Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-15
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On the 2nd of July the Republicans of
Franklin County met in convention,
by delegates, from each town at shell
don, and nominated ticket for support
at the coming State election. The de-
legates were as fairly chosen as dele d.
Safes ever were or ever will be by the
various towns, without doubt. If any
ticket which a Republican convention
dominates is entitled to support, then
there is no reason that is valid why the
entire present one, so fairly selected by
fairly selected delega ties, should not re-
ceive hearty, cordial and united sup
port. For the party, as party, to call
conventions, send delegates from the
va ious towns, and put in nomination
men of its own politics, for office, and
then turn around and either openly or
covertly fight any part Of the ticket 50
made by its own authority is to be guilty
of bad faith, and political treachery
which must, SO long as men are what
they are and what they have a right to
be, tend towards and resultin defeat and
finally in ruin. If parties select dele
gates who are their agents, and then,
after watching quietly the work of those
agents, turn around and repudiate their
acts, or connive at such Reputation,
there are no limits which the
party can set to such reputation,
and the work once begun to suit one
particular occasion or man, will be
. visited upon others in turn, to suit in
dividual preferences rather than the
welfare or needs ofthe party, until there
arises soreness, and a lOOseness of dis
cipline, which makes control and finally
, success impossible. Every man put up
by nomination and then deserted by
the power whose agents nominated him
will have friends who will with him feel
: the unfairness and the humiliation OF
;. such promises held out and then snatch
, ed away, and each repition of the act
will increase and make wider the dis.
content, until at last nothing can be
counted on as probable of accomplish,
ment by the party, because by bad faith
to its chosen nominees it has alienateC
that hearty zeal and confidence which
are necessary to achieve success and re-
tain ascendancy.
The foregoing remarks are strictly APP
plicable to the condition of the party
in this county. They are meant, not tt
apportion or divide blame, but to cal
attention to truth which should be re
: cognized, and to caution men who de
sire to act fairly, and for the interests O
the party with which they are identi
fled, and show them what desertion O
candidates, for personal reasons, mus
lead to. 1t may be safely said that NJ
ticket of any strength can be nominated
which will meet the approval of every
one. One comes upfor office, and some
body, of course, prefers some other MAJ
for the place. If that other man had re
ceived the nomination, it is as certain
that some other would have liked diff
ferent nominee better. What shall w,
= do then? In good faith support tn,
chosen men, for the time being, ant
!. thus entitle the friends of your particu
lar choice to support when they ar,
pittCcu III pOSlllOHS WHICH Inon
to support. BY any other course sus
u picions are engendered distrust comes in
harmony is destroyed, and no candidat,
e feels safe from political butchery.
1t seems to us that policy, therefore
= as well as principles of good faith, ant
interest in the success of Republicanism
f.? requires of every professed Republican
the support of the tickets nominated b,
i the party. TIE support of party enemie
is an expensive generosity at last an,
e those are party enemies, no matte
e what they profess, who for private rea
sons, or for public ones not endorsed b,
ir theirparty, hunt out political nominee
e who hold their places as such fairly, an,
" pursue them towards defeat. They ar
10 practically wolves in the sheepfold
They are hungry forspoils, and to satisf,
their appetite upon one, do not care j
e they scatter the whole flock. We asl
# the question candidly, of candid men
5 if it is not time that such operation
y were ended The present county tickle