Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-09-12
The Eessopa of Vermont.

If the politicians" once get it into
their heads that the people of Vermont
are very fair representatives of AmCri-
cans wherever they may be found, no
such swindlc would ever be attempted
as that which the Greelcyites and
section of the Democrats have now con-
cocted together 1t is tile disbelief
in common sense that produces such
glaring frauds as this scheme of Gree
ley's. The Vermont voters are emil
neutly men Of common scnsG--nO news
paper or stump talk influences them
against right or truth. They can do
their own reasoning, and they do it
well. The result of the latest appeal to
them is that they reject, with uneXpcct-
ed warmth and feeling, the Greeley
sham. Great efforts were made by the
Democrats to lessen the Republican ma
iority. Mr.. Grccleys personal organ
boosted the other day that this Minority
would be enormously reduced, and that
the Liberal vote would very far exceed
twenty thousand-say thirty or forty
thousand. Fitzpatrick, that gentleman
of blameless character, ''stumped' the
State through and through. We see the
result Kilpatrick's ''orations' assist
the Republican party great deal more
than they did when he was nominally
on our side, and yet he is paid by Gree
ley-which is very kind Of Greeley.
eve look confidently" said the Sage"
the other day, "fOr a result which will
inspirit and assure the advocates of re
cancellation from one end of the Union
to the other The Vermont people did
not disappoint this expectation, only
they voted for real reform and recon
citation. They would have nothing
to do with the Democratic hOcus-pOCus.
A heavy blow at the most disgraceful
fraud recorded in history has been struck
by the Green Mountain State. 1t is
now, we truly believe, in the power of
our friends in Maine to render that blow
absolutely fatal They have an OppOr-
tunity next Monday Of practically de
Gliding the fate of the Greeley coalition.
If they do propOrtiOnately as well
for the Republican party and the Coun-
try as Vermont has done, they will 90
far toward settling the issue now before
the people. We can next November ut
terly destroy the Greeley mOnstrOsity,
Matched by a gang of knavish politi-
clans at Cincinnati and Baltimore. But
there is no real necessity to allow it to
creep on the earth, a disgusting spectacle
to all decent men, so long as that Let
Maine follow up the work of gallant
Vermont, and the heart will be out of
the fraud. These two States may here
after claim the credit of having destroy
ed an impostuTe which was an insult to
the intelligence of the whole people
When historians record that the Greeley
Democratic alliance was one of the most
shameful political intrigues there ever
was in this World-as it is-they will
also write, for the credit of the coun-
try, that it did not require a vote of the
whole people to condemn the intrigue.
If Maine docs its duty, rs Vermont has
done. we can say that two New Eng
land States sulliCed tO put the Consnira-
tors 10 confusion. and this merely Upun
local elections For these contests now
going ON are not fair tests of our full
strength. We can do very much bet
ter in November than we are doing even
now, although we are now doing quite
well enough to win. But local elections
always involve questions of purely local
interest and difficulty. and this is the
case in Maine
We entreat republicans in that State
to rise superior to these local dissen-
sions The 1ri6Rae boasts that because
Perham IS held responsible for the Cider
law, he has placed many republicans in
opposition to him. Now, disagreements
of this kind ought to admit Of easy adj
justment, and will do so but to destroy
the value of the vote Of the State be-
cause of such disagreemcnts, would bean
act OF folly which every sensible man in
Maine would afterward bitterly regret.
Again, Mr. Greeleys paper coarsely ac-
cuses the republicans in Maine Of having
been bribed. 1t distinctly stated yester-
day that Maine '.would be many hundred
thousand Of dollars richer for this can
vass. Is there a grown-up person in
Maine who does not know that this is a
base libel on the State? Let them re-