Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-05

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view to est at the REAL TRUTH OF the arsu-
ments used in favor OF the respective candidates.
an personal friend both Mr.. Powers and
Mr.. Hendee and find that large majority oil
our citizens are similarly situated. hnd also
tat each gentleman have some very indlscree'
| friends-that iheil zeal allows them to oversiep
the bounds OF reason ana fear sometimes OF truth.
Each also has personal enemies whose a'su-
uients on their face disclose all INSIDE that en-
tlgely destroys their orce
Now. Mr. Editor. you know, personally that
| am an enthusiastic railroad man, and Ike 10
act consistently on all qIest'on OF business
nature hen the contest first began to deVei'
op itself, was inclined to support Nj. Hendee'
ON the ground that it was yehementiy ciaiineu
that Mr.. Powers would act adversely to our In
te,ests on the railroad question. | could see
no reason why Dir. Powers was or could be OPP
posed to the road, but it was so claimed py the
friends OF Mr.. Hendee, and supposed they tolu
" hat they believed TO be true. However un"ii-
ling to do any one an injustice have spent a
little time to satisfy myself 40 to the facts IN Is
sue in this contest, and give you the result OF
NY lDHull lEst anu lSooOh' p" ~ 'N"N
,upptrt Mr.. Powers
In the hlst place had seen enough Of politics
to Understand that | must not believe every
floating rumor that politicians always circulate
free in this way, and il did could not vote i0r
either OF the candidates. accordingly watches
these gentlemen who were taking so loudly Tor
Mi. HendeH, and four different OCCASIONS Aeafu
tue anne man state in four dill eIeni ways, Mr.
Powers position on the Il. Il. He first stated
that the Central Road had hired him and paid
him one thousand dollars to oppose our road -
lew days after, heard him say that it was the
town OF stowe that Powers Was at work Tor -
again he said Thar the Passumpslc Railroad had
hired him and that the Central through Gov,
Smith were al the bottom Of the matter and,
still later, he said that the town OF Cambridge
WAS the real party that employed Powers ard
he was at work for their interests. He was on
each occasion asked how he knew it, ana each
time said that Mr.. Powers in a bonding meeting
at Cambridge had opposed the Road. |, there
fore finding that the proof all censercd ON the
Cambridge mccti +, took my cam and went to
Cambridge to learn, if possible, what the facts
were Now. sir Cambridge acted very badly on
this question, ana yet there are q great many
men there who tried to do as well az any OF us,
and, as 'awvers say, b. get the best evidence, +"
called on those, whom | knew to be railroad
men. and got my Information solely from them.
They told me just this that about ons year ago
at meeting at amhridge Centre cal ed TO raise
money for the preliminary survey both Mr.. Hem
dee and Mr., Powers were present. that Mr., Fen
dee told the mseting that he had recently been
to st John,bur and learned that the people
there had made a proposal to Montpelier that II
they would raise such suIn the road should go
there and that then st. JUhnsbury were under
obligation to 20 there If their offer was accepted;
he said Montpelier had rs yet done nothing ,ad
h. thought We had better raise our money fer The
survey AMI leave 1t with the committee to decide
whether to make it or not he spoke of tie Zen
eral Importance OF the enterprise at length and
said but few words about the survey. Mr..
Powers vas called ON and spoke Of tine general
importance of the enterprise heartily endorsing
all that Mr. Hendee had sad, and in speaking
of the survey said that in any event-~hei her IL
that an engineer be procured to examine that
part of the route thai leads past Fairfax Falls
and al through the Town of Walden, and as to
the survey the rest of the route that the on
ly doubt in his mind was it might c,eale an ex-
citemeut in the Valley that would wake up
Montpelier so that she would accept the offer
which liendec had named from st. Johnsbury,
and thus leave our Valley out in the cold.
talked, think with AZ least 20 men who were
present, and hey all said that th5y never su,-
pected but that Mr.. Powers was an earnesl
friend or the road ~ MIR. Hendee ald on the
che most enthusiasm.
so much ior the Cambridge meeting, at which
1t il ,laimed Mr.. Powers opposed our Road -
This, HI understand IL, is the great significant
'mark' that proves HIM opposed to the road-this
is he proof! You may imagine. Mr. Editor,
say
lmmediatel; after this, when it was fnsIly
concluded to have the survey made. lean that
Mr. Powers was the first man in Morristown to
subscribe for it and that he subscribed az much
a. any man in tol n. and thai he did it freely
and cheerinlly although there were many 9TH
ers in town who ought To have paid more acc ,r-
ding to their list. The next move after the
charter was obtained was TO raise moLey to
build the road. A delegation from Lalnoltle
County was invited to meet the Portland frIen
in Boston and Mr.. Powers with sevel al others
attended that meeting. Next the town of Nor.
ri.t0wn held her meeting to raise her money
and Mr. Powers was the man who introduced
the motion to raise the none Now sir,
have seen considerable Of Mr. Powers practice
at the Bar and | never yet earned that he was
slow to work for those that eih ployed him On
the contrary. he has canned the reputation ali
through the county of quitting more enei ~ and
soul into his work than any other lawyer In the
county. SO believe II he had been employed by
the Central road Or anybody else to oppose our
road he would have done IL, and done it in
way that would have told he would hot have
taken the course he has If employed to dc
otherwise Now sir. | have nothing to say
against Mr.. Hendee he has done well, but he Is
asking of Us too much He or his friends are
asking Us who are equa ly friendly TO him and
Mr. Powers to accept these ISLANDERS towards
Mr. Powers as true ana hus do HIM an inins
tee which Hendce's friends know we should
not do intentionally | don't know as MIR
Hendee knows or appreciates the course his
NOISY friends are taking. ! certainly hope he
is too much of q man 10 sanction their course
What we outsiders want is this, that the Road
90 along, and that in tead Of dividing It's friends
we all unite aud push along The enterprise az
rapidly a. possible We want the help OF both
these men, but IL this contestycout inu,s, we are
going to be badly divided and much i'll blood
will Ire stirred up. ! understand that even now
in some towns IL Is proposed 10 send back the
old members on the same ground that il urged
tor Mr.. Hendce Now we can easily see that
we shall he divided AT this cnuvent;ou .,,d 49,,