The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-22
ANOTHER vERMONTER.

Another Vcrmonter Is on trial. FIRST
Brigham Young, then Kellogg, followed
by Carpenter, and now 1t is Stowell--the
Virginia colleague of the "great American
franker." William Henry Harrison Stow
ell was born, as his name indicates, in
"Tippecanoe and Tyler times, In Windsor
near the shadows of the state house there
located, but soon emigratcd, bringing up
in Virginia Immediately after the close OF
The war. Like many another carpet-bag-
ger, his opportunities hayc been great, but
he has either carclessly reapc1 or wasted
the barye5t He was made n collector OF
internal revenue from which the step into
Congress was easy. The only distinction
he has, hitherto, gained In that body was
by voting seven times for the back pay, and
then making haste TO secure the filthy
lucre. This extra compensation ought
to have furnished a sufficient fund for
campaign purposes, but, alas for him, the
hungry voters, like Oliver Twist asked
But how did our whilom Nermontcr Oh
tain the necdful? One Joseph g. Beattie
tells the tale. He desired naval cadet
ship for his step-son, and acting under the
advice Of ono Graham, chairman of Stow
ellis district committee, he domiciled this
step-son in the district. paid Graham seven
teen hundred dollars and StOwcll appointed
the boy naval cadet. All very simple
c,I IF /
S,owell VAS not ''secn' by the rclation.aud
might mo- have been exposed if he had
left ailoads alone. In an evil hour
Stowcll objected to the payment of GER
tain moneys to the i'icdmont railroad,
and on account Of the objection, the
po. office lepartm' I withheld the money.
Or ,ham, icing q" crested in the railroad
threatened itowei and bis friends that he
would expose the cadctship sale unless
Stowcll iccedcd. Stowcl "saw" the de-
partmont, the money was paid, Graham
thereafter kept still, but the story had be-
come public property, and hence an inves-
iigatIon by Congress. Stowell's defense is
understood TO be that he, personally, did
not receive the II neY, and that it was used
for general, not Individual, campaign.pur-
poses. To what an end will the use of
money to control elections bring Il man
Stowell is doubtless now thinking intenty
on this subject and will, ere long be pre-
pared to answer. Let him contemplate
In the meanwhile what will the House do
with him Will they follow the precedent
established in the case of Whittemore, the
South Carolina missionary, who sold West
Point cadetships, and paid over the money
to secure all election or reelection or will
they follow the later precedent established
in "Sugg' Buffers case and followed in
the Credit Mobilicr action relative to Cakes
Ames and Brooks ? In the former case,
poor Whittemore, who abandoned religion
for politics, was expelled as not worthy of
a seat with his fellow sinners and why
shouldn't Stowell In the latter case,
Butler was deemed worthy TO assoc late
with the same men, and embraced the
chance to get nice plum out of Fort Sugg.
How Stowell will fare remains to be seen,
but he will, doubtless, serve Ills term out.
Precedents are safe things TO follow, es-
pecially when they are both ways, and this
is Stowcls luck.