Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-03-22
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Mn. EDITOR :-PleiadeS writes from
Elmore in your issue of March 10TH de-
nouncing wind, snow, and the elements
generally. Judging from the careless
way he writes, should think he had hard
" recovered from the state Of mind he
was in on the lst Tuesday of March.
We would a lvisc him and his satellites
to get large box of pills, called in the
Hebrew, DO as you would be done by -,
take them into their political stomachs'
and see if they cannot exclaim, whereas
we were once blind we now see."
1t would naturally make a man who al
ways had Office feel little down in the
mouth" to be weaned so sudden all we
have to say to such is, that they must not
openly abuse and Insult those who have
acorked hard and paid money to get them
elected.
We would also remind Pleiades per-
haps we ought to prefix title, Hon,
Judge, or Major that there are scores OF
men in town, that stood by him, when he
was no more competent for Office than
those he now so wantonly denounces as
utterly incompetent.
lie says temperance and religion are
at low cbb" We have thought so, for
some time, but more especially in his I'M
mediate locality. If he sees one thing in
its true light, let us return thanks ! When
men in his yicinity-church-members--
having large families of children, do not
darken church dosr six Sundays in u
vcas-oua peyev 4@errnvar-n,a.A.:-e-
! tno1gn 20 common tgith us this winter
well might he say low ebb.' But he
says it is generally so, which he ought to
know are not the facts in the case. We
have had no less than three praycr-meet-
ngs IL week all winter, there have been a
number of hopeful conversions, and more
religious interest generally than for the
last eight or nine years.
Your correspondent also says ''the dis
graceful acts once so deplored in kansas"
were rcsorted to in our Town meeting
Well, there he must have q terrible
stretch Of imagination to 60 so far, for a
para lei. / don't know what he means
by it, If he means to say disorder and
rum-drinhing was the order of the day
he does not state fats, and he knows it.
Our Town meeting was, on the WHOLE a
straightforward affair, and as quiet as
any man could expect considering the in
convenience of the place they arc held in.
heard no words, no signs Of any rum, no
''row" with the exception of one got up
by Judge Parker with our very quiet
townsman, Chas. Stone. in regard to voting
for County Commissioner-Mr. Stone act
ing on the defensive.
Next he claims that we had illegal vct-
ing. | think there was illegal voting on
both sides. Some of the "Rabbis" went
to a certain man, to get him to vote-hc
demurred, saying he did not think he had
a right to vote--but they affirmed he had
and he voted, when in fact he had no
right to vote Most Vi transaction on the
Liberal side. ~ =
Your correspondent Of 'facts" says j.
W. Bryants was nominated by the rum
party, is false. Sam Bailey a
staunch temperance. man, and who has
been SO longer than any man in town, and
is not whit behind any of our Savans,
and can lead them ona temperance speech
any time, was the man who nominated j
NV. Bryant. Mr. b. was elected Moder-
ator, not because he was temperance
man or because he was not but because
We are more liberal in our views NOT
wishing to give all the offices to one or
two men.
! Pleiades evidently believes in the old
Calvinistic doctrine--"Oncc in grace al
ways in gracc'--but he may find in poit-
lcal economy it is subject to variations.
When men have been helped to office year
after year, and begin 10 act as though no
one else was at all competent but them
selves, there is not much pleasure in their
equals, lin every particularly longer sup
porting them.
He says ''instead Of eccting Judge
Parker, etc. etc., Office is held BY persons
utterly incompetent for holding any place