Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-04
Watohman s. journal.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1874.
Montpelier March Meeting.

As will be seen In another column, the re-
suit Of our March meeting yesterday was the
defeat Of the temperance ticket, and the cleo
ton Of what was denomnated citizens ~
ticket Perhaps as good test as was had was
on tho vote for moderator--Mr. ThurstOn, the
nominee Of the temperance party, receiving two
hundred and fifty votes, and Gen. Pitkin three
hundred and eight. The vote was an unusually
large one-hve hundred and fity.eight the
total vote Of last year being only three hundred
and forty-six at which election Mr.. Thurston
(then the temperance candidate also) was
elected by one hundred and eighty three votes, to
one hundred and sixty-three for II. W lIeaton,
his opponent. After one OF two ballots, the
temperance men, seeing their defeat, virtually
abandoned the field to their opponents.
The causes of this result can not all I've told
this week, even if it would be best. The tenn
perancc men had good reason to count conf
IDENTIFY on two hundred and seventy five votes,
which would be q good majority on an ordinary
vote. But the vote was unexpectedly large,
which fact, in connection with n few defections,
both in high places and low specially The for
marlboro them down. All shades and elements
Of opposition were combined and used with
overwhelming force, and Of course the yictors
are jubilant over their success. The temper
ance men regard the result as blow direct at
their cause, and virtual proclamation against
the enforcement Of the liquor law. This is
dap;ad hv .oton oF tbo xrtputno man Tina
will show.
In the main the officers elected arc good mon,
and unquestionably the ordinary town affairs
will be well managed.
That the temperance men, and women, are
disappointed and depressed, it would be useless
10 deny but that they have lost faith in their
cause, or confidence in its final and complete
triumph, is not true These crucial tests purge
out the dross, but the pure gold remains, all
the brighter
The following from the Burlington Free
Pre-" Of this morning will apply with more or
less force to our own town
The opponents Of temperance and the prohibtory
law iubilant over bis defent Yet there some
Of them sharp enough to see that such victory may
be q dearly bought one that the fact, once fairly
rubbed 10 that nj .hsn nded puhlcsprlted, gener-
Gus and uneIceptionAble man cannot be elected
Mayor Of our oty, simply because be Is a temperance
man, will unite the temperance Of Burlington
they have been before and that It's Inevitable
tendency will DO toward State constabuary, and a
more vigorous enforcement Of the prohibitory law,
than has over been attempted here.
We publish elsewhere, the details Of the
sad death Of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Sails
bury, which we take from the indianapolis
Journal.
LAwToS's will be found an excellent place to
have your clothes made or repaired, and his
stock Of German Canary birds is wsll worth
an inspection.
Observation-Disclosures Commander Charles
+. Clark has been detached from the iron-clad
Mahopac, at Key West, and transferred to the
Asiatic Squadron, at his own request.
PARnoSED.-MarkF French, sentenced to nine
months imprisonment at the United States
District Court, at Windsor, in July last, for
smuggling, has been pardoned by the Presi-
dent.