Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-08-12

was an able member oil the HOUSE, uuii"S
the sessions of go and 10, and is well
Qualified to know whereof be speaks con-
corning matters here. From the TACT 'na'
he has long resided in another county, ms
paper can in no wise be called "ring or
can" adds weight to Lis arguments when
we copy below
1--WE notice call is out for Farmers
Convention in Lamoille County, to nomi'
nate a new ticket for Senator and County
officers. If this call means bolt from'
or is in any way intended to defeat the
regularly nominated Republican ticket In
that county. we hope or Republican breth-
rem there will act carefully and wisely in
the matter. Bolts are sometimes justihaole
and there arc at times reasons Why man
should cast an independent, or no party
ballot. But we are certain no good or SUI
6cient cause exists to justify any Republi-
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can in ignoring or repudiatfng the will Of
the recent Lamoille County convention as
fairly expressed through its approval OF
the work Of the nominating committee. 1t
is not wisdom to distract or destroy ones
own party by neglecting or refusing to vote
for its fairly constituted representatives
1t is impossible to organize or work no.
PARTY ticket without direct injury to the
principles we all hold most sacred. A vote
at the coming election must directly aid the
Republican party or count in favor of the
Democratic ticket and principles. Let no
Republican farmer or laboring man burn
his fingers in trying to pull out Democratic
roasted chestnuts from SO hot fire.
"Of the personal makeup of the Repub-
lican ticket VIC profess to but partial ac-
ouaiptance. Years have passed since we
were an inbabitSnt of that county and the
men we knew most intimately in those
days have, many of them given place in
the direction Of the political and material
affairs of that section to other men. We do
know, however, most favorably some of
the nominees, and We hear the ticket as a
whole spoken of in high terms. During
the session of the Legislature of 1869, we
formed very pleasant acquaintance with
the man whose name heads the ticket as
candidate for senator. We refer to Car.
roll S. Page. Esq, Of Hyde Park, who
was that year a brother member with us,
and whose legislative work was so faith
fully and ably performed that we can con-
idently assure the farmers and working
men of Lamoille County that should they
elect him senator they will have a most
faithful, vigilant and influential public
servant. We recall with pleasure that
when he was on the important Committee
on Claims, TO which all questions OF
finance, appropriations, and increase Of
salaries are usually referred, Mr.. Page
ever placed himself squarely on the side
of retrenchment and economy. And this,
too, sometimes in opposition to the major
ity reports of the committee. We re-
member an instance in which, singe-hand-
ed and alone, he opposeda majority report
favoring an increased salary, and in a
brief, impassioned speech so carried the
House with him that the bill was beaten
out of sight. By these acts he won the
confidence Of the farmers and honest men
of the House. and welded salutsry in.
auence in general legislation. MIR. Page
is not speech maker in the general ae-
ception of that term, but he possesses the
happy faculty of expressing himself clear.
ly and consisely on any topic in which be
is interested, or in other words, he hits the
nail squareIy on the head at the first blow
He belongs to that class Of debaters who
do their own thinking, and talking, indie
pendently and fearlessly, and with the few
est possible words needful to send thu
subject home to the nearer. Few of thu
members of the Legislature Of 1869 viii
ever forget the very brief but exceedingl.
pertinent and eloquent speech with whicl
he electrified the House in demanding tina
Lamoille should be recognized as one 0
the sisterhood Of counties belonging t
: Vermont, when the clerk had inadvertent
+ ly omitted to name single town therei
, in calling the roll of members of the House
"Spunky Lamoille was at once voted int
the Union" amid the most hearty cheer
and applause. We trust the freemen, an
especially the farmers Of Lamoille, wi
remember they can honor and serve tteu
!. selves, and do creditable thing for tn
county, by sending Mr.. Page to represer
i their interests in the Senate.
Q --One result of the railroad love fea
at Saratoga will be bad news 10 the in
migrants. The companies have conclude
n To advance the fares west hv the .iem