Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-09-04
THE ELECTION.

? The result of yesterdays election i
this town ought to surprise no one, no
to discourage any honest Republican
When party will persist in placing be
fore the people men who most acknowledg
eddy possess no qualifications for the pc
sitiOn sought, and expect to obtain sup
port for them. by means condemned b,
all the better instincts of our nature, i
deserves-it seems almost to invite de
feat. The most partial friend of tLC
Republican nominee could not pretend
that our candidate was in any way quail
fled for the position of Representative.
Upon this subject we choose to he silent
in the future, unless provoked to say
more But the claim of availability was
set up for him. He was available because
he could make use Of money and rum, the
latter Of which he retails daily in defiance
Of law. Now, IN the eyes cfthe lar, this
qualification makes him more eligible
to the States prison than to the select
body Of men who compose the Legislature
of our State, We feel a twinge of shame
in contemplation of the action our par
ty leaders have taken in the matter 1t
is disgraceful fact that our party
leaders emo longer enquire as to a
candidates fitness for his position. No
man is now discussed who is not known
to be willing to come down with the
stamps" If be will use the "critter"
freely SO much the better. And what is
the apology for all this? Why, this
"most lame and impotent conclusion :"
"Our adversaries make use of these means,
and we cannot succeed unless we do the
same We must fight the Devil with his
own weapons" In vain you plead that
while this course may secure your party
some support, it will disgust and drive
from our ranks other supporters whose
aid is much more valuable. No The
venal aud depraved rabble must be con
ciliated. The result of this system in
this town is precisely what should be an
ticipated. We have about eighty voters
who annually expect to be bought as reg
plarly as our election comes, And as
long as The system is continued this
horde of harpies will increase.
The lessons Of history are vain and
false if not only our party, but our insti,
buttons are not in greater danger from
this Putrefying process than they have
ever been in from any other cause. If
any person of our party could look upon
the scenes which transpircd in our streets
last eve, and, knowing their cause, could
feel proud of our party's work on that
day, we envy him not his head or his
heart, Nor has our party thrivcn even
numerically under thisill management.
Ten years ago, without dollar of money,
or glass Of liquor, when our party stood
up manfully by our candidates upon
naked principle, we could poll hard upon
lGo votes. Yesterday, with the most
extraordinary efforts, and by resotting to
the shameful use of rum, our great avail
able" polled 1872 votes What marvel
'usIy progressive party we arc. There
IS no doubt we have in town over 200 I
Republican votes, and we doubt very
much if we have a man in our party who
s so unpopular as, if a candidate o. the
'arty, to poll less than 1862 votts, with
nut the use of unfair or dishonorable
means. But if we are mistaken in this
we cannot be wrong in say
ng that defeat is quite bearable when
We can feel conscious that we deserved h
'ictory'; but such defeat as yesterdays
rings with it no consolation except the
'oor one that our disgrace rs confined to
ur party at home !
We do not mean by the above remarks
0 charge our party with all the wrong in !
reducing the disgraceful street scenes of
esterday. Both hotels dealt out liquor
reely and we hold them equally guilty.
'ut more disgrace attaches to us because ,
Te have pretended to better things, We
1ere 'mosthappy that the first ballot set ,
led The matter Of Representative, for /
ad the contest been continued through
wo or three ballots, the drunkenness and :
Citing would have been at least as many !
ines multiplied.
FRUIT.-We call attention 10 our arti i
lie, written two weeks ago, upon the
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