Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-04-02


alton papers, and those that are citizens of
another town who have guardian in town
to bring them into vote. for one should
be ashamed of such majorties. DIDO.
ANOTHER REPLY TO KAULENz.
Mr.. Editor Il noticed in your issue of
March 20, the reply of Kaulenz to Dido, on
Dover affairs. Now, sir, let Dido speak,
and let Justice also be heard in the matter,
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established. In the
first place Mr.. Kaulenz says that sit is said
that boots, corn meal, &C., are distributed
to the poor voters of Dover Centre" Sir,
your apparent insinuatons has no founda-
ton in truth therefore we ask for proof or
II withdrawal of the nsinuations. As to the
good round majority" you speak Of, as
deciding where the town meetings should
be held, we say that for the last eight years
East Dover and West Dover have been so
leagued together that they have got nearly
all of the town officials on their side, and
with that advantage they crowded in three
or four illegal voters, and seven or eight OF
| our men being absent from the polls by
sickness and otherwise, they were enabled
to count the 'good round majority of three
votes, which you, Mr.. Kaulenz, say should
] decide where the town meetings should be
/ held.
As it respects a small portion of the town
attending town meetings where they are
I now held, il is what some of the best men
| in East Dover bave-said in substance.
Mr.. Kaulcnz, in replying TO Dido's asser-
I ton, that ait would take from $500 to $500
to put the roads of the handle in good re-
| pair" makes one of the widest shots in the
| premises. That beats Dover Centre, for in
| trying to hit two marks at once he missed
them both and hit the third, Wilmington.
lie says that Wilmington has not laid out
but S25 the last two years on the handle
roads, and that was laid out in the winter.
Now hope / shall not shoot SO wild as to
hit Wilmington, but / do hope that she will
not neglect to repair her roads, or olothe her
town paupers with vie" of making fur
ther efforts to shove them oil ON to her more
feeble sister, Dover. Mr.. KaulenzS argu-
ment, If 1t is anything, is this: That be-
cause there has been nothing laid out for
| two years on the handle roads, that they
will need none for years to come. This is
kaulenz's reasoning. But sensible men do
not reason thus. We conclude that where
roads have been neglected for two or more
years, that il will need the more for years
to come to put them in good repair, las Dido
said, not leaving out the word good as did
Kaulenz). The latter continues to say that
it costs the town of Dover nearly S25 to open
the road through Dover Centre. Let us see
how that hits. As it respects this mammoth
drift, the Lord gave and the Lord will take
it away in his own good time But to ac-
commodate East Dover, West Dover, our
selves and the public in general, we pay
that money to have it shoveled out after the
snow is gone elsewhere. This same road il
broke by the Dover Centre boys voluntarily
in the winter Now if East and West Do
yer should succeed in annihilatng Dover
Centre, 1t is possible that we should have to
pay that sum for breaking it in the winter;
for should that road not be kept open East
and West Dover could not cooperate to-
gether, unless perchance these water-power
villages should become rich enough To fun
mel under to meet each other, an enterprise
which, If we tarry TO see accomplished, we
shall have to live, some of us at least. to a
good old age, Finally, Mr.. Kaulenz SAYS
that we "are.very anxious to have town
house built on the common, with hall
suitable to hold lyceums in." SO much is
true, but the remainder OF the article is too
mean and too low for decent man to stoop
down to, or even to look thereon.
March %, 1869. JUSTICE.