New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-05
THE VERMONT ELECTION.

The browning unkindness of all Vermont
smites the Administration In the face. 1t was
not supposed possible. For Connecticut to
recalcitrate was not so strange; for New
HAMPSHIRE to lead her Administration states
men to the door and lift her granite foot to
their departure was not by any means unex-
pected. Those two are what we call "doubt-
"fuln States. But here is Vermont, always
faithful among the faithless found; State
that has promoted morality in most unex-
ampled fashion through years OF demoraliza-
ton, by Offering no temptations to the better
on electiOns that has stoOd-if we may be
allowed to introduce new and original fig
ure-true as the needle to the pole; Vermont
has quite "gone back" on her traditions and
defeated q regularly nominated Republican
candidate for Congress.
Judge Poland was an earnest supporter of
the Administration so earnest that he relieved
it of any annoyance, and his fellow Congress
men of any sense of having been rebuked, by
taking his back pay in full. He stood by.
He was that kind of man. In dress coat
with brass buttons he always stood by.
When Messrs. Carpenter and Conkling
thought that a ribald and lcentious
press ought to be rebuked, and that
the only way to rebuke it was to pass a
law allowing newspaper publishers to be hailed
before a judge and jury of the creation of
Congress for saying things about members of
Congress, Mr.. Poland in his blue coat and
brass buttons stood by. For stoning Stephen
he had no great talent, but for holding the
wearing apparel of those who did stone
Stephen he had positive genius
4. A,1I
them in mournful numbers that he had stood
BY the Administration, and as for the stoning
of Stephen, Stephen had not been stoned,
and he had only held the clothes of some
persons who had thrown boiled peas-not at
Stephen but at some maefactOrs who were
passing that way.
And so these Vermont supporters of the
Administration, refusing to renOminate the only
member in their delegation who had refused
the back pay, and been honest and upright
and talked all the time the best and sOundest
of good sense, did renominate this supporter
of the Administration who stood by and sup
ported Carpenter and Conkling, and put the
back pay right into his breeches pocket under
all his brass buttons, 80 as not to annoy his
friends by putting on any airs of superior virtue.
JQer6 are tlueb tftu Ill L'Cu
in Vermont people hear of things and discuss
them, and have opinions of their own. And
so the other day when they had an
election, they said by very striking and
significant vote: "Judge Poland, you are
"doubtless well-meaning man, you did not
"suppose that the people whose clothes you
"held were about to stone Stephen, but you
"dear old brass-buttoned patriot, you ought
"not to be exposed in places where people
OBVIOUSLY know more than you do and i'm
"pose on your good nature. Stay at home
"with us, Judge, where you can do no mis-
"chief, and we will send some one
&" in your place who knows what it means
"when he is waited ON by such men as Carpenter
"and Conkling with request to stand by"
1t is barely possible that the result in Judge
Poland's district is lesson for the supporters
of the Administration in other districts and
other States. Who knOwsf