The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-11-14
The Massachusetts Fuss.

DEAR RrdT TER 1T behoves every
Vermont politician to understand what is
is going on in the Bay State. Their
worthy brethren here have had a first
rate scare The same rascalty that makes
politics a profitable business here, is not
unknown in Vermont nor in any state
where one party has, for long series Of
years, been so in the majority as to have
its nomination equivalent to an election
In every such place there grows up a
ring of selfish men who influence the
nominations for their private ends These
mea smoke, and generally drink, but, if
it be unpopular, secretly. 1t may be
necessary for them to be temperance
hacks they will be so if it will pay.
Now the beer-vote, this year, last, and
always, has shown a strong majority
(every where except in some large cities)
in favor of the stiffest kind of prohibition.
A clear majority of the Republicans is
in favor Of the exact law repealed in
1868, which had then just got through
the ordeal of all the courts, in which its
victims had hung "by their eyelids" to
the flimsiest chances of appeal, till there
werc forty jail-fuls of them ready for
sentence to imprisonment.
The necessities of these miscrcants
have given Massachusetts, series Of
legislatures of which all decent men were
ashamed. To say nothing of the way
they have fooled us on prohibition, their
long session, never yot quite half year
have been enough to condemn them. II
has been no uncommon thing for a good
measure, after passing one house almost
unanimously, to be defeated in the other
l will specify but two instances
First the Eastern Railroad was denied
the privilege of laying double track on
the Saugus Branch. The people of the
whole tract Travelled by the Branch were
wronged, travel on the main branch EN-
barassed at times, Portsmouth, Newbury
port, and Salem throttled in attempts t.
reach Boston, and the Revere massacr,
brought on, by Massachusetts, Legisla
ture, all to please rival railroad.
Second, liberty has, time and again, beer
denied Boston and Charlestown, to vot'
whether or no they will unite into on
city, though the measure is vital to tn
metropolis of the State for the two cite
are joint occupants Of the harbor, and
team cannot be driven from one Bostol
wharf to another without passing througl
Charlestown. | could specify twent.
such cases of malfeasance Of one Repub
lican legislature.
Again: the prohibitory law has bee
as coolly deGed by the courts of Bosto
as any U. S. law ever was by those O
South Carolina. Men who for their secon
effense must be imprisoned have bee
again and again convicted of q. first offcns
and have been let off with fine tina
would not absorb the profits of a frst-clas
bar for one hour. In other cases tn
verdict has been clearly against evidence
This Boston notification. has been witness
ed from the height Of Beacon Hill by loi
ty and pure Governor, the compeer ofSlad
and Fletcher, and infinitely superior t
either of them as a judge of leather
, This good brother either compelled Q
permitted the transfer of the advertiser
d, of the State constabulary from one of tn
!, !, two Boston dailies that supported that il
sttution, to its bitterest enemy. 1t took
from the Ne,cs when its circulation wa
; double what it was when it gave it.
= : That Butler has smashed our machin
is no evidence Of ecclesiastical or CONNER
cial standing. That W. S. Robinson
Clerk of the House of Representative
year after year, and correspondent of tn
i, Springfield Republican, opposes Butle
: is worth hundreds of votes to him, fi
to have been the first choice of one pol
; ticians would have taken away zest f(
, voting the Butler ticket. Men are tire
of king Log; they will risk king Storl
r They know not, they ask not if quilts in b
u heart,
z They just 20 for Butler, because he is smsi
/. l. +, II.