him."
| The above paragraph is but a tissue
of falsehoods; which even the honest
minded friends OF Mr.. Baxter can
bear US witness. Every body knows
that the johnson men of this District
and the johnson influence, went for
Waldo Brigham, the Democratic can
didate. We do not know an "out-and
out" Hoyt man who vas a johnson
man; but zoe do hnoac that Hon. (
l.. Catlin, the Johnson candidate fol
Representative in this city was 6
! haxtef man and is understood to havt
voted for him. We also have gooc
reason to suppose .' hat ths silent IN
Auence of w H II R;noho -"<t0we
well known Democratic politician
was thrown for Mr.. Baxter as was
that OF many other Democrats in La
noble and Orleans Counties. The
truth is, that many of the most active
friends of Judge Hoyt, We're radicals
and the Judge himself in letter pre-
vious to the Hydepark Convention
announced that he was a radical OF
radicals" AS to the insult to the
Republican press of this district which
appears in this interesting item, VIC
have to reply that not one of them was
f "roped into the support of Judge
Hoyt, but that they were opposed tc
Mr.. Baxter's election previous to the
Hydepark Convention and since
Their conductors without single ex
ceptlon are unequivocally radical in
their politics and hate "my policy
with rim. On the contrary the St
Adams Messenger though at the pres
ent time sound, early IN the spring Gun
taind exceedingly conservative, John
sonian articles, and if we are correct
ly informed its present editor Mr.
Barnes was Breckenridge Democrat
and since he has been connected with
the Messenger has had a strong lean
ing towards the namby PANTY politi
cal principles of which Senators Doc
little and Cowan are the chief expo
nents. We therefore submit that thu
, Journal has been egregiously sold by
some lunatic or mischief maker from
this district; or else its editor has in
tentionally misrepresented the politi
, cal position of Mr.. Bakers oppo
, nents. Whatever charges may b,
, made against Mr.. Hoyt and his friends
D there is none so utterly ridiculous o.
= so false upon its face than that the,
E are stools of Andrew Johnson. "-Buy
e Lington Times.
e The article from the Ogdensbur!
n Journal, is properly handled by tn,
editor of the Times. How the Mes
senger could copy such an article, ap
f parently for the purpose of having tn
|, public understand, that it represent
d fairly and truly, the position of the or
} posers of Mr.. Baxter, and especiall
: the Republican press of the distric,
4 putting itseL f as the 'one honorable ca
e ceptlon," seemsa little singular to sa
; the least, to those who know some
L thing of the political antecedents c
~ ~ the managing editor of that paper
= In addition to what is said concernin
@ Mr.. Barnes previous politics, it is SAT
.. to say, that as late as the Fall of | SO;
e he was democrat, and supporte
Z of Horatio Seymour.
Mr.. Barnes had a right to his M
t. lions then, and has the same right t
= them now; but how does it lool
J, when standing by the side of fv
neighbors, who have always bee
thoroughly and radically Republican
d to make himself indirectly at leas
il the zone honorable exception" to
r wholesale, Johnsonian, ropimg, dupim
; movement in opposition to Mr.. Ba,
, ter? 1t is certainly nettle to thos
n Republican Journals, which look III
n on "my policy" as something to b
avoided by all who love their cour
try more than passion and prelude,
even as something more dangerou
y and offensive than the Seymour co,
;, perhead structure.